Ska! An Essential Guide to the Best of Ska, Two Tone and Blue Beat

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

▶ CD 1: Train to Skaville
▼ CD 2: A Message to You
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1A Message to You Rudy
cover recording of:
A Message to You, Rudy
writer:
Dandy Livingstone
The Specials2:45
2Hand’s Off She’s Mine
producer:
Bob Sargeant
recording of:
Hands Off... She's Mine
writer:
Andy Cox (of The Beat), Everett Morton, Roger Charlery, David Steele (UK musician, member of The Beat and Fine Young Cannibals) and Dave Wakeling
The English Beat42:57
3My Boy Lollipop
producer:
Chris Blackwell (Island Records)
cover recording of:
My Boy Lollipop
writer:
Morris Levy, Johnny Roberts (US songwriter, "My Boy Lollipop") and Robert Spencer (English lutenist, guitarist & musicologist)
recording of:
My Boy Lollipop
writer:
Morris Levy, Johnny Roberts (US songwriter, "My Boy Lollipop") and Robert Spencer (English lutenist, guitarist & musicologist)
Millie51:58
4One Step Beyond
producer:
Clive Langer & Alan Winstanley
baritone saxophone and tenor saxophone:
Lee “Kix” Thompson (Madness)
bass guitar:
Mark Bedford
drums (drum set) and percussion:
Daniel Woodgate
guitar:
Chris Foreman
keyboard:
Mike Barson
background vocals:
Chas Smash
vocals:
Suggs and Lee “Kix” Thompson (Madness)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Virgin Records Ltd. (not for release label use! for company relationships only) (in 1979)
cover recording of:
One Step Beyond…
lyricist and composer:
Cecil Bustamente Campbell
publisher:
Melodisc Music Ltd.
Madness4.552:19
5Green Banana
Laurel Aitken2:30
6Lee Harvey Oswald
recording of:
Lee Oswald
composer:
Clement “Coxsone” Dodd
The Skatalites3:00
7Never You Change
The Maytals2:35
8Everything Crash
The Ethiopians2:32
9Don Cosmic
Don Drummond2:35
10I Want Justice
Delroy Wilson2:17
11Flying Ska
Prince Buster2:18
12Ne Ne Nana Na Nu Nu Nu
live recording of:
Ne‐Ne Na‐Na Na‐Na Nu‐Nu
writer:
Eddie Deane and Al Dredick
version of:
Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu
Bad Manners1:45
13Exodus
recording of:
Exodus
The Skatalites2:49
14Sweet William
Millie1:47
▶ CD 3: Recordings That Inspired the Two Tone Explosion