(1/3/13)
Starting the Home Stretch, GotchaSKAvered reinaugurated the Lollipop-of-the-Week in high style, going back to the beginning_ Barbie Gaye’s 1956 original recording of “My boy Lollypop”, 8 years before Millie Small had a global smash with it. As you can hear, the backing band on Barbie’s version laid down the very rhythmic foundation of what would become Bluebeat and early Ska: shuffled drums, a driving 4/4 walk on the upright bass, and relentlessly clipped 8th-note upstrokes on rhythm guitar, doubled by the piano_ a true ska (pre-) history lesson. Watch this spot! We’ve got enough Lollipops to fill up an entire year, and we’re gonna follow through… ‘cuz it is, after all, the most-recorded cover song in the history of ska. GotchaSKAvered, indeed! The 5@5:05 gave us 5 Japanese ska bands we only learned of in the past week, including Skylarking, Cubetone and JJ Session. Leading up to The End are a tune each from Tune In and Stay Tuned (not in that order!), and, believe it or not, Jimi Hendrix and Adele_ ska-remixed by Bost & Bim for Pirates Records. Sherwood, meanwhile, has been picking up on how sometimes a vinyl record sounds as cool at the “wrong” speed as it does at the “right” one, and occasionally, a “Wrong-Speed Special” will be aired during Sherwood’s Planet. Tommy Dorsey, featuring his trombone guy Warren Covington, cut a Decca 45 of “Satan Takes a Holiday”, and it gets wrong-speeded this week. “Freaky (January)” is the psychedelically percussiveHal Blaine’s track-of-the-month, and a well-rounded selection of ska oldies from the ’60s to the ’80s, including a few Lost Decade tracks of the ’70s, made the “Ooh” a true hop-skip-and-jump affair. Tune In… and Stay Tuned!
Artist | Title | Album | Label | Duration |
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Tommy McCook with Baba Brooks Band
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Rocket Ship (2:39)
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45
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Treasure Isle
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159
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Hepcat
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Country Time (3:16)
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Scientific
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BYO
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196
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Laurel Aitken & the Unitone
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Rudi Got Married (3:24)
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45
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I-Spy
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204
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Colonel Elliott & the Lunatics
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Cosmic Bust (2:51)
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Interstellar Reggae Drive
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Trojan
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171
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Buster's All Stars
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City Riot (2:51)
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45
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Blue Beat
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171
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Owen Gray/King Stitt
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On the Beach (2:50)
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Dance Hall '63
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Studio 1
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170
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The Paragons/U-Roy
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On the Beach (different song) (2:37)
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(U-Roy & v.a.) Version Galore
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Trojan
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157
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Elvis Costello
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Human Touch (2:25)
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Get Happy!
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Columbia
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145
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Blue Riddim Band
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Joke's On You (3:17)
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Restless Spirit
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Flying Fish
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197
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The Specials (ft. Rico)
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Sea Cruise (3:09)
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(Specials) BBC Sessions
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EMI/BBC
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189
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The Selecter
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The Selecter (2:57)
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45
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2Tone
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177
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Tajfuny & Alibabki
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Echo Ska (2:04)
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w rytmach Jamajka Ska 7"ep
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Veriton
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124
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Byron Lee & the Dragonaires
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Ska de Wah (2:04)
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Dance the Ska
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BMN
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124
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Byron Lee & the Dragonaires
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Joy Ride (2:31)
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Dance the Ska
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BMN
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151
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Al Barry & the Cimarrons
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Morning Sun (2:54)
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45
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Doctor Bird
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174
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(bumper) Mutant Frogs
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60Hz. Ska (2:43)
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"It's One Of Ours"
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Skankworks/IMT
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163
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Yellow Magic Orchestra
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Multiplies (2:57)
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x oo Multiplies
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Restless/Alfa
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177
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GG Allstars
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Man from Carolina (2:48)
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v.a. For A Few Dollars More - 28 Shots of Western-Inspired Reggae
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Trojan
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168
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Symarip
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Phoenix City (3:45)
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Skinhead Moonstomp
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Trpjan
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225
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Glen Brown & Joe White
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Merry Up (2:57)
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v.a. Check the Winner
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Greensleeves
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177
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Glen Brown
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Sgt. Crackers (3:22)
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v.a. Check the Winner
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Greensleeves
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202
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Justin Hinds
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The Higher the Monkey Climbs (2:48)
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Ska Uprising
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Trojan
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168
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Derrick Harriott
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Monkey Ska (2:09)
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Monkey Ska
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Trojan
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129
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Carlos Malcolm & his Afro-Jamaican Rhythms
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Monkey Man Ska (2:01)
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The Royal Ska
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Jamaican Gold
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121
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Bad Manners
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Exodus (2:43)
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Forging Ahead
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Magnet
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163
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(bumper) Mutant Frogs
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Sherwood's Planet (3:01)
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Warts 'n' all
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Skankworks/IMT
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181
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Hal Blaine
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Freaky (January) (2:23)
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Psychedelic Percussion
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Dunhill/Harkit
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143
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Victor Feldman
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Suite Sixteen (8:45)
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Suite Sixteen
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OJC/Contemporary
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525
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Victor Feldman
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Sonar (6:40)
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Suite Sixteen
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OJC/Contemporary
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400
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Astro Age Steel Orchestra
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Love in Gas Music (5:27)
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Happy Living - Gas Music from Earth
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Sony
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327
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Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan
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Syncopation (2:58)
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Electronic Movements
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Philips
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178
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(bumper) Mutant Frogs
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Interstellar Teakettle (3:35)
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unrl.
