Editing Johnny Nash (section)

==Career==
===1950s===
Signing with [[ABC-Paramount]], Nash made his major label debut in 1957 with the single "A Teenager Sings the Blues". He had his first chart hit in early 1958 with a cover of [[Doris Day]]'s "A Very Special Love".<ref name="allmusic"/> Marketed as a rival to [[Johnny Mathis]], Nash also enjoyed success as an actor early in his career, appearing in the screen version of playwright [[Louis S. Peterson]]'s ''[[Take a Giant Step]]'' in 1959.<ref name="Larkin"/><ref name="allmusic"/> Nash won a Silver Sail Award for his performance from the [[Locarno International Film Festival]]. Nash continued releasing singles on a variety of labels such as Groove, [[Chess Records|Chess]], [[Argo Records|Argo]], and [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]<ref name="allmusic"/> The song "The Teen Commandments" by [[Paul Anka]], [[George Hamilton IV]], and Johnny Nash reached #14 on Canada's [[CHUM Chart]]s, December 15, 1958.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chumtribute.com/58-12-15-chart.jpg| title=CHUM Hit Parade - December 15, 1958|website=Chumtribute.com}}</ref>

===1960s===
Nash sang the theme song to the syndicated animated cartoon series ''[[The Mighty Hercules]]'', which ran on various television stations from 1963 to 1966.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1635324/soundtrack|website=IMDb|title=Hercules Saves Helena|access-date=October 7, 2020}}</ref>

In 1964, Nash and manager Danny Sims formed JoDa Records in New York.<ref name="Moskowitz">{{cite book |last1=Moskowitz |first1=David |title=The Words and Music of Bob Marley |date=2007 |publisher=Praeger |location=Westport |isbn=978-0-275-98935-4 |pages=21–22 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QPZEqZHKq2AC&q=Joda|oclc=76925010}}</ref> JoDa released [[The Cowsills]]' single "All I Really Want to Be Is Me".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Warner |first1=Jay |title=American Singing Groups: A History from 1940s to Today |date=2006 |publisher=Hal Leonard |location=Milwaukee |isbn=0634099787 |page=35 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mTM_9JTeoMIC&pg=PA350|oclc=68966384|lccn=2006922018}}</ref> Although JoDa filed for bankruptcy after only two years, Nash and Sims moved on to marketing American singers to [[Jamaica]], owing to the low cost of recording in that country.<ref name="Moskowitz"/>

In 1965, Nash had a top five hit in the [[United States|US]] ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|R&B]] [[record chart|chart]], the ballad "Let's Move and Groove Together".<ref name="allmusic"/> It was just outside the Top 40 in Canada at #44.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rpmimages.3345.ca/pdfs/Vol+4%2C+No.+8+-+Week+of+October+18th%2C+1965.pdf| title=RPM Magazine - October 18, 1965 - page 5}}</ref> That year, he and Sims moved to Jamaica.<ref name="Dansby">{{cite web |last1=Dansby |first1=Andrew |title=Johnny Nash's career 'Clearly' had more depth than one song |url=https://www.chron.com/news/article/Johnny-Nash-s-career-Clearly-had-more-depth-3637089.php |website=Houston Chronicle |access-date=June 5, 2020 |date=June 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719133242/http://www.chron.com/news/article/Johnny-Nash-s-career-Clearly-had-more-depth-3637089.php |archive-date=July 19, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Their lawyer Newton Willoughby was the father of Jamaican radio host Neville Willoughby.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Campbell |first1=Howard |title=Max Romeo honours Neville Willoughby |url=http://old.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20091115/ent/ent6.html |website=Jamaica Gleaner |access-date=June 5, 2020 |date=November 15, 2009}}</ref> After selling off his old entertainment assets in New York, Sims opened a new music publishing business in Jamaica, Cayman Music.<ref name="Moskowitz"/> Nash planned to try breaking the local [[rocksteady]] sound in the United States.<ref name="Larkin"/> Around 1966 or 1967, Neville Willoughby took Nash to a [[Rastafarian]] party where [[Bob Marley|Bob Marley & The Wailing Wailers]] were performing.<ref name="Dansby"/><ref name="Moskowitz"/> Members [[Bob Marley]], [[Bunny Wailer]], [[Peter Tosh]], and [[Rita Marley]] introduced Nash to the local music scene.<ref name=LARB>{{cite web|last=Jelly-Schapiro|first=Joshua|title=Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Island Records|url=http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=688&fulltext=1&media=|publisher=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=June 11, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120709081953/http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=688&fulltext=1&media=|archive-date=July 9, 2012}}</ref> Nash signed all four to an exclusive publishing contract with Cayman Music for [[Jamaican dollar|J$]]50 a week.<ref name="Moskowitz"/>

