You ain't Got Nobody but Me 7'' (1985)
A - You ain't Got Nobody but Me
B - You ain't Got Nobody but Me (dub)
Pick Pocket was a Dutch band. I think they were from Holland but I'm not sure. They were on Dureco Benelux records which was a division of Dureco records. "Dureco" means "Dutch Record Company" and they specialized in soul music until later they went disco. I'm not sure where Pick Pocket fit into their demographic but they did have a traditional ska artist or two that they at least distributed records for. "Dureco Benelux" was a branch for bands in BElgium, NEtherlands and LUXembourg.
As far as I know these two offerings here are the only songs these guys ever got around to recording.
As usual, I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
"Jaki Graham has been
one of the UK's leading female soul vocalists since the release of her
first solo single ‘What's The Name Of Your Game’ in 1984. To date Jaki
has scored six UK Top 10/20 singles and two Top 5 singles in the U.S.
Dance charts including the monster No.1 ‘Ain't Nobody’."*
...and in all that time she has never done a straightforward ska/reggae song - until now. (Yes, I know she has touched upon a quasi reggae sound in the past - she did a reggae inspired version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" with David Grant.) Her latest album "For Sentimental Reasons" has a cover of the Jazz standard "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" that was made popular by Billie Holiday in 1935. It was re-recorded by Billie Holiday in 1954 and that version was covered by Peggy Lee on her 1959 album "Jump For Joy". It was also a regular feature in Benny Goodman's set (probably where Peggy Lee got the idea) and was also recorded by Diana Ross, Nancy Wilson, Bing and Gary Crosby, Crystal Gayle, Dianne Reeves, Betty Carter, Anita O'Day, ...and countless others including Robert Palmer on his 1992 album Ridin' High. Robert Palmer did a lot of reggae inspired stuff, but his version of What a Little Moonlight Can Do was directly inspired by the 1935 Billie Holiday version. He did not make it a reggae song. In fact, I can't find a reggae version of this song anywhere. This is the first as far as I know (and I'd love it if someone can prove me wrong.) Jaki Graham - What a Little Moonlight Can Do (2012)
[I cannot post a download link - the album was just released on October 15th, 2012 but you can support the artist by buying this song HERE] *quoted from Cherry Red
The album in this download is the original 11 track from 1990 though the
cover pictured here is from the 1991 re-release that included all 3
tracks from the "More Tea Vicar?" single. The cover of the original
didn't have the yellow writing or the speech bubble.
(Thanks to Rikard for this submission)
Here they are performing "What Did I Do" in 1990. Rikard also posted this on Youtube.
Lost in Ska LP (1990)
1 Classic Case
2 Hard Times
3 What Did I Do?
4 But My Love
5 So FarAway
6 Carry Go Bring Come
7 Lost in Ska
8 Sister
9 Romeo (live Abbey Park '89)
10 Today
11 Ska Summer (1990)
Skunky Punky Monkey (1996)
1 Ska Summer
2 Last Train to Skaville
3 Romeo - Too Much
4 Jesse James (feat Laurel Aitken)
5 Classic Case
6 Coronation Ska
7 It's Not Unusual
8 More Tea Vicar
9 Al Capone
10 Rudy Medley
11 La Bamba
12 Monkey Man
13 La Bamba (Skanking John Major Mix)
14 Too Fat
15 Young Gal
16 Ska-Boom (Mr. Lee's Mean Fiddler Dublin, Sampler Mix)
17 Ska-Boom (Life of Brian Mr. Lee Mix)
(...submitted by Ronan)
1 Traffic Warden
2 Baby Come Back
3 Baked Beanz
4 Jazzska
5 Street Victim
6 Black Night
7 I Know What You Want
8 What You Gonna Do?
9 Drowning
In the 1977 documentary Roots, Rock, Reggae there is a scene where Junior Murvin and the Heptones are rehearsing a song in the home studio of Lee 'Scratch' Perry. Nobody has ever been able to find a recording of this song called "Play on Mr. Music" because it wasn't actually recorded. It was improvised on the spot for the filming and never became an actual song.
In 1995 the Swiss band Mad Lighters with Rico Rodriguez on trombone turned it into an actual song and released it on their album Ska Town.
1 Play On, Mr. Music
2 Skapone
3 Sunset
4 Sweet Blue Beat
5 Skatown
6 The Man Hurricane
7 New Age
8 Across the Valley
9 Averyska
10 Dubbit Mr. Music
11 Hurricane Dub
12 In Town Dub
Ska/New Wave/Rock and Roll band from Athens, Georgia (could be wrong
about Athens, but I'm pretty sure I'm right about Georgia) and this is
another one that I think only made this one recording.
