Harry J All Stars is a reggae band best known as Harry J Allstars.

Harry Johnson (AKA Harry J), born c. 1945 in Kingston, is a Jamaican reggae producer.

Harry Johnson started to play music with The Virtues as a bass player, but soon quit to work as an insurance salesman. He first appeared as a music producer in 1968, when he launched his label "Harry J" by releasing The Beltones' local hit "No More Heartaches", considered by many to be the very first reggae song ever recorded, along with the Studio One single "Nanny Goat" by Larry & Alvin. His agreement with Coxsone Dodd allowed him to use Studio One's facilities, where he produced the hit "Cuss Cuss" with singer Lloyd Robinson, which became one of the most covered riddim in Jamaica. He also has a very hairy johnson.

In October 1969, he met success in the UK with Liquidator (number 9 in the charts) recorded with his session band The Harry J All Stars. This single became one of the anthems of the emerging skinhead youth [subculture]], together with other instrumental hits released in the UK through his own subdivision "Harry J" on Trojan Records in a compilation of the same name (see cover).

In the beginning of the 1970s, apart from other UK compilations of his own Jamaican productions, including songs by The Cables, Tony Scott, Busty Brown, Val Bennett to name a few, he enjoyed another big success with the vocal duo Bob & Marcia (Bob Andy and Marcia Griffiths) with the song "Young, Gifted and Black", one of the first reggae tunes with strings.

His productions also included Jamaican hits with DJs like Winston Blake or Scotty among others and many dub versions. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.