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The Melodians – I’ve Got To Go Back Home / Lay It On (1967) Vinyl 7″

The Melodians – I’ve Got To Go Back Home / Lay It On (1967) Vinyl 7″

2 Tracks – Ska, Reggae. Jamaican rocksteady vocal group formed in 1965.

3 years ago
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The Melodians – Island In The Sun / Last Train To Expo 67 (2020) Vinyl 7″

The Melodians – Island In The Sun / Last Train To Expo 67 (2020) Vinyl 7″

2 Tracks – Rocksteady, Ska, Reggae. Jamaican rocksteady vocal group formed in 1965.

3 years ago
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The Melodians – Eastern Standard Time / Last Train Vinyl 7″

The Melodians – Eastern Standard Time / Last Train Vinyl 7″

2 Tracks – Rocksteady, Ska, Reggae. Jamaican rocksteady vocal group formed in 1965.

3 years ago
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The Melodians – The Reburial / Last Train (2020) Vinyl 7″

The Melodians – The Reburial / Last Train (2020) Vinyl 7″

2 Tracks – Rocksteady, Ska, Reggae. Jamaican rocksteady vocal group formed in 1965.

3 years ago
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The Melodians – Neighbour Neighbour / I Should’ve Made It Up (2020) Vinyl 7″

The Melodians – Neighbour Neighbour / I Should’ve Made It Up (2020) Vinyl 7″

2 Tracks – Ska, Reggae. Jamaican rocksteady vocal group formed in 1965.

3 years ago
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The Melodians – I’ve Got To Go Back Home / Lay It On (1967) Vinyl 7″

The Melodians – I’ve Got To Go Back Home / Lay It On (1967) Vinyl 7″

2 Tracks – Rocksteady, Ska, Reggae. Jamaican rocksteady vocal group formed in 1965.

3 years ago
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The Melodians – The Last Train To Expo ’67 (2020) Vinyl Album 7″

The Melodians – The Last Train To Expo ’67 (2020) Vinyl Album 7″

4 Tracks – Ska, Reggae. Jamaican rocksteady vocal group formed in 1965.

3 years ago
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The Melodians – Lay It On (1966) Vinyl Album 7″

The Melodians – Lay It On (1966) Vinyl Album 7″

2 Tracks – Rocksteady, Ska, Reggae. Jamaican rocksteady vocal group formed in 1965.

4 years ago
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The Melodians – Rivers Of Babylon – The Best Of The Melodians 1967-1973 (1997) Vinyl LP

The Melodians – Rivers Of Babylon – The Best Of The Melodians 1967-1973 (1997) Vinyl LP

26 Tracks – Rocksteady, Ska, Reggae. Jamaican rocksteady vocal group formed in 1965.

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Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat. It was developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Stranger Cole, Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm and blues and then began recording their own songs. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods. Later it became popular with many skinheads.
Music historians typically divide the history of ska into three periods: the original Jamaican scene of the 1960s; the 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s in Britain, which fused Jamaican ska rhythms and melodies with the faster tempos and harder edge of punk rock forming ska-punk; and third wave ska, which involved bands from a wide range of countries around the world, in the late 1980s and 1990s.