My gosh! I was an innocent little girl when this came out and I used to sing this with passion and I really didn't know exactly what it meant. You know a song is well made when you can still rock to it 40 years later.
This is the Baddest' festival song of all time !.. bar none...if you stop and think about it.. just the start alone before the beat drops.....'I am dreaming of a new Jamaica...a land of peace and love'....nuff said.
Mi a 23 and a dem yah music yah mi wah hear ohhhh God 2000's pikni dem nah guh ever live with the feeling of being Jamaican without tracing the roots if they have a sense of what it was like and that alone can bring peace to the nation again cuz we're the ones to change otherwise it'll just continue sink deeper no politician can save Jamaica neither of the two.
Perhaps the one song that truly reminds me of my teenage days. Recall a party in Soroti Town in Uganda. The longest I have known any single party to last. We transnighted 7 days straight, no sleep, musing blasting back to back through all the seven days/nights.This song played countless times in that time!!
@@kirkunited7810 I'm from Kenya. One of the greatest tunes that get played on local radios, jam sessions, at home.. etc severally are 'Memories, Calypso, Where Have All The Young Girls Gone, Brown Girl, Kisiloo, and New Jamaica. He's never gonna be forgotten over here.
1980 festival song winner Deservedly so as it was in the heights of the Jamaican civil war between the ruling PNP led by Muchael Manley and the opposing JLP led by Edward Seaga.Many lives were lost due to people's political preference.This song was just right for Jamaicans 🇯🇲
I remember when this song won festival, I hated it, I thought it sounded old fashioned. Thank God I am older now-middle aged and with age comes wisdom. This song is perfect, they lyrics and beat beat blended perfectly. Mento beat is the closest musical heritage we as Jamaicans have that connects us to our ancestors homeland-Africa
I just told a friend yesterday about going round the Maypole, Hopscotch, 123 Redlight, children now know nothing of those sweet times, thanks 4 the memories! 🥳🥳😊
My Uncle Marcus Bust Dis Chune To Di Family in 1984&I was 9yrs old then;&He only listened to this song too Hype Up Himself before His Soccer Games which was Saturday&Sunday;&we used too Jamm Dance To Dis Song before He Go Play!
Back in the day the Island was all about Love, Music, Education and Most all good Character and Principles. I was very young then but that was what I know.
I wish that were true. The main reason Lord Stanley Beckford dropped this tune, and I suspect that the main reason it won was because of the gruesome bloodshed that erupted in Jamaica in the late 1970’s. The political strife culminated in one of the bloodiest general elections in Jamaica’s history in 1980. Listen to the words. It starts by saying, “I’m dreaming of a NEW Jamaica, a land of peace and love!”
thanks to a TikTok post, i found out the artist of my all day favorite rhythm/riddim.....my ringtone for all my Caribbean friends...I LOVE THE BEAT!...i never knew it was a jamaican that composed it,,,and i didnt know title either...till today !! 2023-2090
My dear brother....this was one of the best songs our jajaZ could pull moves on.its a nice one.our own afrigo band could perform it that's why it's so popular in Uganda.
[Intro] I'm dreaming of a new Jamaica A land of peace and love... [Verse 1] I'm dreaming of a new Jamaica A land of peace and love Some say they cannot see no hope That's why they keep us down I know there is hope somewhere That's why I wrote this song So let me tell you, all who believe in love I say to sing this song with me All who believe in love I say to sing this song with me [Hook] Now they singing La-la, la-la, la, la, la La-la, la-la, la (me nuh know, me nuh know, me nuh know) La-la, la-la, la, la, la La-la, la-la, la [Verse 2] My children all have gone And leaving me behind I know there is hope somewhere That's why I wrote this song So let me tell you, all who believe in love I say to sing this song with me Everybody say, all who believe in love I say to sing this song with me [Hook] Now they singing La-la, la-la, la, la, la La-la, la-la, la (me nuh know, me nuh know, me nuh know) La-la, la-la, la, la, la La-la, la-la, la [Interlude] And everybody dem a rock over town And everybody dem a rock all around And everybody dem a rock over town When they hear this song, dem a rock over town And everybody dem a rock over town And everybody dem a rock all around And everybody dem a rock over town When they hear this song, dem a rock over town And if dem feeling hungry, dem a rock over town And if dem thirsty, still, dem a rock all around And everybody come a rock over town Dem a rock, rock, rock, dem a rock over town [Verse 3] I know we can build this land By working hand in hand Come make we show the world Now, working hand in hand So let me tell you, all who believe in love I say to sing this song with me Everybody say, all who believe in love I say to sing this song with me To all my friends in town Come sing this song with me So that the world can see Now, working hand in hand So let me tell you, all who believe in love I say to sing this song with me Everybody say, all who believe in love I say to sing this song with me [Hook] Now they singing La-la, la-la, la, la, la La-la, la-la, la And everybody say La-la, la-la, la, la, la La-la, la-la, la One more time La-la, la-la, la, la, la La-la, la-la, la La-la, la-la, la, la, la La-la, la-la, la [Outro] Eh! And everybody dem a rock over town And everybody dem a rock all around And everybody dem a rock over town When they hear this song, dem a rock over town And everybody dem a rock over town And everybody dem a rock all around And everybody dem a rock over town Dem a rock, rock, rock, dem a rock over town...
