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- [Female narrator] The story
started a few years ago,
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in a thrift store in Canada,
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when this Australian guy called Chris,
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bought a record for 10 cents
that changed his whole life.
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But in reality,
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the story started much earlier,
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almost 40 years ago in Jamaica.
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Here in this building,
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in west Kingston's
Waterhouse neighborhood.
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(Electronic dub music)
Jamaicans are very special.
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We can take nothing,
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and turn it into something.
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(Dub music)
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This is where dub music was invented.
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This is where the idea,
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of the remix was invented,
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by the experiments of the great engineer,
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King Tubby.
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He was one of the first
to use his mixing board,
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as an instrument,
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reworking simple reggae songs,
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into a thousand different versions,
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stripping the music
back to its bare bones.
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Pulling it apart and
putting it back together.
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To tell entirely,
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different stories.
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Some people say that the word "dub",
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comes from "duppy",
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which in Jamaica means ghost,
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or spirit.
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Whispers, echoes of a voice,
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or a memory that has been hidden,
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or lost,
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fight their way above the din of horns,
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of drums and bass,
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and reverb until just as quickly,
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they are gone,
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fading back into the silence.
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(Dub music)
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But not all duppies are bad.
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It could be that Chris,
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became haunted by a voice,
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which would not leave him alone.
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But enough of that.
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Over to Chris in Toronto.
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(Up tempo dub music)
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- [Chris] I'm a music fanatic.
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Music's as close as I get,
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to anything spiritual or religious.
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In high school, music was my obsession.
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We traded mix tapes hand to hand.
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CDs were an escape to another world.
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I even started a shitty band.
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Then I discovered records.
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When I go into a thrift
store or flea market,
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I'm almost in a trance
digging through crates,
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imagining what new piece
of music I might discover,
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I'm also an artist.
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I like transforming
boring everyday materials,
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into things that move and grow,
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into magical objects.
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I want to create new
worlds from my imagination.
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I must have heard a
hundred thousand songs,
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and easily that many records,
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has passed through my
hands over the years.
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The music that really obsesses me,
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is old reggae music
from the 70's and 80's.
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And this city is full of it.
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(reggae music)
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This record here,
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is the most incredible piece
of music I've ever heard.
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It was released in
Toronto by a label called,
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Monica's Records.
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One of the last remaining
reggae stores in operation,
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since the 70's.
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The singer's voice is so unusual,
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it's so haunting,
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I've become so obsessed with her,
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but I don't know anything about her,
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or who she is.
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Imagine finding a Nina Simone,
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a Billie Holiday,
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or an Amy Winehouse,
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but you're the only one
whose ever heard her.
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All I know is,
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She's somebody called "Shella Record".
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And so far no one seems to know,
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anything about her.
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There's something magical and
powerful about this voice,
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that you just cannot deny.
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I don't care if you like reggae or not.
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If it doesn't make you feel something,
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you might just want to check
you've still got a pulse.
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(Jamaican Fruit of African
Roots" by Shella Record)
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♪ Ooooooh, Yeah, yeah, eah, eah, eah ♪
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♪ We came ♪
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♪ From a distant land ♪
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♪ Our lives already planned ♪
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♪ We came in ships ♪
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♪ From across the sea ♪
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♪ And never again our home ♪
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♪ We'd see ♪
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♪ And now we've become ♪
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♪ Jamaican fruit ♪
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♪ Of African roots ♪
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♪ Me wan' fi forward on a yard ♪
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♪ Me wan' fi forward on a yard ♪
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[Chris]- I need to know what happened,
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to Shella Record.
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Okay so let's address the
white elephant in the room.
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I'm a pasty guy from Australia,
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making a film about my obsession,
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with a Jamaican woman who
sings a song about slavery.
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I'm not gonna say some bullshit about,
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how I don't see color,
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or any nonsense like that.
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I'm benefiting from the same system,
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of white supremacy today,
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that resulted in slavery
in the first place.
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It doesn't make any difference
how progressive I think I am,
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or how many black friends I have.
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So why am I doing this?
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I honestly am not 100% sure.
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But, no song has ever
made me feel like this,
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in my life.
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And I've become possessed
with the idea of,
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trying to find Shella Record.
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(Dub music)
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We're just in Scarborough right now.
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We're on our way to see Kevin Laverty,
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who is a very serious record collector,
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big reggae knowledge in the city.
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He actually has a copy of
the Shella Record album.
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He's one of the few guys that does.
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So I'm on my way to see him,
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and hopefully he'll have some clues about,
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who Shella Record might be.
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(reggae music)
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[Chris] Okay so basically
I found this record,
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and I think from what I've heard,
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you're one of the only guys who,
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I think has a copy.
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- [Kevin] Yeah.
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- It's War Zone.
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- It's right here actually.
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Do you know anything about this person?
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- I only can try and guess her name.
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I think.. Jamaican,
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writing of names is kind of phonetic.
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So it depends on whose accent,
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from where they're from.
- Right, right, right.
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- So, I don't know.
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I don't know.
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- [Chris] Like maybe Sheila?
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- Yeah, yeah.
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I was thinking Sheila,
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but the last name,
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yeah I have no idea what the last name is.
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(Dub music)
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I'm gonna go and see Henry,
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at his record store.
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It's a hidden gem and one of
my favorites in the city.
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Henry knows all of the players,
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involved in Toronto's reggae scene.
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And being closer in age
to the mystery singer,
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he might know something about her.
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- Welcome Chris.
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Good to see you.
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- Yeah likewise.
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Yeah yeah.
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Thanks for having us.
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- [Henry] Sure.
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- [Chris] But the singer,
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I'm really trying to find out about,
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is Shella Record.
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Does that name ring any bells with you?
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As like a Toronto singer?
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- There was a British connection, "Shelly",
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who was very much in with Monica.
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- [Chris] Okay.
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- And I have a funny feeling that they,
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just maybe misspelled her,
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or just changed the name
for whatever reason.
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- [Chris] Who was Shelly?
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- Shelly was a Jamaican person
that was over in England,
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was very active in the reggae business.
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That's who I think it is.
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- It's a kind of unusual voice.
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Do you think maybe if I play it,
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- Yeah,
- I can see if maybe you,
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recognize the voice.
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("Jamaican Fruit of African
Roots" by Shella Record)
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So what were you saying there?
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- She's sounds like an experienced singer.
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Not somebody that's recording
for the first time.
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- I mean that's what's
weird to me about this.
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It's like with a voice like that.
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'Cause to me it's an amazing voice.
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- Yes, yes it is.
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- Why don't we know this voice?
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- Have you talked to Monica about it?
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- (reggae music)
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Of course I had tried talking to Monica,
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the namesake behind Monica's Records.
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But things hadn't gone quite as planned.
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(reggae music)
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I'm heading back to Eglington Avenue west,
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one of the hub's for Toronto's,
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huge Jamaican community since the 70's.
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Once it was crowded with
Caribbean grocery shops,
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and records stores,
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and Monica's is one of the
last businesses from that era,
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still standing.
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Maybe this time, I'll
be able to charm Monica,
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into telling me all about Shella Record.
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I've been in once before,
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and I tried to ask,
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who this person might be.
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But I really didn't get a very,
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welcome reception I have to say.
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(Mysterious music)
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So the first time I met Monica,
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quite an intimidating lady.
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So the first thing I did is,
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I pulled out the record,
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and I asked "Who is Shella Record?".
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"Do you know anything about this person?"
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And she actually asked me "who sent you?".
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And she actually asked me "who sent you?".
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And I was like um,
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"nobody sent me"
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"I just really like this
record you guys put out,
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and I was hoping to
find out more about it,
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and maybe buy some records".
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So we didn't get off,
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to the greatest start.
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I’ve recently been back in
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and I've been trying to,
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see if they're up for an interview.
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And I haven't heard anything back.
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So I'm gonna go across the street,
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and maybe see if she's
okay with us filming.
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So, that's what I'm gonna do right now.
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(Mysterious Xylophone music)
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Okay, um,
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that did not go very well at all.
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I'm not quite sure what happened but,
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I've somehow offended her.
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I asked can we come in and film.
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and maybe talk a bit about the record,
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and she was pretty upset.
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Yeah, she basically said,
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for $5000.00, she’d sit down with me
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and tell me everything I wanted to know.
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So, that’s not fucking happening.
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I don’t have $5000.00
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for an interview with
someone about this record.
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(reggae music)
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I'm meeting the legendary dub producer,
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King Culture,
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at a bar opposite his store,
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on Eglington west.
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(reggae music)
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Maybe he can tell me why
I'm having so much trouble,
268
00:10:57,256 --> 00:10:59,325
getting to the bottom of this mystery.
269
00:10:59,392 --> 00:11:01,994
(reggae music)
270
00:11:31,924 --> 00:11:32,725
So you're saying maybe,
271
00:11:32,725 --> 00:11:33,826
I should leave this alone or like?
272
00:12:02,688 --> 00:12:05,257
(Menacing dub/reggae music)
273
00:12:14,633 --> 00:12:16,068
- Despite Culture's warning,
274
00:12:16,068 --> 00:12:17,203
I can't stop digging.
275
00:12:18,204 --> 00:12:19,805
I'm heading to the University of Toronto,
276
00:12:19,805 --> 00:12:21,440
to meet Patrick Roots,
277
00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,542
a DJ who hosts a reggae radio show,
278
00:12:23,542 --> 00:12:25,177
on CIUT.
279
00:12:25,177 --> 00:12:27,012
If I can get him to play
the song on the air,
280
00:12:27,012 --> 00:12:30,750
maybe someone might recognize
Shella Record's voice.
281
00:12:30,750 --> 00:12:32,651
[Patrick] - Bredren called
me up this past week,
282
00:12:32,651 --> 00:12:33,953
telling me that he's,
283
00:12:33,953 --> 00:12:36,722
in the search of a singer I'd say,
284
00:12:36,722 --> 00:12:38,991
from the early 70's here in Tdot,
285
00:12:38,991 --> 00:12:41,627
who produced a tune and,
286
00:12:41,627 --> 00:12:42,962
I'll just let him tell you,
287
00:12:42,962 --> 00:12:44,296
a little bit more about what's going on.
288
00:12:44,296 --> 00:12:45,431
Greetings Chris.
289
00:12:45,431 --> 00:12:47,967
- Yeah it's an amazing tune
and nobody seems to know,
290
00:12:47,967 --> 00:12:49,101
who this woman is.
291
00:12:49,101 --> 00:12:51,437
So I'm hoping somebody
recognizes the voice,
292
00:12:51,437 --> 00:12:52,905
or maybe if she's listening.
293
00:12:52,905 --> 00:12:54,240
And I'm hoping someone can call in,
294
00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:55,341
and maybe give us some clues.
295
00:12:55,341 --> 00:12:56,909
'Cause we've been looking for a long time.
296
00:12:56,909 --> 00:12:58,911
And turning up a lot of blanks.
297
00:12:58,911 --> 00:13:00,112
- Name of the song again is?
298
00:13:00,112 --> 00:13:01,947
- It's called Roots Jamaica,
299
00:13:01,947 --> 00:13:03,349
by Shella Record.
300
00:13:03,349 --> 00:13:05,050
- Roots Jamaica, we're
looking for the person,
301
00:13:05,050 --> 00:13:05,885
who did this song.
302
00:13:05,885 --> 00:13:07,486
If you know anything about her,
303
00:13:07,486 --> 00:13:08,320
give me a link up right here.
304
00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:09,555
And let me know alright.
305
00:13:09,555 --> 00:13:10,389
This is the tune.
306
00:13:10,389 --> 00:13:11,924
Thank you again.
307
00:13:11,924 --> 00:13:16,228
("Jamaican Fruit of African
Roots" By Shella Record)
308
00:13:19,398 --> 00:13:21,934
(phone ringing)
309
00:13:21,934 --> 00:13:22,835
[Patrick]- 89.5.
310
00:13:22,835 --> 00:13:25,237
- Okay we just had an
amazing piece of luck.
311
00:13:25,237 --> 00:13:27,473
A guy just called in right now,
312
00:13:27,473 --> 00:13:28,607
and he said,
313
00:13:28,607 --> 00:13:29,909
okay the person you're looking for,
314
00:13:29,909 --> 00:13:31,544
is "Sheila Record".
315
00:13:31,544 --> 00:13:32,778
I'm like alright,
316
00:13:32,778 --> 00:13:34,814
we thought maybe it
might be Sheila but like,
317
00:13:34,814 --> 00:13:36,248
"Record" is kind of weird name.
318
00:13:36,248 --> 00:13:37,283
I was like "Record"?
319
00:13:37,283 --> 00:13:39,318
And he said no, no, no,
320
00:13:39,318 --> 00:13:40,719
"Rickards".
321
00:13:40,719 --> 00:13:41,620
"Rickards".
322
00:13:41,620 --> 00:13:44,423
- [Man] R-I-C-K-A-R-D-S.
323
00:13:44,423 --> 00:13:46,492
- R-I-C-K-A-R-D-S.
324
00:13:46,492 --> 00:13:48,160
Which totally makes sense.
325
00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:48,194
Like "Shella Reckards".
326
00:13:49,595 --> 00:13:51,630
a Jamaican phonetic,
327
00:13:51,630 --> 00:13:52,531
spelling,
328
00:13:52,531 --> 00:13:53,699
Would be like "Shella Record".
329
00:13:53,699 --> 00:13:54,934
So it totally makes sense.
330
00:13:54,934 --> 00:13:56,402
And he said,
331
00:13:56,402 --> 00:13:59,138
she's not Canadian or American.
332
00:13:59,138 --> 00:14:00,606
She's like, she's Jamaican.
333
00:14:00,606 --> 00:14:02,675
But she wasn't really a reggae singer,
334
00:14:02,675 --> 00:14:04,743
she was like a jazz singer,
335
00:14:04,743 --> 00:14:07,012
kinda lounge singer from back in the day.
336
00:14:07,012 --> 00:14:09,648
Someone kind of like
Shirley Bassey or something.
337
00:14:09,648 --> 00:14:11,250
Oh it's kind of weird though with the guy.
338
00:14:11,250 --> 00:14:12,718
I was kind of pumping him for information.
339
00:14:12,718 --> 00:14:14,887
I was like "Can you tell me your name?"
340
00:14:14,887 --> 00:14:17,389
And he's like, "ah I
don't really think so."
341
00:14:17,389 --> 00:14:19,558
- [Man] Don't want too much publicity.
342
00:14:19,558 --> 00:14:21,594
- And then basically hung up.
343
00:14:21,594 --> 00:14:23,796
(laughing)
344
00:14:23,796 --> 00:14:24,630
I don't understand.
345
00:14:24,630 --> 00:14:25,898
This thing is just so mysterious.
346
00:14:25,898 --> 00:14:27,766
But, he did me a huge favour,
347
00:14:27,766 --> 00:14:30,202
and gave me the name Sheila Rickards.
348
00:14:30,202 --> 00:14:31,303
So that's huge.
349
00:14:31,303 --> 00:14:33,973
(Dub music)
350
00:14:33,973 --> 00:14:35,908
So right now I'm just fucking desperate,
351
00:14:35,908 --> 00:14:36,976
to get on a computer,
352
00:14:37,009 --> 00:14:38,544
and just like Google her name,
353
00:14:38,544 --> 00:14:40,713
and find out if there's any leads.
354
00:14:40,713 --> 00:14:42,548
Is she alive or whatever but.
355
00:14:42,548 --> 00:14:44,516
I'm just fucking really excited right now.
356
00:14:44,516 --> 00:14:47,653
(Dub music)
357
00:14:47,653 --> 00:14:48,988
I could only find one reference,
358
00:14:48,988 --> 00:14:50,756
to this Sheila Rickards person,
359
00:14:50,756 --> 00:14:52,424
online anywhere.
360
00:14:52,424 --> 00:14:55,027
It was an old newspaper article
about a concert in Jamaica,
361
00:14:55,027 --> 00:14:56,896
at a place called the Palace Theater,
362
00:14:56,896 --> 00:14:59,164
in the early 1960's.
363
00:14:59,164 --> 00:15:00,532
The last clue I have,
364
00:15:00,532 --> 00:15:02,234
is that the record says
that it was produced,
365
00:15:02,234 --> 00:15:04,336
by the great Bunny Lee.
366
00:15:04,336 --> 00:15:07,006
He's an absolute giant of Jamaican music.
367
00:15:07,006 --> 00:15:10,342
You could call him the
Quincy Jones of reggae.
368
00:15:10,342 --> 00:15:12,544
He's responsible for
hundreds of hit songs,
369
00:15:12,544 --> 00:15:16,015
and played a crucial role in
the innovation of dub music.
