Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
Show And Tell Horace Andy covered one of our favourite songs by Al Wilson. It’s given the Ska Bluebeat Reggae treatment and not too bad either. He is a respected singer in Jamaica and have recorded several tracks with Massive Attack. His origins are Jamaican and he is a Rastfarian. Horace Andy
Blue Beat and Ska – It originated in Jamaica: late fifties early sixties – and gave birth to reggae, it soon came to Britain and if it were to have an alternative name – you might as well call it PRINCE BUSTER! In the early 1960s in the UK early Blue Beat and Ska was … Read more
This Music Got Soul (1967) This is the ‘B’ side of Rocksteady and is by Hopeton Lewis. In Manchester in the late sixties Blue Beat, SKA and Rocksteady and that Rude Boy stuff was mainly played in the West Indian clubs in Moss Side: The Nile Club and others (Shabeens). The only places that did … Read more
People Rock Steady – Island, 1967 Gypsy Woman Roy Shirley and the Uniques – People Rock Steady was a Ska beat related to Blue Moon with a great echo bass beat.
(Long Shot) Kick De Bucket The Pioneers were a favourite Ska group in certain of the soul clubs in Manchester in the sixties – The Blue Note for instance. Their popularity was so great that they left Jamaica and came to the UK to live. They may still be here for all we know! Please … Read more
Rudi’s In Love- 1968 Locomotive released this fairly pedestrian Bluebeat type song, reminiscent of the rocky steady rhythm. Having said that, became very popular in Birmingham. Locomotive (Band) – Wikipedia
Train To Skaville – Rio 1967 Formed in 1966 Disbanded in 1977 The Ethiopians were an early reggae / rock steady music group. The trio comprised of Leonard ‘Sparrow’ Dillon, Stephen Taylor and Aston Morris but in 1964 Peter Tosh helped Leonard Dillon start a solo career with producers Lee Perry and Coxsone Dodd. He … Read more