Don Drummond, Tommy McCook & The Skatalites - "(Music Is) My Occupation (Ring Of Fire)" (3:01)
Tommy McCook & The Baba Brooks Band - "Alley Cat Ska" (2:40)
Don Drummond & The Skatalites - "Cool Smoke" (3:04)
Don Drummond & The Skatalites - "Garden Of Love" (3:01)
Tommy McCook - "Twelve Minutes To Go" (3:07)
The Baba Brooks Band - "Girls Town Ska" (2:52)
The Baba Brooks Band - "Vitamin A" (2:53)
Lester Sterling & The Skatalites - "Latin Goes Ska" (3:02)
Roland Alphonso, Don Drummond & The Skatalites - "Alipang" (3:02)
Don Drummond & The Tommy McCook Band - "Lucky Seven" (2:52)
Frank Anderson & Roland Alphonso - "Musical Store Room" (2:21)
The Baba Brooks Orchestra - "Musical Communion" (3:00)
Roland Alphonso & The Skatalites - "Sandy Gully" (2:48)
Don Drummond & The Baba Brooks Band - "Doctor Dekker" (2:49)
Roland Alphonso & The Baba Brooks Band - "Nuclear Weapon" (3:02)
Roland Alphonso & The Skatalites - "Corner Stone" (2:32)
Baba Brooks & Don Drummond - "Knockout Punch (Aka Cotton Tree)" (3:11)
Don Drummond & The Skatalites - "Don De Lion" (2:08)
Tommy McCook & The Skatalites - "Rocket Ship" (2:35)
Roland Alphonso & The Skatalites - "Feeling Fine" (2:51)
Don Drummond & The Skatalites - "Mesopotamia" (2:56)
Don Drummond & The Skatalites - "Eastern Standard Time" (3:13)
Don Drummond & The Skatalites - "Thoroughfare (Treasure Isle)" (2:51)
Don Drummond & Roland Alphonso & The Skatalites - "Silver Dollar" (2:55)
The Skatalites - "Street Corner" (3:01)
Don Drummond - "University Goes Ska" (2:46)
The Skatalites - "Good News" (2:53)
Don Drummond & Tommy McCook - "JFK'S Memory" (3:02)
Review: The Skatalites were among the brightest stars in Jamaica's ska and rocksteady heyday, exploding onto the early 1960s scene with early hits such as 'Black Sunday' and 'Passing Through'. This new compilation brings together the band's most essential tracks, recorded almost entirely with extra bandmates Don Drummond (trombone), Roland Alphonso (sax), Lloyd Knibb (drums) and Jackie Mittoo (keys). Under the production purview of one Arthur 'Duke' Reid - the esteemed producer whose work centred on the label Treasure Isle - this 28-track extravaganza hears the band's myriad influences 'go ska', as they liked to put it.
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