ONE LOVE: REGGAE: Julien Henriques:Filmmaker,sound artist,researcher

“The single I have in my hand is Marcia Griffiths 'I Feel Like Jumping ' it's mid sixties - (maybe) bit later. And it's on the Boops Rhythm. And I mean I just love the sound of it and I love the lyric to it. Her voice, Marcia Griffiths, you know quite a young woman in those days. She's got a beautiful voice and the whole thing just kind of like fits together. 'Feel Like Jumping' it is what it says it's about being in your body and enjoying your body. But why I like this particular single so much is where I got it, you know, 'cos a 45 is a piece of vinyl and it has a history and this single I know came from Jamaica to London in a suitcase that was carried by Mr Peckings. And anybody in the reggae business will know that Mr Peckings record shop on Acton Lane, well, was the place where reggae music started for London.. in so far as Mr Peckings was the man who literally travelled on the airplane with the boxes of 45s and brought them to London. And so at that time, that was in the eighties, when I got this record I was making a little documentary film for the BBC about reggae music and the sound so I did my research and knew that I had to go to Daddy Peckings, everybody called him, he passed away sadly some years back. And so that was part of the relationship that we built doing the research before you actually have a film crew and discussing the music we discussed that particular track. ... probably actually come to think of it he was the one .. I said 'Well what should I play when I'm showing the shots of your record shop' .... He said 'Why don't you play this', and that's what I did. So I have that very one still with me because I never threw any of my vinyl. And what is nice .. just a few weeks ago I went and his son has taken on the business, Duke Peckings, and in fact he's got a record shop just opposite where his dad's was on Acton Lane. So that's a little epicentre of good vibes and I've had some good conversations with Duke Peckings about his dad and stuff and he did some ... (I did ) a radio program with him. And so that kind of like brought it back like thirty years later and I told Duke Peckings about how Daddy Peckings had give me this record and so this record is very precious to me.”Julian Henriques: Parkside Building, Birmingham City University, 4th April 2018Marcia GriffithsProfessor Julian Henriques
Julien Henriques:Filmmaker,sound artist,researcher, Marcia Griffiths; I Feel Like Jumping

 

“The single I have in my hand is Marcia Griffiths 'I Feel Like Jumping ' it's mid sixties - (maybe) bit later. And it's on the Boops Rhythm. And I mean I just love the sound of it and I love the lyric to it. Her voice, Marcia Griffiths, you know quite a young woman in those days. She's got a beautiful voice and the whole thing just kind of like fits together. 'Feel Like Jumping' it is what it says it's about being in your body and enjoying your body. But why I like this particular single so much is where I got it, you know, 'cos a 45 is a piece of vinyl and it has a history and this single I know came from Jamaica to London in a suitcase that was carried by Mr Peckings. And anybody in the reggae business will know that Mr Peckings record shop on Acton Lane, well, was the place where reggae music started for London.. in so far as Mr Peckings was the man who literally travelled on the airplane with the boxes of 45s and brought them to London. And so at that time, that was in the eighties, when I got this record I was making a little documentary film for the BBC about reggae music and the sound so I did my research and knew that I had to go to Daddy Peckings, everybody called him, he passed away sadly some years back. And so that was part of the relationship that we built doing the research before you actually have a film crew and discussing the music we discussed that particular track. ... probably actually come to think of it he was the one .. I said 'Well what should I play when I'm showing the shots of your record shop' .... He said 'Why don't you play this', and that's what I did. So I have that very one still with me because I never threw any of my vinyl. And what is nice .. just a few weeks ago I went and his son has taken on the business, Duke Peckings, and in fact he's got a record shop just opposite where his dad's was on Acton Lane. So that's a little epicentre of good vibes and I've had some good conversations with Duke Peckings about his dad and stuff and he did some ... (I did ) a radio program with him. And so that kind of like brought it back like thirty years later and I told Duke Peckings about how Daddy Peckings had give me this record and so this record is very precious to me.” 

Julian Henriques: Parkside Building, Birmingham City University, 4th April 2018 

Marcia Griffiths 

Professor Julian Henriques