Rocket Ship Ska Trip playlists Jan/12

(1/5/11)
TOMMY McCOOK with BABA BROOKS BAND: Rocket Ship (2:39)

JUSTIN HINDS & THE DOMINOES: The Higher the Monkey Climbs (2:31) / Ska Uprising anthology [Trojan]
DERRICK HARRIOTT: Monkey Ska (tt) (2:09) / v.a. [Trojan]
CARLOS MALCOLM: Monkey Man Ska (2:01) / The Royal Ska [Jamaican Gold]
GRANVILLE WILLIAMS ORCHESTRA: Nutty Buddy (2:43) / 45 [GWO]

COL. ELLIOTT & THE LUNATICS: Guns of the Martian Giants (3:54)
THE SKATALITES: Guns of Navarone (3:12) / v.a. Rough & Tough - The Story of Ska 1962-1966 [Trojan]
BUSTER'S GROUP: Baby Face Nelson (2:30) / 45 [Buster Wild Bells]

KEN BOOTHE: (most of) Arte Bella (1970 ver.) (2:07) / Crying Over You anthology [Trojan] > (1964 ver. w/Stranger Cole) (2:34) / v.a. Ska Bonanza [Heartbeat/Studio 1]

BUSTER'S ALL STARS: Devil's Daffodil (2:21) / 45 [Blue Beat]
SPANISHTOWN SKA BEATS: Stop That Train (2:14) / 45 [Blue Beat]
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: 5 Fingers of Ska (4:01) / It's One Of Ours [Skankworks/IMT]
ROLAND ALPHONSO: Ska Lamour (I Only Have Eyes for You) (2:51) / 45 [Coxsone blank-label]
BYRON LEE & THE DRAGONAIRES: Ska de Wah (2:09) > Joy Ride (2:29) / Dance the Ska [BMN]
TONY WASHINGTON & THE D.C.s: Boof Ska (2:43) / 45 [Island]
TOMMY McCOOK SKATALITES (that's exactly how it's credited on the Randy's 45): Freedom Ska (2:27) / 45 [Randy's]
HERB HARDESTY: Adam & Eva (2:27) / 45 [Federal]
DUKE REID'S ALL STARS: Flip Flop (3:22 / v.a. Nuclear Weapon [Trojan]
THE BLUES BUSTERS: Soon You'll Be Gone (2:46) / v.a. Ska Spectacular vol. 2 [Charly]
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: Pro-Pleasure Gas (Capt. 2much Freetime's Ska Mutation) (3:17) / It's One Of Ours [Skankworks/IMT]
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SHERWOOD'S PLANET playlist
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: Sherwood's Planet (3:01) / Warts 'n' all [Skankworks/IMT] (3:01)

LYDIA LUNCH: A Cruise to the Moon (3:54) / Queen of Siam [ZE/Atavistic]
SHIINA RINGO: Carnation (3:01) / PV [Toshiba/EMI]
PONCHO SANCHEZ & TERENCE BLANCHARD: Nocturna (6:23) / = Chano y Dizzy! [Concord Picante]
THE ISLANDERS: Tornado (1:58) > Blue Rain (2:05) / 45 [Mayflower]
HAL BLAINE: Freaky (January) (2:23) / Psychedelic Percussion [Dunhill/Harkit]
(bumper) CARR/McWHEELE ORCHESTRA: Time Beings (4:33) / unrl. [Skankworks/IMT]
PEPPERTONES: We Are Mad about Flumerides (1:33) > Galaxy Tourist (2:54) / (both) New Standard [Cavare]
JUN TOGAWA: Joe LeTaxi (3:32) / 20th (ep) [God Mountain/Daiki Sound]
DIZZY GILLESPIE: In The Land of Oo-Bla-Dee (2:32) / The Dizzy Gillespie Story 4cd box set [Proper]
YMCK: Maru de Shojikimono No yo Ni (7:07) YMCK Songbook - Songs Before 8-Bit [Avex]
PEREZ PRADO: Leo's Special (5:03) / PREZ - The Mambo King vol. 1 [RCA]
JAN AUGUST: Tea for Two (3:09) / Cha Cha Charm [Mercury]
KNUCKLES O'TOOLE: Mambo #8 (2:57) / ...Goes South of the Border [Grand Award]
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(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: One for Freetime (3:08) / Warts 'n' all [Skankworks/IMT] All aboard the Rocket Ship, skassengers, it's time for the 4:00 4(+1)-in-a-row again, and this week we've got Toasting Ska! Karl Walker, #2 in this set, gives us one of Jamaica's earliest recorded examples of this spoken art (1962!), but we start with...
PRINCE JAZZBO: Takeover Dub (2:33) / Choice of Version [Studio 1]
KARL WALKER: But Officer (2:59) / v.a. Trojan Battlefield [Trojan]
U-ROY & THE SILVERTONES: True Confession (2:32) / v.a. Version Galore [Trojan]
THE INSTEPS: The Goat (ft. KING STITT) (5:09) / Eleven Steps to Power [Stubborn]
THE SILVER SONICS meets FIREBALL (Criss & Truthful): Falcon Shirogane (3:12) / The Silver Sonics meets Fireball Re-mixes [Gem-Tone]

(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: Ghost from the Future (4:04) unrl. [Skankworks/IMT]
LAURA LEE: My Boy Lollipop (1:52) / 45 [Cannon]
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: Baron von Skankin' Frank (4:18) / It's One Of Ours [Skankworks/IMT]
THE TOP CATS: Calling Your Name (3:19) / Mr. Donkey Paradise [s-r]
THE DUALERS: Jack Frost (3:14) / Get Festive! Vol. 1 [Galley]
THE SPECIALS: Sea Cruise (3:09) / BBC Sessions [EMI/BBC]
KID CREOLE & THE COCONUTS: Gina Gina (3:53) / Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places [Sire]
LOU & THE HOLLYWOOD BANANAS: Kingston, Kingston (3:05) / Super Sound Single [
FRENCH SKA SKA: Strange Ska (3:29) / 45 [Lyrion]
YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA: Multiplies (2:56) X oo Multiplies [A&M/Restless]
SKANDALOUS ALL STARS: The End (3:03)
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(1/12/11)
This week, we spend much of the Ooh (Opening Oldies Hour) playing Name That Ska, and we've found Skas named Shirley, Maureen, Isabell, Lucille and more for all you skassengers to mingle with... enjoy! First off, as always...
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Tommy!
TOMMY McCOOK with BABA BROOKS BAND: Rocket Ship (2:39) / 45 [Treasure Isle]

ROY SHIRLEY: Shirley (2:32) / 45 [Beverley's]
ROY RICHARDS: Maureen (2:39) / 45 [Doctor Bird]
DERRICK MORGAN: Oh Zella (2:39) / 45 [Prince Buster/Voice of the People]
DERRICK MORGAN: Miss Lulu (2:52) / 45 [Blue Beat]
STRANGER & PATSY: Tom Dick & Harry (2:34) / (Stranger Cole) Bangarang anthology [Trojan]
THE DELKINS: Isabell (2:39) / 45 [Stampede]
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: 60Hz. Ska (2:43) / It's One Of Ours [Skankworks/IMT]
THE MAGIC NOTES with DRUMBAGO & THE JAZZ BEAT: Rosabel (2:25) / v.a. Jamaican R&B 3cd box set [Trojan]
OWEN GRAY: Big Mable (2:38) / 45 [Blue Beat/King Edwards] > Darling Patricia (2:48) / v.a. Independent Jamaica - Songs of Freedom from the Treasure Isle [Trojan]
LAUREL AITKEN & THE BLUE BEATS: Lucille (3:40) (not the Lucille known by either Little Richard or B.B. King, btw) / 45 [Blue Beat]
CYNTHIA RICHARDS: Johnny Darling (2:58) / v.a. Sir Lee's Rocksteady Party at Greenwich Farm [Jamaican Gold]
(DONATELLA) RETTORE: Donatella (3:13) / 45 [Ariston]
THE (ENGLISH) BEAT: Jeanette (4:09) / 12 [IRS]
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: 5 Fingers of Ska (4:01) / It's One Of Ours [Skankworks/IMT]
??????????: Joanie, I Need You (2:26) / v.a. Mark Lamarr presents Duke Reid the Trojan - Nuclear Weapon [Trojan]