370
00:15:16,015 --> 00:15:17,316
With his friend and collaborator,
371
00:15:17,316 --> 00:15:18,584
King Tubby.
372
00:15:19,485 --> 00:15:21,754
I've done all I can in
Toronto to find Shella.
373
00:15:21,754 --> 00:15:23,088
And I know it seems crazy,
374
00:15:23,088 --> 00:15:25,391
but if I want to know the
truth about this singer,
375
00:15:25,391 --> 00:15:27,159
then I have to go to the source.
376
00:15:27,159 --> 00:15:28,661
I'm gonna drop everything,
377
00:15:28,661 --> 00:15:29,895
and go to Jamaica,
378
00:15:29,895 --> 00:15:32,898
to see if I can track
down Bunny "Striker" Lee,
379
00:15:32,898 --> 00:15:34,867
the man who holds the key to this mystery.
380
00:15:34,867 --> 00:15:37,870
(Minor key roots reggae music)
381
00:15:43,309 --> 00:15:44,677
We're here, we made it.
382
00:15:44,677 --> 00:15:47,212
(reggae music)
383
00:16:20,913 --> 00:16:23,349
- I found Bunny Lee's number
in the Jamaican phone book.
384
00:16:23,349 --> 00:16:24,183
But he's not answering.
385
00:16:24,183 --> 00:16:27,219
Of course my first instinct
is to go to a record shop,
386
00:16:27,219 --> 00:16:28,721
and do some digging.
387
00:16:28,721 --> 00:16:30,856
I'm heading to Orange Street downtown.
388
00:16:30,856 --> 00:16:32,958
A strip which is the stuff of legend.
389
00:16:32,992 --> 00:16:34,159
In its glory days,
390
00:16:34,159 --> 00:16:35,494
they called it "Beat Street",
391
00:16:35,494 --> 00:16:38,664
and it housed scores of
legendary record stores.
392
00:16:38,664 --> 00:16:39,965
The strip has seen better days,
393
00:16:39,965 --> 00:16:43,168
and now there's only one
record shop still in operation.
394
00:16:43,168 --> 00:16:44,236
Augustus Pablo's,
395
00:16:44,236 --> 00:16:45,871
Rockers International.
396
00:16:45,871 --> 00:16:48,440
(reggae music)
397
00:16:57,082 --> 00:16:59,852
Did you ever hear of a singer
called Sheila Rickards?
398
00:16:59,852 --> 00:17:01,520
- Sheila Rickards did
you ever hear about that?
399
00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:02,588
- Sheila Richard?
400
00:17:02,588 --> 00:17:03,589
- [Chris] Rickards.
401
00:17:03,589 --> 00:17:04,423
- Rickards.
402
00:17:04,423 --> 00:17:05,257
- [Chris] Rickards.
403
00:17:05,257 --> 00:17:08,327
From a long time, well before
your time I would think.
404
00:17:08,460 --> 00:17:09,628
- [Jennifer] My friend must know her.
405
00:17:09,628 --> 00:17:10,462
My friend dem.
406
00:17:10,462 --> 00:17:11,296
- [Chris] I have the record.
407
00:17:11,296 --> 00:17:12,898
Do you think by playing it
you might recognize her voice?
408
00:17:12,898 --> 00:17:13,766
- Yeah,
409
00:17:13,766 --> 00:17:17,036
How you a gwan so man? play
the record, yuh nah easy man!
410
00:17:17,770 --> 00:17:20,072
- So it's second to last.
411
00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,776
("Jamaican Fruit of African
Roots" by Shella Record)
412
00:17:23,809 --> 00:17:25,577
♪ We came ♪
413
00:17:25,577 --> 00:17:29,815
♪ From the distant land ♪
414
00:17:29,815 --> 00:17:30,649
♪ Our lives ♪
415
00:17:30,649 --> 00:17:35,654
♪ Already planned ♪
416
00:17:36,188 --> 00:17:37,823
♪ We came in ships ♪
417
00:17:37,823 --> 00:17:40,426
♪ From across the sea ♪
418
00:17:40,426 --> 00:17:42,394
- This is a Jamaican?
419
00:17:42,394 --> 00:17:47,399
♪ And never again our home we'd see ♪
420
00:17:48,634 --> 00:17:53,605
♪ And now we've become ♪
421
00:17:54,873 --> 00:17:59,878
♪ Jamaican fruit ♪
422
00:18:00,846 --> 00:18:04,950
♪ Of African roots ♪
423
00:18:04,950 --> 00:18:09,955
♪ Me wan' fi forward on a yard ♪
424
00:18:10,456 --> 00:18:11,824
♪ Me wan'... ♪
425
00:18:11,824 --> 00:18:13,025
- To a special artist,
426
00:18:13,025 --> 00:18:14,093
Sheila Rickards because,
427
00:18:14,093 --> 00:18:16,328
we know how to identify special people.
428
00:18:16,328 --> 00:18:17,963
And when we hear special people,
429
00:18:17,963 --> 00:18:19,865
we've gotta speak about them, okay?
430
00:18:19,865 --> 00:18:21,133
So Sheila listen to me man,
431
00:18:21,133 --> 00:18:23,001
You can't just ah sound
so and only give we one,
432
00:18:23,001 --> 00:18:25,137
so sometimes we know the
record thing go you know.
433
00:18:25,137 --> 00:18:25,971
Yeah because,
434
00:18:25,971 --> 00:18:26,972
when you have a special sound,
435
00:18:26,972 --> 00:18:29,007
it's not easy for people to record you.
436
00:18:29,007 --> 00:18:30,042
You understand, because they don't know,
437
00:18:30,042 --> 00:18:31,477
what to do with your voice.
438
00:18:31,477 --> 00:18:33,512
Me, I know how to find
you people you know.
439
00:18:33,512 --> 00:18:35,414
So I know to dig you up through my spirit.
440
00:18:35,414 --> 00:18:36,548
We know you're alive because,
441
00:18:36,548 --> 00:18:38,250
we didn't get anything
that you're not here.
442
00:18:38,250 --> 00:18:39,218
We know you're here.
443
00:18:39,218 --> 00:18:42,121
So we're gonna find you man.
444
00:18:42,121 --> 00:18:42,955
Sheila Rickards,
445
00:18:42,955 --> 00:18:44,123
we're gonna find you.
446
00:18:44,123 --> 00:18:46,692
(Moody reggae music)
447
00:18:57,803 --> 00:18:58,737
- I'm here at the archives,
448
00:18:58,737 --> 00:19:00,873
to see if I can find out anything about,
449
00:19:00,873 --> 00:19:02,875
Sheila Rickards like,
450
00:19:02,875 --> 00:19:05,244
if she was a star from that era or,
451
00:19:05,244 --> 00:19:07,579
any kind of celebrity then maybe,
452
00:19:07,579 --> 00:19:08,981
maybe there's a record of her somewhere.
453
00:19:08,981 --> 00:19:10,382
So we're gonna go in and
see what we can find.
454
00:19:10,382 --> 00:19:12,985
(You are my angel by Horace Andy)
455
00:19:14,153 --> 00:19:16,655
♪ You ♪
456
00:19:16,655 --> 00:19:19,224
♪ Are my angel ♪
457
00:19:26,498 --> 00:19:27,332
- Dennis Brown.
458
00:19:27,332 --> 00:19:29,902
(reggae music)
459
00:19:31,336 --> 00:19:32,237
Oh my God,
460
00:19:32,237 --> 00:19:33,071
oh my God.
461
00:19:33,071 --> 00:19:33,906
Look.
462
00:19:35,908 --> 00:19:37,242
"Sheila Richards",
463
00:19:37,242 --> 00:19:38,577
that I'll bet you,
464
00:19:38,577 --> 00:19:39,711
that's Sheila Rickards.
465
00:19:40,112 --> 00:19:42,681
(Dub music)
466
00:19:50,522 --> 00:19:51,823
Okay, I'm very very excited.
467
00:19:51,823 --> 00:19:53,792
I've just been at the
Gleaner newspaper here.
468
00:19:53,792 --> 00:19:55,527
Which is the oldest newspaper,
469
00:19:55,527 --> 00:19:58,497
apparently in the western hemisphere.
470
00:19:58,497 --> 00:20:00,399
But they had a whole bunch,
471
00:20:00,399 --> 00:20:03,869
archival articles and
photographs of Sheila Rickards,
472
00:20:03,869 --> 00:20:05,504
aka "Shella Record".
473
00:20:12,477 --> 00:20:13,312
This is her.
474
00:20:13,312 --> 00:20:14,713
This is Shella Record.
475
00:20:16,381 --> 00:20:18,016
And she's absolutely stunning.
476
00:20:18,016 --> 00:20:18,817
It's so cool.
477
00:20:18,817 --> 00:20:20,219
She really doesn't look that much like,
478
00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:21,119
what I expected.
479
00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:24,256
Like, she's got this crazy
bouffant going on but,
480
00:20:24,256 --> 00:20:25,824
so cool.
481
00:20:25,824 --> 00:20:28,193
So now we have,
482
00:20:28,193 --> 00:20:31,663
a face to a voice.
483
00:20:31,663 --> 00:20:32,898
Now we just got to find her.
484
00:20:39,605 --> 00:20:42,908
♪ There's a man that lives next door ♪
485
00:20:42,908 --> 00:20:45,510
♪ In my neighborhood ♪
486
00:20:45,510 --> 00:20:47,813
♪ In my neighborhood ♪
487
00:20:47,813 --> 00:20:50,415
(reggae music)
488
00:20:51,383 --> 00:20:53,352
- Okay I finally got a
call back from Bunny Lee,
489
00:20:53,352 --> 00:20:54,987
and I'm heading over to meet him.
490
00:20:54,987 --> 00:20:57,122
I'm kind of anxious meeting such a legend,
491
00:20:57,122 --> 00:20:59,424
who's produced so many of
my favorite reggae albums.
492
00:20:59,424 --> 00:21:00,892
He's kind of like an idol of mine,
493
00:21:00,892 --> 00:21:03,228
and this is all a bit
surreal to me right now.
494
00:21:16,575 --> 00:21:17,409
- Okay this is it.
495
00:21:17,409 --> 00:21:18,710
Here we are.
496
00:21:18,710 --> 00:21:20,912
The home of Bunny "Striker" Lee,
497
00:21:20,912 --> 00:21:22,247
the hit maker from Jamaica.
498
00:21:23,915 --> 00:21:26,652
Hoping to go in and get
an audience with him and,
499
00:21:26,652 --> 00:21:28,820
find out if he knows anything about,
500
00:21:28,820 --> 00:21:30,722
Sheila Rickards or Shella Record.
501
00:21:30,722 --> 00:21:32,724
So, fingers crossed.
502
00:21:34,026 --> 00:21:35,460
Alright Mr. Lee.
503
00:21:35,460 --> 00:21:36,561
- Yes.
- Good to see you.
504
00:21:36,561 --> 00:21:37,629
Yeah yeah.
505
00:21:37,629 --> 00:21:39,031
- [Andrew] Hi Mr.Lee.
506
00:21:39,031 --> 00:21:39,931
I'm Andrew.
507
00:21:39,931 --> 00:21:41,166
Nice to meet you.
508
00:21:41,166 --> 00:21:42,768
- Okay so I found a record,
509
00:21:43,602 --> 00:21:45,437
in Canada. It was out in the country,
510
00:21:45,437 --> 00:21:47,072
in a thrift store.
511
00:21:47,072 --> 00:21:49,741
I can't find too much information on it,
512
00:21:49,741 --> 00:21:51,510
The song I'm really
trying to find out about.
513
00:21:55,681 --> 00:21:58,016
Shella Record.
514
00:21:58,016 --> 00:21:59,151
- [Both] Sheila Rickards.
515
00:21:59,151 --> 00:22:00,686
- Sheila Rickards?
- Yeah.
516
00:22:00,686 --> 00:22:02,387
- What do you remember about,
517
00:22:02,387 --> 00:22:03,121
Sheila Rickards?
518
00:22:14,833 --> 00:22:16,735
- She's not normally a
reggae singer though.
519
00:22:29,548 --> 00:22:31,283
- The only Reggae tune she ever did.
520
00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:33,085
When was the last time you saw her?
521
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,728
- Did you ever hear any rumors
about where she ended up?
522
00:22:42,728 --> 00:22:43,962
- No, no.
523
00:22:43,962 --> 00:22:44,796
- Okay, okay.
524
00:22:44,796 --> 00:22:47,032
It's such an amazing track.
525
00:22:47,299 --> 00:22:49,034
it got so under my skin I had to kind of,
526
00:22:49,034 --> 00:22:51,136
find out who it might be.
527
00:22:51,136 --> 00:22:53,171
So did you build this rhythm for her?
528
00:22:56,375 --> 00:22:57,909
- So you never released this,
529
00:22:57,909 --> 00:22:59,544
in Jamaica?
- No!
530
00:22:59,578 --> 00:23:00,746
Do you still have the tapes?
531
00:23:03,615 --> 00:23:04,616
- You had a fire at the studio.
532
00:23:06,385 --> 00:23:07,819
- Man I'm sorry to hear that.
533
00:23:13,692 --> 00:23:16,261
(reggae music)
534
00:23:19,931 --> 00:23:21,666
- Newton-Curry goat!
535
00:23:21,666 --> 00:23:24,836
♪ There's a man that lives next door ♪
536
00:23:24,836 --> 00:23:27,272
♪ In my neighborhood ♪
537
00:23:27,272 --> 00:23:29,341
- So we're going inside,
538
00:23:29,341 --> 00:23:31,977
and if it wasn't destroyed by
the fire or the water damage,
539
00:23:31,977 --> 00:23:33,445
we might be able to find,
540
00:23:33,445 --> 00:23:34,446
the Sheila Rickards tapes.
541
00:23:34,446 --> 00:23:36,681
He may have them inside.
542
00:23:37,382 --> 00:23:38,984
[Bunny] Go upstairs
543
00:23:39,851 --> 00:23:41,186
Alright watch your step.
544
00:23:46,725 --> 00:23:48,460
- [Andrew] Oh my God.
545
00:23:50,328 --> 00:23:51,196
Oh my God.
546
00:23:54,466 --> 00:23:55,467
- My God.
547
00:23:59,438 --> 00:24:00,672
So Newton, what,
548
00:24:00,672 --> 00:24:01,506
what happened?
549
00:24:28,033 --> 00:24:30,135
(Heavy dub music)
550
00:25:40,972 --> 00:25:43,575
(Dub music)
551
00:25:47,646 --> 00:25:49,314
- [Andrew] Newton were you alright?
552
00:26:10,569 --> 00:26:11,703
- Yeah, yeah.
553
00:26:23,949 --> 00:26:26,518
(Moody Xylophone music)
554
00:26:33,291 --> 00:26:35,493
- [Chris] These tapes
have been through a lot.
555
00:26:35,493 --> 00:26:37,696
- Yes, these tapes are older than,
556
00:26:38,697 --> 00:26:39,864
you and I.
557
00:26:41,099 --> 00:26:43,668
(Xylophone music)
558
00:26:50,609 --> 00:26:52,911
Sheila Rickards tape in here somewhere.
559
00:26:53,111 --> 00:26:56,114
So many of them got damaged
by fire and water like,
560
00:26:56,114 --> 00:26:57,749
it's a real long shot,
561
00:26:58,650 --> 00:26:59,985
I don't know,
they kinda look alright.
562
00:26:59,985 --> 00:27:01,820
I'm hoping they're okay.
563
00:27:01,820 --> 00:27:03,455
I'm covered in soot right now.
564
00:27:03,455 --> 00:27:04,289
It's crazy.
565
00:27:18,536 --> 00:27:21,106
(Xylophone music)
566
00:27:30,448 --> 00:27:31,249
- Is this it?
567
00:27:31,249 --> 00:27:32,083
- Yeah.
568
00:27:34,919 --> 00:27:35,754
- Oh my God.
569
00:27:35,754 --> 00:27:38,023
(laughing)
570
00:27:39,024 --> 00:27:40,725
Sheila,
571
00:27:43,128 --> 00:27:44,462
Sheila
572
00:27:44,863 --> 00:27:45,930
Rickards?
573
00:27:47,565 --> 00:27:50,168
Jamaican fruit of African roots.
574
00:27:50,168 --> 00:27:51,736
- Yeah that's it.
575
00:27:51,736 --> 00:27:52,570
This is it.(laughing)
576
00:27:52,570 --> 00:27:53,605
- Oh my God you found it.
577
00:27:53,605 --> 00:27:55,373
This is actually it.
578
00:27:55,373 --> 00:27:56,641
- [Emily] Is it?
579
00:27:56,641 --> 00:27:57,475
You found it?
580
00:27:58,543 --> 00:27:59,377
Shit!
581
00:27:59,678 --> 00:28:00,512
- Did it get..?
