Laurel Aitken & Friends Skinhead Train - The Complete Singles Collection (5-CD)

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Laurel Aitken & Friends: Skinhead Train - The Complete Singles Collection (5-CD)
- 70 recordings that are not available in digital form
- Almost 50 pieces available on CD for the first time
- 138 reggae anthems!
Widely known as the "Godfather of Ska", Laurel Aitken dominated Jamaica's record industry in the early days and enjoyed great popularity through his Jamaican R&B hits in the second half of the 1950s. In the early 1960s he moved to London and recorded for every Afro-Caribbean record company worth its salt.
With his ska and rocksteady recordings, Laurel remained an integral part of the lives of Jamaican ex-patriots, but it wasn't until the reggae explosion in 1969 that he became known to a wider audience. With productions for Doctor Bird, Pama and Trojan Records he became a musical hero for many British teenagers. The white working class, who adopted the fashion style, were henceforth called "skinheads".
This 5CD set brings together the complete output of the singer, songwriter and producer, which was released on 7" singles between 1969 and 1970, including great hits as well as lost rarities and unreleased tracks, which make their CD debut here. The collection also features recordings he has produced for British artists such as Rico, Winston Groovy, Pama Dice, The Pyramids, The Cimarons and The Rudies.
Of the 138 tracks, 2 are previously unreleased and another 68 were not available for decades, making the set a must-have for any vintage reggae.
Article properties:Laurel Aitken & Friends: Skinhead Train - The Complete Singles Collection (5-CD)
Interpret: Laurel Aitken & Friends
Album titlle: Skinhead Train - The Complete Singles Collection (5-CD)
Label RPM
Genre Reggae
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5013929682702
- weight in Kg 0.17
| Aitken, Laurel - Skinhead Train - The Complete Singles Collection (5-CD) CD 1 | ||||
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| 01 | laurel aitken | Fire in mi wire | ||
| 02 | laurel aitken | Quando quando | ||
| 03 | laurel aitken | Rice and peas | ||
| 04 | the classics | Worried over me | ||
| 05 | laurel aitken | Reggae prayer | ||
| 06 | laurel aitken | Deliverance will come | ||
| 07 | laurel aitken | The rise and fall (of laurel) | ||
| 08 | laurel aitken | If you're not black | ||
| 09 | laurel aitken | Haile haile (the lion) | ||
| 10 | seven letters | Call collect | ||
| 11 | laurel aitken | Carolina | ||
| 12 | laurel aitken | Kingston town | ||
| 13 | laurel aitken | Donkey man | ||
| 14 | laurel aitken | Woppi king | ||
| 15 | laurel aitken | Mr soul | ||
| 16 | laurel aitken & girlie | Suffering still | ||
| 17 | laurel aitken | Reggae '69 | ||
| 18 | laurel aitken | Haile selassie | ||
| 19 | laurel aitken & girlie | Blues dance | ||
| 20 | laurel aitken & girlie | Lawd doctor | ||
| 21 | laurel aitken & girlie | Big fight in hell stadium | ||
| 22 | laurel aitken | Run powell run | ||
| 23 | rico & laurel aitken | A message to you | ||
| 24 | laurel aitken | Save the last dance | ||
| 25 | laurel aitken | Walk right back | ||
| 26 | laurel aitken | Don't be cruel | ||
| 27 | laurel aitken | (sloop) john b | ||
| Aitken, Laurel - Skinhead Train - The Complete Singles Collection (5-CD) CD 2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | winston groovy | Island in the sun | ||
| 02 | winston groovy | Work it up | ||
| 03 | winston groovy | (my girl) josephine | ||
| 04 | winston groovy | Champagne and wine | ||
| 05 | rico & laurel aitken | Babylon gone | ||