In 1967, Nash, Arthur Jenkins, and Sims collaborated to create a new label, [[JAD Records]] (after their first names Johnny, Arthur, and Danny), and recorded their albums at [[Ken Khouri|Federal Records]] in [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]].<ref name="Moskowitz" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=White |first1=Timothy |title=Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley |date=2006 |publisher=Owl Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8050-8086-5 |page=227 |edition=revised and enlarged |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h4nfr2cYAMQC&q=%22jad+records%22+1968&pg=PA227}}</ref> JAD released Nash's [[rocksteady]] single "[[Hold Me Tight (Johnny Nash song)|Hold Me Tight]]" in 1968; it became a top-five hit in both the U.S. and UK,<ref name="allmusic" /> and number 1 in Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rpmimages.3345.ca/pdfs/Volume+10-No.+11-November+11%2C+1968.pdf| title=RPM Magazine - November 11, 1968 - page 5}}</ref> The record sold well in Argentina. According to the January 25 issue of ''Cash Box'', both Nash's version and a version by [[Anthony Swete]] were selling strongly.<ref>''Cash Box'', January 29, 1969 - [https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1969/CB-1969-01-25.pdf Page 76 Cash Box ''Argentina'']</ref> It was charting alongside a version by [[Anthony Swete]] in the Argentina's Best Sellers chart.<ref>''Cash Box'', January 29, 1969 - [https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1969/CB-1969-01-25.pdf Page 76 Cash Box ''Argentina'', ''Argentina's Best Sellers'', This Week 5, Last Week 9 '''Hold Me Tight''' (Odeon) Anthony Swete (RCA); Johnny Nash (EMI)]</ref>

===1970s===
In 1971, Nash scored another UK hit with his cover of Marley's "[[Stir It Up]]".<ref name="allmusic" />

Nash's 1972 reggae-influenced single "[[I Can See Clearly Now]]" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a [[music recording sales certification|gold disc]] by the [[R.I.A.A.]] in November 1972.<ref name="The Book of Golden Discs">{{cite book| first= Joseph| last= Murrells| year= 1978| title= The Book of Golden Discs| edition= 2nd| publisher= Barrie and Jenkins Ltd| location= London| page= [https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/317 317]| isbn= 0-214-20512-6| url= https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/317}}</ref> "I Can See Clearly Now" reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 on November 4, 1972, and remained atop the chart for four weeks, spending the same four weeks atop the adult contemporary chart. The ''I Can See Clearly Now'' album includes four original Marley compositions published by JAD: "Guava Jelly", "Comma Comma", "You Poured Sugar on Me", and the follow-up hit "Stir It Up". "There Are More Questions Than Answers" was a third hit single taken from the album.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/i-can-see-clearly-now-mw0000201192|title=I Can See Clearly Now – Johnny Nash|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=October 7, 2020}}</ref>

Nash was also a composer for the Swedish romance film ''[[Want So Much to Believe]]'' (1971),<ref name=Steffens>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yt9SDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT116|title=So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|date=July 11, 2017|last=Steffens|first=Roger|page=116|isbn=9780393634792}}</ref> in which he portrayed 'Robert'.<ref name=BFI>{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba75dae7b|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010195553/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba75dae7b|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 10, 2020|title=Johnny Nash|website=British Film Institute|access-date=October 7, 2020}}</ref> The movie soundtrack, partly instrumental reggae with strings, was co-composed by [[Bob Marley]] and arranged by Fred Jordan.<ref name=Steffens/>

