Apr262024

The Skatalites

The Skatalites are a Jamaican music group that played a major role in popularising ska, the first truly Jamaican music created by fusing boogie-woogie blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, mento, calypso, and African rhythms. They recorded many of their best known songs, including Guns of Navarone, in the period between 1964 and 1965, as well as played on records by Prince Buster and many other Jamaican artists. The founding members of the group were Tommy McCook Read more on Last.fm

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Most Played Tracks as Scrobbled to Last.fm

# Title Plays
1Guns of Navarone
277391
2Latin Goes Ska
144246
3Eastern Standard Time
129496
4James Bond Theme
115111
5Swing Easy
112957
6Rock Fort Rock
86186
7Occupation
67763
8Street Corner
64014
9Fidel Castro
63202
10Lucky Seven
57775

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