Jackie Robinson is a Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

n singer, best known as the lead vocalist with The Pioneers

The Pioneers (band)

The Pioneers are a Jamaican reggae vocal trio, whose main period of success was in the 1960s. The trio has had different line-ups, and still occasionally performs.-Founding and early years: 1962-1967:...

, but who has also recorded solo material both under his own name, and under the pseudonym Harry Hippy.

Biography

Jackie Robinson became the lead singer of The Pioneers in 1967. Robinson recorded extensively with The Pioneers for the next twenty years and still performs with the group. He also recorded solo material, including the "Over & Over" single in 1968, and "Heart Made of Stone" in 1970. In the 1970s, his partner in The Pioneers, Sydney Crooks

Sydney Crooks

Sydney Crooks , also known as Sidney Crooks, Sidney George, Luddy Pioneer, and Luddy Crooks, is a Jamaican singer and record producer, and a member of The Pioneers since 1962.-Biography:Crooks was born in Westmoreland and after moving to Trench Town aged 17, entered the music business in...

, moved into production, and worked with Dennis Brown

Dennis Brown

Dennis Emmanuel Brown was a Jamaican reggae singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven, he recorded more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of lovers rock, a sub-genre of reggae...

 while he was in the United Kingdom. The results of this included the album Dennis Brown Meets Harry Hippy, which was split between Brown and Robinson, Robinson taking on this pseudonym after recording a cover version

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 of the Bobby Womack

Bobby Womack

Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack is an American singer-songwriter and musician. An active recording artist since the early 1960s where he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group The Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career has spanned more than 40...

 hit of the same name. He went on to work with other UK-based producers, including Clement Bushay

Clement Bushay

Clement "Clem" Bushay is a United Kingdom-based reggae producer who also ran the Bushays record label.-Biography:Bushay's productions in the early 1970s were issued by Trojan Records, and he produced early releases by Owen Gray and Louisa Mark , and was one of the early producers of UK Lovers rock...

 ("Don't Leave Me This Way") and Lloyd Charmers

Lloyd Charmers

Lloyd Charmers is a ska and reggae singer, keyboard player and record producer.-Career:...

 ("Jamaican Child"). Robinson also recorded the track "Don't Do the Crime" with UB40

UB40

UB40 are a British reggae/pop band formed in 1978 in Birmingham. The band has placed more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success. One of the world's best-selling music artists, UB40 have sold over 70 million records.Their hit singles...

 on their 2002 album UB40 Present the Fathers Of Reggae.

Albums

• Dennis Brown Meets Harry Hippy (1977), Pioneer
• Consider Me (19??), Kingston
• George & Jackie Sing (197?), Greenway (George Dekker & Jackie Robinson)
• More Reggae Love Songs Vol. 2 (19??), Sky Note (credited to Jackie Pioneer & Singing Maxine)

Singles

• "Over & Over" (1968), Punch
• "Heart Made of Stone" (1970), Amalgamated
• "Come On Over to My Place" (1972), Trojan
  Trojan Records
  Trojan Records is a British record label founded in 1968. It specialises in ska, rocksteady, reggae and dub music. The label currently operates under the Sanctuary Records Group. The name Trojan comes from the Croydon-built Trojan truck that was used as Duke Reid's sound system in Jamaica...
  
  
• "Homely Girl" (1974), Harry J
• "My Love For You", Harry J
• "Warm and Tender Love" (1974), Horse
  Trojan Records
  Trojan Records is a British record label founded in 1968. It specialises in ska, rocksteady, reggae and dub music. The label currently operates under the Sanctuary Records Group. The name Trojan comes from the Croydon-built Trojan truck that was used as Duke Reid's sound system in Jamaica...
  
  
• "Personality" (1974), Horse
• "In My Life" (1975), Horse
• "Say You" (1975), Horse
• "Sweet Sensation" (1975), Greenway
• "Smile Like An Angel / Version (1976),Jama
• "Santa Ain't Commin Down to Brixton Town", Reel Grande
• "I'm Sorry About That"/"Don't Leave Me This Way" (1977), Bushays
  Clement Bushay
  Clement "Clem" Bushay is a United Kingdom-based reggae producer who also ran the Bushays record label.-Biography:Bushay's productions in the early 1970s were issued by Trojan Records, and he produced early releases by Owen Gray and Louisa Mark , and was one of the early producers of UK Lovers rock...
  
  
• "Better Love Next Time"/"Jamaican Child" (1980), Ice (Jackie Robinson featuring The Mexicano
  Rudy Grant
  Rudy Grant, also known as Little Brother Grant and The Mexicano , is a reggae deejay and singer.-Biography:Born in Guyana, Grant settled in the United Kingdom with his family in 1960...
  
  )
• "Spit in the Skys"/"French Town Girl" Pioneer (A-side: Delroy Wilson
  Delroy Wilson
  Delroy Wilson was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer.-Biography:Wilson released his first single "Emy Lou" in 1961 for record producer, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, at the age of thirteen...
  
   & Jackie Robinson, B-side Eddy Grant
  Eddy Grant
  Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant is a musician, born in Plaisance, Guyana.- Life and career :When he was still a young boy, his parents emigrated to London, UK, where he settled. He lived in Kentish Town and went to school at the Acland Burghley Secondary Modern at Tufnell Park...
  
  & Jackie Robinson)
• "Little Green Apples"