Band Name: Don Drummond
Music Album: Greatest Hits
Album Release Date: January 1970
Music Genre: Reggae Ska
Record Label: Treasure Isle
Album Release Country: Jamaica
Music Record Type: 11 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 | Garden Of Love | 3:10 |
| A2 | Feeling Fine | 2:55 |
| A3 | Street Corner | 3:01 |
| A4 | Latin Goes Ska | 3:02 |
| A5 | Green Island | 4:03 |
| B1 | Silver Dollar | 2:57 |
| B2 | Let George Do It | 3:42 |
| B3 | Woman A Come | 3:07 |
| B4 | Knock Out Punch | 3:13 |
| B5 | Dr. Decker | 2:49 |
| B6 | Occupation | 2:56 |
Center-labels have album-title as "Greatest Hit".
Center-labels and sleeve state 6 tracks for each side but wax infact omits "Dearest" by Dotty & Bonnie on A-side. 5 tracks on A-side, 11 tracks at all.
Sleeve notes:
"A TREASURE ISLE PRODUCTION - RECORDING ENGINEER BYRON SMITH OF TREASURE ISLE RECORDING STUDIO; RECORDED AT TREASURE ISLE RECORDING STUDIO, 33 BOND STREET, KINGSTON, JAMAICA. TEL. 25629 or 27594"
Label notes:
"Don Drummond
GREATEST HIT (sic!)
Dist. at 37 Orange St.
Pub. Push Music
Produced by S. E. Pottinger"
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