Band Name: Don Drummond
Music Album: Memorial Album
Album Release Date: January 1970
Music Genre: Reggae Ska
Record Label: Treasure Isle
Album Release Country: Jamaica
Music Record Type: 12 Tracks Vinyl Album LP
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.
| A1 | Don Drummond Memorial | 2:32 |
| A2 | Dan-De-Lion | 2:19 |
| A3 | Cool Smoke | 2:55 |
| A4 | Eastern Standard Time | 2:41 |
| A5 | Mesopotamia | 2:46 |
| A6 | Stampede | 2:36 |
| B1 | Alipang | 3:02 |
| B2 | Thoroughfare | 2:51 |
| B3 | Burning Torch | 2:38 |
| B4 | Corner Stone | 2:21 |
| B5 | Musical Communion | 2:41 |
| B6 | Rocket Ship | 2:32 |
On label:
In Loving Memory Of Don Drummond
Sleeve notes:
"Produced by Treasure Isle Recording Studio
33 Bond Street, Kingston, Jamaica.
Tel: 922-5629
Album design Moo Young/Butler Associates Ltd."
Label notes:
"Dist. by PRESSERS LTD.
37 Orange Street
Pub. Push Music
Prod. by
S. E. Pottinger"
This is a mid-70s re-release of the original album that was issued with a green label (silver printing).
The front-sleeve says "Don Drummond Memorial Album" but it has a completely different track list compared to the UK-album of the same name (Trojan Records and various re-releases).
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