#laurel aitken

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1969

Lorenzo "Laurel" Aitken (22 April 1927 – 17 July 2005) was a Cuban-Jamaican singer and one of the pioneers of ska music. He is often referred to as the "Godfather of Ska".

Born in Cuba of mixed Cuban and Jamaican descent, Aitken and his family settled in Jamaica in 1938. After an early career working for the Jamaican Tourist Board singing mento songs for visitors arriving at Kingston Harbour, he became a popular nightclub entertainer. His first recordings in the late 1950s were mento tunes such as "Nebuchnezer", "Sweet Chariot" (aka the gospel classic "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot") and "Baba Kill Me Goat". Aitken's 1958 single "Boogie in My Bones"/"Little Sheila" was one of the first records produced by Chris Blackwell and the first Jamaican popular music record to be released in the United Kingdom.

Source : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Aitken

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Laurel Aitken

April 22, 1927 – July 17, 2005

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Pachanga Part 2 - Laurel Aitken (Pachanga Part 1 / Pachanga Part 2, 1970)

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Laurel Aitken, le parrain du Ska.

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All Aboard the Skinhead Train

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Laurel Aitken + The Skatalites – The Original Cool Jamaican Ska // Sello: Honey Pie Records – HONEY040 // LP / Vinilo / 2021 // ====== Originalmente editado en 1964 // ====== Nuevo / Precintado // ====== 21€ ======

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Various - Rastafari (The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83) (2015)

A1 Count Ossie & The Rasta Family - Africa We Want Fe Go 1:27 A2 Johnny Clarke - None Shall Escape The Judgement 3:37 A3 Laurel Aitken - Haile Selassie 3:14 A4 Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Tales Of Mozambique 5:37 A5 Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus - Booma Yeah 5:39

B1 Mutabaruka - Say 1:13 B2 Bongo Herman & Jah Lloyd - African Drums 3:32 B3 Ashanti Roy - Hail The Words Of Jah 3:49 B4 Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Sam's Intro 3:36 B5 Bongo Herman, Les & Bunnyv - Salaam 3:05

C1 Winston & Ansell - Zion I 3:44 C2 Techniques All Stars - Zion I Version 3:21 C3 Lord Lebby & The Jamaican Calypsonians - Ethiopia 2:59 C4 Count Ossie & Leslie Butler - Soul Drums 2:47 C5 The Heaven Singers - Rasta Dreadlocks 3:02 C6 Rod Taylor - His Imperial Majesty 3:12

D1 QQ - Betta Must Come 3:48 D2 Earth & Stone – Jah Will Cut You Down 3:22 D3 Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Narration 9:03 D4 Ronald Downer & Count Ossie - A Ju Ju Wa 3:34

Genre: Reggae Style: Roots Reggae, Dub

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R.I.P. LOWELL MORRIS [1934 ☆ 2023], one of the founders of modern Jamaican music, Australian drummer based in Jamaica from '58 to the mid-60′s, original member of THE CARIBS. He can be heard on many important Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, and Shuffle records, notably for singer LASCELLES PERKINS, Derrick Harriott's JIVING JUNIORS, LAUREL AITKEN, OWEN GRAY, THE BLUES BUSTERS, KEITH & ENID, KES CHIN & THE SOUVENIRS, BYRON LEE & THE DRAGONAIRES or alongside ROLAND ALPHONSO, DON DRUMMOND and CECIL LLOYD on the classic LP "I Cover The Waterfront" released in 1962 on Port-O-Jam/Coxsone... On the picture, Sir MORRIS in May ‘59 with bassist LLOYD BREVETT and unidentified musicians, probably a CARIBS session.

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May 4th Playlist

I suppose we could have gone with a Star Wars theme of some sort for tonight’s episode, but too much of that available elsewhere and besides, we never were much for SW anyway. You know who is though, my wife and she’s also a huge Royal Family aficionado, and has big plans this weekend around the Coronation of King Charles. So instead we are going to use that event as inspiration for tonight’s mix of great 60′s black soul, ska, blues and reggae from the UK. It made sense to us...

Side A Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Coronation Street-Top Grant London Here We Come-Rico’s Combo New Direction-Millie Watch the Stars-Dorris Henderson & John Renbourn Sunshine-Shirley Bassey Rora Rora Majo Omo Pupa-Flash Domincii & Supersonics Everything is Go-Cab Kaye I Ain’t Mad at You-Howie Casey and the Seniors

Side B All Night-Screaming Jay Hawkins Keep Your Hands Out of My Pocket-Otis Spann Get Your Head Happy-Champion Jack Dupree Bartender-Laurel Aitken and Bluebeats Rock Me Daddy-Mabel Hillary Green Onions-Shake Keane Spinning Wheel-Maxine Nightingale You’re My Girl-Eldridge Devlin Please Think of Me-Rubert and the Red Devils Coronation Street-Geoff Love Orchestra 

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Cover Culture : Laurel Aitken & The Soulmen / Milson Luce - Don't Break Your Promises

