General Trees – “Minibus”. Jamaica’s first award winning music video.

The song “Minibus” by General Trees, according to Jamaica’s major newspaper, The Jamaica Gleaner, penned that, “When deejay General Trees wrote Minibus in 1985 he was simply recording a personal experience…And, along with producer Jack Scorpio, Trees made history with the first deejay song to be number one for the year. A framed certificate from RJR in Scorpio’s Molynes Road, St Andrew studio is a testament to that achievement…The accompanying music video put sight to the sound of the ‘vibe’, Trees acting out his experience, this time for the camera. It was done in downtown Kingston where the minibuses were clustered, over at Gunboat Beach where there was a derelict JOS bus and the Lyndhurst Road depot where many were parked.” The music video for that song was so popular that a category for the music video of the year was added to Jamaican entertainment award shows, and “Minibus” was the first-ever winner.