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Skankworks/IMT
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215
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Herbie Hancock
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Rain Dance (9:16)
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Sextant
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Columbia
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556
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Serani Poji
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Goodbye My Sweet Strawberry (4:41)
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Ochamekan
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Wave Master
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281
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The Keating Sound
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Moonlight Serenade (3:16)
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This Bird Has Flown
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WB
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196
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Dusk 'til Dawn Orchestra
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The Lonely Surfer (3:36)
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Sea Drift
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Elektra
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216
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Charlie Parker with Strings
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Temptation (3:31)
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The Master Takes
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Verve
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211
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♦wrong speed special!♦ Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ft. Warren Covington
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Satan Takes a Holiday (3:49)
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45 spun at slightly fast 33
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Decca
|
229
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Tokyo Jihen
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Tadanaranu Kankei (3:02)
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Shinya Waku 'b' anthology
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Toshiba/EMI
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182
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Tokyo Jihen
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Konya wa Karasawagi (3:41)
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Color Bars ep
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Toshiba/EMI
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221
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Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
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RSVP (3:08)
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...Goes to Washington
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Elektra
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188
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(bumper) Mutant Frogs
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One for Freetime (3:08)
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Warts 'n' all
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Skankworks/IMT
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188
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Barbie Gaye
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(the original!) My Boy Lollipop (2:16)
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45
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Darl
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136
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Phoenix City All Stars
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The Prince (3:07)
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Two Tone Gone Ska
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Cherry Red
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187
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Ken Boothe
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Come Running Back (+ Dub) (6:11)
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12"
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Studio 1
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371
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Madness
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Cardiac Arrest (2:58)
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s-t
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Geffen
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178
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Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
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Hungry Beast (4:01)
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Walkin'
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Avex
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241
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Mutant Frogs
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Perception (3:09)
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unrl.
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Skankworks/IMT
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189
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Rotterdam Ska-Jazz Foundation
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Dreyfus Is Gone (4:58)
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Shake Your Foundation
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Grover
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298
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(bumper) Mutant Frogs
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Skankworks Special (2:41)
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Warts 'n' all
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Skankworks/IMT
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161
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(bumper) Mutant Frogs
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(untitled) (1:05)
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unrl.
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Skankworks/IMT
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65
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Skylarking
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Caribbean Gold (3:48)
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v.a. Bigshot 2
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Victor Japan
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228
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Shoplifter
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No Reason (3:48)
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Nutty Music
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Dona Dona
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228
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Cubetone
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Yunagi (4:00)
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Coconuts
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s-r (cubetone.com)
|
241
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The Oldtones
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Tocamos Ska
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v.a. Rule Sound Brass #2
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The Ninth Apollo
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153
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JJ Session
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Groove9 (3:28)
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Caribbean Jazz vol. 1
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s-r
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208
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(bumper) Mutant Frogs
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(most of) Greenhenge (2:49)
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unrl.
|
Skankworks/IMT
|
169
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Tommy McCook & the Supersonics
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The World Needs Love (2:08)
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v.a. Come Rock With Me in Jamaica
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Treasutr Isle
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128
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Kid Creole & the Coconuts
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Gina Gina (3:53)
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Freah Fruit in Foreign Places
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Sire
|
233
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Public Property
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Harmony (4:04)
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Movement
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s-r
|
244
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Gichy Dan's Beachwood #9
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Winter on Riverside Drive (4:55)
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s-t
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RCA
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295
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(bumper) Mutant Frogs
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(excerpt) Flying Frog Foo (2:22)
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unrl.
|
Skankworks/IMT
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142
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Let's Go Bowling
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Electric Bread (3:53)
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Stay Tuned
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Liberation
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233
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The Skalatones
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Five O'Clock News (3:44)
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Tune In...
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Sidekicks
|
224
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Jimi Hendrix/Bost & Bim
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Crosstown Traffic (Cross Riddim) (2:33)
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45
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Pirates
|
153
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Adele/Bost & Bim
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Rolling in the Deep (Cross Riddim) (3:40)
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45
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Pirates
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220
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(non-Froggie bumper) SKAndalous All Stars
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The End (3:03)
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Age of Insects
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Shanachie
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183
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