Two more re-issue 7″s from Rock A Shacka in Japan. This time on replica Caribou labels.
Up And Down/Ska 65 by The Mighty Vikings
Bellevue Special/No More by Don Drummond
The big news here of course is Bellevue Special, a Don Drummond scorcher that has been massively in demand for a long time.
You can buy these direct from Rock-A-Shacka in Japan. From Germany at Copasetic or from Honest Jons in the UK.
this Bootleg is on the WRONG label LOL, the don drummond song is a Coxsone prodcution on the CaribOO label, NOT the CaribOU. check out the labels scans on this site. So how come those japanese got it on a Dada Toari’s Caribou label?? hmmm i bet yuo the did not license it…. i am sure Carol Dodd is alread talking to her lawyers, so better buy this quick (or wait for the eminent official Coxsone re-release
Hi Jumbo Shower
This is a scan of the original on Caribou
http://www.dancecrasher.co.uk/blog/wp-content/gallery/ska-labels/bellevuespecial1.jpg
What makes you think this is a bootleg? This is a serious question as I try not to support bootlegs but obviously its often hard to tell whats legit and what isn’t.
Tim
hello Tim, now you’ve got me rethinking. Because RKR lists it as CARIBOO, same as this one: http://www.dancecrasher.co.uk/blog/wp-content/gallery/miscellaneous/toombstone1.jpg) i had this label on my wanting list for a long time ( since i am a coxsone collector) and was very surprised to see it on Caribou.
All other Caribou singles are more in a mento/calypso style and produced by Dada Touari, and this sounds very much like the skatalites , which makes me think Coxsone so how come this is on Caribou?
see, that’s why i was thinking that some one jus put the wrong label on a bootleg. And if it is a Coxsone production, Carol Dodd would have been invloved i presume.
but then again, the CariBOO singels seem to bee more from the pre-ska era(owen gray, cleu J)so it would be odd for coxsoen to revive this labelin 1964-65 ( which sound more like the era for this chune)
And maybe it was a track that Douari licensed from coxsone to put out on his own label. or a one off ska recording he madewith the skatates.
but i am not sure, as yuo say. most of the time those Japanese deal with legal matters more properly than most Jamaican or UK re-issuers.
so please take off my copmment if you feel like it, because it seems i was too hasty in condemming this re-release.
Cheers for the response. I was thinking the same thing about the Coxsone Cariboo label which was also very early 60’s. To be honest I have no idea who produced Bellevue Special I’ve not seen any evidence that it’s Coxsone, except the claim in RKR (without a matrix) but maybe it is?
I’ll delete the comment if you wish but the discussion is good so I’ll leave it if your OK with that?
please leave the comment, you never know maybe someone with all the answers reads it.
i found this blank on popsike: BLANK[CARIBOO]/MATRIX # CR 23 – DON DRUMMOND [SKA INST]
i dont know if its the same, because the listening function expired.
as for the producer: to me it sounds very much like skatalites in studio one, more so than treasure isle or wirl; but then coxsone rented out the studio quite often.