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EARLY REGGAE / SKINHEAD

On this page, along with some of the music associated with the first British Skinhead movement, are some examples of the early Reggae beat.

It seems that the music of Jamaica had reached an altogether new plateau after the brief, but golden, sounds of Rock Steady, as until then the bulk of the music produced had tended to be solely for the purpose of the dance, whether fast or slow. And if Ska was 'body' music, pure energy and optimism, then Rock Steady, which slowed things down, had became more introspective, music for the heart and mind. Some time in 1968 there was an enormous creative explosion and from that explosion a kaleidoscope of musical styles was born, which became known collectively as Reggae. I believe this paradigmatic shift came about in part, through the awareness of the musicians, artists, producers, and audiences in Jamaican that the music they were creating had value and use beyond their own needs and desires to a near global context, and had, weather they wanted it or no, now entered an international dimension.

The sub genre known as Skinhead is of purely British origin, it was not until well into it's existence that it was recognized as such by the Jamaican music industry, and then became part of a feed-back loop connecting the British Isle's to Jamaica. What is Skinhead in a Jamaican music context? In truth it could be said that almost all music, known collectively as Reggae, from the late 1960s until about c1972 could be claimed as Skinhead, because Reggae was the Skinheads music of choice, they identified with its content and form and adopted it with pride. As with all styles and movements the story reaches back into its pre-existence. Three defining characteristics of a Skinhead, the mode of dress, the type, or class, of person, and the music, had all existed before the Skinhead had been codified. The most defining characteristic of the Skinhead is, of course, their appearance, and the hair in particular. As is well known many of the very first Skins were at one time Mods who were, for numerous reasons, many to do with fashion, disinclined to dress and behave in the evolving style and attitudes of the Hippie, a predominantly American (West Coast) middle class situation. The haircut and all of the clothes that became standard dress for the (male) Skinhead were worn previously, at one time or another, by Mods. This is not to take anything away from the style of the Skinhead, it just reinforces their commitment to some of the class values inherent in the Mod movement.

Only when Skinhead's had asserted their existence were they able to claim the preceding (Jamaican) music as their own. This was partly because it had shared these same characteristics, and had inadvertently helped to define the Skinhead. The early Jamaican music that the Skin's identified mostly with, were cuts like: Derrick Morgan's Fat Man, and Eric Morris's Humpty Dumpty, both on the Blue Beat label, and: Forward March Derrick Morgan, Miss Jamaica by Jimmy Cliff and Housewife's Choice Derrick & Patsy, all on the Island label, it was these, and others in a similar strident or assertive vein, from the pre Ska period that would have later become part of the lexicon of Skinhead Reggae. Yet it was with Ska and the first mention of 'Rude Boys' that the embryonic Skinhead had matured into a recognizable entity.

