Harry A. Mudie (born 1940 in Spanish Town, Jamaica) is a Jamaican record producer.
[2] In the mid fifties, he launched his own sound system "Mudies Hi-Fi", before going to the UK to study electronics and photography.
Back in Jamaica in the late 1950s, Mudie began producing, mainly Jamaican R&B records;[3] His first production was "Babylon Gone" (1962) by rasta drummer Count Ossie and saxophonist Wilton Gaynair, released in the UK in 1962 on Blue Beat.
He was the first producer to use string sections in reggae, starting with John Holt's 1973 album Time is the Master.
[1] From the mid to late 1970s he had his greatest success, producing artists such as Gregory Isaacs, The Heptones, Joe White, Cornel Campbell and Prince Heron.