pancocojams: Admiral Bailey - "Butterfly" (1992 Dancehall Reggae Record with information about Dancehall Queen Carlene Smith, who helped popularize the Butterfly dance)

IrOnLiOnZiOn92, August 25, 2009

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents information about Jamaican Dancehall Reggaee deejay Admiral Bailey and presents a YouTube sound file of his 1992 song "Butterfly".

The lyrics to Admiral Bailey's song 'Buttefly" are also included in this post.

In addition, this post includes an excerpt from a 2018 Jamaica Gleaner article about Dancehall Queens. That article mentions Admiral Bailey and also mentions the first Dancehall Queen Carlene Smith, who helped popularize the Butterfly dance.

A bonus video of Chaka Demus and Plier's mega hit song "Murder She Wrote" is included in this post. Carlene Smith and some other dancers are shown doing the Butterfly in that video.

The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and entertainment purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Admiral Bailey for his cultural legacy and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/do-butterfly-macka-b-lyrics.html for a related pancocojams post entitled "Macka B- "Do The Butterfly" (Jamaican Dancehall Sound File & Lyrics)".

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INFORMATION ABOUT ADMIRAL BAILEY
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral_Bailey
"Admiral Bailey (born Glendon Bailey, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican dancehall deejay who enjoyed his greatest success between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. He now lives in Jamaica. He has been described as "the hottest dancehall star of the late 1980s".[1]

Career

Bailey had worked on U-Roy's King Sturgav Hi-Fi sound system and was taken to King Jammy's studio in Waterhouse by Josey Wales.[2] He started a string of hits with a duet with Chaka Demus, "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer", which was followed by "Politician" (based on Larry Marshall's 1969 hit "Throw Me Corn"), "Chatty Chatty Mouth", "Ballot Box" (with Josey Wales) and, in 1987, the slack "Punaany" (with a lyric that included "Gimme Punaany, Want punaany, Any punaany is the same punaany"), which was initially banned from radio play until it was re-recorded with a less offensive lyric, retitled "Healthy Body".[2] His debut album, Kill Them With It, was released in 1987 and he went on to record for producers such as Papa Biggy and Donovan Germain. He recorded further for Penthouse Records ("Help") in 1990 and Bobby Digital ("Ah Nuh Sin") in 1991. In 1993, he began working with Jammy again. In the 1990s he became known as a "clean" deejay, eschewing the slackness of many of his contemporaries.[1] He recorded with Byron Lee on some of the latter's big soca hits, and even starred in television commercials for banks.[1]"...

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LYRICS - BUTTERFLY

(written by Glendon Bailey and, Lloyd Woodrowe James)

It's the new style

Now dis one called the butterfly
Spit in the sky will surely fall in your eye
I nuh lie
Wicked piece of fly mon, dis one is di butterfly
Watch me

(Bring it up)
Giddy up, giddy up new style come up
Have a new one and dey no stop
(Bring it up)
Giddy up, giddy up new style come up
Have a new one and dey no stop
(Bring it up)

Butterfly butterfly, do the butterfly
Butterfly butterfly, do the butterfly
Just, stretch out ya one leg you inna parachute
Naturally girl you know you look cute
Dip and go down and den you salute
Every mon see you so dem wan' pick you