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WRECK A BUDDY

THE SOUL SISTERS

SEE ME

EARL GEORGE

SMILE

THE FABIONS

CATERPILLAR ROCK

VINCENT GORDON

STAY A LITTLE BIT LONGER

DELANO STEWART

CHAIN GANG

WINSTON FRANCIS

MY DESIRE

YARD BROOMS

MY DEVOTION

TYRONE EVANS & PHYLLIS DILLON

MR LONELY

THE JAMAICANS

BA BA

THE SLICKERS

AUNTIE LULU SIPREANO



SLICKERS LEE PERRY

SLIP AWAY

SLIM SMITH

PRETTY COTTAGE

STRANGER "SOUL" COLE

IF THIS WORLD WERE MINE

TYRONE EVANS

PROFESSOR IN ACTION

THE SCIENTISTS

UNDER THE SHADY TREE

DENNIS WALKS

LONG LIFE

BILL GENTLES

QUE KUE SHUT

THE CREATIONS

NA NA NA NA NA NA

STRANGER COLE

MESHWIRE

WINSTON WRIGHT

BRAINWASH

THE CONSCIOUS MINDS



SINCE YOU ARE GONE

DAVID ISAACS

IMAGINE HOW

AUSTIN FAITHFUL

PROBLEMS

DESMOND DEKKER

PRESSURE DROPS

THE MAYTALS

RICH IN LOVE

GLEN ADAMS

LOVE AND DEVOTION

THE UNIQUES

FUNNY WAY OF LAUGHING

THE CLARENDONIANS

CRY A LITTLE CRY

DOBBY DOBSON

WALK BY DAY FLY BY NIGHT

THE REGGAE BOYS

1000 TONS OF MEGATON

ROLAND ALPHONSO

SONG OF THE YEAR

SPARKERS

OLD MAN SAY

SILVER STARS



GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

BOB ANDY

APPOLO 11

THE MOON BOYS

SWEET AND DANDY

THE MAYTALS

PLEASE PLEASE

THE CARIBBEANS

TIGHTEN UP

JIMMY LONDON AND THE INSPIRATIONS

SUFFERER

KINGSTONIANS

DON JUAN

JOHNNY OSBORNE AND BORIS GARDNER

THREE IN ONE

ERROL DUNKLEY

RUDY A MESSAGE TO YOU

DANDY

TRAIN TO SOULVILLE

THE CHECK 'O' MATES

YOUR NEW LOVE

DOBBY DOBSON

SAD SONG

BARRY LLEWELYN



PLACE IN THE SUN

DAVID ISAACS

LOVE TO CHERISH

RICHARD ACE

I'M YOUR MAN

JOHN HOLT

NANNY GOAT

LARRY AND ALVIN

ONE LOOK

THE GAYSTERS

BREAKING UP

ALTON ELLIS

IF IT DON'T WORK OUT

PAT KELLY

DON'T LET ME DOWN

MARCIA GRIFFITHS

TRY TO REMEMBER

PAT KELLEY

HOW CAN I FORGET

BUSTY BROWN

FINDERS KEEPERS

THE CRYSTALITES

LOVE UP KISS UP

TERMITES



STRANGE

DOBBY DOBSON

127 ORANGE STREET

BUSTERS ALL STARS

OUT OF LOVE

THE UNIQUES

SHE BRING ME JOY

THE CLARENDONIANS

SHEPHERD BENG, BENG

PRINCE BUSTER & TEDDY KING

LITTLE BOY BLUE

PAT KELLY

GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

WINSTON FRANCIS

THE LAW

ANDY CAPP

CAN'T WINE

THE KINGSTONIANS

TIE THE DONKEYS TAIL

PRINCE BUSTER

MY GIRL

GLEN ADAMS

THE BREAK

WINSTON FRANCIS



JOHNNY DOLLAR

DAVE BARKER

REGGAE FEVER

SIDNEY, GEORGE & JACKIE

LOVELL SPECIAL

VAL BENNETT

I'LL BE LONELY

JOHN HOLT AND JOYA LANDIS

SKANK ME

LITTLE ROY

EL CASINO ROYALE

LYNN TAITT AND THE JETS

ILLYA KURYAKIN

IKE B & THE CRYSTALLITES

JUNGLE WALK

DANDY WITH THE SUPERBOYS

LET ME TELL YOU BOY

EBONY SISTERS

WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY

JAMES NEPHEW

GOOD TIME ROCK

HUGH MALCOLM

BE YOURSELF

KEN BOOTH



PLACE CALLED HAPPINESS

RUDY MILLS

LIVE THE LIFE I LOVE

G. G. GROSSETT

MAKING LOVE

DEVON & THE TARTANS

TONIGHT

JOHN HOLT

MONEY GIRL

LARRY MARSHALL

REGGAE IN THE GRASS

ROLAND ALPHONSO

