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October 05, 2007
Foreigner fights for credit as originator of Electric Slide...Going Crazy over it?
By: Joseph Cunningham
The Electric Slide is one of the biggest cross-over hits in the history of the Reggae genre, and music lovers across the world have embraced it as a party song. Marcia Griffiths, former backup vocalist for Bob Marley delivered the song that was written by Bunny Wailer, who in tandem with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh became famous as the "The Wailers."
According to Marcia, "There was never an official dance move that accompanied the song. Dancers in Jamaica developed various body movements in the clubs." One of the many dances became extremely popular and was accepted as the official dance.
The credit was claimed by Ric Silver, a Caucasian man, who has been very possessive! He insists that when done correctly the dance is comprised of 22 steps and not 18 as is practiced by many.
Websites all over the world have been forced to remove their videotapes of the dance, since the dance has been copyrighted by Silver and restricted. Further, he has threatened to sue anyone who continues to post videotapes teaching the erroneous version of the dance. Silver says he was tapped by the owner of a club in 1976 to create a dance that would revive a Manhattan nightspot called "Beef Steak Charlie's." He said he was a professional dancer at the time who had worked with the likes of Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey, and so went home and blew the dust off the record that had been given to him by a DJ friend in New York a few years earlier.
The 1976 argument is where the drama begins, because Bunny Wailer the songwriter and Marcia Griffiths say the song was released in 1982! Marcia Griffiths is asking,"How can this man claim to have created the dance six years before the song was released?" She revealed that she had received a call from Silver a few years ago to team up for a lawsuit against Oprah Winfrey who he said he observed giving a lesson to her live audience without his permission. Marcia said she felt Silver was a strange guy from since then.
Silver has been making serious threats and claims, while all available industry records and history, supports a 1982 release!
Posted by yardFlex at October 5, 2007 02:51 PM
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Posted by: Wade Cameron
on October 5, 2007 05:07 PM
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Dem always a tief everyting from Jamaica. Jamaica is a likkle dot on di map but wi so influentual on the rest of the world. Everybody always a try be like Jamaican or always hate wi cause wi are such a popualr county. Unno need fi stop badmind wi and envy Jamaica cause yu done know seh Jamaica na stop.
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Posted by: worldtalk
on October 5, 2007 06:21 PM
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we have fi give thanks fi the foreigner them cause if it was not for them some of the artist would not eat food,is them take that dance to another level.
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Posted by: Vonnie McGowan
on October 5, 2007 11:39 PM
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This dance came about in Washington DC in the eighties by high school kids who did steppin' as it was called then on the sidewalks of DC, please concur with Dr Sidney White formerly of Howard University radio and Television he will attest to the true origin of that slide , there was no white person or choreographer present when we watched the kids steppin' I was apprised of this exciting dance to our own music by young Black kids in Washington DC.
It made us real proud at that time as "those were the negative Ja days in the US" and I interviwed some of kids who did this steppin and dance to this exciting Jamaican song on my then program on WOL Radio in DC.
Strangely enough these kid had not left DC ever they said they and heard the song on Sidney White and Tony Carr"s show the summer before, the song became an anthem on all the DC stations and throught the USA and strangely enough there was No White man present.White people just like to take our credit, our culture and even our heritage and try to discredit us all the time.
Sister Marcia YOU are the QUEEN and electric slide will be OURS we are glad they love it and accept it and dance it and even include it in their party music tapes sold at Walmart, Kmart, TJmax and all the retail store so Sister Marcia or Jah Bunny even if you have not recieved royalty payments it is still yours and you have impacted the entire world. Tell that looser to get a life
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Posted by: melonie
on October 5, 2007 11:54 PM
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WHY IS IT THAT EVERYTIME J'CANS DO SOMETHING AND IT TAKE OFF A BUNCH A FORIEGNERS WANT CUM TRY TAKE IT OVA. LOOK HOW LONG THAT SONG AND DANCE A GWAAN AND ALLL OF A SUDDEN A WHITEY RUN OUT WANT CUM NYAM ALL THE FOOD. FI SHOW YOU A REAL BADMIND HIM WANT SUE OPRAH. HIM WUDA JUST DEAD CUZ NO ONE GOES UP AGAINST THE BIG "O". MAKE SILVER SLITHER OFF TO WHENCE HE CAME. THEM THIEF LEAN BACK N ROCK AWAY NUH BOTHER WANT COME THIEF THIS TOO
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Posted by: jam1
on October 6, 2007 02:03 AM
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tell me, how was it this guy able to copyright something that was not his?
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Posted by: Invcognito
on October 6, 2007 07:19 AM
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Mr Silver, should go get a life. A lawsuit over a dance on Oprah? Him mussi tink Marcia a some hurry come up wukliss gyal fi guh attach herself to foolishness. Bwoy dem wukliss Americans wah caan meck it inna life always a run fi a lawsuit. What a MORON!!!!
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Posted by: toyagotit
on October 6, 2007 08:20 AM
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so wait.... a wha happen to dem "foreigner" ya? dem too grudgeful....
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Posted by: Joi
on October 6, 2007 10:04 AM
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Sounds like someone is making a wrong claim. That dance was not created in 1976. from that dance alone alot of other dances have been created like the cha cha slide. hopefully someone will get the correct information out soon because you can't copy right other peoples work. LATA!
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Posted by: the truth
on October 8, 2007 10:14 AM
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This " clown queen " in Jamaica, is very different abroad.
Keep bleeching girl !!!
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Posted by: kronik
on October 8, 2007 12:00 PM
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a wonda if a me alone a think.......... mi waan some body tell me if a di same "mr. silver" digicel did ave yah wah day a do some pro-mo ?????????????????????
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Posted by: EVAD
on October 21, 2007 11:02 PM
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THATS WHY JAMAICAN ARTIST MUST LEARN AND COPYRIGHT THEIR WORKS EVERY TYPE OF ARTISTIC WORKS
AND TEN GUNSHOT FI DIS BATTY BWOY WHO A TRY TEK CREDIT BUT AS WE ALL KNOW DE WHITE MAN WIL FOREVER PIRATE OF POSSESSIONS SO COPYRIGHT MI SEH
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Posted by: Ms.Content
on September 25, 2008 04:42 PM
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This is sad but it wont be the first time a batty boy step up and take credit for the work of someone else! I was looking at the different articles and I wonder how in thee world he was able to copyright some dance because no one had done so yet...sad, ridiculous and then you go to his ridiculous website to see him taking credit for everything! HE IS 'IN THE WAY' AS WE SAY IN THE STATES...BIGGUP TO ALL MY J-A-M CREW...ALL GHETTO YOUTH
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