A - Ska City
B - Thank You Andrew ∅- bonus live version of Ska City that is not on this record
California band that featured 2 members that later went on to play in General Public. Read an interview with the drummer Mario Minardi on Marco on the Bass HERE.
I'm not positive, but I don't think they ever recorded anything else.
For being considered a ska band there are only 3 ska songs on this album.
Reverend Ian Smale - better known as Ishmael - released 36 albums in his
career but I think the only time he played ska was when he played under
the name Ishmael United. Can't be certain though.
1 Song of the Last Generation
2 Star on Sunday
3 Bartimaeus
4 If You Can't Shout Saved, You'll Have to Face the Penalty
5 Jesus Trip
6 Don't Rock de Boat
7 Crowd Trouble
8 Christian Schizophrenic
9 Now It's all Gone Wrong
10 Caroline Robbins
11 Jesus is Making a Comeback
12 The Glories
I spent the last few days going through all my music and sorting out the things that I have never posted before and I uploaded them to a new Mediafire account. I didn't title them and yet that new account has been suspended already. They're really cracking down with this new "Audible Magic" shit.
I still plan on doing a great big post but, for now, I did a couple small ones. Get 'em while the getting's good.
Buster Shuffle is NOT to blame for my account being suspended. The actual email I got that informed me of the suspension stated that it was due to having a file titled Buster Shuffle.
I don't think it was unreasonable to jump to the conclusion that I did, but I admit I shouldn't have been so quick to accuse the band itself.
I got an email from them (basically what they wrote in the comments) which ended with them saying that my post accusing them of this is untrue and unfair. They are absolutely right and this is my open apology. It was done out of anger and I never bothered to even try to contact them first to see if this was their doing.
I'm still debating whether or not to buy their new cd. I'd hate to think that I'd be handing my money over to the record label or distributors who did this. I do recommend that if you are able to get either album from the band itself to do so. The first one was great so I imagine the new one will not disappoint.
(I'm not just trying to do damage control here, I actually am a fan and I do think their music should be heard, that's why I did the post in the first place.)
This is the first single from the new album:
As for the blog...I'm still not sure what to do. Half of the emails I get are people asking me to reupload things. If I keep it going the way it is I'll be getting emails for every file at some point. I don't have a lot of time for the blog as it is right now. I still have a lot of rarities that I want to share with you. (I just realized the other day that I have never posted the Lodgers demo tape yet), and in the near future I'll have more time than I do now but when I do have time to sit at the computer the bulk of the time is spent answering emails. Now, with the added task of having to re-upload everything, I won't have much time at all to post new things.
[...to be continued tomorrow...and Thank You everybody who took the time to comment, I will respond to all comments tomorrow]
[...es tarde, estoy cansado, pero mañana todo esto se traducirå en Español...pero Buster Shuffle NO es culpa de mi cuenta estå suspendida]
Ultra rare release from this California band. I can't tell you a single thing about them.
A couple of okay reggae songs on the B-side but the A-side is amazingly good. I can't believe this isn't a popular song.
A - Hard Yard
B1 - I Wanna See You (Dance)
B2 - Yes I Love You
I'm pretty sure this band was from Canada. Can't find anything about them online. I know this record goes for a pretty penny on eBay every now and then and I'll admit that it's not a ska song even though when you do see it on eBay on those rare occasions the seller likes to say that it's a ska song.
It's a piano driven new wave song with a bit of a ska rhythm to it and I shouldn't be posting it on T&W but I am because of how rare it is and because of how good it is. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
A - I Have Something to Say to You
B - Sonyman Walking
A - Reggae Woman
B1 - Redemption Song (Pearl Jam live)
B2 - Three Little Birds (Pearl Jam live)
"Reggae Woman" is a song Eddie Vedder wrote in 1988. This version was recorded before he was in Pearl Jam.
The other two songs here are just Eddie singing solo in between Pearl Jam songs. These are both Bob Marley songs and they are basically a capella, no reggae music behind him. The other members of Pearl Jam don't share his love for that reggae groove it seems.
Remember the song "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang? They had a group of guys backing them up called Fats Comet who were also known as Tackhead. These are the same guys backing up Grandmaster Flash on White Lines and The Message.
They released their first 7" in 20 years on November 11th, 2011. Its a cover of Bob Marley's Exodus. Here's a remix of the new track.
It's from an album of new music that's supposed to be released in 2012. Stay tuned to their Official Site for news on that.
