Editing Johnny Nash (section)

===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>