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"Fab 5 Live, The Ultimate Vintage Jamaican Party Mix.. Part 4" Released!!  "Fab 5 Live" BOX SET RELEASED!

The 4th installment of the Fab 5 Live series has now been released and includes a treat for mento lovers.  It is also  included in the now released "Fab 5 Live" BOX SET, which  makes a perfect gift.  The box set includes all 4 Live CDs.

The group has been hounded by anxious fans all over the world who are eager to get their hands on the next CD in the series.  THE BOX SET and Part 4 are yet again "must buys" for all true Fab 5 fans and supporters.                  

Fab 5 was born in "Sing Out Jamaica".

When Frankie Campbell graduated from Kingston College in 1966 as a member in good standing of the choir he continued the link by joining forces with Steve Golding and other choir members to form a group which performed at choir events singing rock steady hits and other selected pop songs.  This was Campbell’s second group having previously been a member of the Martinis, a pop singing group with members from K.C.   In 1966 as Sing Out was being established in Jamaica, Frankie, Stevie and Tony Duvall came together to form a folk group which performed ad hoc at school events and other functions.  It was in this period that Golding, then a student of the Foster Davis music school began to teach Frankie how to play the guitar. 

As the folk group progressed, the members would meet at Campbell’s Connolley Avenue home to rehearse on Saturday’s and one such Saturday, being not much in the mood for rehearsals the suggestion was made that the members should go to check out the Sing Out rehearsal at Excelsior, since many fine girls were expected to be there.  

Thus inspired, Campbell, Golding and Duvall jumped into Frankie’s Ford Anglia and set out for Excelsior.  As fate would have it, the existing Sing Out band, “The Mighty Mystics” had resigned en mass the week before, so when the three young men walked into the auditorium, the brash and quick thinking musical director and conductor of Sing Out Jamaica, Conroy Cooper immediately and without asking questions introduced them to the group as the “new” band. 

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