Artist's albums
Tenor Saw Lives On
1991 · album
Clash
1987 · EP
Fever
1985 · album
Super Clash
2023 · EP
John Crow the Tyrell Clive Bright MIX
2023 · single
Ring the Alarm (Sound Boy Murda)
2022 · single
Reggae Trio
2022 · album
Dub Fever
2022 · album
With Lots of Sign
2022 · album
John Crow the Tyrell 154 Mix
2021 · single
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Biography
One of the most important figures in early ragga and dancehall, Tenor Saw (born Clive Bright, 1966, Kingston, Jamaica) is best-known for his 1985 hit "Ring the Alarm," a song based on the then-ubiquitous "Stalag 17" rhythm which proved to be one of the biggest -- and catchiest -- hits to come out of reggae's transition into the electronic age. Tenor Saw followed it up with Fever, an LP that -- while it didn't contain his signature song -- proved to be a minor classic of early dancehall, full of simple, catchy melodies, synthesized rhythm-section parts, and Tenor Saw's floating vocals. (The CD reissue of Fever also appended dub versions of most of the original tracks.) With such a promising start to his career, it seemed Tenor Saw would be around for quite a long time; sadly, his life was cut short in August 1988, when he was hit by a car in Houston, TX, and killed. The album Wake the Town was released posthumously in 1992. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi