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Moozic says: Where do they gig when the Rude Boys keep fighting at the dancehall? What to do about the Wild Bunch who wreak havoc on the culture and music? Play more music. A familiar theme to some of the Jamaican artists from the 60's. The innovators of the ska/reggae genre. Tommy McCook founding member of The Skatalites, also directed The Supersonics for Duke Reid, and backed many sessions fo...
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As his long and eventful life drew to a close in 1974, Arthur "Duke" Reid, who had been at the forefront of ska and rocksteady, handed the control of his Treasure Isle studio to his nephew Errol Brown, who began to mix dub LPs of classic rocksteady rhythms. He cut a total of four such albums, three featuring Reid's own tunes, and one featuring remakes of the Melodians' Treasure Isle hits by Sonia
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From WikiWorld Tommy McCook (3 March 1927 - 5 May 1998) was a Jamaican saxophonist. A founding member of The Skatalites, he also directed The Supersonics for Duke Reid, and backed many sessions for Bunny Lee or with The Revolutionaries at Channel One Studios in the 1970s. So yeah, walking in the snowstorm....blessed ipod warming my heart with this tune. I have a feeling someone posted this rec
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made some of the hardest reggae tunes ever. This one dates from about 1974, and was released on 45 on the "Prophets" label. It was reissued on 12" a couple of years back, but even that has disappeared from most Internet stores now
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Here we have the late Tommy McCook's tenor sax instrumental take on Bobbie Gentry's "Ode To Billie Joe", released on Duke Reid's Treasure Isle imprint round about 1970
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