Band Name: The Skatalites
Music Album: Stretching Out Volume Two
Album Release Date: November 2024
Music Genre: Reggae Ska
Record Label: ROIR
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 10 Tracks Vinyl Album LP Reissue
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 | Lee Harvey Oswald | 4:04 |
| A2 | Black Sunday | 12:31 |
| A3 | Mood For Ska | 3:12 |
| A4 | Fidel Castro (#1) | 7:53 |
| A5 | Four Corners | 3:12 |
| B1 | El Pussy Cat | 5:41 |
| B2 | Exodus | 4:48 |
| B3 | Old Fowl | 5:03 |
| B4 | Fidel Castro (#2) | 8:40 |
| B5 | Welcome Back Home | 5:25 |
Tracks A3 to B5 are taken from The Rehearsal Tape and got recorded at the final rehearsal for Reggae Sunsplash 1983 on a Sony Cassette Deck on June 27, 1983.
Tracks A1 and A2 were recorded live to a TEAC 2-Track Tape Deck As the reunited Skatalites performed in concert on July 17, 1983.
Recorded live at The Blue Monk Jazz Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica on June 27 & July 17, 1983.
Remixed and edited for cassette by Paul Marotta at Noise, NY. December 8&15, 1985.
Cover image from cassette cover art by Ned Sonntag with hommage to Sassa.
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