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Lord Creator - Don't Stay Out Late Written & Produced by Vincent (Randy) Chin Lord Creator (born Kentrick Patrick) circa 1940, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago is a calypso and ska artist. Alongside Cuban born Rolando Alphonso, Barbadian Jackie Opel and fellow Trinidadians Lynn Taitt and Lord Bryner, Lord Creator was an important and positive 'outside' influence during the early development of the Jamaican music scene. He started as a calypso singer under the stage name Lord Creator, and moved to Jamaica in the late 1950s. There he recorded his first hit, "Evening News", in 1959 with Fitz Vaughan Bryan's big band. In 1962, he recorded "Independent Jamaica", which became the official song marking Jamaicas independence from the British Empire on 6 August 1962. That song was also the first record on Chris Blackwell's newly founded Island Records label in the United Kingdom (Island 001). In 1963, "Don't Stay Out Late", produced by Vincent Chin, became a hit in Jamaica. In 1964, he had a further hit with "Big Bamboo", produced by Coxsone Dodd with Tommy McCook on saxophone. After "Little Princess" in 1964, he recorded a calypso album, Jamaica Time, at Studio One. It included calypso classics like "Jamaica Farewell" and "Yellowbird", as well as a cover of Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind". His next album, Big Bamboo, was recorded at Dynamic Studios sometime after 1969, when the studio was established by Byron Lee. Carlton Lee is listed as the producer. Creators biggest hit was "Kingston Town", a tune he recorded for producer Clancy Eccles in 1970 This Jamaican reissue of an early Lord Creator track, was from a Randy Chin track on Randy's, under Lord Creator's real name Kentrick, or sometimes Kendrick, Patrick. Dalkie, in his Studio One discography, also gives it as a Rolando & Powie 7" from the same year. Patrick was born c.1940, in Trinidad, where he started life as a calypso singer under the assumed name Lord Creator. He moved to the island of Jamaica in the mid 1950s, hitting Kingston at a time when the burgeoning music industry was eager for new talent, Kentrick not only sang calypso but also fronted Fitz Vaughan Bryan's big band as a crooner. With who he cut a big Jamaican hit, the incredibly poignant 'sufferers' track Evening News, which was also issued in Great Britain on the Melodisc label in 1959. Kentrick was also well suited to the new R&B influenced sound that was sweeping through the Island at the time. Don't Stay Out Late was a massive hit in Jamaica and put Lord Creator at the top of the male vocalists popularity stakes at the time, a position reflected in his being picked to sing the Island's official independence song in 1962. VINCENT "RANDY" CHIN ....Saturday 22 February 2003 02.12 GMT Vincent "Randy" Chin, who has died aged 65, was a giant of the Jamaican record industry. One of the first to issue locally recorded music on the island, he founded the VP label and distribution company, currently one of the largest publishers of Jamaican music in the world. Vincent was born in Kingston, the son of a carpenter who left mainland China in the 1920s and settled in Jamaica after a brief stay in Cuba. As a teenager in the early 1950s, Vincent oversaw the stocking and maintenance of jukeboxes in the island's bars for Isaac Issa, a prominent Syrian-Jamaican businessman, Vincent was then living with his own growing family in the east Kingston district of Vineyard Town. With the discarded stock of American rhythm and blues 45s cleared from the jukeboxes, he opened Randy's Records in 1958 on the corner of East and Tower streets in downtown Kingston. The name was inspired by a Tennessee record store that sponsored a late night R&B radio show. By the end of the decade, Vincent began recording and issuing local variants of R&B with artists like Bunny and Skitter, Alton Ellis and Eddie Perkins, and Basil Gabbidon. Songs had been recorded in Jamaica at least since 1954, but most had been mento and calypso aimed at tourists and the overseas novelty market, Vincent was pioneering local taste and talent. His greatest early success came with ska sides cut with calypso singer Lord Creator. The first single issued on Chris Blackwell's Island label was Creator's Independent Jamaica (1962), produced by Vincent. Other strong work was cut in the early 1960s with Toots and the Maytals and the Skatalites, the premier exponents of the ska form. In 1962, Chin moved to 17 North Parade, a former ice cream parlour facing Victoria Park in the heart of the city. There Chin and his wife Patricia constructed a four-track studio above their larger records shop. A magnate for reggae, it was fully functional from late 1968, by which time the Chin family had moved to the relative tranquillity of Jack's Hill on Kingston's northern outskirts.