Band Name: The Skatalites
Music Album: Foundation Ska
Album Release Date: January 1997
Music Genre: Reggae Ska
Record Label: Heartbeat Records (2)
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 32 Tracks CD
Tommy McCook, Rolando Alphonso, Johnny Moore, Lester Sterling, Don Drummond, Lloyd Knibb, Lloyd Brevett, Jerry Haynes, and Jackie Mittoo began working together in 1963 and formed The Ska-talites in May 1964. McCook, Drummond, Moore and Sterling were all students at the famed Alpha Boys School in Kingston.
In August 1965 The Skatalites played their last show after Don Drummond's cofinement to Bellvue for the death of his girlfriend, Margarita. The break-up results in the formation of two studio bands, Rolando Alphonso & The Studio One Orchestra and Tommy McCook & The Supersonics.
The band reformed in 1983 and is still active nowadays, despite the death of many original members.
1-01 | Christine Keeler | 3:09 |
1-02 | Fidel Castro | 3:17 |
1-03 | Simmer Down | 2:49 |
1-04 | Alley Pang | 3:03 |
1-05 | Exodus | 2:44 |
1-06 | King Solomon | 2:52 |
1-07 | Eastern Standard Time | 2:33 |
1-08 | World's Fair | 2:33 |
1-09 | Two For One | 2:25 |
1-10 | I Should Have Known Better | 4:04 |
1-11 | Hot Cargo | 2:49 |
1-12 | Black Sunday | 2:56 |
1-13 | Ska La Parisienne | 3:03 |
1-14 | Don D Lion | 2:19 |
1-15 | Dick Tracy | 2:47 |
1-16 | Hanging Tree | 3:08 |
2-01 | Scandal Ska | 3:04 |
2-02 | Occupation | 3:01 |
2-03 | Old Rocking Chair | 3:09 |
2-04 | Third Man Ska | 2:44 |
2-05 | Ringo's Theme Ska | 3:56 |
2-06 | Ringo's Theme (Version Two) | 3:05 |
2-07 | Nimrod | 2:45 |
2-08 | Woman A Come | 3:10 |
2-09 | Cleopatra | 2:46 |
2-10 | Beardsman Ska | 3:02 |
2-11 | Addis Ababa | 3:17 |
2-12 | Silver Dollar (Original Version) | 2:59 |
2-13 | The Vow | 2:36 |
2-14 | Dr. Kildare | 2:28 |
2-15 | Killer Diller | 2:44 |
2-16 | Naked City | 2:46 |
“Fidel Castro” repeats in place of “Addis Ababa.” If you have the corrected edition, issued in 1999, then “Addis” clocks in at 2:28 rather than 3:17 as listed.
All tracks recorded at Jamaica Recording and Publishing, 33 Brentford Road, Kingston, Jamaica.
Tracks 1-04, 1-07, 1-14, 2-02, 2-08 & 2-12 recorded at Federal Records, Kingston, Jamaica.
Compilation mastered at Northeastern Digital Recording, Southborough, Mass.
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