| 06 | laurel aitken | Shoo be doo | ||
| 07 | laurel aitken | Landlords and tenants | ||
| 08 | laurel aitken | Everybody sufferin' | ||
| 09 | laurel aitken | Jesse james | ||
| 10 | laurel aitken | Freedom | ||
| 11 | laurel aitken | Pussy price gone up | ||
| 12 | laurel aitken | Gimme back me dollar | ||
| 13 | laurel aitken | Skinhead train | ||
| 14 | the gruvy beats | Kent people | ||
| 15 | laurel aitken | Benwood dick | ||
| 16 | laurel aitken | Apollo 12 | ||
| 17 | laurel aitken & girlie | Scandal in brixton market | ||
| 18 | king horror | Frankenstein | ||
| 19 | winston groovy | I can't stand it | ||
| 20 | laurel aitken & girlie | Stupid married man | ||
| 21 | girlie | Madam streggae | ||
| 22 | laurel aitken | Think me no know | ||
| 23 | rico | Trombone man | ||
| 24 | laurel aitken | Pussy got thirteen life | ||
| 25 | laurel aitken | Single man | ||
| 26 | laurel aitken | Skinhead wreck the town | ||
| 27 | laurel aitken | Moon rock | ||
| 28 | winston groovy | Merry xmas | ||
| Aitken, Laurel - Skinhead Train - The Complete Singles Collection (5-CD) CD 3 | ||||
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| 01 | laurel aitken | Sin pon you | ||
| 02 | laurel aitken | Everynight | ||
| 03 | winston groovy | Cut up munno | ||
| 04 | king horror | The vampire | ||
| 05 | king horror | Cutting blade | ||
| 06 | winston groovy | Leaving me standing | ||
| 07 | winston groovy | Little girl | ||
| 08 | king horror | The hole | ||
| 09 | king horror | Loch ness monster | ||
| 10 | rico & the visions | Zion i | ||
| 11 | winston groovy | Funky chicken, part 1 | ||
| 12 | the cimarons | Funky chicken, part 2 | ||
| 13 | winston groovy | Funny, version 1 | ||
| 14 | the cimarons | Funny, version 2 | ||
| 15 | pama dice | Sin, sun and sex | ||
| 16 | pama dice | Honky tonk popcorn | ||
| 17 | pama dice | Bongo man | ||
| 18 | pama dice | Reggae popcorn | ||
| 19 | pama dice | The worm, part 1 | ||
| 20 | pama dice | The worm, part 2 | ||
| 21 | laurel aitken | Only you | ||
| 22 | winston groovy | I can't go on | ||
| 23 | dice the boss | Funky monkey, version 1 | ||
| 24 | dice the boss | Funky monkey, version 2 | ||
| 25 | trevor lloyd | Give me back your love | ||
| 26 | trevor lloyd | Hold me | ||
| 27 | trevor lloyd | Chinee brush | ||
| 28 | dice & cummie + | Real collie | ||
| 29 | king horror | Loch ness monster (alt tk) | ||
| Aitken, Laurel - Skinhead Train - The Complete Singles Collection (5-CD) CD 4 | ||||
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| 01 | pama dice | The worm | ||
| 02 | winston groovy | You can't turn your back on me | ||
| 03 | dice the boss | Funky duck | ||
| 04 | dice the boss | Funkier than duck | ||
| 05 | king horror | The naked city | ||
| 06 | king horror | Wood in the fire | ||
| 07 | laurel aitken | Mr popcorn | ||
| 08 | laurel aitken | Share your popcorn | ||
| 09 | laurel aitken | I've got to have your love | ||
| 10 | laurel aitken & gruvy beats | Blue mink | ||
| 11 | tiger | Souls of africa | ||
| 12 | laurel aitken & gruvy beats | Dallas, texas | ||
| 13 | winston groovy | Standing on the corner | ||
| 14 | winston groovy | You send me | ||
| 15 | laurel aitken | Nobody but me | ||
| 16 | laurel aitken | Baby please don't go | ||
| 17 | winston groovy | Yellow bird | ||
| 18 | winston groovy | For your love | ||
| 19 | laurel aitken | I'll never love any girl | ||
| 20 | laurel aitken | Take me back | ||
| 21 | laurel aitken | Reggae popcorn | ||
| 22 | winston groovy | Here is my heart | ||
| 23 | the gruvy beats | Birds and the bees | ||
| 24 | the freedom singers | Election | ||
