Band Name: Don Drummond
Music Album: Memorial Album
Album Release Date: November 2024
Music Genre: Reggae Ska Rocksteady
Record Label: Trojan Records
Album Release Country: United Kingdom
Music Record Type: 49 Tracks CD Album Reissue
Jamaican trombonist, born 1932, in Kingston, Jamacia - died May 6, 1969, in Kingston, Jamaica (presumed suicide). Drummond attended the famed Alpha Boys School in Kingston.
In 1964 Don Drummond was a founding member of the Skatalites.
In the Fall of 1965, Don Drummond's composition, "Man In The Street", enters the Top 10 in the UK. Trombonist Drummond is not only the Skatalites busiest composer, but the most prolific in all of Ska, with at least 200 tunes to his name by 1965. Later, in 1967, his adaptation of "The Guns of Navarone" netted Drummond another top 10 UK hit.
His peers and colleagues felt that Drummond was one of the top trombonists in the world.
His genius was only dimmed by his fragile mental condition. In January 1965, he killed his girlfriend, Anita 'Marguerita' Mahfood. He is later convicted and remanded to the Bellevue Asylum, where he died in 1969, aged only 37.
| Don Drummond Memorial Album (1969 Remix) | |
| 1-1 | Garden Of Love |
| 1-2 | Feeling Fine |
| 1-3 | Dearest |
| 1-4 | Street Corner |
| 1-5 | Latin Goes Ska |
| 1-6 | Green Island |
| 1-7 | Silver Dollar |
| 1-8 | Let George Do It |
| 1-9 | Woman A Come |
| 1-10 | Knock Out Punch |
| 1-11 | Dr Decker |
| 1-12 | Occupation |
| Bonus Tracks (The Original Ska Mixes) | |
| 1-13 | Garden Of Love |
| 1-14 | Feeling Fine (Album Version) |
| 1-15 | Dearest |
| 1-16 | Street Corner |
| 1-17 | Latin Goes Ska (Album Version) |
| 1-18 | Green Island (Album Version) |
| 1-19 | Silver Dollar (Album Version) |
| 1-20 | Let George Do It (Longer Version) |
| 1-21 | Woman A Come |
| 1-22 | Cotton Tree (Aka Knock Out Punch) |
| 1-23 | Doctor Dekker (Album Version) |
| 1-24 | Occupation |
| The Skatalite Aka Tommy McCook | |
| 2-1 | Yard Broom |
| 2-2 | Carry Go Bring Come |
| 2-3 | Magic |
| 2-4 | Twelve Minutes To Go |
| 2-5 | Strolling In |
| 2-6 | Don De Lion (Album Version |
| 2-7 | Apanga |
| 2-8 | Eastern Standard Time |
| 2-9 | Rough & Tough |
| 2-10 | Musical Storeroom (Album Version) |
| 2-11 | When You Call My Name |
| 2-12 | River Bank (Part 1) |
| Bonus Tracks | |
| 2-13 | Cool Smoke (Album Version) |
| 2-14 | Watermelon Man |
| 2-15 | Rocket Ship |
| 2-16 | J.F.K.'s Memory |
| 2-17 | Musical Communion (Aka "Sly Mongoose") |
| 2-18 | Sailing On |
| 2-19 | Good News (Album Version) |
| 2-20 | The Mood I Am In |
| 2-21 | Melody Jamboree |
| 2-22 | Boat Ride |
| 2-23 | Corner Stone (Album Version) |
| 2-24 | Spider |
| 2-25 | Sandy Gully |
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