THE SKATALITES: Whole World Doing the Ska (2:24) / 45 [Treasure Isle] (Interesting one, this... a vocal number credited to The Skatalites. A couple of the actual band members handling the singing? Quite rare, and simultaneoulsy well done! Impossible for a steak, but don't put anything past the 'Lites! The actual song is modeled on He's Got the Whole World In His Hands.)

THE CLARENDONIANS: Sho Be Do Be (pron. Shoo-be-doo-be) (2:59) / The Best of... [Studio 1]
BUSTER'S GROUP: Baby Face Nelson (2:30) / 45 [Buster Wild Bells]
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SHERWOOD'S PLANET playlist
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: Sherwood's Planet (3:01) / Warts 'n' all [Skankworks/IMT] (3:01)
BIRTHE WILKE: Tivoli Nights (2:59) / (movie) Reptilicus [MGM Midnite Movies dvd] (incorporating the Travelogue scene immediately preceding the actual song. I'm such a sucker for a cheesy monster/sci-fi movie containing one or more lounge singer sequences! See also War of the Gargantuas, The X from Outer Space and The H-Man... )

DR. BUZZARD'S ORIGINAL SAVANNAH BAND: Call Me (3:43) (ntbcw Blondie... ) / To give this album its long, unwieldy full title...
James Monroe H.S. presents Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band Goes to Washington [Elektra] Now that's a mouthful.

CHUCK ANDERSON: La Pollera Amarilla (2:25) / Gozando El Ritmo [CBS Mexico]
SENOR COCONUT: Pinball Cha Cha (3:39) / Around the World [essay/Nacional]
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: It's One Of Ours / It's One Of Ours [Skankworks/IMT]

My online surfings have revealed to me that Tokyo Jihen are calling it a career. /¡_º\ `sniff`sniff` Well, I can look on the bright side... solo projects and collabs in the future for each band member and resumption of Ringo's more experimental side! The band go out on a high note:
*SHIINA RINGO: Carnation (3:10) / PV & cd single [Toshiba/EMI]
*TOKYO JIHEN: Konya wa Karasawagi (3:39) / PV & Color Bars mini-album [Toshiba/EMI]
'Til the reunion! (hope springs eternal... ) __Now I'm gonna go fix me some ramen in their memory, and it'll take longer than Three Minutes. :^)

Oh, and while we're doing Japan...
m-flo (loves CHARA): Love to Live By (5:35) / PV Cosmicolor [Rhythm Zone] ...the PV's on YouTube, and it's like this crazy neo-Tex Avery-does-anime-Betty-Boop thing... made my day!

COMBUSTIBLE EDISON: Laura's Aura (6:28) / the impossible world [Sub Pop]
QYPTHONE: Awakening (3:13) / Montuno no. 5 [Happiness]
PHIL UPCHURCH: Cha Cha Maracas (2:22) / (actual album title) You Can't Sit Down Part Two [Boyd] ...album contains the title track AND You Can't Sit Down Part One!
THE MONTESAS: Space Walk (2:40) / Aloha from Alpha Centauri [Rhythm Island]
PEREZ PRADO: Flight of the Bumble Bee (2:46) / PREZ - the Mambo King vol-1 [RCA]
PONCHO SANCHEZ & TERENCE BLANCHARD: Nocturna (6:23) / Chano y Dizzy! [Concord Picante]
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(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: One for Freetime (3:08) / Warts 'n' all [Skankworks/IMT] All aboard the Rocket Ship, skassengers, it's time for the 4:00 4(+1)-in-a-row again, and this week I went to another of my default '4's, a set of MUTANT FROGS...
(bumper) One for Freetime (twice... the second time without me yakkin' over it!) (total 6:16... 3:08 × 2) / Warts 'n' all
Spirit of Gusev Special (4:32) / It's One Of Ours
Transkalactic (2:34) / It's One Of Ours
*Ghost from the Future (slow version) (4:09) > (bumper) Ghost from the Future (fast version) (3:25) / unrl. [all Skankworks/IMT]

