Ranglin started to sing in public in his teens with an
Adventist Church background. He soon developed his business by buying jukeboxes and opening his first record shop. He took over the Gloria label from a family member in 1969 and had his first hit with
The Maytones' (of which he was an early member) single "Loving Reggae". He worked with the vocal duo until they split in 1980 and enjoyed different
hits mainly with love songs in the early 1970s. He started his GG's label in 1970 and had a big hit with "Man from Carolina" by his studio band named GG Allstars, an organ-led reworking of the
Folkes Brothers hit "Oh Carolina". Among all the artists he worked with are
Eric Donaldson in 1970 ("Lonely Night"...),
Max Romeo, Isaacs gave Ranglin his first international hit with "Love is Overdue", and in the four-year period that the two worked together in the 1970s, Isaacs status rose to that of a superstar. and again in 2002 on
I Found Love. During his long career, Ranglin set up different record labels such as GG's, Hit, and Typhoon, and record stores in places such as
Kingston, Half Way Tree, Old Harbour,
Brooklyn and London. He currently lives in
Kingston and owns GG Records, a recording studio and a pressing plant. ==Partial discography==