6/14/2012 Rocket Ship Ska Trip

 

It is as Jimmy Cliff once sang... Ska All Over The World!  This week, the "Ooh" featured a set of '60s and '70s Blue Beat and Ska from all over the world_ from South Africa (and released on a 78!) to Germany to Jamaica to Holland to various places in the U.S. and U.K. But first, to space... wwwwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiith Tommy!!!

 

Tommy McCook with Baba Brooks Band  Rocket Ship (2:39) / 45 [Treasure Isle] >> Soweto Stokvel Septette  Eddie's Ska (2:18) / 78 [Stokvel] >> Mango Jones & his Orchestra  Coffee Street Ska (2:01) / Explosive New Dance Rhythm - The SKA [Vee Jay] >> Rita Hovink  De Blue Blue Beat (1:56) / 45 [CNR/Moonglow] >> Roy Shirley & Beverley's All Stars  Shirley (2:32) / 45 [Beverley's] >> Gitte Haening  Das Ist Der Blue Beat (2:26) / 7"ep [Pathe/Marconi] >> Jerry Jackson  Shrimp Boats Is a' Comin' (2:43) / 45 [Columbia] >> (bumper) Mutant Frogs  60Hz. Ska (2:43) / "It's One Of Ours" [Skankworks/IMT] >> The Skatalites (ft. uncredited singer)  Whole World Doing the Ska (2:24) / 45 [Treasure Isle] >> Tommy McCook  The Watergate Affair (3:23) / 45 [Lion] >> Lord Creator a.k.a. Kentrick Patrick  Evening News (2:22) / 45 [Studio 1] >> The Fleetwoods Ska Light Ska Bright (2:25) / 45 [Dolton] >> Jimmy Cliff  Ska All Over the World (2:33) / v.a. The Authentic Jamaica Ska [Amy] >> Tracey Dey  Ska Doo Dee Yah (2:40) / 45 [Amy] >> (bumper) Mutant Frogs  5 Fingers of Ska (4:01) / "It's One Of Ours" [Skankworks/IMT] >> Baba Brooks Band  Alcatraz (2:53) / v.a. Ska Rarities 3cd box set [Trojan] >> The Locomotive  Rudi's In Love (3:06) / 45 [Parlophone] >> Morgan Fisher & friends as "The Burtons"  MacArthur Park (3:02) / "v.a." Hybrid Kids [Cherry Red] >> The Selecter  The Whisper (2:58) / 45 [Chrysalis] >> Gary "U.S." Bonds  Dear Lady Twist (2:37) / 45 [Legrand] >> Annette Funicello  Jamaica Ska (2:15) / Annette at Bikini Beach [Buena Vista] >> (bumper) Mutant Frogs  (excerpt) Baron von Skankin Frank (2:26) / "It's One Of Ours" [Skankworks/IMT]

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(bumper) Mutant Frogs  Sherwood's Planet (3:01) / Warts 'n' all [Skankworks/IMT] >> Hal Blaine  Trippin' Out (June) (2:36) / Psych. Perc. [Dunhill/Harkit] >> Mutant Frogs (not as bumper)  Lymedison (4:30) / "It's One Of Ours" [Skankworks/IMT] >> Soil & "Pimp" Sessions ft. Shiina Ringo  My Foolish Heart (Crazy in Shibuya) (4:36) / online single [iTunes Japan] >> Nat King Cole  Quizas, Quizas, Quizas (2:44) / sdtk. In the Mood for Love [Higher Octave/Virgin] >> Serge Gainsbourg  Pauvre Lola (2:27) / Love and the Beat [Sunnyside/Mercury France] >> YMCK  Pastel Colored Candy (2:15) / Family Music > Go YMCK Go (3:25) / Family Racing [both releases Usagi-Chang] >> (bumper) Mutant Frogs  Pro-Pleasure Gas (Sherwood B. Funn's Voovie Doo Dub) (7:12) / "It's One Of Ours" [Skankworks/IMT] >> Mutant Frogs (not as bumper)  Ska from Studio 5 (Attack Wah Mix) (3:39) / unrl. [Skankworks/IMT] >> Sauter/Finegan Orchestra  Chant of the Weed (5:03) / Under Analysis [RCA] >> Ken Nordine  You Know the Story (5:51) / Word Jazz - A Transparent Mask [Asphodel] >> Jack Walrath  Bottom of the Sea (7:38) / Godzilla Jazz [King Japan] >> Arthur Lyman  Leis of Jazz (tt) ( / [hifi/Ryko]

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(bumper) Mutant Frogs  One for Freetime (3:08) / Warts 'n' all [Skankworks/IMT] 

The 4@4: My stuff... 2 new creations and 2 from "It's One Of Ours" [Skankworks/IMT]...  Mutant Frogs - *Perception (3:29) > Pro-Pleasure Gas (Capt. 2much Freetime's Ska Mutation) (3:17) / "It's One Of Ours" > *Greenhenge (2:55) > The Great UFO Crash of '47 (3:20) / "It's One Of Ours"  >> Jazz Jamaica  Confucious (4:55) / Double Barrel [Hannibal] >>The English Beat  Jeanette (4:09) / 12" [IRS/Go Feet] >> *Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra Hungry Beast (4:01) / Walkin' [Avex] >> (bumper) Mutant Frogs  Penguin On Vacation (4:42) / "It's One Of Ours" [Skankworks/IMT] >> Fishbone  Unyeilding Conditioning (4:43) / Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe [Columbia] >> Prince Fatty meets the Mutant Hifi  Up the Creek (2:49) > Moscow Mule (2:49) (same tune as "Creek" on my copy; I used it as bumper_ hmmmm... ) > Son of a Thousand Fathers (2:29) / (all tks.) Return of Gringo! [Mr. Bongo] >> Lions Club  Theme from Rocky ("Gonna Fly Now") (5:18) / TV & Movie Themes [Pork Pie] >> Giuliano Palma & the Bluebeaters  State of the Nation (3:34) / Boogaloo [Universal/V2] >> SKAndalous All Stars  The End (2:51) / Age of Insects [Shanachie]