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Michael Palmer

Michael Palmer (born 1960), also known as Palma Dog, is a Jamaican reggae musician who released several albums in the 1980s.

Born in the Maxfield Park area of Kingston in 1960, Palmer began his career performing with sound systems such as Stereophonic Sound with General Echo in the late 1970s, taking inspiration from the success of his neighbour Leroy Smart. The shooting death of Echo and Stereophonic's owner Big John in 1980 was a blow to Palmer's career.

His debut single, "Mr Landlord" (1975), recorded for producer Oswald Thomas was not successful, and it was not until a couple of years later when he found success with "Smoke the Weed", recorded at Channel One, and with producer Jah Thomas on tracks such as "Ghetto Dance" and "Different Love".

He went on to work with a variety of producers including George Phang, Sugar Minott, Prince Jammy, and Joseph Hoo Kim, and enjoyed a number one single in Jamaica in 1984 with the Phang-produced "Lick Shot". He also performed at the Reggae Sunsplash festival that year. His recordings led to a series of mid-1980s albums, including split albums with Frankie Jones, Frankie Paul, Johnny Osbourne, and Kelly Ranks.

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Peel seemed to have first started playing Michael Palmer's material in 1983, according to available tracklistings on this site. Further records from the musician were played by Peel until the end of the 80's. In 1990, Peel revisited Michael Palmer's 'Long Run Short Catch', song, as part of the Fall in August radio series. After his death in 2004, it was later found that Peel had a couple of albums (Star Performer & Lick Shot) from the singer in his Record Collection: P.

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Michael Palmer - Long Run Short Catch

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