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skatalites - original ska sounds from the skatalites 1963-1965 (2016 rsd release) - soul jazz records - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Reggae / Dub

1. Guns Of Navarone
2. Suavito
3. Russian Ska Fever
4. El Pussycat
5. Coolie Boy
6. Surplus
7. The Wailers with The Skatalites - Tell Them Lord
8. Further East
9. Independent Anniversary Ska (I Should Have Known Better)
10. King Solomon

Ten stone-cold classic, killer tracks from Studio One, brought together here on this one-off pressing limited-edition box set containing five mighty seven-inch singles which bring together seminal, rare and classic tunes collected together here for the first time ever.

The Skatalites were the definitive Jamaican group, who first came together in Kingston in the late 1950s and featured the acknowledged finest musicians in the country - Tommy McCook Rolando Alphonso Lester Sterling, Lloyd Brevett Lloyd Knibb, Don Drummond, Jah Jerry Haynes, Jackie Mittoo, Johnny Moore and Jackie Opel.

In 1963 they became the house band at Clement 'Sir Cosxone' Dodd's newly opened Studio One at 13 Brentford Road. The group played on every song cut at the studio, backing the greatest singers of the day - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Ken Boothe, Toots and The Maytals - as well as recording some of the finest instrumental music ever made under their own name.

Here is a selection of some of their finest and hardest-to-find cuts made at Studio One between 1963-65.

This unique box-set edition is only available as a one-off pressing especially for Record Store Day 2016.