Slickers, The

Jamaican group formed by Derrick Crooks, a one-time member of The Pioneers. Although well known for the song Johnny Too Bad, which featured in the Jimmy Cliff movie The Harder They Come, the history of the Slickers is obscure. The first release by the Slickers, Nana, may not even be the same Slickers, but rather the Pioneers recording as Johnny Melody & The Slickers. Even the writers and performers on Johnny Too Bad aren't entirely known, with some sources crediting Delroy Wilson and others crediting his brother Trevor, and some sources crediting Roy rather than Hylton Beckford.