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Born, Montego Bay, Jamaica.
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| 1962-67 |
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Performs throughout Jamaica, including w/ The Celestials, alongside Dizzy Barker & Jimmy Wisdom.
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| 1967 |
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Jo-Jo Bennett now living in Toronto, sends for Montego Bay, Jamaican musicians. Wayne moves to Canada, performing regularly at Toronto's WIF Club.
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| 1968 |
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Wayne's daughter Marnie born
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| 1968 |
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Pens "Chips-Chicken-Banana Split" for the A-Side of Jo-Jo & The Fugitives sole 45 b/w "Mr. Fugitive" (Cobra label).
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Pens "Mr. Fortune", recorded by The Hitchikers featuring the Mighty Pope.
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| 1969 |
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Performs at the inaugural Caribana Festival, Toronto.
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| Winter 1969 |
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Records The Sounds Of Joy album.
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| Spring 1970 |
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Wayne McGhie & The Sounds Of Joy LP released! Soon after, severe fire hits pressing plant, destroying majority of LP's, label does not reprint.
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Records with Coxsone Dodd at Studio One, including the cut "How Does It Feel".
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| 1972 |
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Forms RAM, a splinter group of The Hitchikers, featuring Studio One veteran Joe Isaacs on drums. RAM records "Love Is The Answer."
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Records/tours throughout '60s / '70s with Jackie Mittoo, including Mittoo's 1978 LP Let's Put It All Together
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| 1980 |
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Completely disappears from music world, losing all touch with bandmates and old friends.
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| 1995 |
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Beat-diggers discover The Sounds Of Joy, original LP's sell for $600, DAT's for $100.
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| 2003 |
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Light In The Attic searches the world for McGhie, but with no luck from old Birchmount execs, Jamaican & Toronto phone listings and hospital/tax records, friends, diggers, barbershops, etc. etc. etc…Wayne completely gone!
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| Jan 18, 2004 |
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Toronto soul legend Jay Douglas works his magic, locating Wayne's sister, Merline. The golden ticket arrives, ending the search for Wayne.
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| Jan 26, 2004 |
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Light In The Attic meets Wayne McGhie in Toronto's worst blizzard in years. Through endless days of cold and snow, Wayne agreed to bring his baby back.
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| May 11, 2004 |
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The World Rediscovers The Legend of Wayne McGhie!
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