| 25 | fleece & the live shocks | Tomorrow's world | ||
| 26 | the versatiles | Pick my pocket | ||
| 27 | the freedom singers | Freedom | ||
| 28 | laurel aitken | The outlaw | ||
| Aitken, Laurel - Skinhead Train - The Complete Singles Collection (5-CD) CD 5 | ||||
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| 01 | the classics | So much love | ||
| 02 | the classics | Same old feeling | ||
| 03 | joe lace | Nobody else but you | ||
| 04 | the live shocks | Version of nobody | ||
| 05 | Baby i need your loving (1970 version) -laurel aitken | Laurel Aitken & Friends | ||
| 06 | laurel aitken | Think it over | ||
| 07 | tiger | Musical scorcher | ||
| 08 | tiger | Three dogs night | ||
| 09 | laurel aitken | Sex machine | ||
| 10 | laurel aitken | Since you left | ||
| 11 | winston groovy | Groovin' | ||
| 12 | winston groovy | Sugar mama | ||
| 13 | the inner mind | Witchcraft man | ||
| 14 | the inner mind | Night in cairo | ||
| 15 | the inner mind | Pum pum girl | ||
| 16 | the inner mind | Freedom | ||
| 17 | the classics | History of africa | ||
| 18 | the classics | Honey bee | ||
| 19 | laurel aitken | Pachanga, part 1 | ||
| 20 | laurel aitken | Pachanga, part 2 | ||
| 21 | winston groovy | Tennessee waltz | ||
| 22 | winston groovy | Old man trouble | ||
| 23 | laurel aitken | Why can't i touch you | ||
| 24 | laurel aitken | (you) can't turn your back on me | ||
| 25 | laurel aitken | Mary's boy child | ||
| 26 | the rudies | Mary's boy child (instr) | ||
Laurel Aitken
Laurel Aitken wurde am 22. April 1927 unter dem Namen Lorenzo Aitken auf Kuba geboren. Der britische Label-Chef Gaz Mayall verpasste ihm Mitte der 80er Jahre den Titel ‚Godfather of Ska’ – vollkommen zu Recht, gilt er doch als einer der Begründer der Ska Musik auf Jamaica. Dorthin, nach West Kingston, zog es die Aitken-Familie 1938.
Dort kam er über US-Radiostationen mit dem seinerzeit populären Rhythm ’n’ Blues aus New Orleans in Berührung. Zu seinen Favoriten zählten Smiley Lewis, Louis Jordan und Amos Milburn. Die Kombination aus den coolen Sounds aus New Orleans mit karibischem Calypso bildete die Grundlage für jenen eigenen Stil, der als Ska die Welt erorbern sollte. Zunächst jedoch arbeitete Aitken für das Jamaican Tourist Board und trat als Entertainer in Nachtclubs auf. Nach ersten Aufnahmen produzierte der 1937 in London geborene spätere Gründer von Island Records, Chris Blackwell, Boogie in My Bones b/w Little Sheila, die erste Pop-Produktion aus Jamaica, die auch in England veröffentlicht wurde.
1960 zog Aitken nach Brixton in London und nahm in der nächsten Zeit 15 Singles für das ‚Blue Beat’ Label auf, bevor er 1963 nach Jamaica zurückkehrte. Mit den Skatallites als Begleitband machte er dort weitere Aufnahmen, um dann wieder nach Großbritannien zurückzukehren, wo er seine Position als einer führenden Ska-Musiker weiter festigen konnte. Neben den karibischen Bewohnern Londons hatte er besonders bei Mods, Skinheads und anderen Ska-Fans Erfolg.
Von den späten 50er Jahren bis in die Siebzigerjahre hinein konnte Aitken international eine Vielzahl von Hits landen. 1970 Liess er sich zusammen mit seiner Frau im englischen Leicester nieder und trat seltener auf. 1980 erlebte Ska eine Renaissance, und schließlich kam er erstmals mit einem Song (Rudi Got Married) in die britischen Single-Charts.
Am 17. Juli 2005 starb Laurel Aitken in seiner Wahlheimat Leicester an den Folgen eines Herzinfarkts. Er bleibt in Erinnerung als jener Künstler, der Mento/Calypso, R&B, Ska, Rock Steady und Reggae zu seinem eigenen Ding gemacht hat.

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