COVER VERSION VS ORIGINAL SONG Since the early 1960s and even prior, numerous iconic Jamaican hits were derived from popular foreign songs. The original pop and soul tracks were frequently embraced by audiences on the island, leading reggae artists to create their own renditions. Some of these artists gained fame by covering chart-topping songs, turning these adaptations into timeless classics. For instance, American artist Bill Withers recorded the Grammy-winning song Ain't No Sunshine, which Horace Andy later adapted, while Dennis Brown's rendition of Black Magic Woman originally came from Fleetwood Mac. These two examples represent just a small fraction of the many covers that have emerged over the past sixty-five years. Since the advent of these adaptations, both Jamaican and international reggae musicians have persistently reimagined pop and soul hits, continuing this tradition into the present. You’re welcome to listen to both the original and the cover versions to determine which one resonates with you the most.LAUREL AITKEN & THE SOULMEN Released in 1966, Laurel Aitken & The Soulmen's Don't Break Your Promises is a reinterpretation of a track originally done by Milson Luce. The song already enjoyed popularity in Jamaica, having been licensed that same year by Dada Tewari on his Downbeat label. Aitken's version fueled a wave of Jamaican covers, including renditions by Dandy in 1972, The Chosen Few for Studio One in 1973, and John Holt, also in 1973, for producer Bunny Lee. Known as the "Godfather of Ska," Aitken's extensive recording career in the UK featured numerous singles on iconic labels like Blue Beat, Pama Records, and Trojan Records.Born in New Orleans in 1934, Milson Joseph Luce was a self-taught pianist who, alongside the Johnny Wallace Sextet, achieved hit success in 1956 with the song Don't Break Your Promise To Me. Released in the US on the Argo label in 10" vinyl / 78rpm format, it gained recognition as one of the finest R&B tracks from New Orleans in the '50s. Despite this hit, Milson Luce remained relatively obscure, performing in various hotel and restaurant piano bars in New Orleans until he had to leave the area following Hurricane Katrina. Milson Luce passed away in 2012 due to complications from pneumonia. Read the full article

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1957

Tried to upload my own file, to no avail... Kept getting an error message.

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Laurel Aitken  *April 22, 1927

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Pachanga Part 1 - Laurel Aitken (Pachanga Part 1 / Pachanga Part 2, 1970)

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Laurel Aitken - Skinhead [Ska] (1989)

Laurel Aitken - Skinhead [Ska] (1989) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcEhAIx1OB4&ab_channel=hrb37 Submitted December 23, 2024 at 09:38AM by Remarkable_Corner_83 https://ift.tt/KAITk1c via /r/Music

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No sé si era esto, no recuerdo bien... Sonaba un disco de Montsalvatge y me estaba gustando lo que escuchaba, pero lo compró alguien que estaba ahí en ese momento. Creo que era éste, y que lo que sonaba era el "Cuarteto Indiano", pero no estoy seguro, fue un momento pasajero, el LP voló rápido.

Xavier Montsalvatge i Bassols (Girona, 11 de marzo de 1912 – Barcelona, 7 de mayo de 2002) fue un compositor y crítico musical, considerado una de las figuras más importantes de la música catalana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.

Con mis escasas nociones de clásica voy muy intuitivamente. Sólo sé que me gusta mucho ese entramado de cuerdas, de melodías que se entrelazan. Se hallan entre lo real y lo irreal, y creo que para su día el cuarteto - compuesto en 1951, estrenado en 1952- estaba entre lo viejo y lo nuevo, ahí, haciendo un equilibrio tal y como hizo en los años diez Igor Stravinsky. Es rompedor, nada académico, pero tampoco excesivamente "raro". Esto comenta Antonio Iglesias sobre el "Cuarteto Indiano", del cual incluyo el primer tiempo, "Poco Allegro", no he encontrado un vídeo que lo incluya completo.

"Personalmente considerado como una de las páginas más definitorias de la personalidad de Montsalvatge. De una gran belleza, con momentos de trama polifónica bien urdida, el segundo tiempo, un "Andante quasi adagio", escrito sobre el tema de la tercera de las Cinco canciones negras "Chévere", "metamorfosis acentuada del tema" -son palabras del mismo compositor- "que, como un breve scherzo escribí alguna cosa similar a una milonga argentina...". En sus cuatro tiempos, el cuarteto se cualifica como indiano, "en memoria de los indianos catalanes, así nombrados los emigrantes que volvieron ricos de las Antillas", creando una moda arquitectónica de 'carácter colonial'".

"El lenguage bitonal no esconde las referencias étnicas en un collage propio del universo sonoro americano. Al Poco Allegro inicial sigue un aire de habanera, indicado especialmente en el ritmo pizzicato del violoncello, mientras dos líneas melódicas a cargo de los violines mantienen la ambigüedad tonal y esconden el tema popular." Xosé Aviñoa, 1999.

A lo cual, modestamente añadiría en el "Poco Allegro" inicial una posible influencia de o guiño a, por dos veces, la célebre, estupenda, "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" ("Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" en versión inglesa) del compositor cubano Osvaldo Farrés. Es factible, porque, aunque no he logrado averiguar cuál es la versión original de "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás", veo en SecondHandSongs que Bobby Cappó grabó en 1947 la canción que se convertiría con los años en increíblemente popular. Hasta 1951 la interpretaron Capó, el Trío Durango, Pedro Vargas, Jan Mazurus with Stanley Black & His Orchestra, Rico's Creole Band, Nilla Pizzi, e, importante, la madrileña Nati Mistral en 1947. Más tarde pasó a ser el estándar por todos conocido en las voces y músicas de Xavier Cugat, Pérez Prado, Nat King Cole, Antonio Machín, Los Panchos, Connie Francis, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Paco de Lucía, Celia Cruz, Laurel Aitken y un largo etcétera.

Cuarteto Indiano: II. Andante Quasi Adagio

Cuarteto Indiano: III. Allegretto ma non troppo

Cuarteto Indiano: IV. Allegro Ritmico

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Laurel Aitken – Ska With Laurel // Sello: Black Butcher Classics – BBC 011 //// LP Vinilo / Reedición Actual // ======== Originalmente editado en 1966 // === ESTADO: ========== LP Nuevo / No está precintado // ======== 16€ ========