Skinhead Girl
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Skinhead Girl is a cover album by The Specials
, released in 2000 (see 2000 in music
). The album comprises covers of popular Trojan Records
songs.
The Specials
The Specials are an English 2 Tone ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry, England. Their music combines a "danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy and attitude", and had a "more focused and informed political and social stance" than other ska groups...
, released in 2000 (see 2000 in music
2000 in music
See also:* 2000 in music Record labels established in 2000-Events:*January – Gary Glitter is released from jail, two months before his sentence for sexual offences ends.*January 1**John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List....
). The album comprises covers of popular Trojan Records
Trojan Records
Trojan Records is a British record label founded in 1968. It specialises in ska, rocksteady, reggae and dub music. The label currently operates under the Sanctuary Records Group. The name Trojan comes from the Croydon-built Trojan truck that was used as Duke Reid's sound system in Jamaica...
songs.
Track listing
- "I Can't Hide" (Ken ParkerKen Parker (musician)Ken Parker is a Jamaican musician who first recorded in the 1960s.-Biography:Like many of Jamaica's singers of the era, Parker began by singing in church, where his father was a preacher. He formed a group called the Blues Benders in the mid-1960s, and their first recording was "Honeymoon by the...
) - 3:32 - "Blam Blam Fever" (Grant/Grant) - 3:25
- "JezebelJezebel (song)"Jezebel" is a 1951 popular song written by Wayne Shanklin. It was recorded by Frankie Laine with the Norman Luboff Choir and Mitch Miller and his orchestra on April 4, 1951 and released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39367...
" (Wayne ShanklinWayne ShanklinWayne Shanklin was an American music performer, composer, arranger, and producer....
) - 2:43 - "El Pussycat Ska" (Roland AlphonsoRoland AlphonsoRoland Alphonso O.D. or Rolando Alphonso aka The Chief Musician was a Jamaican tenor saxophonist, and one of the founding members of The Skatalites....
/Clement DoddCoxsone DoddClement Seymour "Sir Coxsone" Dodd, CD was a Jamaican record producer who was influential in the development of ska and reggae in the 1950s, 1960s and beyond...
) - 3:40 - "SolderingSoldering (song)"Soldering" is a song, by Ewart Beckford & Alvin Ranglin, that has been recorded by artists including Desmond Dekker, The Specials, and Hall & Oates...
" (Ewart Beckford) - 4:06 - "You Don't Know Like I Know" (Isaac HayesIsaac HayesIsaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer and actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the...
/David PorterDavid Porter (musician)David Porter is an American soul musician. Porter is best known as the songwriting and production partner of Isaac Hayes at Stax Records during the 1960s...
) - 2:36 - "Memphis Underground" (Herbie MannHerbie MannHerbert Jay Solomon , better known as Herbie Mann, was a Jewish American jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music...
) - 3:56 - "If I Didn't Love You" (Eric "Monty" Morris) - 3:42
- "Them a Fe Get a Beatin'" (Peter ToshPeter ToshPeter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh , was a Jamaican reggae musician who was a core member of the band The Wailers , and who afterward had a successful solo career as well as being a promoter of Rastafari.Peter Tosh was born in Grange Hill, Jamaica, an illegitimate child to a mother too young...
) - 3:28 - "Napoleon Solo" (Hopeton LewisHopeton LewisHopeton Lewis is a Jamaican singer. Lewis' rich baritone has had a profound impact on Jamaican music, and his mixture of gospel and soul elements helped set the template for early rocksteady.-Biography:...
) - 3:09 - "Skinhead Girl" (Monty Neysmith) - 3:31
- "Fire Corner" (Clancy EcclesClancy EcclesClancy Eccles was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer, songwriter, arranger, promoter, record producer and talent scout. Known mostly for his early reggae works, he brought a political dimension to this music...
) - 3:47 - "Bangerang Crash" (Eccles) - 3:04
- "I Want to Go Home" (Derrick MorganDerrick MorganDerrick Morgan is a musical artist popular in the 1960s and 1970s. He worked with Desmond Dekker, Bob Marley, and Jimmy Cliff in the rhythm and blues and ska genres, and he also performed rocksteady and skinhead reggae.-Biography:In 1957 Morgan entered the Vere Johns Opportunity Hour, a talent...
) - 2:39 - "Old Man Say" (Eccles) - 2:46
Personnel
- Neville Staple - vocals
- Roddy Byers - vocals, guitar
- Horace PanterHorace PanterHorace Panter also known as Sir Horace Gentleman, is the bassist for the Coventry 2 Tone, ska revival band The Specials....
- bass guitar - Neol Davies - rhythm guitar
- Justin Dodsworth - keyboards
- Steve Holdway - trombone
- Paul Daleman - trumpet
- Leigh Malin - tenor sax
- Anthony Harty - percussion, drums
- Roger Lomas - producer, mixing, engineer