582
00:28:00,545 --> 00:28:01,746
Oh it got a little bit,
583
00:28:01,746 --> 00:28:02,580
singed.
584
00:28:10,955 --> 00:28:12,190
Woaaah!
585
00:28:13,058 --> 00:28:13,892
It survived.
586
00:28:13,892 --> 00:28:14,926
It survived the fire.
587
00:28:14,926 --> 00:28:15,994
- [Bunny] Yeah.
588
00:28:15,994 --> 00:28:17,262
- [Chris] Wow.
589
00:28:17,262 --> 00:28:19,364
This tune just refuses to die.
590
00:28:19,364 --> 00:28:21,599
(laughing)
591
00:28:22,934 --> 00:28:25,136
Wow, that's amazing.
592
00:28:25,136 --> 00:28:29,374
(Jamaican Fruit of African
Roots" by Sheila Rickards)
593
00:28:32,310 --> 00:28:33,411
I was disappointed that Bunny,
594
00:28:33,411 --> 00:28:35,013
didn't know where Sheila was.
595
00:28:35,013 --> 00:28:36,581
But after finding the master tapes,
596
00:28:36,581 --> 00:28:38,717
I feel even closer to Sheila Rickards,
597
00:28:38,717 --> 00:28:40,085
and her incredible voice.
598
00:28:41,519 --> 00:28:42,954
Bunny said that most of the musicians,
599
00:28:42,954 --> 00:28:44,656
from his house band The Aggrovators,
600
00:28:44,656 --> 00:28:45,990
have left the country.
601
00:28:45,990 --> 00:28:47,926
But the lead guitarist Earl Smith,
602
00:28:47,926 --> 00:28:49,127
better known as "Chinna",
603
00:28:49,127 --> 00:28:50,662
is still in Kingston.
604
00:28:50,662 --> 00:28:52,030
The man's an absolute legend,
605
00:28:52,030 --> 00:28:55,133
having played guitar on almost
every reggae album ever made.
606
00:28:55,133 --> 00:28:58,403
We're talking tens of
thousands of studio sessions.
607
00:28:58,403 --> 00:29:00,572
Maybe he knows what happened to Sheila.
608
00:29:00,572 --> 00:29:03,141
(reggae music)
609
00:29:06,344 --> 00:29:08,279
I'm looking for Chinna.
610
00:29:10,682 --> 00:29:12,283
- [Andrew] Hey, Andrew.
611
00:29:12,283 --> 00:29:15,386
- Yeah man, bless up, Inna de yard.
612
00:29:16,588 --> 00:29:18,857
- Alright man really good
to see you, yeah, yeah.
613
00:29:18,957 --> 00:29:20,225
Chinna-Alright.
614
00:29:20,225 --> 00:29:22,927
[Chris] Bunny Lee said that you
played on this song.
615
00:29:22,927 --> 00:29:25,263
And right now we're trying to find out,
616
00:29:25,263 --> 00:29:26,331
if you remember the song,
617
00:29:26,331 --> 00:29:27,866
and maybe if you remember the singer.
618
00:29:29,167 --> 00:29:31,836
- Her name is Sheila Rickards.
619
00:29:39,644 --> 00:29:40,678
- Jazz singer exactly.
620
00:29:40,678 --> 00:29:41,980
So yeah basically the story is,
621
00:29:41,980 --> 00:29:43,848
I found a record in Canada,
622
00:29:43,848 --> 00:29:44,916
a number of years ago.
623
00:29:46,518 --> 00:29:48,853
It absolutely blew me away and,
624
00:29:48,853 --> 00:29:51,055
I was trying for a long time to find out,
625
00:29:51,055 --> 00:29:52,590
who this singer might be because,
626
00:29:52,590 --> 00:29:54,025
there was a misprint on the label.
627
00:29:54,025 --> 00:29:55,093
- Right.
628
00:29:57,395 --> 00:29:58,296
- Shella Record.
629
00:29:59,597 --> 00:30:01,232
That's how they spell it.
630
00:30:01,232 --> 00:30:02,467
"Shella" and "Record".
631
00:30:02,467 --> 00:30:03,401
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
632
00:30:08,606 --> 00:30:09,440
- Yeah.
633
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:10,308
- What so they don't
have to pay the artist,
634
00:30:10,308 --> 00:30:11,376
is that the idea?
635
00:30:13,611 --> 00:30:14,445
- So you think it's deliberate.
636
00:30:14,445 --> 00:30:15,280
- Yeah yeah.
637
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:16,114
- Deliberate.
638
00:30:16,114 --> 00:30:16,881
- Yeah.
- Conspiracy.
639
00:30:19,984 --> 00:30:22,420
I want to see maybe if you
remember this tune or not.
640
00:30:22,420 --> 00:30:23,354
It was never a hit here.
641
00:30:23,354 --> 00:30:25,089
It was never even came out here but,
642
00:30:25,089 --> 00:30:28,726
maybe we can try and play it
and see if it rings any bells.
643
00:30:33,698 --> 00:30:34,999
- Water and oil?
644
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,802
- I'll put it on, maybe you can remember,
645
00:31:10,802 --> 00:31:11,636
maybe you can't.
646
00:31:11,636 --> 00:31:14,205
But I'm wondering if maybe
you're in the same room as her,
647
00:31:14,205 --> 00:31:16,207
at one time back in,
648
00:31:16,207 --> 00:31:17,709
1975.
649
00:31:17,709 --> 00:31:21,980
("Jamaican Fruit of African
Roots" by Sheila Rickards)
650
00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:36,895
♪ Jamaican fruit ♪
651
00:31:37,562 --> 00:31:37,595
♪ Of African roots ♪
652
00:31:37,629 --> 00:31:40,498
♪ Of African roots ♪
653
00:31:47,505 --> 00:31:48,573
- [Chris] Santa on drums.
654
00:31:50,642 --> 00:31:52,310
- [Chris] Fully on bass okay, okay.
655
00:31:56,014 --> 00:31:57,048
okay okay.
656
00:32:00,985 --> 00:32:01,819
- You playing lead guitar.
657
00:32:01,819 --> 00:32:02,654
- Yeah.
658
00:32:02,654 --> 00:32:03,488
- So you played on this record.
659
00:32:03,488 --> 00:32:04,322
- Yeah.
- Okay.
660
00:32:04,322 --> 00:32:05,156
Okay.
661
00:32:09,627 --> 00:32:11,162
You know that you played on this record.
662
00:32:11,296 --> 00:32:13,431
Do you remember anything about it?
663
00:32:13,431 --> 00:32:14,933
The woman in the room
or anything like that?
664
00:32:22,407 --> 00:32:23,408
- How many would you say?
665
00:32:23,408 --> 00:32:24,309
How many sessions,
666
00:32:25,243 --> 00:32:26,344
that you played on?
667
00:32:26,344 --> 00:32:27,545
(laughing)
668
00:32:35,253 --> 00:32:37,355
(laughing)
669
00:32:37,355 --> 00:32:38,189
Yeah yeah.
670
00:32:40,692 --> 00:32:42,927
- So it's a bit of a
kind of quest for me to...
671
00:32:44,162 --> 00:32:45,730
- That's what we're trying to find out.
672
00:32:45,730 --> 00:32:46,931
Yeah that's the mission.
673
00:32:56,341 --> 00:32:59,277
(Mellow guitar music)
674
00:33:13,558 --> 00:33:16,060
- Chinna remembered Sheila's
family home on 7th Street,
675
00:33:16,060 --> 00:33:17,428
in the Greenwich town neighborhood,
676
00:33:17,428 --> 00:33:19,330
where he also grew up.
677
00:33:19,330 --> 00:33:20,164
It's a long shot,
678
00:33:20,164 --> 00:33:23,267
but maybe someone there
might know where Sheila is.
679
00:33:23,267 --> 00:33:24,802
So this is 7th Street,
680
00:33:24,802 --> 00:33:26,671
the street that Sheila
Rickards grew up on.
681
00:33:26,671 --> 00:33:29,774
So what we're looking for,
682
00:33:29,774 --> 00:33:32,076
- No this 8..
683
00:33:32,076 --> 00:33:33,311
that's eight.
684
00:33:33,311 --> 00:33:34,345
That's 10?
685
00:33:41,652 --> 00:33:42,854
(laughing)
686
00:33:42,854 --> 00:33:44,222
- You see the man who's living here now?
687
00:33:44,222 --> 00:33:45,656
His name's Sparky.
688
00:33:45,656 --> 00:33:46,691
- Sparky?
689
00:33:46,691 --> 00:33:49,093
Oh yeah Sparky and Pluggy?
690
00:33:49,093 --> 00:33:50,862
- But I live in England I just on holiday.
691
00:33:50,862 --> 00:33:52,330
- You're on holiday here right now.
692
00:33:52,330 --> 00:33:53,164
- Yeah.
693
00:33:53,164 --> 00:33:53,998
- Okay okay.
694
00:33:53,998 --> 00:33:56,000
So I'm here trying to find information,
695
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,769
about Sheila Rickards.
696
00:33:57,769 --> 00:33:59,604
Does that name ring any bells?
697
00:33:59,604 --> 00:34:02,240
- Yes, her father owned this place.
698
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,175
She grew up with us,
699
00:34:04,208 --> 00:34:05,910
- Okay.
700
00:34:05,910 --> 00:34:07,378
- And she left and go foreign.
701
00:34:07,378 --> 00:34:08,846
I never see her again.
702
00:34:08,846 --> 00:34:10,648
- When was the last time you saw her?
703
00:34:10,648 --> 00:34:13,351
- Years and years and
years and years and years.
704
00:34:13,351 --> 00:34:14,385
- We're tryna find her.
705
00:34:14,385 --> 00:34:15,620
Everybody's tryna to find her.
706
00:34:15,620 --> 00:34:16,788
- Everybody's tryna to find her.
707
00:34:16,788 --> 00:34:18,723
Okay, so you'd like to see her again?
708
00:34:18,723 --> 00:34:19,524
- Oh yeah.
709
00:34:19,524 --> 00:34:20,525
Especially I because,
710
00:34:20,525 --> 00:34:22,060
she come to me like,
711
00:34:22,060 --> 00:34:23,594
she's my sister.
712
00:34:24,562 --> 00:34:27,065
Because her father is my godparent.
713
00:34:27,065 --> 00:34:28,132
But she born here.
714
00:34:28,132 --> 00:34:28,966
- [Chris] Born in this house?
715
00:34:28,966 --> 00:34:30,134
- [Sparky] Yeah that's where she born.
716
00:34:30,134 --> 00:34:32,670
(Moody Xylophone music)
717
00:35:30,862 --> 00:35:33,631
- Okay, okay.
718
00:35:33,631 --> 00:35:36,767
So L.A. is maybe somewhere
we need to explore too.
719
00:35:36,767 --> 00:35:38,269
Do you think she's still alive?
720
00:35:38,269 --> 00:35:40,371
- [Sparky] Yeah I think she is.
721
00:35:40,371 --> 00:35:41,205
I think she is yeah.
722
00:35:41,205 --> 00:35:42,039
- Yeah, yeah.
723
00:35:42,039 --> 00:35:44,575
(Ominous music)
724
00:35:47,311 --> 00:35:48,913
I'm following in Sheila's footsteps,
725
00:35:48,913 --> 00:35:50,915
to try and find King Tubby's studio,
726
00:35:50,915 --> 00:35:52,950
in Waterhouse where she recorded the song,
727
00:35:52,950 --> 00:35:53,818
with Bunny Lee.
728
00:36:01,959 --> 00:36:03,027
- Why do they call it Fire House?
729
00:36:10,268 --> 00:36:12,970
[Chris]- I won't be able to get any
clues from Tubby himself.
730
00:36:13,004 --> 00:36:14,672
Who was tragically killed outside his home,
731
00:36:14,672 --> 00:36:16,841
in a robbery in the late 80's.
732
00:36:16,841 --> 00:36:18,276
For me this is like a pilgrimage,
733
00:36:18,276 --> 00:36:19,644
to a sacred site.
734
00:36:19,644 --> 00:36:21,612
But right now I'm feeling
a bit out of my depth,
735
00:36:21,612 --> 00:36:24,248
and I'm too bloody nervous
to enjoy any of it.
736
00:36:50,441 --> 00:36:50,474
- [Seymour] General, respect.
737
00:37:06,090 --> 00:37:08,659
(reggae music)
738
00:37:11,095 --> 00:37:12,029
I think it's there you know.
739
00:37:12,029 --> 00:37:14,699
- [Chris] Okay, yeah with the
record there, yeah, yeah yeah.
740
00:37:20,104 --> 00:37:21,305
That's it there?
741
00:37:21,305 --> 00:37:23,107
I think that's it.
742
00:37:25,610 --> 00:37:28,045
- It's just cool to even see it, you know.
743
00:37:28,045 --> 00:37:29,413
This is the house where,
744
00:37:29,413 --> 00:37:33,251
some of the most magical
music ever made was created.
745
00:37:33,317 --> 00:37:35,152
I've been dreaming of
this place for years,
746
00:37:35,152 --> 00:37:36,787
and now I'm finally here.
747
00:37:37,655 --> 00:37:39,991
This is where it all began,
748
00:37:39,991 --> 00:37:42,260
when Sheila Rickards
stepped inside this studio,
749
00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:43,327
in 1975.
750
00:37:49,767 --> 00:37:52,737
Yeah..put in a punch oh heavy now
751
00:37:54,572 --> 00:37:56,207
Right from the top.
752
00:38:00,845 --> 00:38:02,413
Bunny-Rolling.
753
00:38:02,413 --> 00:38:03,581
(Jamaican Fruit of African
Roots" By Sheila Rickards)
754
00:38:03,581 --> 00:38:08,552
♪ Ooooooh Yeah yeah, eah, eah, eah ♪
755
00:38:16,994 --> 00:38:18,663
♪ We came ♪
756
00:38:18,663 --> 00:38:23,000
♪ From a distant land ♪
757
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:28,005
♪ Our lives already planned ♪
758
00:38:29,607 --> 00:38:31,542
♪ We came in ships ♪
759
00:38:31,542 --> 00:38:35,913
♪ From across the sea ♪
760
00:38:35,913 --> 00:38:38,883
♪ And never again our home ♪
761
00:38:38,883 --> 00:38:42,687
♪ We'd see ♪
762
00:38:42,687 --> 00:38:47,692
♪ And now we've become ♪
763
00:38:49,093 --> 00:38:54,098
♪ Jamaican fruit ♪
764
00:38:55,433 --> 00:39:00,071
♪ Of African roots ♪
765
00:39:00,071 --> 00:39:05,076
♪ Me wan' fi forward on a yard ♪
766
00:39:06,043 --> 00:39:11,048
♪ Me wan' fi forward on a yard ♪
767
00:39:11,916 --> 00:39:13,951
♪ Our master's soil ♪
768
00:39:13,951 --> 00:39:18,422
♪ We toiled from morn' till night ♪
769
00:39:18,422 --> 00:39:23,427
♪ Never given little human rights ♪
770
00:39:23,728 --> 00:39:26,297
♪ Though a long years passed ♪
771
00:39:26,297 --> 00:39:29,700
♪ Things remained the same ♪
772
00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:34,705
♪ Our little babies
born with no last name ♪
773
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:40,311
♪ Just tell me what's to become ♪
774
00:39:40,311 --> 00:39:43,047
♪ Of the ♪
775
00:39:43,047 --> 00:39:48,052
♪ Jamaican fruit ♪
776
00:39:48,319 --> 00:39:52,923
♪ Of African roots ♪
777
00:39:52,923 --> 00:39:57,895
♪ Me wan' fi forward on a yard ♪
778
00:39:58,963 --> 00:40:03,968
♪ Me wan' fi forward on a yard ♪
779
00:40:06,203 --> 00:40:11,041
♪ How, how were we to know ♪
780
00:40:11,041 --> 00:40:16,046
♪ Just what this land would bring ♪
781
00:40:16,914 --> 00:40:18,616
♪ And that our blood ♪
782
00:40:18,616 --> 00:40:22,520
♪ Our very blood would flow ♪
783
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,789
♪ Because of the color ♪
784
00:40:24,789 --> 00:40:27,525
♪ Of our skin ♪
785
00:40:27,525 --> 00:40:30,428
♪ Being black ♪
786
00:40:30,428 --> 00:40:32,730
♪ I am black ♪
787
00:40:32,730 --> 00:40:35,032
♪ I love being black ♪
788
00:40:35,032 --> 00:40:40,037
♪ Oh ♪
789
00:40:40,905 --> 00:40:45,910
♪ The time has come for us to join hands ♪
790
00:40:45,910 --> 00:40:48,279
♪ Let's not be punished by ♪
791
00:40:48,279 --> 00:40:52,516
♪ The rules of this land ♪
792
00:40:52,516 --> 00:40:57,521
♪ Now that we're aware
of what we must do ♪
793
00:40:57,655 --> 00:41:00,524
♪ Let us no longer be fools ♪
794
00:41:00,524 --> 00:41:03,828
♪ No longer fools ♪
795
00:41:03,828 --> 00:41:05,563
♪ Let us all ♪
796
00:41:05,563 --> 00:41:06,864
♪ Be ♪
797
00:41:06,864 --> 00:41:09,834
♪ Black ♪
798
00:41:09,834 --> 00:41:14,839
♪ Let us all be black ♪
799
00:41:15,573 --> 00:41:20,578
♪ And Jamaican fruit ♪
800
00:41:21,579 --> 00:41:26,250
♪ Of African roots ♪
801
00:41:26,250 --> 00:41:31,255
♪ Me wan' fi forward on a yard ♪
802
00:41:31,322 --> 00:41:32,256
♪ Yeah-eah ♪
803
00:41:32,256 --> 00:41:33,090
♪ Me wan' ♪
804
00:41:33,090 --> 00:41:37,962
♪ fi forward on a yard ♪
805
00:41:37,962 --> 00:41:42,867
♪ Me waaan, me waaan, me
waan fi forward on a yard ♪
806
00:41:48,072 --> 00:41:49,974
♪ I wanna be black ♪
807
00:41:49,974 --> 00:41:52,209
♪ Leave me, let me be black ♪
808
00:41:52,209 --> 00:41:55,312
♪ Black, black is beautiful ♪
809
00:41:55,312 --> 00:41:58,682
♪ Oh ♪
810
00:41:58,682 --> 00:42:01,352
♪ African roots ♪
811
00:42:05,289 --> 00:42:06,090
Engineer-Yes suh?
