Highlighting January 1 in Jamaica, world culture history!

Important arts, culture and creative events happening around the world, especially in Jamaica on January 1. Power to the creative minds

IN THE YEAR 1948:
Happy Birthday Phyllis Dillon, born 1 January 1948. Singer and songwriter born in Linstead, St. Catherine who recorded for Duke Reid’s Treasure Isle label in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

She was 19 when she recorded “Don’t Stay Away”, her first record. While most of her subsequent recordings would be covers, including Bettye Swann’s “Make Me Yours”, Perry Como’s “Tulips and Heather,” The Grass Roots’ “Midnight Confessions,” and Stephen Stills’s “Love the One You’re With”, “Don’t Stay Away” was an original composition featuring Tommy McCook and the Supersonics as the backing band. Another original song, “It’s Rocking Time” would later be turned into the Alton Ellis’ hit “Rocksteady”. Her most popular song remains 1967’s “Perfidia”, a 1940 song written by Alberto Domínguez and made popular by the Cuban bandleader, Xavier Cugat. At the end of 1967, she moved to New York and spent the next five years living a double life. She had a family and career in the U.S., but frequently returned to Jamaica to continue recording for Reid. After a number of singles and an album, Living in Love, she ended her recording career in 1971. She was 23 years old.

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