Bloodpreshah selected the best of The Skatalites @ Studio One between 1963 & 1965
Bloodpreshah has selected for you a compilation from one of the greatest ska bands of all time! The Skatalites! It features twenty stone-cold classics, killer tracks from Studio One.
The Skatalites were the definitive Jamaican group, who first came together in Kingston in the late 1950s. The band gathered the acknowledged finest musicians in the country: Tommy McCook Rolando Alphonso Lester Sterling, Lloyd Brevett Lloyd Knibb, Don Drummond, Jah Jerry Haynes, Jackie Mittoo, Johnny Moore and Jackie Opel.
In 1963 they became the house band at Clement ‘Sir Cosxone‘ Dodd’s newly opened Studio One at 13 Brentford Road. The group played on every song cut at the studio, backing the greatest singers of the day, such as Bob Marley and The Wailers, Ken Boothe, Toots and The Metals.
They also recorded some of the finest instrumental music ever made under their own name. Here is a selection of some of their finest and hardest-to-find cuts made at Studio One between 1963-65.