812
00:42:06,090 --> 00:42:07,291
Bunny-Bloodclaat! (laughing)
813
00:42:10,594 --> 00:42:12,596
(Mellow lounge music)
814
00:42:12,596 --> 00:42:13,631
- [Chris] Since none of the reggae people,
815
00:42:13,631 --> 00:42:15,099
seem to know what happened to Sheila,
816
00:42:15,099 --> 00:42:16,600
I'm hoping some of the older jazz crowd,
817
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,202
might know where she is.
818
00:42:19,103 --> 00:42:21,438
I'm meeting Jamaica's premier jazz singer,
819
00:42:21,438 --> 00:42:24,808
Myrna Hague, at the
swanky Four Seasons Hotel,
820
00:42:24,808 --> 00:42:25,976
which feels about as far away,
821
00:42:25,976 --> 00:42:27,511
from Waterhouse as you can get.
822
00:42:28,512 --> 00:42:32,783
("Jamaican Fruit of African
Roots" by Sheila Rickards)
823
00:42:33,884 --> 00:42:36,086
Is that the kinda material
you expect from her?
824
00:42:36,086 --> 00:42:36,921
- Not it's not, it's not.
825
00:42:36,921 --> 00:42:38,355
But the treatment of it,
826
00:42:38,355 --> 00:42:40,024
it's a reggae track obviously.
827
00:42:40,024 --> 00:42:41,058
But the treatment of it,
828
00:42:41,058 --> 00:42:42,359
sounds like the kind of treatment,
829
00:42:42,359 --> 00:42:43,928
that a Jazz singer would,
830
00:42:43,928 --> 00:42:47,765
give to reggae material.
831
00:42:47,765 --> 00:42:52,303
Sheila was a jazz singer
in the jazz tradition.
832
00:42:52,303 --> 00:42:54,171
So if you give her a reggae track,
833
00:42:54,171 --> 00:42:55,639
to sing, she's gonna do that.
834
00:42:55,639 --> 00:42:56,440
- Right.
835
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:57,441
It's very theatrical.
836
00:42:57,441 --> 00:42:59,243
- Yeah it's very theatrical.
837
00:42:59,243 --> 00:43:03,581
And she would want to stamp
it with her own style.
838
00:43:04,548 --> 00:43:05,382
She'd want to,
839
00:43:05,382 --> 00:43:07,251
because my memories of her,
840
00:43:07,251 --> 00:43:09,053
is that she was the jazz singer.
841
00:43:09,053 --> 00:43:11,155
All of the musicians talked about her.
842
00:43:11,155 --> 00:43:12,089
- The musicians talked about her?
843
00:43:12,089 --> 00:43:13,357
- Yeah when I came to Jamaica,
844
00:43:13,357 --> 00:43:16,160
she was the singer that
everybody was talking about.
845
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,996
- Did you hear any stories
about where she ended up?
846
00:43:18,996 --> 00:43:19,964
- No.
847
00:43:21,231 --> 00:43:22,132
well,
848
00:43:22,132 --> 00:43:24,268
what I heard is that
she went to the states.
849
00:43:24,268 --> 00:43:26,070
Because that's where everybody
was going at that time.
850
00:43:26,070 --> 00:43:27,838
Everybody was leaving to go to the states.
851
00:43:27,838 --> 00:43:29,540
And I think that's where she went.
852
00:43:29,540 --> 00:43:31,141
And then she just,
853
00:43:31,141 --> 00:43:34,244
you know, we just lost sight
and sound of her after that.
854
00:43:34,244 --> 00:43:35,379
I never heard anything more.
855
00:43:35,379 --> 00:43:37,781
- [Chris] A lot of artists
try their luck somewhere else,
856
00:43:37,781 --> 00:43:38,616
in a bigger market.
857
00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:41,118
Do you think Sheila
would have had success,
858
00:43:41,118 --> 00:43:43,187
in the States if she
did continue her career.
859
00:43:43,187 --> 00:43:44,021
- I doubt it.
860
00:43:44,021 --> 00:43:44,888
I doubt it.
861
00:43:44,888 --> 00:43:45,923
I'll tell you why I doubt it,
862
00:43:45,923 --> 00:43:47,591
not because she wasn't good,
863
00:43:47,591 --> 00:43:50,728
but because the United
States is very competitive.
864
00:43:50,728 --> 00:43:52,796
It's a very competitive market.
865
00:43:52,796 --> 00:43:54,965
And as a jazz singer,
866
00:43:54,965 --> 00:43:56,100
she would have been up against,
867
00:43:56,100 --> 00:43:57,635
all of the great female Jazz singers,
868
00:43:57,635 --> 00:43:58,969
that were around at the time.
869
00:43:58,969 --> 00:44:00,471
The great swing singers,
870
00:44:00,471 --> 00:44:01,905
at the time.
871
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,409
And so, it would have
been almost impossible.
872
00:44:08,646 --> 00:44:10,748
- Myrna suggested I talk to Herbie Miller,
873
00:44:10,748 --> 00:44:11,815
a Jazz historian,
874
00:44:11,815 --> 00:44:13,817
and Peter Tosh's former manager,
875
00:44:13,817 --> 00:44:18,222
who runs a museum of Jamaican
music history downtown.
876
00:44:21,859 --> 00:44:22,726
- It looks amazing.
877
00:44:22,726 --> 00:44:24,028
This is like my dream office.
878
00:44:24,028 --> 00:44:25,963
(laughing)
879
00:44:25,963 --> 00:44:27,164
You're familiar with the name,
880
00:44:27,164 --> 00:44:28,732
Sheila Rickards?
881
00:44:28,732 --> 00:44:30,601
- I've seen her perform.
882
00:44:30,601 --> 00:44:31,769
Oh yeah.
883
00:44:31,769 --> 00:44:36,640
But I've not seen her for many many years.
884
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,842
I don't recall her making a reggae record,
885
00:44:38,842 --> 00:44:40,444
or a ska record or,
886
00:44:40,644 --> 00:44:41,478
any such thing.
887
00:44:41,478 --> 00:44:43,814
It's always that kind of,
888
00:44:43,814 --> 00:44:46,116
jazz, perhaps some cabaret.
889
00:44:46,116 --> 00:44:47,818
And she would turn up,
890
00:44:47,818 --> 00:44:49,853
in some of the hotel lounges,
891
00:44:49,853 --> 00:44:52,322
for Sunday afternoon jazz concerts.
892
00:44:52,322 --> 00:44:53,824
- [Chris] Oh okay.
893
00:44:56,193 --> 00:45:00,230
♪ I wanted the music ♪
894
00:45:00,230 --> 00:45:02,900
♪ To play on forever ♪
895
00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:06,870
♪ And I stayed too long at the fair ♪
896
00:45:06,870 --> 00:45:10,708
♪ I wanted the clowns ♪
897
00:45:10,708 --> 00:45:14,178
♪ To be constantly clever ♪
898
00:45:14,178 --> 00:45:17,715
♪ Have I stayed too long at the fair ♪
899
00:45:17,715 --> 00:45:21,385
♪ I want a blue ribbon ♪
900
00:45:21,385 --> 00:45:23,620
♪ To tie up my hair ♪
901
00:45:23,620 --> 00:45:28,392
♪ But I couldn't find anybody to care ♪
902
00:45:28,392 --> 00:45:30,861
[Chris]- So you think of Sheila Rickards,
903
00:45:30,861 --> 00:45:32,162
as an important figure in Jamaican Jazz
904
00:45:32,162 --> 00:45:32,996
[Herbie]- Of course.
905
00:45:32,996 --> 00:45:36,934
Oh yes and especially an
educational point of view.
906
00:45:36,934 --> 00:45:37,968
And especially from a,
907
00:45:39,303 --> 00:45:41,271
feminist point of view.
908
00:45:41,271 --> 00:45:43,140
For a female to maintain a career,
909
00:45:43,140 --> 00:45:46,143
in reggae is extremely difficult.
910
00:45:46,143 --> 00:45:47,511
There's a lot of pressure
because of the fact that,
911
00:45:47,511 --> 00:45:50,247
it's a girl inside of a,
912
00:45:50,247 --> 00:45:51,115
boys world.
913
00:45:52,282 --> 00:45:54,251
So it's either,
914
00:45:54,251 --> 00:45:56,220
you're a tom boy.
915
00:45:56,220 --> 00:45:58,822
So you're not worth hanging out with,
916
00:45:58,822 --> 00:46:01,959
or you're a pick-up.
917
00:46:01,959 --> 00:46:04,595
So everybody likes hanging out with you.
918
00:46:04,595 --> 00:46:08,932
Or if you're so strong and independent,
919
00:46:08,932 --> 00:46:10,634
then you're full of it.
920
00:46:10,634 --> 00:46:12,503
- Having a good voice isn't enough?
921
00:46:12,503 --> 00:46:13,904
- No.
922
00:46:14,104 --> 00:46:16,840
(Ambient music)
923
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:18,275
- [Female narrator] Chris
has talked to everyone,
924
00:46:18,275 --> 00:46:20,711
in Jamaica who should know,
925
00:46:20,711 --> 00:46:22,713
what happened to Sheila.
926
00:46:22,713 --> 00:46:25,849
And played the song for
anyone who will listen.
927
00:46:26,683 --> 00:46:28,585
He's running out of time,
928
00:46:28,585 --> 00:46:32,623
and is starting to feel
like he's chasing a ghost.
929
00:46:32,623 --> 00:46:35,292
(Ambient music)
930
00:46:37,060 --> 00:46:38,595
[Chris]- With one day left in Jamaica,
931
00:46:38,595 --> 00:46:41,031
I put an ad in the local newspaper.
932
00:46:41,031 --> 00:46:42,065
I'm hoping someone,
933
00:46:42,065 --> 00:46:43,734
a friend or family member,
934
00:46:43,734 --> 00:46:45,803
will see the ad and give me a call,
935
00:46:45,803 --> 00:46:48,438
and tell me what happened
to Sheila Rickards.
936
00:46:48,438 --> 00:46:50,808
Surely, surely someone has gotta see that,
937
00:46:50,808 --> 00:46:52,910
a family member or something and call.
938
00:46:52,910 --> 00:46:54,044
My only,
939
00:46:54,044 --> 00:46:57,581
issue is that we're running
out of time here in Jamaica so,
940
00:46:57,581 --> 00:46:59,349
hopefully someone sees it.
941
00:46:59,349 --> 00:47:02,553
(Moody xylophone music)
942
00:47:02,553 --> 00:47:04,087
Did you ever hear the
name Sheila Rickards?
943
00:47:04,087 --> 00:47:06,089
- Sheila Rickards?
944
00:47:06,089 --> 00:47:08,358
- I don't remember her.
945
00:47:08,358 --> 00:47:09,693
- Sheila Rickards.
946
00:47:09,693 --> 00:47:11,061
I don't recall that person.
947
00:47:11,061 --> 00:47:13,363
(moody music)
948
00:47:13,363 --> 00:47:16,366
- You don't know this lady
from 7th street name...
949
00:47:16,366 --> 00:47:17,901
- Sheila, Sheila, Sheila.
950
00:47:17,901 --> 00:47:19,770
- Sheila Rickards?
951
00:47:19,770 --> 00:47:20,971
- Sheila Rickards.
952
00:47:20,971 --> 00:47:23,740
(Moody music)
953
00:47:25,475 --> 00:47:26,944
- Sheila Rickards.
954
00:47:26,944 --> 00:47:28,212
- Sheila Rickards,
955
00:47:28,212 --> 00:47:31,481
I don't think she's still alive, is she?
956
00:47:31,481 --> 00:47:33,417
A long long long time.
957
00:47:34,184 --> 00:47:36,587
- Did you ever hear any stories
about where she ended up?
958
00:47:36,587 --> 00:47:38,455
- Nope I don't know.
959
00:47:38,455 --> 00:47:40,057
- I do not know where Sheila is,
960
00:47:40,057 --> 00:47:41,391
but the last I might heard,
961
00:47:41,391 --> 00:47:43,393
she was D-E-A-D.
962
00:47:52,369 --> 00:47:55,038
(phone ringing)
963
00:47:57,374 --> 00:47:58,208
- Okay.
964
00:48:00,744 --> 00:48:02,179
Okay great, hang on a sec.
965
00:48:02,179 --> 00:48:04,114
Let me just get your number.
966
00:48:07,251 --> 00:48:08,652
Okay fantastic.
967
00:48:08,652 --> 00:48:10,087
Alright thank you so much.
968
00:48:10,087 --> 00:48:12,122
I'm really looking forward to meeting you.
969
00:48:12,122 --> 00:48:12,956
Okay take care.
970
00:48:14,391 --> 00:48:15,192
Okay.
971
00:48:15,192 --> 00:48:17,294
That was a relative of Sheila's.
972
00:48:17,294 --> 00:48:19,596
I'm not sure of the exact relationship,
973
00:48:19,596 --> 00:48:21,431
but she saw the ad in the paper,
974
00:48:21,431 --> 00:48:23,500
and she has time to meet today,
975
00:48:23,500 --> 00:48:25,235
so we're going to Devon House.
976
00:48:25,235 --> 00:48:27,971
So I don't know if it's
good or bad to be honest.
977
00:48:27,971 --> 00:48:30,440
Yeah, really, really excited right now.
978
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,043
(Jaunty reggae music)
979
00:48:40,717 --> 00:48:42,619
I'm gonna make sure the ringer's on.
980
00:48:42,619 --> 00:48:45,188
(reggae music)
981
00:48:46,957 --> 00:48:49,626
Is that her? No... fuck.
982
00:48:51,094 --> 00:48:54,264
Okay, an hour and 20 minutes late now.
983
00:48:54,264 --> 00:48:56,500
Should I call or is
this getting pushy now.
984
00:48:56,500 --> 00:48:57,601
I don't know what the
hell to do at this point.
985
00:48:57,601 --> 00:48:59,636
We're leaving first
thing tomorrow morning.
986
00:49:00,671 --> 00:49:02,205
I just need to know either way,
987
00:49:02,205 --> 00:49:03,307
if she's still alive or not,
988
00:49:03,307 --> 00:49:04,274
if she's here,
989
00:49:04,274 --> 00:49:05,409
if she moved away.
990
00:49:06,076 --> 00:49:07,744
Like, ugh,
991
00:49:07,744 --> 00:49:08,578
I feel like I got really close,
992
00:49:08,578 --> 00:49:10,180
but now I don't know what to do.
993
00:49:11,782 --> 00:49:13,150
Hi this is Chris again.
994
00:49:13,150 --> 00:49:15,018
Just wondering if we're
still meeting today.
995
00:49:15,018 --> 00:49:16,753
Please give me a call.
996
00:49:16,753 --> 00:49:18,021
I would love to talk to you.
997
00:49:18,021 --> 00:49:19,056
Okay bubye.
998
00:49:19,056 --> 00:49:20,424
(reggae music)
999
00:49:23,794 --> 00:49:26,830
I go back to Canada tomorrow.