JAD Records ceased to exist in 1971,<ref name="Larkin"/> but it was revived in 1997 by American Marley specialist Roger Steffens and French musician and producer [[Bruno Blum]] for the ''Complete Bob Marley & the Wailers 1967–1972'' ten-album series, for which several of the Nash-produced Marley and Tosh tracks were mixed or remixed by Blum for release. In the UK, his biggest hit was with the song "[[Tears on My Pillow (Johnny Nash song)|Tears on My Pillow]]" which reached number one in the [[UK Singles Chart]] in July 1975 for one week.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book| first= David| last= Roberts| year= 2006| title= British Hit Singles & Albums| edition= 19th| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited| location= London| page= 387| isbn= 1-904994-10-5}}</ref> The album Tears on My Pillow came out later in the year.<ref name="Evidence of the month and year of album's release">{{cite news |last1=The Herald-Palladium |title=Herald-Palladium:Family Weekly |url=https://ia601508.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/21/items/benton-harbor-herald-palladium-1975-11-08/benton-harbor-herald-palladium-1975-11-08_jp2.zip&file=benton-harbor-herald-palladium-1975-11-08_jp2/benton-harbor-herald-palladium-1975-11-08_0074.jp2&id=benton-harbor-herald-palladium-1975-11-08&scale=2&rotate=0 |access-date=5 March 2025 |work=Herald Palladium |issue=264 |publisher=Associated Press |date=8 November 1975 |archive-url=https://archive.org/ |archive-date=28 October 2022|page=12 |language=English |quote="...his new album "Tears on My Pillow" looks like another hit." |author1-link=The Herald-Palladium }}</ref>

After a cover of Sam Cooke's "[[Wonderful World (Sam Cooke song)|Wonderful World]]" in 1976 and "Let's Go Dancing" in 1979, for many years Nash seemed to have dropped out of sight.

===Later career===
Nash had a brief resurgence in the mid-1980s with the album ''Here Again'' (1986), which included the minor UK hit, "Rock Me Baby". Younger audiences were introduced to Nash's music with the appearance of [[Jimmy Cliff]]'s cover of "I Can See Clearly Now" in Disney's 1993 film ''[[Cool Runnings]]''. Nash's version of the song appeared over the opening scene of [[John Cusack]]'s 1997 film, ''[[Grosse Pointe Blank|Grosse Point Blank]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-07|title=I Can See Clearly Now singer Johnny Nash dies, aged 80|url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2020/1007/1170051-i-can-see-clearly-now-singer-johnny-nash-dies-aged-80/|website=Rte.ie|language=en}}</ref>

In May 2006, Nash worked with [[SugarHill Recording Studios]] chief engineer Andy Bradley and Tierra Studios' Randy Miller to transfer analog tapes of his songs from the 1970s and 1980s to [[Pro Tools]] digital format.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mixonline.com/mixline/johnny-nash-sugarhill-050406/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930023904/http://mixonline.com/mixline/johnny-nash-sugarhill-050406/|archive-date=September 30, 2007|title=Johnny Nash Mixes at SugarHill|date=May 4, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://mixonline.com/recording/projects/audio_clearly_houston/ |title=Clearly Houston |publisher=Mixonline |date=January 6, 2006 |access-date=August 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021163113/http://mixonline.com/recording/projects/audio_clearly_houston/ |archive-date=October 21, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Acting===
Nash has four acting credits in film and television. In 1959, he had the lead role as Spencer Scott in ''[[Take a Giant Step]]'', directed by [[Philip Leacock]], one of the first black family films written by a black writer.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Reid|first1=Mark|title=Take a Giant Step, A Raisin in the Sun: The U.S. black family film|url=http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC36folder/BlackFamilyFilm.html|website=ejumpcut.org|publisher=Jump Cut|access-date= January 19, 2015}}</ref> In 1960, he appeared as "Apple" alongside [[Dennis Hopper]] in the crime drama ''[[Key Witness (1960 film)|Key Witness]]''.<ref name="Larkin"/> In 1971, he played Robert in the Swedish romance ''[[Want So Much to Believe|Vill så gärna tro]]''.<ref name=BFI/>