:
Playlist
from October 3, 2022
Hosted by:
CKUT Music Collective
&
Nelly Gravy
One of CKUT's collectively-hosted music shows, World Skip the Beat focuses on international artists and aims to explore the roots of traditional music from around the globe.
Compliment the current international music programming on CKUT’s airwaves while expanding listeners’ horizons by uncovering the relationships between different global music traditions, World Skip has weekly international music event listings, an emphasis on releases from “anywhere but here,” and a collective structure with different producers from CKUT's Music Department volunteer community every week.
Every Monday
Noon - 2pm
(EST)
| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marcia Griffiths |
The First Time I Saw Your Face
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Sweet & Nice | Wild Flower | 1974 | The Legendary I-Threes singing sensation just levitating this classic Roberta Flack track. That riddim tho. "One good thing about music when it hits you you feel no pain!" | ||
| Mortimer |
Lightning
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Fight The Fight | Easy Star | 2020 | One of the biggest Reggae ballads of the last decade plus. Kinda slept-on pre-Covid smash. Incredible ode to Love and romantic partnership by the young Mortimer McPherson. Ginormous track. BOOM! | ||
| Sugar Minott |
Good Thing Going
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Hard Time Pressure | 17 North Parade | 2011 | Booga's biggest pop hit eva. Lovely cover and a testament to his ability to sing beautifully about anything under the sun from Love to Jah to the hardships of everyday life in JA. | ||
| Silvertones |
Smile
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7" single version | Studio One | 1977 | "It's best to rise with a smile on your face." Word. | ||
| Dennis Brown |
If I Follow My Heart
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7" single version | Studio 1 | 1972 | D. Brown X Coxsone. Needn't say no more. | ||
| Dennis Brown |
Money In My Pocket
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7" single version | Lightning Records | 1979 | Damn! D. Brown X Joe Gibbs ain't bad either. BOOM! | ||
| Jimmy London |
I'm Your Puppet
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7" single version | Jama | 1975 | One of many notable Reggae covers of this track made famous in the sixties by James & Bobby Purify. | ||
| A Little Love |
Jimmy London
|
7" single version | Impact | 1971 | "That's all I want from you..." | ||
| Peter Tosh |
A Little Melodica
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7" single version | Impact | 1971 | Da Steepin' Razor with a little Melodica flow. Dope AF. | ||
| Alton Ellis |
Girl I've Got A Date
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7" single version | Treasure Isle | 1967 | Mr. Rocksteady himself, the iconic Alton! Godfather of the genre. Lawdamercy! | ||
| Alton Eliis |
Too Late To Turn Back Now
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7" single version | Impact | 1973 | Alton effortlessly taking this great Cornelius Bros. & Sister Rose jam to another dimension. | ||
| Augustus Pablo |
Too Late
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7" single version | Impact | 1973 | The late great Mr. Pablo killing the version with his trademark Melodica magic. | ||
| Without Love |
Leroy Smart
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7" single version | Well Charge | 1977 | Words of wisdom! Leroy X Channel One RIP Joseph Hoo Kim. Peak musical stylings. Believe daaaaat. | ||
| The Heptones |
Love Wont' Come Easy
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7" single version | Coxsone | 1968 | Classic Heptones harmonies right here. FOUNDATION. | ||
| Hold Me Tight |
Johnny Nash
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7" single version | Regal Zonophone | 1968 | Big international smash from Nash. Even hit number one in The Great White North. B-side featured 'Cupid', another hit for the American crooner. | ||
| Beres Hammond |
Come Back Home
|
7" single version | Star Trail | 1993 | The Star Trail camp put out nuff fire throughout the nineties. Nice Beres tune. | ||
| Garnet Silk |
Hello Mama Africa
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7" single version | Star Trail | 1993 | Garnet's ode to the Motherland. Beautiful and timeless composition. What a loss. Gone, but never forgotten. LEGEND. Rest easy Bimbo. | ||
| Bionic Steve |
Fly The Gate
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7" single version | Star Trail | 1993 | Bionic impersonating some familiar voices of the genre. One hit wonder hall of fame tune. Sadly murdered in 1997. RIP. | ||
| Sugar Minott |
Never My Love
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7" single version | Kingston 11 | 1994 | Sugar crooning ova da Jammys version of the legendary 'Far East' riddim in a superlative Booga-esque manner. | ||
| Thriller U |
I'll Never Love This Way Again