1000
00:49:26,830 --> 00:49:28,365
I have to say I'm just
pretty disappointed that,
1001
00:49:28,365 --> 00:49:29,499
I couldn't find Sheila.
1002
00:49:29,499 --> 00:49:30,367
I mean,
1003
00:49:31,001 --> 00:49:31,835
maybe this is just meant to be,
1004
00:49:31,835 --> 00:49:33,403
a mystery and meant to remain a mystery.
1005
00:49:33,403 --> 00:49:34,237
I don't know.
1006
00:49:34,237 --> 00:49:37,074
Right now I'm just exhausted and broke,
1007
00:49:37,074 --> 00:49:38,375
and I need to go home.
1008
00:49:38,375 --> 00:49:39,476
So,
1009
00:49:39,476 --> 00:49:41,345
that's where I'm at right now.
1010
00:49:41,345 --> 00:49:42,512
- [Andrew] And a little drunk.
1011
00:49:42,512 --> 00:49:45,349
- A little drunk, thank
you for pointing that out.
1012
00:49:45,782 --> 00:49:48,352
(Ambient music)
1013
00:49:49,086 --> 00:49:50,454
[Chris]-Back in Toronto,
1014
00:49:50,454 --> 00:49:53,490
I tried to forget Sheila
and focus on my work.
1015
00:49:53,490 --> 00:49:56,059
(Ambient music)
1016
00:50:01,431 --> 00:50:03,667
I bought new records almost every day,
1017
00:50:03,734 --> 00:50:06,403
but nothing came close to that voice.
1018
00:50:07,604 --> 00:50:08,438
Before long,
1019
00:50:08,572 --> 00:50:10,007
I was back on the search again.
1020
00:50:10,007 --> 00:50:11,208
(Dub music)
1021
00:50:11,208 --> 00:50:13,076
I'm heading to New York
to meet Philip Smart,
1022
00:50:13,076 --> 00:50:15,078
aka Prince Philip,
1023
00:50:15,078 --> 00:50:18,281
who Bunny Lee says brought
Sheila to the studio that day.
1024
00:50:19,282 --> 00:50:21,752
Philip was an apprentice
to the great King Tubby,
1025
00:50:21,752 --> 00:50:24,888
and as a teenager, he created
incredible reggae mixes,
1026
00:50:24,888 --> 00:50:26,690
and dub versions.
1027
00:50:26,690 --> 00:50:27,791
When he moved to New York,
1028
00:50:27,791 --> 00:50:31,061
he scored hit after hit out
of his Long Island Studio,
1029
00:50:31,061 --> 00:50:32,863
which is where I'm headed right now.
1030
00:50:34,164 --> 00:50:36,333
(Dub Music)
1031
00:50:37,300 --> 00:50:39,636
Do you mind if we just film?
1032
00:50:40,937 --> 00:50:41,772
Mr Smart
1033
00:50:41,772 --> 00:50:42,606
Philip-Yes sir
1034
00:50:42,706 --> 00:50:43,573
Hi I'm Chris
1035
00:50:43,807 --> 00:50:44,775
- Great to meet you.
1036
00:50:45,008 --> 00:50:46,843
- [Chris] Thanks a lot
for meeting with us.
1037
00:50:48,078 --> 00:50:49,446
- At the time,
1038
00:50:49,446 --> 00:50:51,615
I remember saying,
1039
00:50:51,615 --> 00:50:53,316
what is Bunny gonna do with,
1040
00:50:53,316 --> 00:50:55,018
this kind of song.
1041
00:50:55,018 --> 00:50:55,852
At the time, you know.
1042
00:50:56,820 --> 00:50:58,355
- Cause at the time it
wasn't really something,
1043
00:50:58,355 --> 00:50:59,189
that was...
1044
00:50:59,189 --> 00:51:00,590
- It's not, the mainstream.
1045
00:51:00,590 --> 00:51:04,127
It wasn't a mainstream
kind of reggae production
1046
00:51:04,127 --> 00:51:04,961
at the time.
1047
00:51:04,961 --> 00:51:08,932
But you know Bunny does a lot
of different kind of stuff so,
1048
00:51:08,932 --> 00:51:10,000
you never know.
1049
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:11,601
He'll do this and it'll be a big hit.
1050
00:51:11,601 --> 00:51:13,770
- Right, right, right.
1051
00:51:13,770 --> 00:51:16,740
Well I mean we still don't
have that much of a sense,
1052
00:51:16,740 --> 00:51:18,508
of what she was like.
1053
00:51:19,443 --> 00:51:23,213
- Well look I only knew
her for a short time.
1054
00:51:24,948 --> 00:51:27,651
To me she was fabulous.
1055
00:51:27,651 --> 00:51:31,154
I think she was willing to try,
1056
00:51:31,154 --> 00:51:33,557
stuff in reggae that
she'd never done before.
1057
00:51:33,557 --> 00:51:34,891
I mean,
1058
00:51:34,891 --> 00:51:35,725
it might have,
1059
00:51:36,927 --> 00:51:40,330
to her it might have seemed
like reggae wasn't big thing,
1060
00:51:40,330 --> 00:51:41,932
compared to what she was doing.
1061
00:51:41,932 --> 00:51:44,801
But when she actually did it,
1062
00:51:44,801 --> 00:51:46,169
she enjoyed it.
1063
00:51:46,169 --> 00:51:47,404
She started to get into it,
1064
00:51:47,404 --> 00:51:48,905
and then she wanted to do more.
1065
00:51:48,905 --> 00:51:50,240
That's what I remember.
1066
00:51:50,240 --> 00:51:51,274
- So yeah Bunny Lee told me,
1067
00:51:51,274 --> 00:51:52,442
that you brought her to the studio,
1068
00:51:52,442 --> 00:51:54,044
but he brought her there?
1069
00:51:54,044 --> 00:51:55,946
- He first introduced me to her.
1070
00:51:55,946 --> 00:51:56,780
He brought her,
1071
00:51:56,780 --> 00:51:58,648
then he left her,
1072
00:51:58,648 --> 00:52:01,985
with me to go ahead and,
1073
00:52:01,985 --> 00:52:03,320
do the recordings.
1074
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:04,154
- [Chris] Okay.
1075
00:52:04,154 --> 00:52:06,289
Yeah he actually told me
that she was your girlfriend.
1076
00:52:06,289 --> 00:52:09,159
Is that the case?
1077
00:52:09,159 --> 00:52:11,161
- That's a little far fetched.
1078
00:52:11,161 --> 00:52:13,396
(laughing)
1079
00:52:15,799 --> 00:52:18,235
We developed a friendship,
1080
00:52:19,169 --> 00:52:20,504
I was trying to show her,
1081
00:52:20,504 --> 00:52:24,007
what reggae was about in Jamaica because,
1082
00:52:24,007 --> 00:52:28,345
it was strange to me how Jamaican
didn't really understand,
1083
00:52:28,345 --> 00:52:29,546
how we did reggae.
1084
00:52:29,546 --> 00:52:32,315
So she enjoyed the recording process.
1085
00:52:32,315 --> 00:52:35,552
Of whoever I was recording for the day,
1086
00:52:35,552 --> 00:52:37,420
and she sat there and
watched how we did it.
1087
00:52:37,420 --> 00:52:41,124
- When I was in Jamaica we
got this footage from...
1088
00:52:42,559 --> 00:52:44,060
- Where did you get this footage?
1089
00:52:44,060 --> 00:52:45,929
- [Chris] From the library in Jamaica.
1090
00:52:45,929 --> 00:52:46,763
- Wow
1091
00:52:46,763 --> 00:52:49,099
I don't know what this was from.
1092
00:52:54,638 --> 00:52:57,440
- Yeah I always wondered
what happened to her.
1093
00:52:59,142 --> 00:53:01,778
It's like you meet somebody and,
1094
00:53:01,778 --> 00:53:03,713
you know you're working together.
1095
00:53:03,713 --> 00:53:05,782
I wonder if she,
1096
00:53:05,782 --> 00:53:06,816
got a big hit.
1097
00:53:06,816 --> 00:53:08,552
She changed her,
1098
00:53:08,552 --> 00:53:09,586
artist name.
1099
00:53:09,586 --> 00:53:10,854
She probably changed her artist name,
1100
00:53:10,854 --> 00:53:14,090
from Sheila to something
else that we don't even know.
1101
00:53:14,090 --> 00:53:17,160
- Yeah, so the mystery continues I guess.
1102
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,730
- Well, you have your work
cut out for you, you know.
1103
00:53:20,730 --> 00:53:21,731
(laughing)
1104
00:53:21,731 --> 00:53:22,799
Well if you find her,
1105
00:53:22,799 --> 00:53:24,834
ask her if she remembers me.
1106
00:53:24,834 --> 00:53:25,669
- I will.
1107
00:53:25,669 --> 00:53:28,104
- Her first reggae encounter.
1108
00:53:28,104 --> 00:53:28,939
- First and last!
1109
00:53:28,939 --> 00:53:30,740
- Probably her last man!
1110
00:53:30,740 --> 00:53:31,541
(laughing)
1111
00:53:31,541 --> 00:53:33,577
Philip suggested we
talk to Larry McDonald,
1112
00:53:33,577 --> 00:53:36,279
who was Gil Scott Heron's
percussionist for decades.
1113
00:53:37,214 --> 00:53:38,648
He's a jazz and reggae musician
1114
00:53:38,648 --> 00:53:40,150
who performed with Sheila Rickards,
1115
00:53:40,150 --> 00:53:42,085
on the hotel circuit in Jamaica,
1116
00:53:42,085 --> 00:53:43,987
back in the early 60's.
1117
00:53:43,987 --> 00:53:45,989
I'm meeting him at this
apartment in the east village,
1118
00:53:45,989 --> 00:53:47,991
to see what he remembers.
1119
00:53:49,025 --> 00:53:51,695
- I keep hearing that
she went to Australia.
1120
00:53:52,996 --> 00:53:54,297
(laughing)
1121
00:53:54,297 --> 00:53:56,933
- That's just so crazy to me.
1122
00:53:56,933 --> 00:54:00,070
That's so crazy to me,
like being from Australia,
1123
00:54:00,070 --> 00:54:02,072
the idea of her ending
up back in Australia.
1124
00:54:02,072 --> 00:54:03,807
Where did you hear this?
1125
00:54:04,774 --> 00:54:06,576
- It was like,
1126
00:54:06,576 --> 00:54:07,444
a rumor,
1127
00:54:11,448 --> 00:54:15,018
among musicians, a strong
strong rumor for a long time.
1128
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:19,789
Let me call Janet Enright.
1129
00:54:20,657 --> 00:54:23,460
There's one specific
thing I called you to ask.
1130
00:54:23,460 --> 00:54:26,263
Do you, what do you remember,
1131
00:54:26,263 --> 00:54:28,832
of Sheila, Sheila Rickards?
1132
00:54:29,733 --> 00:54:32,002
Did she leave Jamaica?
1133
00:54:32,002 --> 00:54:33,570
Where did she go when she left home?
1134
00:54:33,570 --> 00:54:34,404
Do you know?
1135
00:54:34,404 --> 00:54:36,640
- [Janet Enright] I
think she's in Florida.
1136
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,908
- You think she's in Florida?
1137
00:54:38,908 --> 00:54:41,811
Well, why I'm asking right,
1138
00:54:43,713 --> 00:54:45,348
I'm sitting up here,
1139
00:54:46,650 --> 00:54:49,185
with this guy who is
a Sheila Rickards nut.
1140
00:54:50,253 --> 00:54:53,223
He came across one record
from her in the 70's.
1141
00:54:54,891 --> 00:54:58,161
He's on this quest,
1142
00:54:59,029 --> 00:55:01,631
to find out everything
that he can about her.
1143
00:55:03,300 --> 00:55:04,668
I'm trying to tell him,
1144
00:55:04,668 --> 00:55:08,038
what kind of dynamic performer Sheila was.
1145
00:55:08,038 --> 00:55:09,406
- [Janet] No man, She was awesome man
1146
00:55:09,406 --> 00:55:11,174
Sheila was awesome.
1147
00:55:11,174 --> 00:55:13,043
In more ways than just a performer.
1148
00:55:13,043 --> 00:55:13,910
She was awesome.
1149
00:55:14,077 --> 00:55:16,446
- But I heard she had gone to Australia.
1150
00:55:18,214 --> 00:55:21,785
Then there was talk that
she was in New York.
1151
00:55:22,185 --> 00:55:24,454
Then there was talk that she was in,
1152
00:55:25,322 --> 00:55:26,156
California.
1153
00:55:27,123 --> 00:55:29,092
- [Chris] Is it really
possible that Sheila Rickards,
1154
00:55:29,092 --> 00:55:31,027
moved to Australia and went underground,
1155
00:55:31,027 --> 00:55:33,463
sometime in the 60's or 70's?
1156
00:55:33,463 --> 00:55:34,331
I don't know.
1157
00:55:34,331 --> 00:55:36,599
I think Los Angeles
seems a bit more likely.
1158
00:55:36,599 --> 00:55:38,935
And there was that rumor
that the great soul icon,
1159
00:55:38,935 --> 00:55:41,104
Sam Cooke arranged for
her to come to L.A.,
1160
00:55:41,104 --> 00:55:42,872
to pursue her singing career.
1161
00:55:43,707 --> 00:55:44,941
Right now I don't have any way,
1162
00:55:44,941 --> 00:55:47,177
of communicating with Sam Cooke.
1163
00:55:47,177 --> 00:55:48,578
But I'm heading to the city of angels,
1164
00:55:48,578 --> 00:55:50,480
to see if I can find any trace,
1165
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:51,981
of Sheila Rickards.
1166
00:55:51,981 --> 00:55:54,584
(Ambient music)
1167
00:55:58,054 --> 00:56:00,957
Before I left, I put an
ad in the L.A. Times.
1168
00:56:00,957 --> 00:56:02,692
Let's hope somebody gets in touch,
1169
00:56:02,692 --> 00:56:04,294
and can help me out with this mystery.
1170
00:56:04,294 --> 00:56:06,896
(Lounge music)
1171
00:56:15,572 --> 00:56:17,640
I've just had a really lucky break.
1172
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:19,576
A private detective
called William Roberts,
1173
00:56:19,576 --> 00:56:21,010
saw the ad in the newspaper,
1174
00:56:21,010 --> 00:56:24,447
and he's offering to help try
and locate Sheila Rickards.
1175
00:56:24,447 --> 00:56:26,182
- Under the name Sheila Rickards,
1176
00:56:26,182 --> 00:56:28,551
there's nobody between the ages of,
1177
00:56:28,551 --> 00:56:29,386
65 or 78.
1178
00:56:30,420 --> 00:56:31,621
- Okay.
1179
00:56:31,621 --> 00:56:33,089
- Throughout the United States.
1180
00:56:33,089 --> 00:56:34,057
- [Chris] Alright.
1181
00:56:34,057 --> 00:56:35,191
- As for marriage records.
1182
00:56:35,191 --> 00:56:37,460
Under Sheila Rickards.
1183
00:56:37,460 --> 00:56:40,096
So I found one that I
thought might be possible.
1184
00:56:40,096 --> 00:56:42,532
It was a woman who married a Japanese guy,
1185
00:56:42,532 --> 00:56:45,101
in Las Vegas,
1186
00:56:46,569 --> 00:56:48,304
but the age is wrong.
1187
00:56:48,304 --> 00:56:50,673
- I'd be very surprised if
she wasn't here performing,
1188
00:56:50,673 --> 00:56:51,508
in the States.
1189
00:56:51,508 --> 00:56:53,443
You'd think that that was her kind of,
1190
00:56:54,411 --> 00:56:55,578
reason for coming here.
1191
00:56:56,446 --> 00:56:58,081
- Yeah unless it was for love.
1192
00:56:58,081 --> 00:56:59,883
- Well yeah, yeah.
1193
00:56:59,883 --> 00:57:00,717
That's true.
1194
00:57:01,818 --> 00:57:02,652
- Some people do that.
1195
00:57:02,652 --> 00:57:04,053
Give up their careers and,
1196
00:57:06,256 --> 00:57:07,090
just settle down.
1197
00:57:08,358 --> 00:57:09,759
- [Chris] Have you ever had experience,
1198
00:57:09,759 --> 00:57:10,760
when you're trying to locate people,
1199
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:12,896
of people not wanting to be found?
1200
00:57:15,999 --> 00:57:17,700
- [William] People who usually
don't want to be found,
1201
00:57:17,700 --> 00:57:20,203
take great lengths to not be found.
1202
00:57:20,203 --> 00:57:21,838
And if you're good at it,
1203
00:57:21,838 --> 00:57:22,806
you won't be found.
1204
00:57:24,107 --> 00:57:26,176
You have to get off the grid entirely.