I desire to tour Jamaica and the Caribbean someday and reconnect with good people over there. Much love from Kenya.
Blessings from ja
Much Blessings to you! You will always be welcomed.🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Tony....much respect from Jamaica....u.ll always be welcomed brother.
Hello man. Where are you at?
Welcome Kenyan to our sweet Jamaica.
This song will never die....it still will mash up any party
...and any festival...
Now this is a hit song
2024 🔥🔥🔥🔥 am here
Just discovered some greatest music of all times!! Thanks Jamaica from Kenya
Welcome.from Jamaica 🇯🇲😍👌🏻
My gosh! I was an innocent little girl when this came out and I used to sing this with passion and I really didn't know exactly what it meant. You know a song is well made when you can still rock to it 40 years later.
Oh yes
One of my very favorite from Stanley
You are spot on
Jajaja am almost 44 and this trow me back to the early 80,s on that cassettes I used to rewind everyday this is big time big tune
@@LoveMusicBad 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
This is the Baddest' festival song of all time !.. bar none...if you stop and think about it.. just the start alone before the beat drops.....'I am dreaming of a new Jamaica...a land of peace and love'....nuff said.
Q
First heard this tune in Uganda 1983 aged 8 I didn’t know the lyrics but loved it till now, what a tune🤛🏾
One of the best festival tunes. Still love it after all these years.
@@PompetusDad true
Kim Kim...me and you are the same age...I was born in Jamaica and Stanley was a good friend of mine
Mi a 23 and a dem yah music yah mi wah hear ohhhh God 2000's pikni dem nah guh ever live with the feeling of being Jamaican without tracing the roots if they have a sense of what it was like and that alone can bring peace to the nation again cuz we're the ones to change otherwise it'll just continue sink deeper no politician can save Jamaica neither of the two.
Cant stop playing. One of my best reaggae songs
In my opinion this is the best festival song in the region
Yup
Agreed
the beginning of this song is everything....and the drop is awesome
Joylet Mckenzie , lol😁😁. The ni ni ni get me all de time. Wonderful memories as a child.
Muito bom
Drop and the guitar wicked!🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Such a nice tune
Yes, that drop have mi a way. Me to music is among Jamaica's best.
JAMAICAN BE PROUD OF YOURSELF. YOU ARE NUMBER ONE ALL OVER WORLD! REGGAE MUSIC IS CARRYING THE BEATS.
Di music nice sah💃💃💃🇯🇲🇯🇲
Perhaps the one song that truly reminds me of my teenage days. Recall a party in Soroti Town in Uganda. The longest I have known any single party to last. We transnighted 7 days straight, no sleep, musing blasting back to back through all the seven days/nights.This song played countless times in that time!!
ESI Martinsons no sleep seven days😂
Jesooos!!!!! ,,,Kindly stop deceiving us,,,seven days without sleep,,,was that some kind of rituals or party???
Bless up from the land of reggae.
Didn't you you have work to do??.
Stanley was my good friend....wonderful memories cutting dubplates in dynamic sounds studio with him.
How is his family fairing? Do they still earn royalties from these great tunes? I understand some of the hits are listed on Amazon.
SAMUEL MWANGI....SOME ARE DOING WELL...SOME NOT SO WELL....BUT YES .THEY COLLECT ROYALTIES FROM HIS MUSIC.
SAMUEL MWANGI....WHICH PART OF AFRICA DO YOU ORIGINATE FROM?....
@@kirkunited7810 I'm from Kenya. One of the greatest tunes that get played on local radios, jam sessions, at home.. etc severally are 'Memories, Calypso, Where Have All The Young Girls Gone, Brown Girl, Kisiloo, and New Jamaica. He's never gonna be forgotten over here.
SAMUEL MWANGI....WHATSAPP 1876 287 5691...I.LL TELL YOU WHAT IT WAS LIKE BEING IN THE STUDIO WITH STANLEY
1980 festival song winner Deservedly so as it was in the heights of the Jamaican civil war between the ruling PNP led by Muchael Manley and the opposing JLP led by Edward Seaga.Many lives were lost due to people's political preference.This song was just right for Jamaicans 🇯🇲
One of the best festival song!!! I was just a few years old when this won, and its still nice.