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7" single version | Kingston 11 | 1994 | Thriller easily ranks among the top singers of the eighties/nineties. In fine form here singing lyrics made famous by the great Dionne Warwick. | ||
| Quench Aid |
My Mama
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7" single version | Kingston 11 | 1994 | "Thank you mama for the nine months you carried meeeee." Big chune by the singular Quench Aid. Always loved the King Addies dubplate of this song with Bounty Killer. "I wish I had King Addies to take me 'round the world..." Anyway, a fi mi jam dis. Nostalgia hits different. Big up Jojo. Oh, and Babyface and my dude Tony Matterhorn. | ||
| Merciless |
Mama Cooking
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7" single version | Annex | 1996 | Gotta be one of my fave Merciless tracks. Mama cooking, yo. Di greatest. RIP Leonard Bailey. Nineties Dancehall stalwart. Salute! | ||
| Shaggy |
Mr. Bombastic
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7" single version | Big Yard | 1995 | Don't sleep on Shaggy. 'Specially when Sting be at the controls. Dancehall anthem and crossover hit to boot. No easy feat. | ||
| Mercilless |
Mavis
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7" single version | Big Yard | 1995 | Instant forward whenever this track would drop. Dance buss! Peak Merciless. Big gal and gun tunes galore. | ||
| Jesse Royal featuring Protoje |
Lion Order
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Royal | Easy Star | 2021 | Peak combination right here. Two of the artists currently responsible for taking the genre to higher heights via clever lyricism and conscious vibrations. In a sea of musical mediocrity, Proto and Small Axe keep putting out quality records. Every release is a must-buy. Plus, they are both well-worth seeing live. Spend some money and support the Dons. After all my years of playing tunes these artists still get me hype. (Pas facile ça. Ha.) Salute! | ||
| Protoje featuring Mortimer |
Truth & Rights
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A Matter Of Time | Easy Star | 2015 | Definitely a track one must consider whenever pondering the top Reggae songs of the decade. Young artists making their mark. Reality! Lovely to hear. | ||
| Jr. Tucker |
Move Along
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7" single version | Main Street | 1993 | Danny Browne's Main Street imprint/stable produced numerous crucial records throughout the nineties. Jr. Tucker, once known as the Jamaican MJ (Jackson not Jordan) is in fine form here. Tucker had his first hit before he was even a teen! Peep General Degree with da uncredited guest appearance. | ||
| Lt. Stitchie |
Hello Carol
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7" single version | Main Street | 1993 | The Governor! Stitchie! Like Tucker another Reggae artist mostly concerned with singing about the Lord these days. | ||
| Jah Cure & Jah Mason |
Run Come Love Me
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7" single version | Harmony House | 1998 | Jah squared. Cure meets Mason. Rasta Love, yo. | ||
| Dennis Brown |
Funny Feelings
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7" single version | Music Works | 1978 | D Brown meets Gussie. Crucial piece of music in my not so humble opinion. | ||
| Gappy Ranks |
Heaven In Her Eyes
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7" single version | Peckings | 2009 | Romantic banger by promising UK rudebwoy Gappy Ranks, who sadly suffered a debilitating stroke in 2018. | ||
| Singing Melody |
Groovy Kind Of Love
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7" single version | Digital B | 1989 | So big it's huuuuge. Melody killin' the Phil Collins smash ina Dancehall stylee. Vintage digital riddim track via the usual genius of Bobby Digital (Jamaican Bobby D, not The RZA.). | ||
| The Frightnrs |
I'd Rather Go Blind
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7" single version | Daptone | 2015 | Maaaan, this track is str8 fire. Victor ‘Ticklah” Axelrod bringing the heat with the beat while Dan Klein (RIP) brings the pain channelling his inner fears. Not even sure Etta James nor Beyoncé in Cadillac Records sang this any better. This song slaps like the kids like to say. Truly. BOOM. FYI y'all: shorturl.at/mCEN2 | ||
| Dennis Brown |
Silhouettes
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7" single version | Move & Grove | 1972 | Dennis Emmanuel Brown covering The Rays in fine form. Crucial selection. | ||
| Bob & Marcia |
Always Together
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7" single version | Coxsone | 1969 | If only I had a dollar..."Yo Dom, what's your favorite Reggae song?" What a ridiculous question, man. My reply usually a diatribe about how much I Love both my kids the same and that nobody would ever think to ask me which one I prefer. That said, this could (COULD!) be it were I ever forced to chose in order to save humanity. A proud atheist this song challenges my position that there just ain't no God. Heavenly. |
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