1205
00:57:26,176 --> 00:57:27,010
That means,
1206
00:57:27,977 --> 00:57:29,312
you can't use your real name.
1207
00:57:29,312 --> 00:57:30,914
You don't use a cell phone.
1208
00:57:30,914 --> 00:57:32,115
You don't get magazines.
1209
00:57:32,115 --> 00:57:33,316
You don't have credit cards.
1210
00:57:33,316 --> 00:57:35,151
That's how you get off the grid.
1211
00:57:35,151 --> 00:57:37,754
(Mysterious music)
1212
00:57:40,089 --> 00:57:41,057
- [Chris] Before long,
1213
00:57:41,057 --> 00:57:43,560
someone saw the ad and got in touch.
1214
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:45,261
Dorothy, who runs the U.S. arm,
1215
00:57:45,261 --> 00:57:47,063
of the Jamaican Jazz Festival,
1216
00:57:47,063 --> 00:57:48,665
says she was sent a package,
1217
00:57:48,665 --> 00:57:52,001
by someone called Sheila
Rickards not that long ago.
1218
00:57:52,001 --> 00:57:53,403
I'm racing over to meet her.
1219
00:57:54,671 --> 00:57:56,105
[Dorothy]- I had gotten,
1220
00:57:57,807 --> 00:57:58,641
a call,
1221
00:57:59,609 --> 00:58:04,047
from this person who
identified herself as,
1222
00:58:04,047 --> 00:58:04,881
Sheila Rickards.
1223
00:58:04,881 --> 00:58:08,318
So we opened dialogue.
1224
00:58:08,318 --> 00:58:09,719
- [Chris] Now when was this?
1225
00:58:11,421 --> 00:58:14,824
- I would say at least five years ago.
1226
00:58:14,824 --> 00:58:15,658
At least five.
1227
00:58:15,658 --> 00:58:18,328
It could be between five and seven.
1228
00:58:18,328 --> 00:58:20,930
- [Chris] Okay and you're
sure it was Sheila Rickards?
1229
00:58:20,930 --> 00:58:22,532
- I am sure because,
1230
00:58:23,633 --> 00:58:26,836
we communicated for a short time.
1231
00:58:26,836 --> 00:58:30,306
At the time I think she
was living in Oregon.
1232
00:58:30,306 --> 00:58:31,140
- In Oregon.
1233
00:58:31,140 --> 00:58:32,242
- Right.
1234
00:58:32,242 --> 00:58:33,743
So at the time,
1235
00:58:33,743 --> 00:58:36,646
I did have information on her.
1236
00:58:36,646 --> 00:58:37,480
- [Chris] Okay.
1237
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:38,448
This is really...
1238
00:58:38,448 --> 00:58:40,183
- And I'm sure if I search,
1239
00:58:40,183 --> 00:58:42,151
I will find it.
1240
00:58:42,151 --> 00:58:43,386
There are stacks,
1241
00:58:43,386 --> 00:58:46,556
I mean boxes of,
1242
00:58:46,556 --> 00:58:47,891
submissions.
1243
00:58:47,891 --> 00:58:50,727
So I'm sure there will be a CD,
1244
00:58:50,727 --> 00:58:53,463
and whatever the last contact is.
1245
00:58:53,463 --> 00:58:57,100
I have a box of something in here.
1246
00:58:57,100 --> 00:58:59,068
But I don't know if that is,
1247
00:58:59,068 --> 00:59:00,837
one of the boxes.
1248
00:59:08,411 --> 00:59:11,147
(Mysterious music)
1249
00:59:16,853 --> 00:59:18,521
[Dorothy]-I don't know
whether you want to call it,
1250
00:59:18,521 --> 00:59:21,457
the mind energy or,
1251
00:59:21,457 --> 00:59:22,525
you know you can,
1252
00:59:22,525 --> 00:59:24,994
talk about something
enough that it appears,
1253
00:59:24,994 --> 00:59:26,663
you never know.
1254
00:59:26,663 --> 00:59:28,765
We'll just keep the search going.
1255
00:59:28,765 --> 00:59:31,534
(rhythmic music)
1256
01:00:18,314 --> 01:00:19,549
[Chris]- It's my last day in L.A.,
1257
01:00:19,549 --> 01:00:21,517
and I'm still no closer to Sheila.
1258
01:00:22,385 --> 01:00:23,620
The private detective suspects,
1259
01:00:23,620 --> 01:00:24,954
Sheila might have got married,
1260
01:00:24,954 --> 01:00:26,856
and changed her name.
1261
01:00:26,856 --> 01:00:28,424
My strongest lead is Dorothy,
1262
01:00:28,424 --> 01:00:30,159
but she still can't find an envelope,
1263
01:00:30,159 --> 01:00:33,029
that would reveal Sheila's
most recent address.
1264
01:00:33,029 --> 01:00:34,430
I'm not sure what to do anymore,
1265
01:00:34,430 --> 01:00:36,499
and I'm starting to get desperate.
1266
01:00:36,499 --> 01:00:38,901
You know Venice Beach is
a bit of a freak show.
1267
01:00:38,901 --> 01:00:40,536
And I walked past last night.
1268
01:00:40,536 --> 01:00:42,705
There's like a psychic
right on the esplanade.
1269
01:00:42,705 --> 01:00:43,773
And frankly,
1270
01:00:43,773 --> 01:00:46,175
I'm extremely skeptical
about all this stuff.
1271
01:00:47,176 --> 01:00:48,444
Honestly I think it's a lot of bullshit.
1272
01:00:48,444 --> 01:00:51,347
But at this point, I'm
willing to try anything so,
1273
01:00:51,347 --> 01:00:53,116
let me go in and see,
1274
01:00:54,584 --> 01:00:55,752
yeah.
1275
01:00:55,752 --> 01:00:57,720
See if some second sight will,
1276
01:00:57,720 --> 01:00:59,255
get me any closer to Sheila.
1277
01:01:01,624 --> 01:01:04,394
(Dub music with electronics)
1278
01:01:11,934 --> 01:01:13,102
Okay that was really freaky.
1279
01:01:13,102 --> 01:01:15,705
I'm just gonna describe
what happened in there.
1280
01:01:15,705 --> 01:01:17,040
She took me inside a dark room,
1281
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:18,941
and asked me why I'd come to see her.
1282
01:01:20,043 --> 01:01:21,344
I told her about Sheila,
1283
01:01:21,344 --> 01:01:22,311
and gave her a photo,
1284
01:01:22,311 --> 01:01:24,981
to see if she could tell me
where I should be looking.
1285
01:01:26,416 --> 01:01:27,984
She had this huge crystal ball,
1286
01:01:27,984 --> 01:01:29,252
which she stared into,
1287
01:01:29,252 --> 01:01:30,453
for about a minute.
1288
01:01:30,453 --> 01:01:34,090
And then told me that
Sheila Rickards is dead.
1289
01:01:34,090 --> 01:01:36,392
That she'd passed away in California.
1290
01:01:37,293 --> 01:01:39,495
I don't know what to think about that.
1291
01:01:39,495 --> 01:01:41,397
I suppose it does make some kind of sense,
1292
01:01:41,397 --> 01:01:43,232
but I really hope she's wrong.
1293
01:01:44,367 --> 01:01:45,802
She also said that Sheila,
1294
01:01:45,802 --> 01:01:48,971
married a man with an
unusual European name.
1295
01:01:48,971 --> 01:01:49,972
And she did one better,
1296
01:01:49,972 --> 01:01:52,008
she gave me the name Yennis.
1297
01:01:52,008 --> 01:01:54,577
Y-E-N-N-I-S.
1298
01:01:54,577 --> 01:01:56,446
So maybe another clue to investigate?
1299
01:01:57,513 --> 01:02:00,149
You know I don't really
buy into all this stuff.
1300
01:02:00,149 --> 01:02:02,051
But there was a few things she
managed to put her finger on,
1301
01:02:02,051 --> 01:02:03,519
that I hadn't told her,
1302
01:02:03,519 --> 01:02:05,855
which freaked me out a
little bit to be honest.
1303
01:02:06,789 --> 01:02:08,191
So as weird as it sounds,
1304
01:02:08,191 --> 01:02:10,693
since I've got no other
options at this point,
1305
01:02:10,693 --> 01:02:12,729
I'm gonna follow up on this Yennis dude,
1306
01:02:12,729 --> 01:02:15,331
Sheila's possible husband
and see what comes up.
1307
01:02:15,331 --> 01:02:17,934
(reggae music)
1308
01:02:21,738 --> 01:02:22,572
Sheila Yennis.
1309
01:02:22,572 --> 01:02:23,406
Try one N
1310
01:02:27,143 --> 01:02:29,679
Sheila Yenis, well that would
definitely be an unusual name,
1311
01:02:29,679 --> 01:02:31,280
rhyming with penis.
1312
01:02:32,949 --> 01:02:34,417
No information found.
1313
01:02:37,987 --> 01:02:39,055
This whole thing is,
1314
01:02:39,055 --> 01:02:41,190
more than a little bit ridiculous.
1315
01:02:41,190 --> 01:02:42,825
Like I'm here,
1316
01:02:42,825 --> 01:02:43,960
looking up a name,
1317
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:44,961
that was suggested to me,
1318
01:02:44,961 --> 01:02:46,062
by a psychic.
1319
01:02:46,062 --> 01:02:46,896
Like,
1320
01:02:48,231 --> 01:02:50,900
I'm starting to kind of
wonder what on earth,
1321
01:02:50,900 --> 01:02:51,768
I'm doing here.
1322
01:02:51,768 --> 01:02:56,305
This obsession is getting
a little bit out of hand.
1323
01:02:56,305 --> 01:02:57,707
I'm now following the advice,
1324
01:02:57,707 --> 01:03:01,144
of a complete cranks,
1325
01:03:01,144 --> 01:03:02,245
trying to find this woman.
1326
01:03:02,245 --> 01:03:04,781
I know next to nothing about her.
1327
01:03:04,781 --> 01:03:07,116
I should be like back in
Canada with my girlfriend.
1328
01:03:07,116 --> 01:03:09,352
But instead I'm chasing this,
1329
01:03:09,352 --> 01:03:11,654
70 year old woman who,
1330
01:03:11,654 --> 01:03:13,623
probably doesn't even want to be found.
1331
01:03:15,124 --> 01:03:18,694
I guess I could contact the
private detective and see if,
1332
01:03:18,694 --> 01:03:20,496
he can look for a Sheila Yenis but,
1333
01:03:20,496 --> 01:03:23,032
that also seems a bit crazy.
1334
01:03:24,500 --> 01:03:26,169
Yeah.
1335
01:03:26,169 --> 01:03:27,870
This is all getting a bit fucked up.
1336
01:03:44,754 --> 01:03:46,022
- [Female narrator] It's been two years,
1337
01:03:46,022 --> 01:03:48,491
Since Chris gave up the search for Sheila.
1338
01:03:49,792 --> 01:03:51,661
Well to be honest,
1339
01:03:51,661 --> 01:03:54,564
he never really stopped looking.
1340
01:03:54,564 --> 01:03:56,632
He put ads in newspapers,
1341
01:03:56,632 --> 01:03:58,601
all across America,
1342
01:03:58,601 --> 01:04:01,404
hoping that someone would recognize,
1343
01:04:01,404 --> 01:04:04,307
Sheila's name or photograph,
1344
01:04:04,307 --> 01:04:06,309
and get in touch.
1345
01:04:06,309 --> 01:04:08,177
He's just been contacted,
1346
01:04:08,177 --> 01:04:10,880
by a private detective in Arizona.
1347
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:12,114
But this guy,
1348
01:04:12,114 --> 01:04:13,282
couldn't be more different,
1349
01:04:13,282 --> 01:04:15,651
from the one in Los Angeles.
1350
01:04:15,651 --> 01:04:17,787
He has a bit of an,
1351
01:04:17,787 --> 01:04:20,623
unusual sideline in,
1352
01:04:20,623 --> 01:04:23,826
paranormal investigations.
1353
01:04:24,827 --> 01:04:26,762
Basically, ghost hunting.
1354
01:04:27,830 --> 01:04:31,601
Chris, where do you find these people?
1355
01:04:31,601 --> 01:04:33,502
(dramatic music)
1356
01:04:33,502 --> 01:04:35,037
- My name is Lyle Sharman.
1357
01:04:35,037 --> 01:04:37,206
(beeping)
1358
01:04:40,142 --> 01:04:42,044
(dramatic music)
1359
01:04:42,044 --> 01:04:45,047
I'm a licensed private investigator.
1360
01:04:45,815 --> 01:04:47,717
Five years ago I became aware,
1361
01:04:47,717 --> 01:04:49,151
that there really are spirits,
1362
01:04:49,151 --> 01:04:50,720
and they want to tell their stories.
1363
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:51,787
Is anybody in here?
1364
01:04:52,722 --> 01:04:54,757
(electronic beeps)
1365
01:04:54,757 --> 01:04:57,093
[Lyle]-So I know this stuff exists because,
1366
01:04:57,093 --> 01:04:59,195
I've done professional investigations,
1367
01:04:59,195 --> 01:05:00,263
and I've seen it happen.
1368
01:05:00,263 --> 01:05:01,397
- Okay.
1369
01:05:01,397 --> 01:05:02,231
- You know we've been interested in it,
1370
01:05:02,231 --> 01:05:03,532
for quite a few years.
1371
01:05:03,532 --> 01:05:04,367
- Okay.
1372
01:05:04,367 --> 01:05:08,771
- And being a PI I wanted
to take a much more,
1373
01:05:08,771 --> 01:05:10,773
scientifical, investigative,
1374
01:05:10,773 --> 01:05:13,376
realistic approach to the whole thing.
1375
01:05:13,376 --> 01:05:14,310
- Right.
1376
01:05:14,310 --> 01:05:15,978
I really appreciate you
getting involved cause,
1377
01:05:15,978 --> 01:05:17,980
you know I feel like
I've hit a bit of wall.
1378
01:05:17,980 --> 01:05:19,415
I've done a lot of,
1379
01:05:19,415 --> 01:05:20,249
my own digging,
1380
01:05:20,249 --> 01:05:22,218
but I feel like at this
point I really need,
1381
01:05:22,218 --> 01:05:23,786
a professional involved.
1382
01:05:23,786 --> 01:05:26,923
(reggae music)
1383
01:05:26,923 --> 01:05:28,891
It's time to call Lyle
and see if he's around.
1384
01:05:28,891 --> 01:05:29,859
- [Lyle] Hey Chris how are ya?
1385
01:05:29,859 --> 01:05:32,395
- [Chris] Not too bad, happy New Year.
1386
01:05:32,395 --> 01:05:33,663
- [Lyle] Happy New Year to you.
1387
01:05:33,663 --> 01:05:34,497
- [Chris] Oh hi is this
the private investigators?
1388
01:05:34,497 --> 01:05:36,332
(Gun shots)
1389
01:05:36,332 --> 01:05:37,300
- [Lyle] Yes it is.
1390
01:05:38,301 --> 01:05:39,969
- [Chris] So you said
you had some good news.
1391
01:05:39,969 --> 01:05:41,704
- Well I think it's pretty good news.
1392
01:05:41,704 --> 01:05:44,440
Okay so anyways, I ran
that comprehensive report,
1393
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:46,175
which turned out to be
a really good thing.
1394
01:05:46,175 --> 01:05:47,243
- Okay.
1395
01:05:47,243 --> 01:05:49,712
- So I came up with a few
different phone numbers,
1396
01:05:49,712 --> 01:05:53,449
other than the one that I
had been trying constantly.
1397
01:05:53,449 --> 01:05:55,184
Honestly I don't see anything in here,
1398
01:05:55,184 --> 01:05:56,719
that indicates that,
1399
01:05:56,719 --> 01:05:57,687
Sheila's dead.
1400
01:05:57,687 --> 01:05:59,188
- So you think we've
got the right Sheila here?
1401
01:05:59,522 --> 01:06:00,489
- Absolutely.
1402
01:06:00,489 --> 01:06:01,791
Personally what I'm seeing,
1403
01:06:01,791 --> 01:06:03,626
I think she's still alive.
1404
01:06:03,626 --> 01:06:07,396
And I think she's probably
living in Mississippi.
1405
01:06:07,396 --> 01:06:09,065
- Mississippi?
1406
01:06:11,534 --> 01:06:13,035
Okay so I'm just about to call Lyle,
1407
01:06:13,035 --> 01:06:14,470
once again.
1408
01:06:14,470 --> 01:06:17,139
He's just sent me an email asking,
1409
01:06:17,473 --> 01:06:18,607
me to give him a call as soon as I can.
1410
01:06:18,607 --> 01:06:20,843
So I think there's news.