GotchaSKAvered brings back the Lollipop Of The Week (week 2):
AKATZ: Txiko Lollipop (2:13) / Akatz a Go-Go [Rudo]
ANNAMARIE: Little Boy Butterfly (1:57) / 45 [Decca]
(This Butterfly is unmistakably a Lollipop rewrite, so I just had to plant it right next to AKATZ in the order.

QYPTHONE: One Love (4:19) / Montuno no. 5 [Happiness]
BONNIE PINK with THE MICETEETH: Don't Get Me Wrong (3:30) / 45 [Duck Soup]
DION KNIBB & THE AGITATORS: Escape Into the Night (2:41) > Where Are You? (3:20) / Driving Me Mad! [DVS]
THE DUALERS: Jack Frost (3:15) / Get Festive! vol. 1 [Galley]
KID CREOLE & THE COCONUTS: Gina Gina (3:53) / Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places [Sire]
HEPCAT: Dollar Dance (3:51) / Scientific [BYO]
THE SKATALITES: Ball of Fire (Fans of vintage UK telly will know this as the Echo 4-2 theme)
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: (excerpt) A 5th of Funn (2:00) / It's One Of Ours [Skankworks/IMT]
(non-Froggie bumper) SKANDALOUS ALL STARS: (most of) The End (2:21) / Age of Insects [Shanachie]
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(1/19/12)

TOMMY McCOOK: Rocket Ship (2:00) / 45 [Treasure Isle]
DESMOND DEKKER: King of Ska (2:41) / Rudy Got Soul anthology
FREDERICK (pre-Toots) HIBBERT: Old Flame (2:09) v.a. Trojan Battlefield [Trojan]
BYRON LEE & THE DRAGONAIRES: Joy Ride (2:08)
DON DRUMMOND & HIS EVERGREENS: Jet Stream (2:55) / 45 [Rolando & Powie]
DERRICK & NAOMI: I Wish I Were an Apple (2:30) / 45 [Ska Beat]
THE SKATALITES: Ball of Fire (Echo 4-2) (3:06) / v.a. Strictly for You [Studio 1]
THE CLARENDONIANS: Sho-Be-Do-Be (2:59) / The Best of... [Studio 1]
DELROY WILSON & SLIM SMITH: Look Who's Back Again (2:42) / v.a. Full Up - The Best of Studio 1 vol. 2 [Heartbeat/Studio 1]
SAMMY ISMAY & BABA BROOKS BAND: Cocktails for Two () / v.a. King Size Ska [Trojan]
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: The Astro 'Gator (unrl. version)
RAYMOND HARPER: No Other Love ( / v.a. King Size Ska [Trojan]
ROY SHIRLEY: Shirley (2:32) / 45 [Beverley's]
THE PIONEERS: Golden Opportunity (2:11) / 45 [Wincox]
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: (excerpt) Cassini at Titan (2:00) / Warts 'n' all [Skankworks/IMT]
THE SELECTER: On My Radio (3:14) > Missing Words (3:25) / (both) Too Much Pressure [Chrysalis/2Tone]
(Donatella) RETTORE: Donatella (3:13) / 45 [Ariston]
MORGAN FISHER & FRIENDS (as The Burtons): MacArthur Park (3:02) / v.a. Hybrid Kids [Cherry Red]
GRANVILLE WILLIAMS ORCHESTRA: Honky Tonk Ska (2:52) / v.a. King Size Ska [Trojan]
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(bumper) Sherwood's Planet (3:01)
STAN KENTON: Quintile (6:58) / Adventures in Time [Capitol]
JOE LOCO: Regalame Esta Noche (2:32) / 45 [Imperial]
JONAH JONES QUARTET: Jalousie (2:47) / Jonah Jumps Again [Capitol]
DICK BARLOW & HIS ORCHESTRA: Swedish Rhapsody (2:29) / Music To Make You Feel That Certain Way [Mercury]
KNUCKLES O'TOOLE: Mambo #8 (2:57) / ...Goes South of the Border [Grand Award]
RAYMOND SCOTT: La Cumparsita (2:26) / ...conducts the Rack and Roll Symphony [Everest]
ROGER LINK & HIS WHISPERING TRUMPET: Sweet Sue, Just You (2:52) / Hot Lips - Salute to Henry Busse [Decca]
FRANCIS BAY BIG BAND: The Song Is You (2:33) / Swinging Night People [Omega Diskl]
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: Time Barrier #5 (3:00) (custom bumper-timed edit) / unrl. [Skankworks/IMT]
JACK PLEIS & HIS ORCHESTRA: Strings and Things (tt) (2:47) / [Decca]
THE PERSIANS: Get A Hold of Yourself (2:29) / 45 [Pageant]

