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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
277301
2Latin Goes Ska
144209
3Eastern Standard Time
129436
4James Bond Theme
115062
5Swing Easy
112750
6Rock Fort Rock
86077
7Occupation
67750
8Street Corner
63972
9Fidel Castro
63189
10Lucky Seven
57766

Other Album Releases:

Ska-Boo-Da-Ba
Essential Artist Collection – The Skatalites
Live In Argentina 2011
Live at the Belly Up
The Skatalites (Live)
Music from Ja: Ska
Platinum Ska
Ska Kings of the First Wave with the Skatalites, The Ethiopians, And Don Drummond
Treasure Isle Time
The Skatalites Play Ska

Related Artists

Don Drummond
Laurel Aitken
The Ethiopians
Prince Buster
The Maytals
Desmond Dekker
New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble
The Selecter
Derrick Morgan
Hepcat