Funkin’ for Jamaica (N.Y.)
~ Recording by Tom Browne
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track Artist | Release Title | Release Artist | Release Group Type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 1.1 | Funkin’ for Jamaica (N.Y.) | 4:40 | Tom Browne | Love Approach | Tom Browne | Album |
| Arista GRP | GRP 5502 |
| 1.1 | Funkin’ for Jamaica (N.Y.) | 4:40 | Tom Browne | Love Approach | Tom Browne | Album |
| Arista, Arista GRP | GRP 5502 |
| 1.1 | Funkin’ for Jamaica (N.Y.) | 4:41 | Tom Browne | Love Approach | Tom Browne | Album |
| Arista GRP | 25RS-98 |
| 1.1 | Funkin’ for Jamaica (N.Y.) | 4:40 | Tom Browne | Love Approach | Tom Browne | Album |
| Arista | 202 901/5, 202.901 |
| 1.4 | Funkin' for Jamaica | 4:38 | Tom Browne | 12" Club Classics | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Nectar | NTRCD021 |
| 1.11 | Funkin' for Jamaica | 4:40 | Tom Browne | Classic Jazz-Funk 4: Definitive Jazz-Funk Mastercuts, Volume 4 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Mastercuts | CUTSCD 16 |
| 1.4 | Funkin' For Jamaica (N.Y.) | 4:42 | Tom Browne | Phat Trax: The Best of Old School, Volume 1 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 71752 |
| 2.16 | Funkin' for Jamaica | 4:37 | Tom Browne | Night Fever | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Global Television | RADCD24 |
| 2.16 | Funkin' for Jamaica | 4:37 | Tom Browne | Night Fever | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Global Television | RADMC24 |
| 1.10 | Funkin’ For Jamaica | 4:41 | Tom Browne | Billboard Hot R&B Hits: 1980 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 72135 |
| 1.9 | Funkin’ for Jamaica | 4:41 | Tom Browne | Ferry Maat’s Soul Show: The Eighties, Part 1 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EVA (for use with NL/BE/FR releases only. see annotation) | 8542292 |
| 1.1 | Funkin' For Jamaica | 4:44 | Tom Browne | Funkin' for Jamaica | Tom Browne | Album + Compilation |
| Camden (launched circa 1973; UK only as of 2004) | 74321 569652 |
| 1.1 | Funkin' For Jamaica | 4:40 | Tom Browne | The Very Best of Jazz Funk | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Global Television | RADCD129 |
| 1.1 | Funkin’ for Jamaica (N.Y.) | 4:44 | Tom Browne | Love Approach | Tom Browne | Album |
| Arista | 74321-88242-2, BVCM-37235 |
| 2.7 | Funkin’ for Jamaica | 4:41 | Tom Browne | Dance Party Classics | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| BMG Special Products | 75517 45946 2 |
| 2.13 | Funkin’ for Jamaica (N.Y.) | ?:?? | Tom Browne | Disco | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EMI (EMI Records, since 1972) | 7243 5 34914 2 0, 7243 5 34915 2 9, 7243 5 34916 2 8, 7243 5 34917 2 7 |
| 2.13 | Funkin' for Jamaica | 4:40 | Tom Browne | Club Tropicana | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Sony Music TV | STVCD145 |
| 1.1 | Funkin’ for Jamaica | 4:41 | Tom Browne | Funkin’ for Jamaica | Tom Browne | Album + Compilation |
| Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment) | |
| 1.2 | Funkin' for Jamaica | 4:39 | Tom Browne | Ferry Maat's Soulshow Classics, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| PTG Records | |
| 2.9 | Funkin’ for Jamaica | 4:40 | Tom Browne | 80s Groove | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Ministry of Sound | MOSCD230 |
| 1.1 | Funkin’ for Jamaica (N.Y.) | 4:44 | Tom Browne | Love Approach | Tom Browne | Album |
| Big Break Records | CDBBR 0031 |
| 1.1 | Funkin’ for Jamaica (N.Y.) | 4:44 | Tom Browne | Love Approach | Tom Browne | Album |
| Arista | SICP-5520 |
| 1.6 | Funkin’ for Jamaica | 4:41 | Tom Browne | The Essential Tom Browne: The GRP/Arista Years | Tom Browne | Album + Compilation |
| Arista, Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment) | |
| (unknown) | |||||||||
| 1.6 | Funkin' For Jamaica | 4:41 | Tom Browne | Brother, Brother (The GRP/Arista Anthology) | Tom Browne | Album + Compilation |
| SoulMusic Records (Founded in 2000 by music journalist/author/reissue producer David Nathan.) | SMCR 5161D |
Relationships
| additional recording engineer, assistant recording engineer and assistant mixer: | Ollie Cotton |
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| recording engineer and mixer: | Larry Rosen |
| synthesizer [Prophet polyphonic synthesizer] programming: | Tom Browne (US jazz trumpeter) |
| engineer: | Richard Feldman |
| producer: | Dave Grusin (American score composer) Larry Rosen |
| bass guitar [bass]: | Marcus Miller (jazz musician) |
| drums (drum set): | Buddy Williams (drummer) |
| electric piano and synthesizer [Prophet polyphonic synthesizer]: | Bernard Wright |
| guitar: | Bobby Broom |
| handclaps: | Alvin Flythe, Jr. Mike Flythe Bob Franceschini (Jazz saxophonist) Omar Hakim Martha Rojas Kevin Osborne (trombonist/backing vocalist) Toni Smith |
| percussion: | Crusher Bennett |
| piano [acoustic piano]: | Dave Grusin (American score composer) |
| trumpet: | Tom Browne (US jazz trumpeter) |
| other vocals [rappers]: | Alvin Flythe, Jr. Mike Flythe Kevin Osborne (trombonist/backing vocalist) |
| vocals: | Toni Smith |
| arranger: | Tom Browne (US jazz trumpeter) |
| phonographic copyright (℗) by: | Arista/GRP Records, Inc. (in 1980) |
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| produced for: | Grusin/Rosen Productions (production company underpinning the GRP record label) |
| recorded at and mixed at: | A&R Studios (third studio, 322 West 48th Street, closed in 1989) in New York, New York, United States |
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| sampled by: | Do It Again by EPMD |
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| recording of: | Funkin’ for Jamaica (N.Y.) |
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Related works
Funkin’ for Jamaica (N.Y.)
| lyricist: | Toni Smith |
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| composer: | Tom Browne (US jazz trumpeter) |
| publisher: | Roaring Fork Music Sony/ATV Melody Thomas Browne Publishing, Inc. ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング A事業部 |
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