CURLY MOORE & THE KOOL ONES: Shelley's Rubber Band (2:55) / 45 [House of the Fox] (my web surfings reveal to me that, according to the guy who actually made this record, one New Orleans R&B legend Eddie Bo, neither Curly Moore nor Shelley Pope had anything to do with this groove-a-liciously funky shuffle... )

THE HIDDEN COST: Vibrations (3:03) / 45 [Marmaduke]
KING COLEMAN: Down in the Basement (2:29) / 45 [togo]
HUGO WINTERHALTER: Melody of Spain (2:46) / Goes Continental [RCA]
SANDY NELSON: Casbah (2:12) 45 [Imperial]
TIPSY: Chocolate Moon (2:20) / Buzzz [ipecac]
TIPSY: Swingin' Spaceman (2:54) / Buzzz [ipecac]
(bumper) CARR/McWHEELE ORCHESTRA: Time Beings (2:00) (custom bumper-timed edit) / unrl. [Skankworks/IMT]
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Attention, skassengers... the Cap'n & Cozy are due back on Earth in one hour!
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: One for Freetime (3:08)
This week's 4(+1)@4 is made up of 2Tone-label vets OFF the 2Tone label itself, and for the most part, well into the future relative to the 2Tone era itself, the exception being the Selecter track, from Celebrate The Bullet, which the band took straight to Chrysalis, bypassing Jerry Dammers' then-still-existing record company. This Are Post-2Tone!
THE SELECTER: Bristol and Miami (4:44) / Celebrate the Bullet [Chrysalis]
THE SPECIALS: All Gone Wrong (3:52) / Guilty 'til Proved Innocent! [MCA]
MADNESS as THE DANGERMEN: Taller than You Are (2:25) / The Dangermen Sessions [Live & Intensified!]
BAD MANNERS: Memory Train (3:00)
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: (most of) One for Freetime (2:50) / Warts 'n' all [Skankworks/IMT]
BAD MANNERS: Black Night (3:12) / Heavy Petting [Moon Ska]

For at least January and currently we're thinking February as well, the GotchaSKAvered Ska Cover-of-the-Month Club is bringing back the Lollipop-of-the-Week! We'll call it...
GotchaSKAllipop! This week, it's_
TERESA BREWER: My Boy Lollipop (1:54) / Golden Hits of 1964 [Philips]
QYPTHONE: One Love (4:29) / Montuno no. 5 [Happiness]

R I N G R O L L ! ! ! !

