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Laurel Aitken Skinhead Train

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Reggae, Ska and rocksteady

5×CD PDROPBOX27£26.99
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Laurel Aitken – Fire In Mi Wire
Laurel Aitken – Haile Haile (The Lion)
Laurel Aitken – Woppi King
Laurel Aitken – Haile Selasse
Laurel Aitken – Shoo Be Do
Laurel Aitken – Jesse James
Laurel Aitken – Skinhead Train
Laurel & Girlie – Scandal In Brixton Market
King Horror – The Vampire
Tiger – Souls Of Africa

1. Laurel Aitken – Fire In Mi Wire
2. Laurel Aitken – Quando Quando Quando
3. Laurel Aitken – Rice And Peas
4. The Classics – Worried Over Me
5. Laurel Aitken – Reggae Prayer
6. Laurel Aitken – Deliverance Will Come
7. Laurel Aitken – The Rise And Fall (Of Laurel)
8. Laurel Aitken – If You're Not Black
9. Laurel Aitken – Haile Haile (The Lion)
10. Seven Letters – Call Collect
11. Laurel Aitken – Carolina
12. Laurel Aitken – Kingston Town
13. Laurel Aitken – Donkey Man
14. Laurel Aitken – Woppi King
15. Laurel Aitken – Mr Soul
16. Laurel & Girlie – Suffering Still
17. Laurel Aitken – Reggae '69
18. Laurel Aitken – Haile Selasse
19. Laurel & Girlie – Blues Dance
20. Laurel & Girlie – Lawd Doctor
21. Laurel & Girlie – Big Fight In Hell Stadium
22. Laurel Aitken – Run Powell Run
23. Rico Rodriguez – A Message To You
24. Laurel Aitken – Save The Last Dance (For Me)
25. Laurel Aitken – Walk Right Back
26. Laurel Aitken – Don't Be Cruel
27. Laurel Aitken – (Sloop) John B
28. Winston Groovy – Island In The Sun
29. Winston Groovy – Work It Up
30. Winston Groovy – (My Girl) Josephine
31. Winston Groovy – Champagne And Wine
32. Rico Rodriguez – Babylon Gone
33. Laurel Aitken – Shoo Be Do
34. Laurel Aitken – Landlords And Tenants
35. Laurel Aitken – Everybody Sufferin'
36. Laurel Aitken – Jesse James
37. Laurel Aitken – Freedom
38. Laurel Aitken – Pussy Price Gone Up
39. Laurel Aitken – Gimme Back Me Dollar
40. Laurel Aitken – Skinhead Train
41. Groovy Beats – Kent People
42. Laurel Aitken – Benwood Dick
43. Laurel Aitken – Apollo 12 (AKA Skinhead Invasion)
44. Laurel & Girlie – Scandal In Brixton Market
45. King Horror – Frankenstein
46. Winston Groovy – I Can't Stand It
47. Laurel & Girlie – Stupid Married Man
48. Girlie (2) – Madam Streggae (AKA Soul Jerker)
49. Laurel Aitken – Think Me No Know
50. Rico Rodriguez – Trombone Man
51. Laurel Aitken – Pussy Got Thirteen Life
52. Laurel Aitken – Single Man
53. Laurel Aitken – Skinhead Wreck The Town
54. Laurel Aitken – Moon Rock
55. Winston Groovy – Merry Xmas
56. Laurel Aitken – Si Pon You
57. Laurel Aitken – Every Night
58. Laurel Aitken – Cut Up Munno
59. King Horror – The Vampire
60. King Horror – Cutting Blade
61. Winston Groovy – Leaving Me Standing
62. Winston Groovy – Little Girl
63. King Horror – The Hole
64. King Horror – Loch Ness Monster
65. Rico And The Visions – Zion
66. Winston Groovy – Funky Chicken, Part 1
67. The Cimarons – Funky Chicken, Part 2
68. Winston Groovy – Funny, Version 1
69. The Cimarons – Funny, Version 2
70. Pama Dice – Sin, Sun And Sex
71. Pama Dice – Hinky Tonk Popcorn
72. Pama Dice – Bongo Man
73. Pama Dice – Reggae Popcorn
74. Pama Dice – The Worm, Part 1
75. Pama Dice – The Worm, Part 2
76. Winston Groovy – Only You
77. Winston Groovy – I Can't Go On
78. Dice The Boss – Funk Monkey, Version 1
79. Dice The Boss – Funky Money, Version 2
80. Trevor Lloyd – Give Me Back Your Love
81. Trevor Lloyd – Hold Me
82. Trevor Lloyd – Chinee Brush
83. Dice And Cummie – Real Collie
84. King Horror – Loch Ness Monster (Alt. Take)
85. Pama Dice – The Worm
86. Winston Groovy – You Can't Turn Your Back On Me
87. Dice The Boss – Funky Duck
88. Dice The Boss – Funkier Than Duck
89. King Horror – The Naked City
90. King Horror – Wood In The Fire
91. Laurel Aitken – Mr Popcorn
92. Laurel Aitken – Share Your Popcorn
93. Laurel Aitken – I've Got (To Have) Your Love
94. Laurel Aitken – Blue Mink
95. Tiger – Souls Of Africa
96. Tiger – Dallas, Texas
97. Winston Groovy – Standing On The Corner
98. Winston Groovy – You Send Me
99. Laurel Aitken – (Who's Taking You Home) Nobody But Me
100. Laurel Aitken – Baby Please Don't Go
101. Winston Groovy – Yellow Bird
102. Winston Groovy – For Your Love (AKA The Best I Can)
103. Laurel Aitken – I'll Never Love Any Girl
104. Laurel Aitken – Take Me Back
105. Laurel Aitken – Reggae Popcorn
106. Winston Groovy – Here Is My Heart
107. Groovy Beats – Birds And The Bees (AKA Young, Gifted And Black)
108. The Freedom Singers – Election
109. Fleece And The Live Shocks – Tomorrow's World
110. The Versatiles – Pick My Pocket
111. The Freedom Singers – Freedom
112. Laurel Aitken – The Outlaw
113. The Classics – So Much Love
114. The Classics – Same Old Feeling
115. Joe Lace – Nobody Else But You
116. The Live Shocks – Version Of Nobody
117. Laurel Aitken – Baby I Need Your Loving
118. Laurel Aitken – Think It Over (1970 Version)
119. Tiger (8) – Musical Scorcher
120. Tiger (8) – Three Dogs Night
121. Laurel Aitken – Sex Machine
122. Laurel Aitken – Since You Left
123. Winston Groovy – Groovin'
124. Winston Groovy – (Sweet) Sugar Mama
125. The Inner Mind – Witchcraft Man
126. The Inner Mind – Night In Cairo
127. The Inner Mind – Pum Pum Girl
128. The Inner Mind – Freedom
129. The Classics – History Of Africa
130. The Classics – Honey Bee
131. Laurel Aitken – Pachanga, Part 1
132. Laurel Aitken – Pachanga, Part 2
133. Winston Groovy – Tennessee Waltz
134. Winston Groovy – Old Man Trouble
135. Laurel Aitken – Why Can't I Touch You
136. Laurel Aitken – (You) Can't Turn Your Back On Me
137. Laurel Aitken – Mary's Boy Child
138. Sonny Binns – Mary's Boy Child (Instrumental)

