Description
Release Date: 2023
Label: Trojan Records
Track List
Disc: 1
- 1 (Music Is) My Occupation – By Don Drummond, Tommy McCook & the Skatalites
- 2 Alley Cat Ska – By Tommy McCook & the Baba Brooks Band
- 3 Cool Smoke – By Don Drummond & the Skatalites
- 4 Garden of Love – By Don Drummond & the Skatalites
- 5 Twelve Minutes to Go – By Tommy McCook & the Skatalites
- 6 Girls Town Ska – By the Baba Brooks Band
- 7 Stampede – By Don Drummond & Baba Brooks & the Skatalites
- 8 Vitamin a – By the Baba Brooks Band
- 9 Teenage Ska – By the Baba Brooks Band
- 10 Melody Jamboree – By Don Drummond & Baba Brooks
- 11 Boat Ride – By Baba Brooks & the Skatalites
- 12 Around the World – By Don Drummond & the Skatalites
- 13 Watermelon Man – By the Baba Brooks Band
- 14 River Bank, Pt. 1 (Bank to Bank) – By Baba Brooks & His Band
- 15 Guns Fever – By the Baba Brooks Band
- 16 Ska Virginia (Virginia Ska) – By the Baba Brooks Band
- 17 Duck Soup (With Baba Brooks & His Band) – By Cuttings
- 18 Donkey City, Pt. 1 – By the Baba Brooks Band
- 19 Latin Goes Ska – By Lester Sterling & the Skatalites
- 20 Alipang (Alley Pon) – By Roland Alphonso, Don Drummond & the Skatalites
- 21 Lucky Seven – By Don Drummond & Baba Brooks
- 22 Musical Store Room – By Frank Anderson, Don Drummond & the Skatalites
- 23 Musical Communion (Sly Mongoose) – By Baba Brooks
- 24 Sandy Gully – By Roland Alphonso & the Skatalites
- 25 Doctor Dekker – By Don Drummond & the Baba Brooks Band
Disc: 2
- 1 Nuclear Weapon – By Roland Alphonso & the Baba Brooks Band
- 2 Corner Stone (A Trip to Mars) – By Roland Alphonso & the Skatalites
- 3 Knockout Punch (Cotton Tree) – By Baba Brooks & Don Drummond
- 4 Don de Lion – By Don Drummond & the Skatalites
- 5 Rocket Ship – By Tommy McCook & the Skatalites
- 6 Feeling Fine – By Roland Alphonso & the Skatalites
- 7 Mesopotamia – By Don Drummond & the Skatalites
- 8 Donkey City, Pt. 2 – By the Baba Brooks Band
- 9 Independence Ska (El Pussycat) – By Lyn Taitt & the Baba Brooks Band
- 10 Rude Boy – By Roland Alphonso & Duke Reid’s Group
- 11 Jelly Bean – By the Baba Brooks Band
- 12 Skalarama (The Magnificent Seven Theme) – By Lyn Taitt & the Baba Brooks Band
- 13 River Bank, Pt. 1 – By Baba Brooks & His Band
- 14 Country Town – By Baba Brooks
- 15 One Eyed Giant – By Baba Brooks & His Band
- 16 Twilight Zone (Instrumental) – By the Baba Brooks Band
- 17 Catch a Fire – By Baba Brooks & His Band
- 18 Spider – By Don Drummond
- 19 Eastern Standard Time – By Don Drummond & the Skatalites
- 20 Thoroughfare (Treasure Isle) – By Don Drummond & the Skatalites
- 21 Silver Dollar – By Don Drummond, Roland Alphonso & the Skatalites
- 22 Street Corner
- 23 University Goes Ska – By Don Drummond
- 24 J.F.K.’s Memory – By Don Drummond & Tommy McCook
- 25 Good News
Notes
ESSENTIAL ARTIST COLLECTION – The Skatalites – 2CD Set During the early 1960’s, the sound of ska exploded upon Jamaica’s musical landscape, with the driving dynamic sound championed by arguably the greatest ensemble of musicians ever to have performed and recorded on the island. Fronted by legendary saxophonist Tommy McCook, The Skatalites also comprised a veritable who’s who of Kingston-based performers, their number including trombonist Don Drummond, tenor saxman Roland Alphonso, drumming supremo Lloyd Knibb and keyboard prodigy Jackie Mittoo. Following their creation in the summer of ’64, this powerhouse instrumental combo dominated the island’s music industry for 18 glorious months, the very best of their work produced by famed Treasure Isle Records boss, Arthur ‘Duke’ Reid. The best of their output for the celebrated producer is showcased on the ‘Essential Artist Collection’, which sees issue on 2CD set provides the best introduction yet to the music of the incredible, multi-talented and hugely influential Skatalites.
