Band Name: The Skatalites
Music Album: Best Of The Skatalites
Album Release Date: January 1970
Music Genre: Reggae Ska
Record Label: Studio One
Album Release Country: Jamaica
Music Record Type: 14 Tracks Vinyl LP Repress
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.
| A1 | Air Raid Shelter |
| A2 | Below Zero |
| A3 | Road Block |
| A4 | Black Sunday |
| A5 | Don't Slam The Door |
| A6 | Rascal Boy |
| A7 | Spread Satin |
| B1 | Fidel Castro |
| B2 | Jr. Jive |
| B3 | Always On Sunday |
| B4 | Phoenix City |
| B5 | Scrambalena |
| B6 | Beard Man Ska |
| B7 | Mill Man |
Recorded at Jamaica Recording Studio Kingston Jamaica W.I.
Distributed by Coxson's Music City 3135 Fulton Street Brooklyn N.Y. 11208 212 277-4166
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