3/24/2011 Rocket Ship Ska Trip

_3/24 in a nutshell..._
Gina, Gina... he's just a ski instructor! But of course, it _did_ snow a little, even if the storm was a wee bit overhyped in the TC area, where we've occasionally seen worse as late as Tax Day. In any case, the Kid Creole song all about Gina (and the aforementioned ski instructor) earned its rightful place in this late-March playlist, in a first hour jampacked with the likes of Ken Boothe (3/22/48 - c.), Lee Perry (3/20/36 - c.) as well as locals Umbrella Bed, The Prizefighters and Jon Wayne The Pain.
Sherwood gave us double-shots of Jack Fascinato and Ahmad Jamal, plus numerous other goodies. The 4(+1)@4 was tunes from outside Jamaica that sound like they just may have been influenced by ska, however tenuously (although it works the other way in the case of Sea Cruise, cut in the late '50s before Ska's early '60s birth... ) and Rico traveled all the way to Japan to give us this week's GotchaSKAvered (Monkey Man), a collab with Ore Ska Band.
Ah-ya-yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaii!!!