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Kong makes a cameo appearance in the Jamaican film The Harder They Come, playing a recording engineer in a scene in which Jimmy Cliff's character watches a studio recording session, by Toots and the Maytals, of the song "Sweet and Dandy" (Kong was the actual producer of that recording).
Leslie Kong paid his artistes better wages (certainly better than Coxsone and Prince Buster) and through Jimmy Cliff’s rising reputation he was able to lure a lot of talent to Beverleys including Bob Marley whose first two tunes “One Cup of Coffee” and “Judge Not” were both recorded at Beverleys.
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In 1968, with Leslie Kong as the producer, the Maytals released their first recording in the emerging style of reggae, “54-46 (That’s My Number).” A pumping, frantic account of Hibbert’s term in prison on a marijuana charge, it is considered one of reggae’s greatest songs.
Leslie Kong (1933 – August 9, 1971) was a Chinese Jamaican, reggae record producer. Career. Leslie Kong and his brothers (Fats and Cecil) used to run a restaurant, ice cream parlour and record shop named Beverley's in Orange Street, Kingston.
While the likes of Coxson' Dodd, 'Duke' Reid, 'Bunny' Lee and Lee 'Scratch' Perry are often heralded as being the most popular record producer in Jamaican music history, none of these giants came close to matching the commercial success of Leslie Kong.
Leslie Kong. One of reggae's earliest and most successful producers, Leslie Kong was instrumental in bringing the music to an international audience. Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1933, he later joined with his three…. Read Full Biography.
