Posted on 07/02/2022 4:27:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Today is International Reggae Day. An annual global celebration of Jamaican music and culture, it is this year being celebrated under the theme ‘60 years of ska music’. Here are 15 songs the organisers want you to add to your playlist.
1. My Boy Lollipop — Millie Small
2. Eastern Standard Time — Don Drummond
3. Guns of Navarone — The Skatalites
Headlines Delivered to Your Inbox Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters. 4. Forward March — Derrick Morgan
5. I’ll Never Grow Old — The Maytals
6. Ska War — The Maytals
7. Easy Snapping — Theophilus Beckford
8. Isrealites — Desmond Dekker
9. Simmer Down — The Wailers
10. Al Capone — Prince Buster
11. Boogie in My Bones — Laurel Aiken
12. World’s Fair — Skatalites, Ken Boothe, Stranger Cole
13. Jamaican Ska — Byron Lee & the Dragonnaires
14. One Eyed Jack — Jimmy Cliff
15. Carry Go Bring Come — Justin Hinds
And a big fat blunt 🤪
Ya mon!!!
Ihi yahnh Ihi say everything thing gonna be irie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiuPND4W6KM
My boy lollipop. Says it’s form 1973 but I have my doubts. Great tune, made for AM radio.
"My Boy Lollipop" is a song written in the mid-1950s by Robert Spencer of the doo-wop group The Cadillacs, and usually credited to Spencer, Morris Levy, and Johnny Roberts. It was first recorded in New York in 1956 by Barbie Gaye. A later version, recorded in 1964 by Jamaican teenager Millie Small, with very similar rhythm, became one of the top-selling ska songs of all time.
I used to go to Reggae Sunsplash. Quite the time. Met some interesting people and awesome musicians.
And from that Hotbed of Ska Corvallis Oregon, The W’s “The Devil is Bad”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsAHxgmCe6E&ab_channel=SkaMusicman777
One step beyond...
Yeah, I’ll bet that was fun. 🙂
ha ha, Now I want to go to Jamaica :-)
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