SHIINA RINGO & TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA: Mayonaka wa Junketsu (4:16) / cd single [Toshiba/EMI] (the pv for this song served as my introduction to the universe of her fabulousness Shiina Ringo one night in early '08 when surfing You Tube for TSPO videos. Now, whenever Sherwood forgets to include her in one of his middle hour sets, we Ringroll you here in Hour 3! :^))

TOMOSAKA RIE: Tokai no Manner (2:53) / Toridori [EMI Japan]
(written by Ringo, played and produced by her band Tokyo Jihen for Rie.)

THE MICETEETH: Them! (3:21) / Meeting [P-Vine]
GIULIANO PALMA & THE BLUEBEATERS: Coming In from the Cold (
THE PIETASTERS: Out All Night (3:14) / willis [Hellcat]
GO JIMMY GO: Bang the Skillet (3:29) (skillet version - #2) / Soul Arrival [Moon Room]
TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA: Zutto (ft. Crystal Kay) (4:55) / World Ska Symphony [Avex]
That time again, skassengers...
as is the case every week, this is...
(non-Froggie bumper) SKANDALOUS ALL STARS: The End (3:03) / Age of Insects [Shanachie]
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(1/26/12)
How Blue Is That Beat, Anyway?
But first, Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Tommy!
TOMMY McCOOK with BABA BROOKS BAND: Rocket Ship (2:39) / 45 [Treasure Isle]
THE BEAZERS a.k.a. CHRIS FARLOWE & THE THUNDERBIRDS: The Blue Beat (2:25) / 45 [Decca]
RITA HOVINK: De Blue Blue Beat (1:56) / 45 [CNR/Moonglow]
THE TORNADOS: The Blue Blue Blue Beat (2:50) / 45 [Decca]

And now, a Man In Space set.
CAVALIERS ORCHESTRA: I Man (2:42) / 45 [Randy's]
CARLOS MALCOLM: Earth Man (2:28) / Ska Mania [Up Beat]
DERRICK MORGAN: Leave Earth (2:31) / 45 [Blue Beat]
THE SLIKERS (prob. The Slickers; the label reads The Slikers): Man Is Going To Leave Earth (2:38) / 45 [Dutchess]
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: (most of) The Astro 'Gator (3:06) / Warts 'n' all [Skankworks/IMT]
CARLOS MALCOLM: Space Flight (2:39) / The Royal Ska [Jamaican Gold]
DANDY (Mr. Livingstone, I presume): A Little More Ska (2:34) > The Operation (3:25) / (both) 45 [dice]

JOHN SCHROEDER: Phoenix City (2:46) / 45 [Picadilly]
(John WHO??? I hear you asking. Guess what? I don't know either! Pretty cool take on Phoenix, though... )

BOB ANDY: Life Could Be a Symphony (3:13) / The Bob Andy Song Book [Studio 1]
BUSTER'S ALL STARS: Cincinatti Kid (3:10) > Driving West (3:00) / (both) 45 [Blue Beat]
RAYMOND HARPER: Amour (2:50) / 45 [Doctor Bird]
LLOYD & GLEN: Keep On Pushing (2:57) / 45 [Doctor Bird]
THE FLEETWOODS: Ska Light Ska Bright (2:25) / 45 [Dolton]

