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Formed in 1967 JAD Records was a record label that was co-owned by Johnny Nash, producer Arthur Jenkins, and businessman Danny Sims, whose initials formed its logo. JAD Records was the label which signed Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Rita Marley to an exclusive long-term contract as recording artists from 1968 to 1972. [1]
Oct 14, 2012 · Before Bob Marley signed to Island Records in 1972, he had written or recorded over 200 songs for Danny Sims, an African-American with Mafia connections who discovered him in Kingston in 1967.
Oct 31, 2012 · Danny Drew Sims was born on Nov. 9, 1936, in Hattiesburg, Miss., and moved with his family to Memphis and later Chicago. After service in the Army, where he played football on a team that traveled ...
Catch a Fire is the fifth studio album by the reggae band The Wailers (aka Bob Marley and the Wailers), released in April 1973. It was their first album released by Island Records. [4] After finishing a UK tour with Johnny Nash, they had started laying down tracks for JAD Records when a disputed CBS contract with Danny Sims created tensions.
Nov 7, 2012 · Few people outside of the Caribbean knew who Bob Marley was when Danny Sims heard him perform in 1968. But Sims knew Marley was something special right away. ‘‘What I heard,’’ he recalled ...
Dec 6, 2012 · Danny married Beverley Johnson in 1977, the first African-American model to grace the cover of Vogue. They separated in 1979 and Danny won custody of his beloved daughter Anansa. He had been married twice before with two sons. Danny Sims was born on 9 November 1936 and died on 3 October 2012.
Commissioned by Danny Sims (co-founder and owner of JAD Records) and issued after Marley's death in May 1981, Chances Are was a collection of previously unreleased recordings from 1968 to 1972 that were produced by JAD during Marley's time living in the U.S. and otherwise working with JAD back and forth from Jamaica to the States.
