Band Name: Don Drummond
Music Album: Dance The Ska Vol. 1
Album Release Date: May 1980
Music Genre: Reggae Ska
Record Label: IBC
Album Release Country: Belgium
Music Record Type: 12 Tracks Vinyl LP
Jamaican trombonist, born 1932, in Kingston, Jamacia - died May 6, 1969, in Kingston, Jamaica (presumed suicide). Drummond attended the famed Alpha Boys School in Kingston.
In 1964 Don Drummond was a founding member of the Skatalites.
In the Fall of 1965, Don Drummond's composition, "Man In The Street", enters the Top 10 in the UK. Trombonist Drummond is not only the Skatalites busiest composer, but the most prolific in all of Ska, with at least 200 tunes to his name by 1965. Later, in 1967, his adaptation of "The Guns of Navarone" netted Drummond another top 10 UK hit.
His peers and colleagues felt that Drummond was one of the top trombonists in the world.
His genius was only dimmed by his fragile mental condition. In January 1965, he killed his girlfriend, Anita 'Marguerita' Mahfood. He is later convicted and remanded to the Bellevue Asylum, where he died in 1969, aged only 37.
| A1 | Ska Boo Da Ba |
| A2 | Confucious |
| A3 | China Town |
| A4 | The Reburial |
| A5 | Smiling |
| A6 | Skaravan |
| B1 | Wings Of A Dove |
| B2 | China Clipper |
| B3 | Lawless Street |
| B4 | Surftide Seven |
| B5 | Rings |
| B6 | Shame & Scandal |
All titles written by Don Drummond. Produced 1980 by EMI Belgium.
Part of a series called "Dance The Ska" Vol. 1 - 7 Pictures on the cover explaining basic steps for dancing ska. (Covers of all seven issues are printed on the backside.)
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