Essential Ska

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

1▶CD: Guns, Girls and Rudeboys
2▼CD: All Aboard for Skaville Junction
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Train to Skaville
recording of:
Train to Skaville
lyricist and composer:
Clement “Coxsone” Dodd
The Ethiopians2:43
2I’m in the Mood for Ska
recording of:
I’m in the Mood for Love
lyricist:
Dorothy Fields (American librettist and lyricist)
composer:
Jimmy McHugh (songwriter)
publisher:
Margenia Music, MCI Music Publishing Ltd., EMI Robbins Catalog Inc. (ASCAP) (in 1935, in 1963) and EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated) (in 2016)
Lord Tanamo2:31
3The Preacher
Alton Ellis & the Flames2:14
4Rough and Tough
Stranger Cole3:00
5Street Corner
The Skatalites3:02
6River Bank
Baba Brooks2:38
7Honour Your Mother and Father
producer:
Leslie Kong
recording of:
Honour Your Mother and Father
composer:
Desmond Dekker
Desmond Dekker2:25
8Latin Goes Ska
recording of:
Latin Goes Ska
Lester Sterling & The Skatalites3:04
9Frankenstein Ska
recording of:
Frankenstein Ska
composer:
Byron Lee
Byron Lee & the Dragonaires2:40
10Doctor Zhivago
Tommy McCook & The Skatalites2:47
11Napoleon Solo
recording of:
Napoleon Solo
composer:
Lynn Taitt
Lyn Taitt & the Jets2:29
12Vitamin A
Baba Brooks Band2:53
13Storm Warning
recording of:
Storm Warning
composer:
Duke Reid (Jamaican producer and label owner) and Lynn Taitt
Lynn Taitt & The Comets2:29
14Blazing Fire
Derrick Morgan2:57
15Out of Space
Tommy McCook & The Supersonics2:44
16Little Did You Know
The Techniques2:35
17Copasetic
The Rulers2:35
18What a Good Woodman (a.k.a. The Woodman)
Lee “Scratch” Perry3:16
19Train to Ska‐thedral
Tommy McCook & The Supersonics3:27
3▶CD: Reggae Hits the Jackpot

Credits

Release

ASIN:UK: B000MR9DMM [info]