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When journalist Roger Steffens asked Dodd about the spelling of his name, he asserted that it was "Coxson" without the 'e' found on the spelling of the record label "Coxsone". Steffens referenced this anecdote in
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into his seventies, and on 1 May 2004, Kingston's Brentford Road was renamed Studio One Boulevard in a ceremony which paid tribute to his accomplishments as a producer. He died suddenly of a
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on Brentford Road, Kingston. It was the first black-owned recording studio in Jamaica. He held regular Sunday evening auditions in search of new talent, and it was here that Dodd auditioned
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When the R&B craze ended in the United States, Dodd and his rivals were forced to begin recording their own Jamaican music in order to meet the local demand for new music.
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would run the sound system and play the tunes. Dodd opened five different sound systems, each playing every night. To run his sound systems, Dodd appointed people such as
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music popular there at the time. In 1954, back in Jamaica, he set up the Downbeat Sound System, being the owner of an
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Dodd's "You're Wondering Now", was initially recorded in 1964 by Andy & Joey in Jamaica and later covered by
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three days later, aged 72, while working at Studio One. He was survived by his wife, Norma, who passed in 2010.
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During the late 1960s and 1970s, the "Studio One sound" was synonymous with the sound of
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In 1959, he founded a record company called Worldisc. In 1962, he produced the
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In the mid-1980s, Dodd closed his studio and moved his base of operations to
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He was nicknamed "Coxsone" at school due to his talent as a
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label, two of the musicians who played on the album,
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