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With over seven million copies sold, it remains one of the best selling reggae/ska songs of all time. Many other Jamaican artists would have success recording instrumental ska versions of popular American and British music, such as Beatles songs, Motown and Atlantic soul hits, movie theme songs and instrumentals (007, Guns of Navarone).
The Original Cool Jamaican Ska (1964, LP Compil) Ska With Laurel (1965, Rio) Laurel Aitkin Says Fire (1967, Doctor Bird) Fire (1969) High Priest of Reggae (1969, Nu-Beat) The High Priest Of Reggae (1970) Laurel Aitken Meets Floyd Lloyd and the Potato Five (1987, Gaz's) (with The Potato 5) Early Days of Blue Beat, Ska and Reggae (1988, Bold Reprive)
Blue Beat Records is an English record label that released Jamaican rhythm and blues (R&B) and ska music in the 1960s and later decades. Its reputation led to the use of the word bluebeat as a generic term to describe all styles of early Jamaican pop music, including music by artists not associated with the record label.
Phoenix City: A History of the World's Greatest Ska Band (Sanctuary Records, 2004) In the Mood for Ska – The Moonska Years (Recall Records UK, 2004) Independent Ska (Atom Music, 2006) Anthology (Primo, 2007) The Skatalites Play Ska (Kingston Sounds, 2007) Kingston 11 (King Edwards, 2008) Occupation Ska! Very Best of Skatalites (101 ...
Studio One is one of Jamaica's most renowned record labels and recording studios; it has been described as the Motown of Jamaica. The record label was involved with most of the major music movements in Jamaica during the 1960s and 1970s, including ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub and dancehall.
They would release both reggae and carnival-oriented albums throughout the 1970s, and in 1975 took in another genre with the Disco Reggae album, released on Mercury Records in the US. [ 1 ] The band played at the Reggae Sunsplash festival in both 1978 and 1979, and were one of the main backing bands in 1982.
Delroy George Wilson CD (5 October 1948 – 6 March 1995) [1] was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer. Wilson is often regarded as Jamaica's first child star, [2] having first found success as a teenager. His youngest son, Karl "Konan" Wilson, has found success as part of British duo Krept and Konan.
Desmond Dekker (born Desmond Adolphus Dacres; 16 July 1941 – 25 May 2006) [1] was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician. Together with his backing group the Aces (consisting of Wilson James and Easton Barrington Howard), he had one of the earliest international reggae hits with "Israelites" (1968).