Curtis Mayfield is the greatest songwriter ever.

[QUOTE=KevinNYC]Mayfield may have had an individual influence on reggae, but Jamaican music goes back to [URL="http://niceup.com/history/ja_music_59-73.html"]American Jazz and Rock n Roll and R+B[/URL]. That is reggae would have happened with Curtis Mayfield. Motown was big throughout Jamaica. Now Bob Marley was specifically a fan of The Impressions, but it's a mistake to say the Bob Marley is all of reggae.. Apparently Jimmy Cliff was more of an Otis Redding fan.[/QUOTE]
Listen to this 1962 track, the beginnings of reggae.


[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNkcYwTywQ"]The Impressions: I'm The One Who Loves You[/URL]


A minute mark 1:32 that is some straight reggae organ chords.

[QUOTE=L.Kizzle]Listen to this 1962 track, the beginnings of reggae.


[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNkcYwTywQ"]The Impressions: I'm The One Who Loves You[/URL]


A minute mark 1:32 that is some straight reggae organ chords.[/QUOTE]

I don't hear it. I listened the first time without focusing on 1:32. Do you mean the little "stabs" going on in the background. That sounds like reggae guitar to me, however the foreground sounds like horns at that point.

Also I forgot that Curtis Mayfield had his accident in Brooklyn.

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXihjTeOaLs"]Curtis Mayfield: Never Stop Loving Me[/URL]

[QUOTE=Jax]Sam Cooke>[/QUOTE]
What are your top five Cooke pinned tunes?