WHY PRETEND

BELTONES

SOUL STEW

THE MEDIATORS

WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE

THE HIPPY BOYS

BABY REGGAE

LLOYD & DEVON

CATCH THE QUINELLA

THE JAMAICAN ACTIONS

HONG KONG FLU

THE ETHIOPIANS



BLAM BLAM FEVER

THE VALENTINES

UNDERTAKERS BURIAL

CRYSTALITES

LONG LOST LOVE

RUPIE EDWARDS

UNKNOWN

KEN BOOTH

STIR IT UP

BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS

DON'T BE A RUDE BOY

THE RULERS

HANDFUL OF FRIENDS

PAT SATCHMO

MY WOMANS LOVE

THE UNIQUES

HELLO CAROL

THE GLADIATORS

I DON'T CARE

BOB AND TY

GIVE ME A CHANCE

DELANO STEWART AND PATSY

OVERPROOF

KING CANNON



HAPPY TIME

HERBIE CARTER

WHEN I GET MY FREEDOM

STRANGER COLE

MOONLIGHT GROOVER

WINSTON WRIGHT

DESPERATE LOVER

BOB ANDY

LET ME WALK BY

CARIBBEANS

SEARCHING

JUNIOR SMITH

COOL DOWN

WINSTON HINES

HOT SHOT

CARL BRYAN

ANOTHER HEARTACHE

WINSTON SINCLAIR

REGGAE FOR DAYS

ROY & ENID

THE UPSETTER

LEE PERRY

BANGARANG

LESTER STERLING & STRANGER COLE



PEYTON PLACE

DON TONY LEE & ROLAND ALPHONSO

TRUE ROMANCE

BUNNY & RUDDY

MUSICALLY BEAT

WINSTON AND RUPERT

YOUR NO HUSTLER

DANDY

HOLD YOUR JACK

DERRICK MORGAN

THROWING STONES

THE TWO SPARKS

DULCEMANIA

DRUMBAGO AND DYNAMITES

PEACE MAKER

THE HIPPY BOYS

WOMAN CAPTURE MAN

ETHIOPIANS

54-46 THAT'S MY NUMBER

THE MAYTALS

MONKEY MAN

THE MAYTALS

REBORN

THE MAYTALS



HANG 'EM HIGH

RICHARD ACE

DEATH RIDES

THE HIPPY BOYS

RAT TRAP

PRINCE BUSTER

A IT MEK

DESMOND DEKKER

TWELFTH OF NEVER

PAT KELLY

THE DRIFTER

DENNIS WALKS

THE WORLD NEEDS LOVE

ROY SHIRLEY

HOOK UP

JACKIE MITTOO

KINGSTON TOWN

LORD CREATOR

NOW I KNOW

KEN BOOTH

FOOLISH FOOL

CYNTHIA RICHARDS

JUDGE DREAD

PRINCE BUSTER



DAPHNEY WALKING

KING CANNON & THE MELODIANS

LA LA MEANS I LOVE YOU

ALTON ELLIS

FEEL BAD

THE TENNORS

ANOTHER SCORCHER

JACKIE BERNARD & THE TENNORS

FOO MANCHU

DESMOND DEKKER & THE ACES

TIGHTEN UP YOUR GIRD

KEITH AND TEX

I'M THE ONE

BRUCE RUFFIN

THE BIGGER WAY

WINSTON BLAKE

LOVE IS THE KEY

LLOYD AND DEVON

BIG MAN

THE GREY BROTHERS

LIFT YOUR HEAD HIGH

STRANGER COLE

GOLD DIGGER

WAILING SOUL



SEE ABOUT ME

SOUL STIRRERS

WINEY WINEY

THE KINGSTONIANS

MIX IT UP

KINGSTONIANS

TEN TO TWELVE

LEE PERRY AND THE UPSETTERS

** **TWO SIDES IN ONE

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SPREAD YOUR BED

THE VERSATILES

WORRIES A YARD

THE VERSATILES

NO LOVE

JOHN HOLT

A LITTLE TEAR

JOHN HOLT

IT'S ALL RIGHT

KEN PARKER

ONE LOVE

THE COBBS



THE TIME HAS COME

TECHNIQUES

MAN OF MY WORD

TECHNIQUES

PHANTOM

THE DYNAMITES

ANGEL

GLEN AND ROY

WHAT AM I TO DO

TECHNIQUES

YOUR MY EVERYTHING

TECHNIQUES

ISRAELITES

DESMOND DEKKER & THE ACES

FLY RIGHT

BABA BROOKS

ILL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN

SENSATIONS

THOSE GUYS

SENSATIONS

GOT TO GET AWAY

PARAGONS

LEFT WITH A BROKEN HEART

PARAGONS



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