To the official, UPTOWN TOP RANKING Radio Show Website.
UPTOWN TOP RANKING has been on the air since the spring of
1997 on KUCI 88.9fm in Irvine, CA. Every Wednesday 10a-1pm
PST, U.T.R. brings you three hours of complete reggae
music including Roots, Dub, Dancehall, Lover's Rock, Rock-Steady,
Ska, and Rockers Riddims including many international reggae
artists. Our two hosts are dedicated to keeping the audience
up to date on the latest releases from the Reggae music genre
as well as all of the classic tracks you love.
Listen to a few of our Station ID's on the
Irie-POD below
Broadcasting LIVE on the Internet atwww.KUCI.orgEVERY WEDNESDAY 10am-1pm PST
Lee "Scratch" Perry
showing off his UTR shirt!
The program is hosted by DJ Big Jim and DJ Jah-T,
both have been fans of reggae music for a long time. Jah-T gives
the listeners a new taste of his enormous CD collection each week.
Big Jim shares selections from his overflowing collection of Roots
Reggae CD's and vinyl. Both Jim and Tim educate the reggae massive
by way of their combined knowledge of the history of Reggae music.
Over the past two years we have had many crucial on-air interview
sessions with reggae greats such as Apple Gabriel , Michael Rose,
Donald Manning, Bunny Ruggs of Third World, Mikey Dread, Issac Haile
Selassie, Garth Dennis, Selwyn Brown and David Hinds of Steel Pulse,
Dr. "Cosmo" Fraser, Fire and Brimstone, Prince Buster,
Pablo Moses, Clinton Fearon of the Gladiators & Boogie Brown
Band, Half Pint, Lloyd "Bread" McDonald of the Wailing
Souls, Lee Jaffe, the legendary
producer Jah Man Swaby of 129 Beat St. fame, Ras Otis "Obey
Jah" White, Ras Shiloh, Marley's Ital Chef- Gilly Gilbert,plus
many Southern California reggae artists including Zema, the Isouljahs,
Kurt Mahoney's Roots Foundation, Upstream, and Jah Mark and the
Soul Shakers, 420 Band, Badfish, Carribean Pulse, Kyng Arthur, Rascallin
and we have interviewed several authors like David Katz "People
Funny Boy" Joy Harjo, Norman Stolzoff "Wake the
Town", Robert Roskind "Rasta Heart", Lee
Jaffe & Roger Steffens "One
Love: Life with Bob Marley and the Wailers"
The pictures above and to the right of Lee "Scratch"
Perry and Reggae Historian Roger Steffens are a highlight
in Uptown Top Ranking history. Jah-T created this T-Shirt,
which we gave to "Scratch" onstage at the Coach
House in 1997. This was amazing enough to have given Scratch
this shirt, but even more to see him wearing it. Recently
we had a chance to ask Lee himself about the shirt, and he
compared its softness to that of silk and asked for other
colors. Lee is one of our favorites on the radio. Our favorite
DJ, Roger Steffens, made his way by the station to guest DJ
a shows worth of rare and tasty Marley. This was an honor
to have Roger in the studio as we all grew up listening to
him on his crucial program the "Reggae Beat" on
KCRW 89.9fm in Santa Monica for years.
January 2001, Roger opened his "world of Reggae"
exhibit at the Queen Mary and Big Jim was honored to be asked
to be the tour guide showing many international fans around
the huge collection of autographed 7" singles, poster,
flags, t-shirts. Also visiting the exhibit reggae legends,
Ras Michael, Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt, and Marcia Griffiths,
Ziggy and Kymani Marley, Jah B Bunny Wailer, Tony Chin, Bread
of Wailing Souls, Radic Dwight Pinkney, Haile Maskell, Majek
Fashek, Tippa Irie and Lee
Jaffe, Neville Garrick. We thank Roger for sharing with
many this mighty collection and his vision.
Now you're able to listen in LIVE 'pon the internet every
WEDNESDAY 10a-1pm Pacific Standard Time at the http://www.kuci.org/
just click High
Stream or Low
Stream for mp3 or you can choose Real Player, so tune
in and get your fill of ROOTS, DUB & DANCEHALL! If you're
in the Orange County, CA area, tune in KUCI radio at 88.9FM
on the dial. On-Air Request Line (949)824-5824 between 10a-1pm
any WEDNESDAY, or email us at DJBIGJIM@yahoo.com
and REQUEST something. Eventually we hope to have past shows
archived on this site, soon come.
Visit Big Jim's Yahoo GroupROOTSREGGAEDJS
to see our photos, and leave a message for the massive!
