- 01“Boogie in My Bones”In fact, the first examples anybody can remember of the style getting a British release came in 1960, when the tiny Starlight and Melodisc labels who put out, respectively, Laurel Aitken's smash hit ‘Boogie in My Bones’ and the same singer's ‘Lonesome Lover’.from the chapter
- 02“Lonesome Lover”In fact, the first examples anybody can remember of the style getting a British release came in 1960, when the tiny Starlight and Melodisc labels who put out, respectively, Laurel Aitken's smash hit ‘Boogie in My Bones’ and the same singer's ‘Lonesome Lover’.from the chapter
- 03“Boogie Rock”Another Laurel Aitken record, ‘Boogie Rock’ – also recorded in London – was the débutante release, while, curiously enough, catalogue number Blue Beat B2 was a version of ‘Dumplin's’ by Byron Lee and the Dragonnaires, the band who so many would claim were seriously misrepresentative of modern Jamaican music.from the chapter
- 04“Dumplin's”Another Laurel Aitken record, ‘Boogie Rock’ – also recorded in London – was the débutante release, while, curiously enough, catalogue number Blue Beat B2 was a version of ‘Dumplin's’ by Byron Lee and the Dragonnaires, the band who so many would claim were seriously misrepresentative of modern Jamaican music.from the chapter
- 05“Lollipop Girl”Smith and so on – to give his label a hip, varied and apparently shrewdly selected schedule that ran to classics such as the Jiving Juniors’ ‘Lollipop Girl’, Higgs & Wilson's ‘Manny Oh’, Keith & Enid's ‘Worried over You’, Theophilus Beckford's ‘Easy Snappin”, the Mello Larks’ ‘Time to Pray’, the Duke Reid Group's ‘What Makes Honey’, ‘The Joker’ and ‘Duke's Cookies’.from the chapter
- 06“Manny Oh”Smith and so on – to give his label a hip, varied and apparently shrewdly selected schedule that ran to classics such as the Jiving Juniors’ ‘Lollipop Girl’, Higgs & Wilson's ‘Manny Oh’, Keith & Enid's ‘Worried over You’, Theophilus Beckford's ‘Easy Snappin”, the Mello Larks’ ‘Time to Pray’, the Duke Reid Group's ‘What Makes Honey’, ‘The Joker’ and ‘Duke's Cookies’.from the chapter
- 07“Worried over You”Smith and so on – to give his label a hip, varied and apparently shrewdly selected schedule that ran to classics such as the Jiving Juniors’ ‘Lollipop Girl’, Higgs & Wilson's ‘Manny Oh’, Keith & Enid's ‘Worried over You’, Theophilus Beckford's ‘Easy Snappin”, the Mello Larks’ ‘Time to Pray’, the Duke Reid Group's ‘What Makes Honey’, ‘The Joker’ and ‘Duke's Cookies’.from the chapter
- 08“Easy Snappin’”Smith and so on – to give his label a hip, varied and apparently shrewdly selected schedule that ran to classics such as the Jiving Juniors’ ‘Lollipop Girl’, Higgs & Wilson's ‘Manny Oh’, Keith & Enid's ‘Worried over You’, Theophilus Beckford's ‘Easy Snappin”, the Mello Larks’ ‘Time to Pray’, the Duke Reid Group's ‘What Makes Honey’, ‘The Joker’ and ‘Duke's Cookies’.from the chapter
- 09“Time to Pray”Smith and so on – to give his label a hip, varied and apparently shrewdly selected schedule that ran to classics such as the Jiving Juniors’ ‘Lollipop Girl’, Higgs & Wilson's ‘Manny Oh’, Keith & Enid's ‘Worried over You’, Theophilus Beckford's ‘Easy Snappin”, the Mello Larks’ ‘Time to Pray’, the Duke Reid Group's ‘What Makes Honey’, ‘The Joker’ and ‘Duke's Cookies’.from the chapter
- 10“What Makes Honey”Smith and so on – to give his label a hip, varied and apparently shrewdly selected schedule that ran to classics such as the Jiving Juniors’ ‘Lollipop Girl’, Higgs & Wilson's ‘Manny Oh’, Keith & Enid's ‘Worried over You’, Theophilus Beckford's ‘Easy Snappin”, the Mello Larks’ ‘Time to Pray’, the Duke Reid Group's ‘What Makes Honey’, ‘The Joker’ and ‘Duke's Cookies’.from the chapter
- 11“The Joker”Smith and so on – to give his label a hip, varied and apparently shrewdly selected schedule that ran to classics such as the Jiving Juniors’ ‘Lollipop Girl’, Higgs & Wilson's ‘Manny Oh’, Keith & Enid's ‘Worried over You’, Theophilus Beckford's ‘Easy Snappin”, the Mello Larks’ ‘Time to Pray’, the Duke Reid Group's ‘What Makes Honey’, ‘The Joker’ and ‘Duke's Cookies’.from the chapter
- 12“Duke's Cookies”Smith and so on – to give his label a hip, varied and apparently shrewdly selected schedule that ran to classics such as the Jiving Juniors’ ‘Lollipop Girl’, Higgs & Wilson's ‘Manny Oh’, Keith & Enid's ‘Worried over You’, Theophilus Beckford's ‘Easy Snappin”, the Mello Larks’ ‘Time to Pray’, the Duke Reid Group's ‘What Makes Honey’, ‘The Joker’ and ‘Duke's Cookies’.from the chapter
- 13“Madness”It was a partnership that was to give the UK such golden ska moments as ‘Al Capone’, ‘Madness’ ‘Burke's Law’ and ‘10 Commandments of Man’, or the UK-recorded likes of ‘Wash Wash’.from the chapter
- 14“Burke's Law”It was a partnership that was to give the UK such golden ska moments as ‘Al Capone’, ‘Madness’ ‘Burke's Law’ and ‘10 Commandments of Man’, or the UK-recorded likes of ‘Wash Wash’.from the chapter
- 15“10 Commandments of Man”It was a partnership that was to give the UK such golden ska moments as ‘Al Capone’, ‘Madness’ ‘Burke's Law’ and ‘10 Commandments of Man’, or the UK-recorded likes of ‘Wash Wash’.from the chapter
- 16“Wash Wash”It was a partnership that was to give the UK such golden ska moments as ‘Al Capone’, ‘Madness’ ‘Burke's Law’ and ‘10 Commandments of Man’, or the UK-recorded likes of ‘Wash Wash’.from the chapter
- 17“Al Capone”It saw Prince Buster tour the UK regularly, ripping up the TV pop show Ready Steady Go! in a manner only equalled by James Brown's supercharged performance on the programme, and brought Buster a Top 20 British pop-chart hit with ‘Al Capone’ in April 1967.from the chapter