70 recordings currently unavailable digitally, Almost 50 tracks new to CD, 138 boss reggae anthems!

Widely hailed as the Godfather of Ska, Laurel Aitken dominated Jamaica’s recording industry throughout its infancy, enjoying a series of hugely popular mento and Jamaican R&B hits during the latter half of the 1950s. Early the following decade he relocated to London, where, over the years that immediately followed, he recorded for every Afro-Caribbean record company of note.

While his ska and rock steady recordings ensured Laurel remained a firm favourite among Jamaican ex-patriots, the reggae explosion of 1969 exposed his work to a wider audience, with productions for Doctor Bird, Pama and Trojan Records establishing him as a musical hero for many of Britain’s young, white working-classes, notably those that had adopted a fashion style dubbed by the national press as ‘skinhead’.

This 5CD set collects the entirety of the singer-songwriter-producer’s output that saw issue on 7” singles between 1969 and 1970, with the set including big sellers alongside long lost rarities and unissued tracks that make their CD debut.

While Laurel’s own considerable singing skills take centre stage, the collection also features recordings he produced for other UK-based artists, their number including such celebrated acts as Rico, Winston Groovy, Pama Dice, the Pyramids, the Cimarons and the Rudies.

Among the 138 tracks collected here, two are previously unreleased and a further 68 unavailable on any format for decades, ensuring this celebration of fast and furious boss sounds is an essential acquisition for any self-respecting fan of vintage reggae.

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