Can't stop rocking....2024 and still baaaad
Independence greetings Jamaica ... love this tune ... still rocking Aug 6, 2018 ...
This song can never be forgotten..... The nice Jamaican beat....wow!!!
I wouldn't say it was a typical jamaican beat more like a reggae calypso mento mix still wonderful though.
❤ a very lovely song🎉🎉. I always want to listen to it everyday. Good work Stanley... Listening from Kenya
The days at Brilliant hotel with King lion Sounds (Nairobi-Kenya)
Stanley And The Turbines can sing very well as an Indian Jamaican. Festival song at its very best. I am proud to be Jamaican. Irie man. Yes Star.
Everything ‘bout this song is sick…Ill..I start it like 10 times..the melody..his voice at the start..the rhythm…mad..!!
Stanley Beckford stuff is cool , playin' many years already !!
sweet sweet memories...love the mento rythm
Big tune, I also dream of Kenya a land of peace and love🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
I remember when this song won festival, I hated it, I thought it sounded old fashioned. Thank God I am older now-middle aged and with age comes wisdom. This song is perfect, they lyrics and beat beat blended perfectly. Mento beat is the closest musical heritage we as Jamaicans have that connects us to our ancestors homeland-Africa
I first heard of this song in 1998 and I was 12years by then up to now2021 it's still rocking
Always will!🥳💥💥
Remembering the times when I did Maypole Dance in Jamaica as a child to this song. Wonderful Memories !!!
Sweet memories, nice to dance to!!!
Renee Gordon They still do every year.
Wish I could see some Maypole dancing at Independence time.
My favorite childhood song and still my favorite. I salute you Stanley
Love this song! Stanley shaped movements when dancing 🕺 litte and wassy
Good tune , God bless,, locked in kenya
The calipso songs, Kenya locked tena Dec 2018. More fire!!!!!!!!
2021 who is still with me?
I can never tire of this rhythm and the bass.
Listening and loving this in March 2021!!!!!😊💖
I use to dance quadrille and maypole to this song at festival time..Competed nationally at WARD Theatre (Downtown Kingston)....MAD MEMORIES!!!1
I remember Ward Theater and pantomime.
Aqui em São Luís do Maranhão ele ainda faz muito sucesso
I just told a friend yesterday about going round the Maypole, Hopscotch, 123 Redlight, children now know nothing of those sweet times, thanks 4 the memories! 🥳🥳😊
This the festival song for 1980.
When Festival SONG WAS FESTIVAL SONG. IM STILL ROCKING IN 2021
My most favoritest Festival Song even today. Hail Stanley!!!
Memories. Memories. Timeless ❤
It will ever be my best song🎵 .....it brings joy and memories when I was just 9 yrs.
Jamaicans should be proud of them selves.
Baddest from 3.24 till the end
It gives me memories of Year 1998 when I first heard of it by then and many things I recall, it was and still a nice song Ka Booom
This song is relevant now more than ever
Stirs up all the good forgotten days of the 90s, Still love it.
All who believe in love come listen and sing this song with me....2019
My Uncle Marcus Bust Dis Chune To Di Family in 1984&I was 9yrs old then;&He only listened to this song too Hype Up Himself before His Soccer Games which was Saturday&Sunday;&we used too Jamm Dance To Dis Song before He Go Play!
Back in the day the Island was all about Love, Music, Education and Most all good Character and Principles. I was very young then but that was what I know.
I wish that were true. The main reason Lord Stanley Beckford dropped this tune, and I suspect that the main reason it won was because of the gruesome bloodshed that erupted in Jamaica in the late 1970’s. The political strife culminated in one of the bloodiest general elections in Jamaica’s history in 1980. Listen to the words. It starts by saying, “I’m dreaming of a NEW Jamaica, a land of peace and love!”
@@errykinlock3561 I wasn't very young then when I was very young it was in 60s
one song to stir up an oldies party!!
Gregg izak
2022 still am here
Finally got it. Oh Lord thank you. Been looking for this childhood sweet memories for over 3 decades ayayayaa... koona, koona, koona, walai hooo!
Jalia Magezi you must have missed it to the maximum hahaha
Nawe 3 decades omg Gwe asinga
Omwana weeka
Walai kooona hahahaha
Hear me uncle man. Can remember watching them rehearse this song.sweet memories..
Best Festival ever.
Wow love this one❤
2021 and still going good
2022 and beyond!😊
No knives no bottles. JUST JOY.
2020 man did a listen to some. Stanley an dem long time song ya pan Stylz fm mawd mawd
I feel like am in heaven listening to all these oldies but GOODIES songs. MOMERIES, MOMERIES
thanks to a TikTok post, i found out the artist of my all day favorite rhythm/riddim.....my ringtone for all my Caribbean friends...I LOVE THE BEAT!...i never knew it was a jamaican that composed it,,,and i didnt know title either...till today !! 2023-2090
Big tune Salute still blazing ending to 2021
Their would be no festival without this great sound love this song
Love the mentor beat. Nice beat to dance to
Another great artist of yesteryears.