1411
01:06:20,843 --> 01:06:21,677
It's very exciting.
1412
01:06:21,677 --> 01:06:23,079
I'm gonna give him a Skype call and,
1413
01:06:23,079 --> 01:06:24,981
we'll see what happens here.
1414
01:06:24,981 --> 01:06:27,316
- Okay well let's just go
over this stuff with you.
1415
01:06:27,316 --> 01:06:28,351
- [Chris] Okay.
1416
01:06:28,351 --> 01:06:29,318
- [Lyle] Wrong lead.
1417
01:06:29,318 --> 01:06:30,820
- Really?
1418
01:06:30,820 --> 01:06:32,221
- [Lyle] None of it was the right person.
1419
01:06:32,221 --> 01:06:34,023
- Oh my God, serious.
1420
01:06:34,023 --> 01:06:34,857
- [Lyle] Yeah.
1421
01:06:34,857 --> 01:06:36,192
- [Chris] That's crazy.
1422
01:06:36,192 --> 01:06:39,628
- So all that pretty much
just turned out to be a waste.
1423
01:06:39,628 --> 01:06:41,697
- What, how did you find that out?
1424
01:06:41,697 --> 01:06:43,532
- [Lyle] I spoke to,
1425
01:06:43,532 --> 01:06:45,634
this Sheila that we were looking for.
1426
01:06:45,634 --> 01:06:47,269
- Oh, okay, okay.
1427
01:06:48,070 --> 01:06:49,138
- Yeah, yeah.
1428
01:06:49,138 --> 01:06:50,306
- [Lyle] Yeah not the right person.
1429
01:06:50,306 --> 01:06:51,574
- Oh man.
1430
01:06:51,574 --> 01:06:54,744
So just totally the wrong person.
1431
01:06:54,744 --> 01:06:55,578
- Yeah.
1432
01:06:55,578 --> 01:06:56,879
And I discovered one other thing.
1433
01:06:56,879 --> 01:06:58,314
- [Chris] Okay.
1434
01:06:58,314 --> 01:06:59,348
- I'm just screwing with ya,
1435
01:06:59,348 --> 01:07:01,083
I just got off the phone with her!
1436
01:07:01,083 --> 01:07:02,251
(laughing)
1437
01:07:02,251 --> 01:07:03,586
- You bastard!!
1438
01:07:03,586 --> 01:07:06,222
(laughing)
1439
01:07:06,222 --> 01:07:07,056
Are you serious?
1440
01:07:07,056 --> 01:07:08,357
You just got off the phone with her?
1441
01:07:08,357 --> 01:07:09,959
- Dead serious man.
1442
01:07:10,626 --> 01:07:12,294
We spent probably over an hour,
1443
01:07:12,294 --> 01:07:14,730
talking and she's an awesome lady.
1444
01:07:14,730 --> 01:07:16,599
- Wait this is Sheila Rickards?
1445
01:07:16,599 --> 01:07:17,433
- [Lyle] Yeah.
1446
01:07:17,433 --> 01:07:18,501
You just spoke to Sheila Rickards?
1447
01:07:18,501 --> 01:07:19,335
- [Lyle] Spoke to Sheila.
1448
01:07:19,335 --> 01:07:20,202
- Oh my God!
1449
01:07:21,537 --> 01:07:22,571
- [Lyle] She's alive and well.
1450
01:07:22,571 --> 01:07:23,406
- Oh!
1451
01:07:23,406 --> 01:07:24,740
- [Lyle] She told me all
these stories about her,
1452
01:07:24,740 --> 01:07:25,975
and Sammy Davis Junior.
1453
01:07:26,575 --> 01:07:27,410
- Oh my God really.
1454
01:07:27,410 --> 01:07:29,311
- All the cool stuff she's ever done.
1455
01:07:29,311 --> 01:07:30,546
She could talk forever man.
1456
01:07:30,546 --> 01:07:31,647
She'll be great for a documentary.
1457
01:07:31,647 --> 01:07:34,750
- Oh I'm so fucking
thrilled to hear that man.
1458
01:07:34,750 --> 01:07:35,951
You've made my well,
1459
01:07:35,951 --> 01:07:37,820
last four years I would say.
1460
01:07:37,820 --> 01:07:39,855
Did she have any idea,
1461
01:07:39,855 --> 01:07:41,657
that anyone was looking for her?
1462
01:07:41,657 --> 01:07:44,360
- [Lyle] She had no idea that
anybody even paid attention,
1463
01:07:44,360 --> 01:07:47,897
to her music or who
she was at all anymore.
1464
01:07:47,897 --> 01:07:51,600
- So do you think she's gonna
be willing to talk to me?
1465
01:08:09,585 --> 01:08:12,321
(Mysterious xylophone music)
1466
01:08:23,365 --> 01:08:24,867
I am quite nervous.
1467
01:08:26,469 --> 01:08:28,504
I'm not entirely sure what to expect but,
1468
01:08:29,605 --> 01:08:30,840
yeah she's finally agreed to meet,
1469
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:32,041
which is fantastic.
1470
01:08:32,041 --> 01:08:33,242
- [Emily] Where are we meeting her?
1471
01:08:33,242 --> 01:08:34,643
- Yeah that's kind of the weird thing.
1472
01:08:34,643 --> 01:08:35,578
I thought we'd go and,
1473
01:08:35,578 --> 01:08:36,512
meet them at their place.
1474
01:08:36,512 --> 01:08:38,447
But we're actually gonna
go and meet them at,
1475
01:08:38,447 --> 01:08:40,249
a casino nearby,
1476
01:08:40,249 --> 01:08:41,317
at a cafe there.
1477
01:08:42,284 --> 01:08:44,186
Apparently Sheila used to be,
1478
01:08:44,186 --> 01:08:45,621
a professional poker player.
1479
01:08:46,856 --> 01:08:49,258
I guess that's the connection there.
1480
01:08:49,258 --> 01:08:50,759
Yeah she sounds like,
1481
01:08:50,759 --> 01:08:51,660
quite a character.
1482
01:08:52,528 --> 01:08:55,264
She actually doesn't
want to appear on camera.
1483
01:08:55,264 --> 01:08:57,800
She's been sick lately so,
1484
01:08:57,800 --> 01:08:58,601
yeah.
1485
01:09:00,703 --> 01:09:02,738
We'll see, it's just too bad but,
1486
01:09:02,738 --> 01:09:04,373
hopefully I'll be able
to recognize her anyway.
1487
01:09:04,373 --> 01:09:05,441
I think I'll be excited when I meet her,
1488
01:09:05,441 --> 01:09:07,076
but right now I'm just shitting myself.
1489
01:09:07,076 --> 01:09:08,244
(laughing)
1490
01:09:08,244 --> 01:09:10,980
(Moody mysterious music)
1491
01:09:16,018 --> 01:09:17,653
Could that be her there?
1492
01:09:17,653 --> 01:09:18,754
No.
1493
01:09:18,754 --> 01:09:19,822
It's not her.
1494
01:09:20,723 --> 01:09:23,993
[Emily] I see a white man
and a brown woman coming up.
1495
01:09:23,993 --> 01:09:24,827
Do you?
1496
01:09:24,827 --> 01:09:25,661
- Yep.
- Okay.
1497
01:09:25,661 --> 01:09:26,495
I think they're here.
1498
01:09:26,495 --> 01:09:27,963
- You think they're here.
- Yeah.
1499
01:09:27,963 --> 01:09:29,532
So I think they may be here.
1500
01:09:29,532 --> 01:09:30,499
It's her?
1501
01:09:32,468 --> 01:09:33,536
- Hello.
1502
01:09:33,536 --> 01:09:34,370
- Hello.
1503
01:09:35,104 --> 01:09:37,439
[Emily\} Jump Up, go, go, go.
1504
01:09:38,407 --> 01:09:39,408
Hi.
1505
01:09:39,408 --> 01:09:42,144
(rhythmic music)
1506
01:09:44,013 --> 01:09:45,748
Well it's really great
to finally meet you.
1507
01:09:45,748 --> 01:09:47,082
It's been,
1508
01:09:47,082 --> 01:09:47,950
quite a journey.
1509
01:09:47,950 --> 01:09:49,552
- [Sheila] Yes it has.
1510
01:09:49,552 --> 01:09:51,086
Nobody was more shocked,
1511
01:09:51,086 --> 01:09:51,921
- Yeah.
1512
01:09:51,921 --> 01:09:52,755
- [Sheila] Than I was.
1513
01:09:52,755 --> 01:09:54,423
I did not really wish to be,
1514
01:09:54,423 --> 01:09:55,524
found anymore.
1515
01:09:56,659 --> 01:09:58,327
Because it's been,
1516
01:09:58,327 --> 01:09:59,662
I broke my back about,
1517
01:09:59,662 --> 01:10:00,996
13 and a half years ago.
1518
01:10:00,996 --> 01:10:01,830
- Okay.
1519
01:10:01,830 --> 01:10:03,832
- [Sheila] And it's been
a rough road for me.
1520
01:10:05,167 --> 01:10:06,101
I couldn't exercise.
1521
01:10:06,101 --> 01:10:08,204
And I'm the one, if I gain,
1522
01:10:08,204 --> 01:10:10,306
half an ounce, I'd be
on the floor, you know.
1523
01:10:10,306 --> 01:10:11,674
- You look beautiful so,
1524
01:10:11,674 --> 01:10:12,708
you should not be camera shy.
- Oh bless you heart.
1525
01:10:12,708 --> 01:10:13,542
I like you.
1526
01:10:13,542 --> 01:10:15,244
You can stay.
(laughing)
1527
01:10:15,244 --> 01:10:16,512
- Okay I'm gonna ask one more time,
1528
01:10:16,512 --> 01:10:17,613
and then I won't ask again.
1529
01:10:17,613 --> 01:10:18,747
Is there any way we can film you?
1530
01:10:18,747 --> 01:10:19,815
You look beautiful.
1531
01:10:19,815 --> 01:10:20,749
You look great honestly.
1532
01:10:20,749 --> 01:10:21,584
- No.
1533
01:10:21,584 --> 01:10:22,618
This, look,
1534
01:10:22,618 --> 01:10:23,719
bad makeup.
1535
01:10:23,719 --> 01:10:24,687
'Cause I can't see.
1536
01:10:24,687 --> 01:10:25,487
Oh stop.
1537
01:10:25,487 --> 01:10:26,322
- Take a quick survey.
1538
01:10:26,322 --> 01:10:27,957
- [Andrew] Maybe like from a distance.
1539
01:10:27,957 --> 01:10:29,692
Just you guys sitting around?
1540
01:10:29,692 --> 01:10:31,060
- It would just be so nice to have...
1541
01:10:31,060 --> 01:10:32,962
- [Emily] Yeah we could
have it from further back.
1542
01:10:32,962 --> 01:10:33,929
- [Sheila] Alright.
1543
01:10:33,929 --> 01:10:35,097
- Thank you, that would be fantastic.
1544
01:10:35,097 --> 01:10:36,265
- [Andrew] You're radiant.
1545
01:10:36,265 --> 01:10:37,499
- This is quite an adventure for you.
1546
01:10:37,499 --> 01:10:38,400
- It really is.
1547
01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:39,235
I mean,
1548
01:10:39,235 --> 01:10:41,237
it's incredible to me to
be sitting here with you,
1549
01:10:41,237 --> 01:10:42,705
after all this time.
1550
01:10:42,705 --> 01:10:43,572
- This is wonderful.
1551
01:10:43,572 --> 01:10:46,575
This is a great,
1552
01:10:46,575 --> 01:10:48,277
honor and it's flattery,
1553
01:10:48,277 --> 01:10:50,412
oh it's a lot of flattery to me.
1554
01:10:52,414 --> 01:10:54,016
I'm not sure I deserve it.
1555
01:10:54,016 --> 01:10:55,017
- No well you certainly do.
1556
01:10:55,017 --> 01:10:56,752
I mean this track,
1557
01:10:56,752 --> 01:10:58,587
I've never made a documentary in my life.
1558
01:10:58,587 --> 01:11:00,656
I wasn't looking to make a documentary.
1559
01:11:00,656 --> 01:11:01,757
I just,
1560
01:11:01,757 --> 01:11:03,158
I found this song and it got,
1561
01:11:03,158 --> 01:11:04,760
so incredibly under my skin,
1562
01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:06,028
that I just had to find out,
1563
01:11:06,028 --> 01:11:08,731
who this incredible Shella Record was.
1564
01:11:08,731 --> 01:11:09,765
- Well you know something.
1565
01:11:09,765 --> 01:11:11,900
I believe in angels,
1566
01:11:11,900 --> 01:11:12,868
and sometimes,
1567
01:11:13,836 --> 01:11:15,170
you know our angels will put,
1568
01:11:15,170 --> 01:11:16,872
like put that stuff,
1569
01:11:16,872 --> 01:11:18,374
under,
1570
01:11:18,374 --> 01:11:20,509
a burr under your seat so to speak,
1571
01:11:20,509 --> 01:11:21,443
and let you do this.
1572
01:11:21,443 --> 01:11:23,812
Because I was really
done with show business.
1573
01:11:23,812 --> 01:11:25,914
Which is why I'm doing what I'm doing.
1574
01:11:25,914 --> 01:11:27,383
I'm hiding.
1575
01:11:27,383 --> 01:11:30,152
Because I leave myself open,
1576
01:11:30,152 --> 01:11:31,020
to despair,
1577
01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:33,455
the end is despair.
1578
01:11:33,455 --> 01:11:35,958
And I'm so tired of people using me.
1579
01:11:35,958 --> 01:11:37,092
I'm so tired of,
1580
01:11:38,661 --> 01:11:40,296
I'm very chatty aren't I.
1581
01:11:40,296 --> 01:11:41,130
- Yeah I like it.
1582
01:11:41,130 --> 01:11:41,964
It's great.
1583
01:11:41,964 --> 01:11:42,765
(laughing)
1584
01:11:42,765 --> 01:11:44,433
- I should probably shut
up and let you talk.
1585
01:11:44,433 --> 01:11:45,668
- No, no.
1586
01:11:45,668 --> 01:11:46,502
(laughing)
1587
01:11:46,502 --> 01:11:49,038
we've seen, well far too
much of me in this film.
1588
01:11:49,271 --> 01:11:50,139
- Here's another one too.
1589
01:11:50,139 --> 01:11:50,973
I love this one.
1590
01:11:50,973 --> 01:11:51,807
- Oh my God.
1591
01:11:52,675 --> 01:11:54,143
16 years old, dude.
1592
01:11:54,143 --> 01:11:55,611
(laughing)
1593
01:11:55,611 --> 01:11:57,313
16 years old.
1594
01:11:58,514 --> 01:11:59,748
Trying to look like a woman.
1595
01:11:59,748 --> 01:12:01,550
Oh let me tell you.
1596
01:12:01,550 --> 01:12:06,055
With the pearls, and the
makeup and the hairdo.
1597
01:12:06,055 --> 01:12:07,756
Not bad kid.
1598
01:12:07,756 --> 01:12:08,590
- [Chris] Its not bad at all.
1599
01:12:08,590 --> 01:12:09,925
- Tough you didn't make it.
1600
01:12:09,925 --> 01:12:11,694
(laughing)
1601
01:12:11,694 --> 01:12:12,628
- [Chris] You want to have a break now.
1602
01:12:12,628 --> 01:12:14,129
- Yes, let's have a break.
1603
01:12:14,129 --> 01:12:15,297
- Yeah, yeah let's go get some food.
1604
01:12:15,297 --> 01:12:17,900
(mellow music)
1605
01:12:18,734 --> 01:12:21,403
- There were two songs
written for me in Jamaica.
1606
01:12:21,403 --> 01:12:23,739
And I don't remember if
the second one made a hit,
1607
01:12:23,739 --> 01:12:24,907
but this one did.
1608
01:12:24,907 --> 01:12:25,774
It's called,
1609
01:12:26,842 --> 01:12:27,810
little Sheila.
1610
01:12:27,810 --> 01:12:31,547
♪ And if you see my little Sheila ♪
1611
01:12:31,547 --> 01:12:35,384
♪ Tell her to come on home ♪
1612
01:12:35,384 --> 01:12:38,687
♪ And if you see my little Sheila ♪
1613
01:12:38,687 --> 01:12:40,622
♪ Tell her to please come home ♪
1614
01:12:40,622 --> 01:12:42,458
(laughing)
1615
01:12:42,458 --> 01:12:44,059
I said that's cool.
1616
01:12:45,494 --> 01:12:47,930
I tell you who wrote a song for me
1617
01:12:48,063 --> 01:12:49,098
Sam Cooke,
1618
01:12:50,065 --> 01:12:53,102
who became like a loving
big brother to me.