JERRY JACKSON: Always (Jamaica Ska) (2:37) (the parenthetical Jamaica Ska in the title simply refers to the music style of the song arrangement, not to the hit single by Byron Lee, whose song title has cropped up in numerous contexts having nothing whatever to do with his actual song!)
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SHERWOOD'S PLANET playlist
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: Sherwood's Planet (3:01) / Warts 'n' all [Skankworks/IMT] (3:01)
BOBBY SUMMERS: Pad (1:58) / 45 [Capitol]
THE FIREBALLS: Carioca (2:01) / 45 [Top Rank]
STAN KENTON: Cha Cha Sombrero (4:45) / [Capitol]
SYD DALE: Cuban Shadows (1:20) / (split cd w/ Johnny Hawksworth) Accent on Percussion [KPM]
LES TALISMANS: L'Interplanetaire (2:38) / 45 [Tournesol]
DAVE PIKE SET: Spooky (2:29) / Got the Feelin' [Relax]
SERANI POJI: Time Is Flowing Slowly (110416 Rock) (although this'll remind you far more of bossa nova than rock_ just 'cuz it happens to be bossa nova!) (5:12) / Manamoon Remix - Tribute to Serani Poji [Crown Japan]
MAI NAKAHARA & AI SHIMAZU: Ichigo Tsumi Monogatari (4:15) / cd single [Lantis]
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: Pro-Pleasure Gas (Don Cacheine's Disco Kicks) (3:46) / It's One Of Ours [Skankworks/IMT]
*TOKYO JIHEN: Konya wa Karasawagi (3:39) / Color Bars [Toshiba/EMI]
RAINBOW ORCHESTRA: La Avispa (3:44) / v.a. German Funk Fieber [Show Up/Cargo]
THE PERSIANS: Get A Hold of Yourself (2:29) / 45 [Pageant]
TIPSY: Sweet Spot (3:12) / Buzzz [ipecac]
SHIINA RINGO: La Salle de Bain (4:07) / Heisei Fuzoku [Toshiba/EMI]
SOIL & PIMP SESSIONS ft. SHIINA RINGO: My Foolish Heart (Crazy in Shibuya) (4:36) / online-only single [iTunes Japan]
PONCHO SANCHEZ & TERENCE BLANCHARD: Promenade (5:29) / Chano y Dizzy! [Concord Picante]
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Attention, skassengers... the Cap'n & Cozy are due back on Earth in one hour! For this week's 4:00 4(+1)-in-a-row, we've got a Skeatles (Ska Beatles) set delivered by ARTS, Ringo Ska, The Brass Circus, and The Clarendonians.
(bumper) MUTANT FROGS: One for Freetime (3:08) / Warts 'n' all [Skankworks/IMT]
ARTS (Authentic Rocksteady Traditional Ska): Day Tripper (2:53) > Hello Goodbye (2:51) / (both) Discover the Ska! [Geneon]
RINGO SKA: Getting Better (2:49) / Betolzkahitoparat [Pork Pie]
THE BRASS CIRCUS: Strawberry Fields Forever (4:09) / v.a. Skankin' Beatles - All You Need is Ska (Blue) [Geneon] (Guess what... there's a Red one, too!)
THE CLARENDONIANS: You Won't See Me (clipped a wee bit short for some reason!) (3:46) / 45 [Studio 1 JA; Ska Beat UK] (odd, 'though the Ska Beat release is UK, the song credit doesn't read McCartney, it reads Dodd! ...oh, well_ after all, Odd = 3/4 of Dodd! I can add that to my growing collection of Word Fractions! Didn't know I collected those? Well ya do now!
And speaking of now...

It's time for the GotchaSKAvered Ska Cover-of-the-Month Club's (My Boy/Girl/Spliff/Dog/whatever) Lollipop of the Week (a.k.a. the GotchaSKAllipop)... so how 'bout one in Swedish from 1970... SvenSKA, indeed!
FLAMINGO KVINTETTEN: Lilla Raringen (2:04) / 1 [s-r]

MUTANT FROGS (not as bumper): Penguin On Vacation (4:42) / It's One Of Ours [Skankworks/IMT]
RIDDIMATES: Galaxy Is In Oneself (4:50) / Too Much Blowing is Just Right [Ska in the World]
MOON HOP: Cheek to Cheek (5:00) / Welcome Back to the Moon [Patate]
EGO WRAPPIN': Mother Ship (4:51) / On the Rocks [Toys Factory]
SLY & ROBBIE: Paradise Baby (ft. Rip Slyme) (4:50) / J Paradise [Phase One]
THE DROPSTEPPERS: Bring It On Home to You (3:42) / Get Up In It! [Megalith]

(non-Froggie bumper) SKANDALOUS ALL STARS: The End (3:03) / Age of Insects [Shanachie]