3.24 my best part ever the beat its on another level
This song never get old. Love it
I was not yet conceived by the time is was born this song was 7 yrs old and I'm loving it 42 years later
My favourite from the band💚🖤❤💛
How come Ugandans have the greatest memories of this song,
Lutaaya Edward lol nange I don’t know it is like a Ugandan song
+Kajjoba David.yaa mayb because of that funny translation to Luganda,
Lutaaya Edward
It was a hit in the early 80’s.
By then, Bahima were poor and appeared in public only selling milk. Naye Kati hooo!
I want to know too,I know it's one of the most festival song but I had no idea it so popular in Africa
My dear brother....this was one of the best songs our jajaZ could pull moves on.its a nice one.our own afrigo band could perform it that's why it's so popular in Uganda.
All my friends in town come sing this song with me nice party music
Waah this song reminds me at my teenager
One love from Grenada
Come sing with me. Pure niceness!!!!
good memories,still dancing to it
[Intro]
I'm dreaming of a new Jamaica
A land of peace and love...
[Verse 1]
I'm dreaming of a new Jamaica
A land of peace and love
Some say they cannot see no hope
That's why they keep us down
I know there is hope somewhere
That's why I wrote this song
So let me tell you, all who believe in love
I say to sing this song with me
All who believe in love
I say to sing this song with me
[Hook]
Now they singing
La-la, la-la, la, la, la
La-la, la-la, la (me nuh know, me nuh know, me nuh know)
La-la, la-la, la, la, la
La-la, la-la, la
[Verse 2]
My children all have gone
And leaving me behind
I know there is hope somewhere
That's why I wrote this song
So let me tell you, all who believe in love
I say to sing this song with me
Everybody say, all who believe in love
I say to sing this song with me
[Hook]
Now they singing
La-la, la-la, la, la, la
La-la, la-la, la (me nuh know, me nuh know, me nuh know)
La-la, la-la, la, la, la
La-la, la-la, la
[Interlude]
And everybody dem a rock over town
And everybody dem a rock all around
And everybody dem a rock over town
When they hear this song, dem a rock over town
And everybody dem a rock over town
And everybody dem a rock all around
And everybody dem a rock over town
When they hear this song, dem a rock over town
And if dem feeling hungry, dem a rock over town
And if dem thirsty, still, dem a rock all around
And everybody come a rock over town
Dem a rock, rock, rock, dem a rock over town
[Verse 3]
I know we can build this land
By working hand in hand
Come make we show the world
Now, working hand in hand
So let me tell you, all who believe in love
I say to sing this song with me
Everybody say, all who believe in love
I say to sing this song with me
To all my friends in town
Come sing this song with me
So that the world can see
Now, working hand in hand
So let me tell you, all who believe in love
I say to sing this song with me
Everybody say, all who believe in love
I say to sing this song with me
[Hook]
Now they singing
La-la, la-la, la, la, la
La-la, la-la, la
And everybody say
La-la, la-la, la, la, la
La-la, la-la, la
One more time
La-la, la-la, la, la, la
La-la, la-la, la
La-la, la-la, la, la, la
La-la, la-la, la
[Outro]
Eh!
And everybody dem a rock over town
And everybody dem a rock all around
And everybody dem a rock over town
When they hear this song, dem a rock over town
And everybody dem a rock over town
And everybody dem a rock all around
And everybody dem a rock over town
Dem a rock, rock, rock, dem a rock over town...
dreaming of new jamaica
No matter where I go Jamaica is my home❤
Jamaica gone to the dags....😮💨☹😖😭
*WAS HERE*
Searched this song for 30 minutes! At least I found it!!!
30 mins only? It has taken me a month
Why do Ugandans love this song so much
Good will never die💃
Love this
I loooove this song😘
As a Jamaican it's my first time hearing this song!
U have been missing....the best song ever
2020 going strong wow
Finally been looking this for years could'nt remember the name or Artist. Thanks for posting this one, so nice to hear it at last.
There's a Hope ❤❤❤
Reggae Music Never Grow Old.. Still Jamming in Quarantine
This isn’t reggae this is mento
Was a hit! Is a hit! Will be a hit! :)
A big Tune!!!!!
lovely
If I could get that on vynil
Love.
This song is more like the Reggae Gospel music that they are playing in Churches now
I'm dreaming of a new Kenya 😘😘😘
Love di riddim nice mento riddim.
musica de verdade! esse é o cara, faia man
Just love these old music
Good tune ever , God bless
Anthem!!🎶🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵
❤ nice