• The Skatalites are a ska band from Jamaica. They played initially between 1963 and 1965, and recorded many of their best known songs in the period, including...
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  • Kingston, Jamaica, in 1963, by Tony Brevett (born 1949, nephew of The Skatalites bassist, Lloyd Brevett), Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton. Renford Cogle...
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    Ska (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    that the difference between R&B and ska beats is that the former goes "chink-ka" and the latter goes "ka-chink". Famous ska band the Skatalites recorded...
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  • Guns of Navarone (song) (category The Specials songs)
    including one by the Jamaican group the Skatalites whose single was released in 1965, and reached No. 35 on the UK Singles Chart in 1967. The orchestral theme...
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  • Coxsone Dodd (category Commanders of the Order of Distinction)
    singing as a part of The Wailers. In the early 1960s, Dodd was producing ska hits by Toots and the Maytals, the Gaylads, and the Skatalites. Dodd's "You're...
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    "Coxsone Dodd, 72, Pioneer of the Jamaican Pop Music Scene, Dies". The New York Times. (online) "The Skatalites". Skatalites.com. Retrieved 3 September 2019...
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  • The Skatalites, as 'Whispering Dub' on their Herb Dub Collie Dub album first issued in 1976, re-issued in 2001. Clifford Jordan on his 1985 album The...
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    Bonnie Raitt, Manu Chao, The Roots, Keith Richards, Toots Hibbert, Paul Douglas, Jackie Jackson, Ken Boothe, and The Skatalites. The year 2005 saw Adams join...
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    I'm The Guns of the [sic] Navarone." "Guns of Navarone" by the Jamaican band The Skatalites (1965) is a Ska standard, which reached #36 in the British...
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  • film's theme song, covered by Jamaican ska group The Skatalites in 1965 and later covered by The Specials "Guns of Navarone" (Sean Paul song), 2021 song...
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