Pluto Shervington

b. Leighton Shervington, August 1950, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. In his early twenties Shervington joined a showband called Tomorrow's Children. Fellow performers Ernie Smith and Tinga Stewart had enjoyed commercial success with ‘Duppy Or A Gunman' and ‘Play De Music', respectively. Both songs were sung in a heavy patois and enjoyed chart status. Inspired by this, Shervington sang the hit ‘Ram Goat Liver', and the follow-up, ‘Dat', the two of which were paradoxical stories of poverty disguised as comedy tunes, and went over the heads of many listeners. In 1976, when relea...