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Panis Angelicus 3:490:00/3:49
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The Lord's Prayer 2:510:00/2:51
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O Carolina! 3:520:00/3:52
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Muriel 3:410:00/3:41
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Dreamland 3:360:00/3:36
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Jah is My Light 4:280:00/4:28
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No Woman, No Cry 6:190:00/6:19
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Redemption Songs 3:100:00/3:10
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Let There Be Liberty 2:270:00/2:27
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The Book of Rules 4:210:00/4:21
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The Way of Love 2:530:00/2:53
Welcome to www.jimmytuckersings.com
“May you have faith... May you be guided by love... and may you have a sense of beauty!” - Jimmy Tucker
Jimmy Tucker is Jamaica’s first singing sensation whose brilliance has endured for more than sixty years. Jimmy was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1942, the youngest in a family of musicians and athletes. His mother was a singer, his father, a church organist and printer, and his paternal grandfather, an Anglican minister. Jimmy (James Alexander George Tucker) was named after James Alexander George Smith (JAG Smith) a political officer who had recently passed away.
According to biographer Clyde Hoyte, “In Jimmy Tucker of Jamaica, the world, and particularly the history of vocal recorded music, has, for the first time, recordings and a story of a boy soprano – tenor, with celebrated recognition of more than fifty years of vocal excellence.”
Somewhere between early days at home on Fourth Street in Trench Town, Kingston, Jamaica, and travels through the Caribbean, Central and South America, and the United States, Jimmy resolved to make a contribution to his country and beyond. During his 70 plus years, Jimmy has been preparing for his music and for his writings to be shared, but with the world in 2020 connected by social media and phones, the sharing is on a stage wider than he could have ever dreamed.
During the 1940’s, Jimmy became a child singer, following the encouragement of his brothers and sisters – crooning and belting out the classics and popular songs of the time. Even in the 1950’s, Jimmy was performing in clubs, schools and churches. It was during these years that Jimmy performed music written by Jamaica’s Clyde Hoyte, including “Have Faith” and “Sweet as a Dream.” Through the years, Clyde’s music would become a source of favorites produced in the Great Gifts of Heritage series of books and CD’s Jimmy has published.
If we do not tell the story of our nation in heroic terms in order to fire up the imagination of our children, then we will dissipate into nothingness and die. - Carey Robinson
Jimmy Tucker, the College years - reflecting on “Songs I Used to Sing”
In 1969, Jimmy Tucker wrote these words on his album, Songs I Used to Sing:
“Twenty years ago, a young boy sang "Some Enchanted Evening" while standing on a wooden box at the Carib Theatre in Kingston, Jamaica. He was so small that was the only way he could get to the mike.
I was that boy singing for a broadcast called Lannaman's Children's Hour.
This album is an attempt to reminisce on the years that followed. I like to think of it as a regained chapter in the music of Jamaican artists.
Dick Van Auken, the versatile musician playing harpsichord, piano, and organ, is a Professor Music at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. I am sure we will be hearing a lot from this talented man.
Finally, to you who have enjoyed the “Jim and Jan” album and to those of you who will listen for the first time, I do hope you will find these melodies truly enjoyable."
Sincerely, Jimmy Tucker