How fun is this?!! They were not very far apart in years, I wonder if there are more of these gems lying around?!
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Joined: Apr 13, 2018 Posts: 1340 New Orleans |
How fun is this?!! They were not very far apart in years, I wonder if there are more of these gems lying around?! Daniel Deathtide |
Joined: Oct 18, 2010 Posts: 630 Boston, MA |
holy smokes. this is awesome! —Matt Heaton & the Electric Heaters |
Joined: Jul 16, 2015 Posts: 246 ID |
Great track! I need to go through my old ska/rocksteady albums to see if there’s any more surf covers. —-John The Seatopians 2017- |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 3742 North Atlantic |
Jackie Mittoo moved from Jamaica to Toronto in the 70s and was a big part of the reggae scene there. Great musician. Here’s a mini doc for those interested: https://www.cbc.ca/television/fromthevaults/jackie-mittoo-and-the-golden-age-of-canadian-reggae-1.4903386 Rev —Canadian Surf http://www.urbansurfkings.com/ Last edited: Oct 16, 2020 15:11:35 |
Joined: Feb 11, 2007 Posts: 591 Encinitas, Ca |
Wow!!! So cool |
Joined: Sep 09, 2008 Posts: 3158 Guildford England |
Thanks for the infection DeathTide! The first time I heard Ska was on a 1964? Beatles special of Ready Steady Go! featuring Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop, brought to us by Chris Blackwell of Island Records. Sadly she died in May of 2020. If there was ever a surf tune crying out for ska treatment it's the Belairs Squad Car! that would be super cool! |
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Awesome!! |
Joined: Apr 13, 2018 Posts: 1340 New Orleans |
zunrj5 wrote:
That’s exactly how this popped up. I had to do a double take and go back. Prince Buster has some of the greatest songs ever recorded in my opinion, and Desmond Dekker has such a great voice! Alton Ellis is another one I love. But you’ve got to hand it to the Skatalites as well for keeping it instro! Yeah it was a joy to bust out those records and play them. Jamaican pressing errors and all! Do it! revmike wrote:
This is wild I had no idea! Thanks for posting. After thinking about it, I realize that a few old ska songs were covers of American music. Phyllis Dillon for example recorded lots of covers. So perhaps there was a lot of this borrowing that happened? Danny Deathtide —Daniel Deathtide Last edited: Oct 20, 2020 11:23:17 |