SKATALITES – TREASURE ISLE TIME 14 Track Album

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SKATALITES – TREASURE ISLE TIME 14 Track Album

SIDE ONE

01     Alley Cat  

02     Cool Smoker     

03     Street Corner     

04     Mesopotamia     

05     Magnificent Ska

06     Storm Warning  

07     Nuclear Weapon

SIDE TWO

01     Stampede  

02     Ali Pang   

03     Burning Torch   

04     Musical Communion 

05     Cool Shade        

06     Thoroughfare    

07     Green Island

The Skatalites

Tommy McCook, Rolando Alphonso, Johnny Moore, Lester Sterling, Don Drummond, Lloyd Knibb, Lloyd Brevett, Jerry Haynes, and Jackie Mittoo began working together in 1963 and formed The Skatalites in May 1964. McCook, Drummond, Moore and Sterling were all students at the famed Alpha Boys School in Kingston. In August 1965 The Skatalites played their last show after Don Drummond’s cofinement to Bellvue for the death of his girlfriend, Margarita. The break-up results in the formation of two studio bands, Rolando Alphonso & The Studio One Orchestra and Tommy McCook & The Supersonics.

The band reformed in 1983 and is still active nowadays, despite the death of many original members.

The Skatalites have had a lot of members pass away. Tommy McCook, Roland Alphonso, Lloyd Brevett, Don Drummond, Jerry Haynes, and Lloyd Knibb.

Doreen is the only original member left.

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