8/2/2012 Rocket Ship Ska Trip

_(8/2/12)_

"On the Beach" is two _entirely_ different songs... and we've got 'em both this week!  What they have in common is that these are both toasted-over versions on straight-sung originals... one, saluting Studio 1 founder Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, is an Owen Gray shuffle with the mighty King Stitt riding the riddim on top, about 3 decades after the fact! The other is the far-better-known Paragons/U-Roy classic in which a beachcomber requests "one more box of Happs" (beer?) from the bartender. A WHOLE BOX? Remember, there's a party goin' on at this beach, and a pretty well-attended one if they've already gone through a box and want more_ and we here on the RSST have just the musical libations to keep 'em buzzed 'til the sun rises next morning. Take us to space, Tommy!

Tommy McCook with Baba Brooks Band  Rocket Ship (2:39) / 45 [Treasure Isle] >> King Stitt/Owen Gray  On the Beach (2:50) / (Stitt & v.a.) Dance Hall '63 [Studio 1] >> U-Roy/The Paragons  On the Beach (2:36) / (U-Roy & v.a.) Verson Galore [Trojan] >> Colonel Elliott & the Lunatics  Cosmic Bust (2:51) / Interstellar Reggae Drive [Trojan] >> Millie Small  Be My Guest (2:07) > Chilly Kisses (2:04) / my boy lollipop - the best of millie [Spectrum/Universal] >> Justin Hinds & the Dominoes  Carry Go Bring Come (2:42) Ska Uprising [Trojan] >> Spanishtown Ska Beats  Stop That Train (2:14) / 45 [Blue Beat] >> Laurel Aitken & The Unitone  Rudi Got Married (3:21) / 45 [I-Spy] >> *The English Beat  Tears of a Clown (Peel session) (2:48) / The Complete Beat 5cd box [Go Feet/SHOUT Factory] >> The Specials  Stereotype (6:13) / BBC Sessions [EMI/BBC] >> Madness  Cardiac Arrest (2:58) / s-t [Geffen] >> Laurel Aitken & The Unitone  It's Too Late (3:15) / 45 [I-Spy] >> (bumper) Mutant Frogs  60Hz. Ska (2:43) > (not as bumper) 5 Fingers of Ska (4:01) / (both) "It's One Of Ours" [Skankworks/IMT] >> Fishbone  Party at Ground Zero (6:32) / s-t ep [Columbia] 

(bumper) Mutant Frogs  Sherwood's Planet (3:01) / Warts 'n' all [Skankworks/IMT] >> Russ Garcia & his Orchestra  Goofy Peepl of Phobos (2:11) / Fantastica [Liberty/Basta] >> Fred Katz  Manthi-Ki (5:06) / Folk Songs for Far-Out Folk [WB/Reboot] >> Hal Blaine  Vibrations (August) (2:15) / Psychedelic Percussion [Dunhill/Harkit] >> Jimmie Haskell  Astro-Sonic (1:56) / Count Down! [Imperial] >> The Specials  International Jet Set (5:37) / More Specials [Chrysalis/2Tone] >> (bumper) Mutant Frogs  Pro-Pleasure Gas (Don Cacheine's Disco Kicks) (3:46) / "It's One Of Ours" [Skankworks/IMT] >> Raymond Scott  Temptation (2:23) / The Secret 7 - "The Unexpected" [Top Rank/Basta] >> Lord Sitar (a.k.a. "Big" Jim Sullivan)  If I Were a Rich Man (5:42) / s-t (as "Lord Sitar") [Zonophone] >> Freddie Hubbard  Super Blue (tt) (7:51) / [Columbia] >> Shiina Ringo  Suberidai (3:58) / Koufukuron single [Toshiba/EMI] >> Janelle Monae  BabopbyeYa (8:46) / The Archandroid [Wondaland/Bad Boy] >> (non-Froggie bumper) Lee Morgan  (roughly half of) The Rumproller (tt) (5:00) / [Blue Note] 

(bumper) Mutant Frogs  One for Freetime (3:08) / Warts 'n' all [Skankworks/IMT] This week's 4:00 4-in-a-row features the current series of "Doin' the Popcorn Ska" 7-inch EPs (there are currently five!) on Discotheque Records, which reissue '60s ska made outside of Jamaica.  And, for the most part, outside the UK as well!   Steve Alaimo  I Don't Wanna Cry (2:33) /  (vol. 2) > The Angels  Jamaica Joe (2:19) / (vol. 2) > Annette Funicello  Jamaica Ska (2:29) / (vol. 1) > Les Gam's (the apostrophe abuse is part o' the name, folks) ( ..."The Leg's" ...?)  C'est Toi Mon Idole (2:55) / (vol. 4) (all tks.) [Discotheque] >> Symarip  Phoenix City (3:41) / Skinhead Moonstomp [Trojan] >> Mutant Frogs (not as bumper) Greenhenge (2:55) / unrl. [Skankworks/IMT] >> *Jimmy Cliff  One More ver. 2 (one more, get it?) (3:30) / Rebirth [Universal/Sunpower] >> Save Ferris  What You See is What You Get (3:16) / modified [Epic/Starpool] >> Mr. Review  Another Town (4:46) / Walking Down Brentford Road [Unicorn] > The Busters  Orion (theme from "Space Patrol Orion") (2:44) / v.a. SKANK - "Licensed to Ska" [Skank/Dojo] >> The Dualers  Doctor in the House (3:54) / Cooking Pot [Galley] >> Caro Emerald  Stuck (3:47) / Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor [Grand Mono] >> (Donatella) Rettore  Donatella (3:13) / 45 [Ariston] >> The Selecter  Bristol and Miami (4:44) / Celebrate the Bullet [Chrysalis] >> Gary "U.S." Bonds  Dear Lady Twist / 45 [Legrand] >> Owen Gray  Twist So Fine (2:27) / 45 [Blue Beat] >> (non-Froggie bumper) Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra  (most of) Juggling City (3:59) / World Ska Symphony [Avex] >> (non-Froggie bumper) SKAndalous All Stars  (excerpt) The End (1:49) / Age of Insects [Shanachie]