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Ska, Jamaican labels, part 1. (A-C)

Bibby - Wicked Man Derrick Morgan - Be Still
Llans Thelwell - Mughead Ska Sir Lord Comic - Ska-ing West Bobby Aitken - Crackers Rush ('61)
Byron Lee - Bata - Cha Cha Cha Byron Lee - Bata - Cha Cha Cha Don Drummond - Bellevue Special
Lord Creator - Independent  Jamaica   Owen Gray - Come On Baby 


Be Still - Derrick Morgan, the B side is Sunday-Monday, also by Derrick Morgan. A 1962 issue on Leslie Kong's Beverley's label. Unusually Kong, though a major player in the music business, didn't use a number of different labels for his productions prefering to stick with the Beverley's name from his earliest productions in 1962 until his untimely death in 1972. The next label Black Swan is a very rare exception.

Owen Gray with The Sonny Bradshaw Quartet - Come On Baby/My One Desire on Sonny Bradshaw's Chek label from 1962.

Thanks to Matt Dinsmore for the Blues, Bata and Creative Calypso labels, Marco C. Buschman for the Chek one, Tommy Rocka Shacka for the Caribou - Bellevue Special one and Jeremy Collingwood for the Caribou - Chico Chico one.

update February 2006