- 01“Skavoovie”Pianist Theophilus Beckford is on record as saying that same ‘Skavoovie!’ is what the gathered crowds used to shout in appreciation of ska-type riffs he knocked out on the piano on his front porch, so he adapted the term to describe his 1959 hit ‘Easy Snappin”.from the chapter
- 02“Muriel”You couldn’t travel from, say, ‘Muriel’ by Alton & Eddy to the Skatalites’ ‘Guns of Navarone’ without passing a few landmarks.from the chapter
- 03“Guns of Navarone”You couldn't travel from, say, ‘Muriel’ by Alton & Eddy to the Skatalites’ ‘Guns of Navarone’ without passing a few landmarks.from the chapter
- 04“Manny Oh”Like late in 1959, when the notion of a widely desired swing away from straight-up US-style R&B was heralded by Joe Higgs & Roy Wilson's ‘Manny Oh’, a tune which was followed up early in the next year first by Theophilus Beckford's ‘Easy Snappin” and then the Folkes Brothers’ ‘Oh Carolina’.from the chapter
- 05“Easy Snappin’”Like late in 1959, when the notion of a widely desired swing away from straight-up US-style R&B was heralded by Joe Higgs & Roy Wilson’s ‘Manny Oh’, a tune which was followed up early in the next year first by Theophilus Beckford’s ‘Easy Snappin’’ and then the Folkes Brothers’ ‘Oh Carolina’.from the chapter
- 06“Oh Carolina”Like late in 1959, when the notion of a widely desired swing away from straight-up US-style R&B was heralded by Joe Higgs & Roy Wilson's ‘Manny Oh’, a tune which was followed up early in the next year first by Theophilus Beckford's ‘Easy Snappin” and then the Folkes Brothers’ ‘Oh Carolina’.from the chapter
- 07Destiny: Rare Ska Side From Studio OneA Wailers reissue CD that came out in mid-1999 – Destiny: Rare Ska Side From Studio One, it's called – is the most lucid illustration imaginable of where Coxsone was at even as late as 1963.from the chapter
- 08“Boogie in My Bones”Let's face it, regardless of the story behind the ‘Easy Snappin’ session, like ‘Manny Oh’ before it, it was never a drastic departure from such standard R&B/JA boogie as Laurel Aitken's ‘Boogie in My Bones’ or the Duke Reid Group's ‘Pink Lane Shuffle’.from the chapter
- 09“Pink Lane Shuffle”Let's face it, regardless of the story behind the ‘Easy Snappin’ session, like ‘Manny Oh’ before it, it was never a drastic departure from such standard R&B/JA boogie as Laurel Aitken's ‘Boogie in My Bones’ or the Duke Reid Group's ‘Pink Lane Shuffle’.from the chapter
- 10“Little Honey”From his first sessions at Federal, Buster came with tunes such as ‘Little Honey’, ‘Humpty Dumpty’, ‘African Blood’, ‘Time Longer than Rope’.from the chapter
- 11“Humpty Dumpty”From his first sessions at Federal, Buster came with tunes such as ‘Little Honey’, ‘Humpty Dumpty’, ‘African Blood’, ‘Time Longer than Rope’.from the chapter
- 12“African Blood”From his first sessions at Federal, Buster came with tunes such as ‘Little Honey’, ‘Humpty Dumpty’, ‘African Blood’, ‘Time Longer than Rope’.from the chapter
- 13“Time Longer than Rope”From his first sessions at Federal, Buster came with tunes such as ‘Little Honey’, ‘Humpty Dumpty’, ‘African Blood’, ‘Time Longer than Rope’.from the chapter
- 14“Three Against One”I made the records “Three Against One” and “The King, the Duke and the Sir”, which tell everybody exactly what was going on.from the chapter
- 15“The King, the Duke and the Sir”I made the records “Three Against One” and “The King, the Duke and the Sir”, which tell everybody exactly what was going on.from the chapter
- 16“I Make a Man”It was broad daylight when they finally emerged with an acceptable take of ‘Oh Carolina’, the spiritual song ‘I Make a Man’ and a tune called ‘Chubby’, sung by Skitter.from the chapter
- 17“Chubby”It was broad daylight when they finally emerged with an acceptable take of ‘Oh Carolina’, the spiritual song ‘I Make a Man’ and a tune called ‘Chubby’, sung by Skitter.from the chapter