They released the album Friendly as a Hand Grenade in 1989 and the first track on the album was "Ska Trek"
Culture Club was a rock-n-roll quartet from Nashville, Tennessee which featured a pretty young lady on lead vocals named Boy George
(...let the E-mails commence!)
First there was the Sex Pistols, then Malcom McLaren took Adam out of Adam and the Ants and inserted a 13 year old girl into the band and called them Bow Wow Wow but, when that band started to waver, he threw in a teenage Irish transvestite named George O'Dowd to sing lead. That didn't work out so well - Anabella didn't want him there and the fans didn't want him there - he was booed off the stage.
Ironically there was another member of Adam and the Ants - a drummer named Jon Moss who started his first band called Pig Williams in 1975 with his friend Nick Feldman (who later found fame in the band Wang Chung) who was not in Bow Wow Wow because he was busy playing with Shane MacGowan's band The Nips at the time before replacing Rat Scabies as the drummer for The Damned. He was advised by an unnamed friend that Bow Wow Wow's new singer Lieutenant Lush was calling himself "Boy George" and he started a new band called Praise of Lemmings. Jon Moss joined Praise of Lemmings and they changed their name to Culture Club.
Culture Club started out as a reggae band but most of their reggae sound was overshadowed during production in favor of a pop sound.
A lot of their music had reggae influences but they never released a straightforward reggae song in their heyday. It wasn't until 1999 when they released the album Don't Mind If I Do when they had a minor hit with a cover of the Dolly Parton song "Your Kisses are Charity"
They even performed this song live with Dolly herself
Dolly Parton and Culture Club doing a reggae song:
This download includes the original Don't Mind if I Do version of "Your Kisses are Charity" as well as a studio version featuring Dolly Parton plus two early reggae demos "Lion's Roar" and "Run, Run, Run"
Dolly Parton is cooler than you realize. Here's her hanging out with Cyndi Lauper...and I hear she did a cover of the Whitney Houston classic "I will Always Love You"
(...and, yes, the Dolly Parton ska EP is in the works!!)
This band was out of Vancouver, WA and recorded an album in the late 90's that never quite got finished or released, until just a few days ago. This band has a unique style with the lead singer who plays an upright bass. One more reason to pick it up, proceeds from the album will benefit The National Brain Tumor Society in the name of Joshua Dalton, the bands founder and bassist who is battling cancer. Although the band has been broken up for many years now, their music can now be properly enjoyed and remembered.
Sample all 17 tracks and buy the album at Amazon, or CD Baby
The Choice was a post punk / new wave band from Ithaca New York. Their set was comprised mostly of covers: "Should I Stay or Should I Go" (Clash), "Psycho Killer" (Talking Heads), "What I Like About You" (Romantics), "Freedom of Choice" (Devo), They also played some Rolling Stones and a B52's cover or two etc.
The band was started by two brothers from Florida Jay and mark Mendelson. Jay worked at a T.V. center in Owego and was able to use some equipment to make a couple of videos. One for their original song "Life of the Party", and another for "Technician". They did release a CD that had these two songs and a few more studio tracks with several live songs. I have never come across this cd.
[I think everybody has covered Psycho Killer at some point. And, although I have never heard The Choice's version, I would still have to say that my favorite is Debbie Neon's]
Remember the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" about the man who was on an airplane and kept seeing a man on the wing of the plane? The main actor was a guy named William Shatner who later went on to find fame in a TV show called TJ Hooker with a woman named Heather Locklear who was married to members of Motley Crue and Bon Jovi after Charles in Charge broke up with her.
Anyways...this TJ Hooker guy went on to do commercials for an online based airplane ticket agency, which is ironic considering his beginnings. He made enough from his commercials to fund one of the most...um...interesting album of 80s cover songs. On this album he enlisted the help of a down-and-out nobody named Toots Hibbert (normally I would never say a negative thing about Toots - he's the guy who sang Split Personality - but he sank pretty low on this one and I feel like my shit talking is justified).
Here's Captain Kirk and the 54-46 guy doing a cover of the Police song "Walking on the Moon"
I wanted to expose this to the world but I never wanted to contaminate one of my podcasts with it, so, if you decide to share this with another Earthling, please do not mention Tone and Wave.
I never got around to buying this record yet. There are lots of them all over the internet so I will have a copy someday but the song itself is easy enough to find on line so here it is if you don't have it yet. This was definitely going to be on my next podcast but I couldn't decide if I wanted the 7" version at the beginning of the episode or the 12" version at the end. You can have both:
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