1619
01:12:53,102 --> 01:12:54,503
he put me on his knee,
1620
01:12:54,503 --> 01:12:56,271
and he put the guitar around him,
1621
01:12:56,271 --> 01:12:57,473
and he started playing.
1622
01:12:58,574 --> 01:13:01,844
And he wrote this song
right there on the spot,
1623
01:13:01,844 --> 01:13:03,078
about me.
1624
01:13:03,078 --> 01:13:06,582
♪ Be nice to her ♪
1625
01:13:06,582 --> 01:13:10,519
♪ Whenever you can ♪
1626
01:13:10,519 --> 01:13:12,855
♪ And when you cross the street ♪
1627
01:13:12,855 --> 01:13:16,258
♪ Always hold her hand ♪
1628
01:13:16,258 --> 01:13:20,596
♪ 'Cause a little love to Sheila ♪
1629
01:13:20,596 --> 01:13:23,465
♪ Goes a long long way ♪
1630
01:13:23,465 --> 01:13:26,235
So the song was A Little
Love Goes A Long Way.
1631
01:13:26,235 --> 01:13:27,770
- [Chris] Right, wow.
1632
01:13:27,770 --> 01:13:29,304
- But it was written,
1633
01:13:29,304 --> 01:13:31,306
for Sheila Rickards, or Shella Record.
1634
01:13:31,306 --> 01:13:33,842
(laughing)
1635
01:13:33,842 --> 01:13:35,544
- So you've got the sense that I've,
1636
01:13:35,544 --> 01:13:37,179
been a little bit obsessed with this song.
1637
01:13:37,179 --> 01:13:38,013
- Yeah.
1638
01:13:38,013 --> 01:13:39,681
That's the word I'd call it.
1639
01:13:39,681 --> 01:13:41,483
- I just, I kind of wonder what,
1640
01:13:41,483 --> 01:13:43,218
it must of been like for to hear,
1641
01:13:43,218 --> 01:13:45,521
that there was someone
trying to track you down,
1642
01:13:45,521 --> 01:13:46,488
all these years later.
1643
01:13:46,488 --> 01:13:48,290
What you made of it?
1644
01:13:48,290 --> 01:13:49,124
- I was,
1645
01:13:51,460 --> 01:13:53,796
apprehensive and suspicious.
1646
01:13:53,796 --> 01:13:55,130
I did not know why,
1647
01:13:55,130 --> 01:13:56,632
you would go through,
1648
01:13:56,632 --> 01:13:58,467
what you did to find me,
1649
01:14:00,269 --> 01:14:03,071
because I had been away from,
1650
01:14:04,306 --> 01:14:08,043
music and show business,
1651
01:14:08,043 --> 01:14:10,078
for such a long time,
1652
01:14:10,078 --> 01:14:12,481
and been very happy away from it.
1653
01:14:12,481 --> 01:14:14,883
Because in Los Angeles,
1654
01:14:14,883 --> 01:14:19,054
whenever I wanted, I felt
like I needed to go sing,
1655
01:14:19,054 --> 01:14:21,623
there were lots of little jazz clubs,
1656
01:14:21,623 --> 01:14:24,026
and all the piano players
and all the musicians,
1657
01:14:24,026 --> 01:14:25,527
they all knew me.
1658
01:14:25,527 --> 01:14:27,429
And I'd go in there and,
1659
01:14:27,429 --> 01:14:29,064
we'd jam.
1660
01:14:29,064 --> 01:14:31,533
So that was my release.
1661
01:14:31,533 --> 01:14:33,502
I found my little niche.
1662
01:14:33,502 --> 01:14:35,437
I had my beautiful son.
1663
01:14:35,437 --> 01:14:37,372
I had my loving husband.
1664
01:14:37,372 --> 01:14:39,775
And that was good enough for me.
1665
01:14:39,775 --> 01:14:44,046
("Jamaican Fruit of African
Roots" by Sheila Rickards)
1666
01:14:45,914 --> 01:14:47,616
♪ We came ♪
1667
01:14:47,616 --> 01:14:52,087
♪ From a distant land ♪
1668
01:14:52,087 --> 01:14:57,092
♪ Our lives already planned ♪
1669
01:14:58,527 --> 01:15:00,262
♪ We came in ships ♪
1670
01:15:00,262 --> 01:15:05,133
♪ From across the sea ♪
1671
01:15:05,133 --> 01:15:07,736
♪ And never again our home ♪
1672
01:15:07,736 --> 01:15:11,540
♪ We'd see ♪
1673
01:15:11,540 --> 01:15:16,478
♪ And now we've become ♪
1674
01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:22,885
♪ Jamaican fruit ♪
1675
01:15:24,119 --> 01:15:27,022
♪ Of African roots ♪
1676
01:15:29,391 --> 01:15:32,060
You can't beat that rhythm baby.
1677
01:15:34,263 --> 01:15:35,297
- [Chris] What do these lyrics,
1678
01:15:35,297 --> 01:15:36,965
mean to you, as a Jamaican?
1679
01:15:36,965 --> 01:15:38,066
- To me.
1680
01:15:38,066 --> 01:15:40,168
A tale of what,
1681
01:15:40,168 --> 01:15:41,470
Jamaican's went through,
1682
01:15:41,470 --> 01:15:44,072
coming to,
1683
01:15:44,072 --> 01:15:47,276
Jamaica from Africa as slaves.
1684
01:15:47,276 --> 01:15:48,310
And how,
1685
01:15:49,211 --> 01:15:50,212
we got out of that,
1686
01:15:50,212 --> 01:15:51,580
it's time,
1687
01:15:51,580 --> 01:15:53,815
we stopped thinking of ourselves,
1688
01:15:53,815 --> 01:15:56,251
as secondary citizens.
1689
01:15:57,386 --> 01:15:59,688
And we're all Jamaican's of African roots.
1690
01:15:59,688 --> 01:16:01,723
In other words, let us all be one color.
1691
01:16:01,723 --> 01:16:06,728
♪ Let us all be black ♪
1692
01:16:07,729 --> 01:16:12,734
♪ Let us all be black ♪
1693
01:16:13,168 --> 01:16:18,140
♪ And Jamaican fruit ♪
1694
01:16:19,775 --> 01:16:22,711
♪ Of African roots ♪
1695
01:16:25,180 --> 01:16:26,848
(Moody ambient music)
1696
01:16:26,848 --> 01:16:28,584
[Female Narrator] 40 years ago,
1697
01:16:28,584 --> 01:16:31,453
before Chris was even an idea,
1698
01:16:32,354 --> 01:16:34,656
An uptown jazz singer,
1699
01:16:34,656 --> 01:16:35,958
from Greenwich town,
1700
01:16:35,958 --> 01:16:39,227
recorded her only reggae song,
1701
01:16:39,227 --> 01:16:41,096
in a bathroom studio,
1702
01:16:41,096 --> 01:16:42,564
in west Kingston.
1703
01:16:42,564 --> 01:16:46,768
A place from which an
unlikely magic was born.
1704
01:16:47,636 --> 01:16:49,638
I don't know if it's magic dude.
1705
01:16:49,638 --> 01:16:51,006
[Chris] It is magic Sheila.
1706
01:16:51,540 --> 01:16:53,809
[Sheila] Great music has a power,
1707
01:16:53,809 --> 01:16:56,411
that can never be silenced.
1708
01:16:58,280 --> 01:16:59,781
It is patient.
1709
01:17:00,716 --> 01:17:02,718
It will bide it's time,
1710
01:17:03,885 --> 01:17:06,288
and will always find a way,
1711
01:17:06,288 --> 01:17:08,690
to seep through the cracks,
1712
01:17:08,690 --> 01:17:10,559
finding the people,
1713
01:17:10,559 --> 01:17:12,427
who need to hear it,
1714
01:17:12,427 --> 01:17:16,365
no matter how far it has to travel,
1715
01:17:16,365 --> 01:17:18,800
or how long it takes.
1716
01:17:23,038 --> 01:17:25,741
Even if we may choose to go silent,
1717
01:17:28,777 --> 01:17:29,611
I don't like him.
1718
01:17:29,611 --> 01:17:31,146
- [Chris] You don't like that line?
1719
01:17:31,146 --> 01:17:31,980
- I don't like you.
1720
01:17:31,980 --> 01:17:34,016
(laughing)
1721
01:17:34,016 --> 01:17:37,386
Even if we may choose to go silent.
1722
01:17:37,386 --> 01:17:39,721
What, you know.
1723
01:17:39,721 --> 01:17:42,024
What am I a dummy or something.
1724
01:17:42,024 --> 01:17:43,625
No! I'm not stupid.
1725
01:17:44,226 --> 01:17:45,594
No I'm not taking it out.
1726
01:17:45,594 --> 01:17:46,428
I'm not taking it out.
1727
01:17:47,362 --> 01:17:48,363
I'm just joking.
1728
01:17:48,363 --> 01:17:50,132
(laughing)
1729
01:17:50,132 --> 01:17:52,934
The universe may have other ideas.
1730
01:17:55,370 --> 01:17:58,407
From a disembodied voice,
1731
01:17:58,407 --> 01:18:02,811
captured on a circle of black plastic,
1732
01:18:02,811 --> 01:18:04,279
a person can.
1733
01:18:04,279 --> 01:18:06,548
If we follow the right process,
1734
01:18:06,548 --> 01:18:09,484
be conjured into reality.
1735
01:18:10,919 --> 01:18:13,155
Now it's all come full circle.
1736
01:18:14,456 --> 01:18:16,291
After finding her,
1737
01:18:16,291 --> 01:18:20,095
Chris decided he needed
to do everything he can,
1738
01:18:20,095 --> 01:18:22,864
to share Sheila Rickards,
1739
01:18:22,864 --> 01:18:25,067
incredible voice with the world.
1740
01:18:27,769 --> 01:18:30,272
You think way too much of me dude.
1741
01:18:32,708 --> 01:18:34,209
What was the catalyst?
1742
01:18:35,944 --> 01:18:36,812
- [Chris] You're asking me now?
1743
01:18:36,812 --> 01:18:37,746
- Yes.
1744
01:18:37,746 --> 01:18:39,181
(laughing)
1745
01:18:39,181 --> 01:18:40,015
- [Chris] It was you.
1746
01:18:40,015 --> 01:18:40,849
It was your voice.
1747
01:18:40,849 --> 01:18:42,084
Simple as that.
1748
01:18:43,251 --> 01:18:44,286
- Are you sure?
1749
01:18:44,286 --> 01:18:45,420
- [Chris] I think so.
1750
01:18:45,420 --> 01:18:46,788
Can you explain anything different?
1751
01:18:46,788 --> 01:18:47,956
- No I don't know.
1752
01:18:47,956 --> 01:18:48,790
I don't know.
1753
01:18:48,790 --> 01:18:51,193
I think you were bitten by a duppy.
1754
01:18:51,193 --> 01:18:53,428
(laughing)
1755
01:18:54,896 --> 01:18:56,998
[Chris]- I thought it was crazy that
the only people who knew this,
1756
01:18:56,998 --> 01:18:57,833
incredible song,
1757
01:18:57,833 --> 01:19:00,769
were a couple of record nerds in Toronto.
1758
01:19:00,769 --> 01:19:02,938
So with Sheila and Bunny's blessing,
1759
01:19:02,938 --> 01:19:04,573
I've started Shella Records,
1760
01:19:04,573 --> 01:19:06,742
and pressed up five
hundred copies on vinyl.
1761
01:19:08,944 --> 01:19:10,378
- Right now,
1762
01:19:10,378 --> 01:19:11,947
this is Sheila Rickards,
1763
01:19:11,947 --> 01:19:13,348
Jamaican Fruit of African Roots.
1764
01:19:14,349 --> 01:19:15,250
Turn it up.
1765
01:19:15,250 --> 01:19:16,818
- It's a big tune,
1766
01:19:16,818 --> 01:19:18,420
coming from a big artist.
1767
01:19:18,420 --> 01:19:19,955
From way back when.
1768
01:19:19,955 --> 01:19:23,925
Jamaican fruit of African roots!
1769
01:19:23,925 --> 01:19:25,460
- This song is about slavery.
1770
01:19:25,460 --> 01:19:27,362
This song is about freedom.
1771
01:19:27,362 --> 01:19:28,597
Listen to this.
1772
01:19:31,032 --> 01:19:34,002
- Hear this next one,
this is Jamaican Fruit,
1773
01:19:34,002 --> 01:19:35,237
by Sheila Rickards.
1774
01:19:35,237 --> 01:19:37,706
Deep story behind this tune.
1775
01:19:42,244 --> 01:19:43,678
- Last tune this one yeah,
1776
01:19:43,678 --> 01:19:44,980
Sheila Rickards.
1777
01:19:44,980 --> 01:19:49,951
You know the tune called
Jamaican Fruit of African Roots.
1778
01:19:50,252 --> 01:19:54,456
("Jamaican Fruit of African
Roots" by Sheila Rickards)
1779
01:20:03,131 --> 01:20:04,800
♪ Our masters soil ♪
1780
01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:09,371
♪ We toiled from morn till night ♪
1781
01:20:09,371 --> 01:20:14,376
♪ Never given little human rights ♪
1782
01:20:14,643 --> 01:20:16,978
♪ Though long years passed ♪
1783
01:20:16,978 --> 01:20:20,782
♪ Things remained the same ♪
1784
01:20:20,782 --> 01:20:23,084
♪ Our little babies born ♪
1785
01:20:23,084 --> 01:20:27,455
♪ With no last names ♪
1786
01:20:27,455 --> 01:20:31,126
♪ Just tell me what's to become ♪
1787
01:20:31,126 --> 01:20:33,995
♪ Of the ♪
1788
01:20:33,995 --> 01:20:39,000
♪ Jamaican fruit ♪
1789
01:20:39,301 --> 01:20:44,005
♪ Of African roots ♪
1790
01:20:44,005 --> 01:20:48,977
♪ Me wan' fi forward on a yard ♪
1791
01:20:49,778 --> 01:20:54,783
♪ Me wan' fi forward on a yard ♪
1792
01:20:57,252 --> 01:21:02,057
♪ How were we to know ♪
1793
01:21:02,057 --> 01:21:07,062
♪ Just what this land would bring ♪
1794
01:21:07,896 --> 01:21:09,564
♪ And that our blood ♪
1795
01:21:09,564 --> 01:21:13,501
♪ Our very blood would flow ♪
1796
01:21:13,501 --> 01:21:18,506
♪ Because of the color of our skin ♪
1797
01:21:18,673 --> 01:21:22,344
♪ Being black ♪
1798
01:21:22,344 --> 01:21:23,845
♪ I am black ♪
1799
01:21:23,845 --> 01:21:26,414
♪ I love being black ♪
1800
01:21:26,414 --> 01:21:31,419
♪ Oh ♪
1801
01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:36,892
♪ The time has come for us to join hands ♪
1802
01:21:37,058 --> 01:21:39,461
♪ Let's not be punished by ♪
1803
01:21:39,461 --> 01:21:43,465
♪ The rules of this land ♪
1804
01:21:43,465 --> 01:21:48,470
♪ Now that we're aware
of what we must do ♪
1805
01:21:48,603 --> 01:21:51,406
♪ Let us no longer be fools ♪
1806
01:21:51,406 --> 01:21:55,243
♪ No longer fools ♪
1807
01:21:55,243 --> 01:22:00,248
♪ Let us all be black ♪
1808
01:22:00,882 --> 01:22:05,887
♪ Let us all be black ♪
1809
01:22:06,421 --> 01:22:11,426
♪ And Jamaican fruit ♪
1810
01:22:13,161 --> 01:22:17,432
♪ Of African roots ♪
1811
01:22:17,432 --> 01:22:22,404
♪ Me wan' fi forward on a yard ♪
1812
01:22:23,071 --> 01:22:28,076
♪ Me wan' fi forward on a yard ♪
1813
01:22:29,744 --> 01:22:34,749
♪ Me wan', me wan', me wan'
me wan' fi forward on a yard ♪
1814
01:22:34,816 --> 01:22:35,650
♪ Me wan' ♪
1815
01:22:35,650 --> 01:22:36,952
♪ Fi forward ♪
1816
01:22:36,952 --> 01:22:39,220
♪ I love to be black ♪
1817
01:22:39,220 --> 01:22:40,922
♪ I wanna be black ♪
1818
01:22:40,922 --> 01:22:43,091
♪ Leave me, let me be black ♪
1819
01:22:43,091 --> 01:22:46,361
♪ Black black is beautiful ♪
1820
01:22:46,361 --> 01:22:49,898
♪ Oh ♪
1821
01:22:49,898 --> 01:22:51,366
♪ African roots ♪
1822
01:22:51,366 --> 01:22:52,367
♪ (Horns fading out) ♪
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