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Playlist
from November 14, 2022
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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.
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bunny Maloney |
Always On My Mind
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7" single version | Moodisc | 1983 | Elvis had the first hit version. Willie Nelson had the most successful cut and The Pet Shop Boys covered it proper, but I ain't mad at this Reggae version by the under-appreciated Bunny Maloney. | ||
| Errol Dunkley |
Movie Star
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7" single version | White Label | 1975 | Big tune. Nineties version by Wayne Wonder and Buju Banton is a bonafide Dancehall classic. | ||
| Marcia Griffiths |
Truly
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7" single version | Studio One / Coxsone | 1978 | Going to the Chapel of Love! Massive track by the iconic I-Threes singing sensation Queen Marcia Griffiths. | ||
| Dennis Brown |
Make It With You
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7" single version | Coxsone | 1971 | Soulful cover by The Crowned Prince himself of this classic track from Bread. | ||
| Ernest Wilson |
Undying Love
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7" single version | Studio One | 1968 | Iconic Studio One riddim track and song. | ||
| Ken Boothe |
Puppet On A String
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7" single version | Studio One | 1967 | Splendid Rocksteady rendition of this classic track. | ||
| Delroy Wilson |
I'm Not A King
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7" single version | Studio One | 1968 | DELROY! One of Jamaica's greatest singers in fine form. "You don't want Love walk through that door..." | ||
| Delroy Wilson |
Dancing Mood
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7" single version | Coxsone | 1966 | Huuuuuge chune. Back 2 back jacks! DELROY! "You got all the Soul deep inside..." | ||
| The Heptones |
Get In The Groove
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7" single version | Studio One | 1972 | Legendary "Up Park Camp" riddim track. The Mighty Heptones in full effect. | ||
| Sugar Minott |
Hang On Natty
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7" single version | Coxsone | 1977 | Booga pon di riddim. | ||
| Sugar Minott |
Every Little Thing
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7" single version | Mandingo | 1979 | Bare chatty chatty business. | ||
| The Heptones |
Party Time
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7" single version | Studio One | 1967 | Monstrous namesake riddim track. The Heptones with some mighty words of wisdom: "Time is short so hear me man, let's live this life the best we can..." | ||
| Johnny Osbourne |
Rub A Dub Party
|
7" single version | Coxsone | 1981 | Rock and come eeenn. | ||
| Bob Andy |
Feeling Soul
|
7" single version | Studio One | 1972 | One of biggest tracks ever from the Legendary Studio One imprint. Bold statement given the mind-bending creative output of glorious sounds that originated at the Brentford Road Studio in Kingston, Jamaica. Taken from what is arguably the greatest Reggae album ever, Bob Andy's 'Song Book'. | ||
| Wayne Wonder |
Let's Wait A While
|
7" single version | Digital B | 1992 | Wayne Wonder channeling his inner Janet Jackson. | ||
| Garnett Silk |
Kingly Character
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7" single version | Digital B | 1993 | The Silky One in peak form. | ||
| Garnet Silk |
Place In Your Heart
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7" single version | Digital B | 1992 | One of the great vocalists of the nineties. | ||
| Marcia Griffiths & Cutty Ranks |
Really Together
|
7" single version | Penthouse | 1991 | Updated smash remake of the Marcia Griffiths and Bob Andy classic combination track. | ||
| Beres Hammond |
Respect To You
|
7" single version | Penthouse | 1991 | Beres X Penthouse = Quintessential sounds of the nineties | ||
| Beres Hammond |
I Could Beat Myself
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7" single version | Harmony House | 1993 | Beres riding Philip "Fatis" Burrell's version of the iconic 'Real Rock' riddim track. Psst: Treat your girl good (i.e. well). Don't be that dude. | ||
| Coco Tea |
She Loves Me Now
|
7" single version | Xterminator | 1993 | One of Coco's biggest hits. Also a popular dubplate anthem for many big sounds (e.g. Bass Odyssey, King Addies, et al.) throughout the nineties. | ||
| Koffee |
Raggamuffin
|
7" single version | VPAL Music | 2018 | 18 year-old Koffee explodes on the scene with this fire debut! One of most exciting singles in recent memory. Reggae's cultural revival gains a new talented champion. Lyrics! | ||
| Terror Fabulous |
Love Me If You Love Me
|
7" single version | Digital B | 1996 | Vintage Terro fine form flow on this wondrous Bobby Digital production. | ||
| Tanya Stephens |
Handle The Ride
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7" single version | Digital B | 1997 | Tanya setting the boyz straight over the "Lecturer" riddim. Big hit for the female relative newcomer. | ||
| Louie Culture |
Foundation From Birth
|
7" single version | Digital B | 1997 | The ol' Ganga Lee going in hard as per his artistic modus operandi through much of the decade. | ||
| Sizzla |
Give Them A Ride
|
7" single version | Digital B | 1997 | Sizzla was prolific in the mid-nineties and there was a lot of magic whenever he recorded for Bobby Digital. Peak Kalonji flow. | ||
| Tony Rebel |
Jah Never Let Us Down
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7" single version | Digital B | 1996 | "Nuff no Love di Rebel but a so!" | ||
| Buju Banton |
Jungle To Back A Wall
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7" single version | Penthouse | 1997 | Buju B lamenting the political friction a yard as only Gargamel could. | ||
| Keith Barrow |
You Know You Wanna Be Loved
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7" single version | Columbia | 1978 | RIP Keith Barrow who unfortunately passed away from complications due to AIDS at the age of 29. In the summer of '78 this track made it to number 26 on the Billboard Chart. Love is Love, y'all. R&B 101. | ||
| Singing Melody |
I've Been Watching
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7" single version | Stone Love | 1992 | The riddim for this track is sampled from Keith Barrow and the lyrics lifted from R&B royalty Jodeci. Singing Melody with a perfect rendition of a Dancehall cover. Stone Love label to boot. Who else? Greatest juggling sound ever. | ||
| Larry Graham |
One In A Million You
|
7" single version | Warner Bros. | 1980 | Drake's uncle going in hard. Classic song. Drake has the $, but Uncle Larry has the swag and real street cred. | ||
| Sanchez |
One In A Million
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7" single version | Penthouse | 1992 | So, Kevin Anthony Jackson ain't pen too many classics. So, what! He certainly covered a bunch of them majestically. This one chief among 'em. Classic Penthouse. Classic Sanchez. Lovers 101. | ||
| Thriller U |
Sweet Vanessa
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7" single version | Penthouse | 1992 | The vocal stylings of Thriller U, crucial 90's Lovers Rock fixture. My sister's name is also Vanessa, but I digress. | ||
| Beres Hammond & Marcia Griffiths |
Live On
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7" single version | Penthouse | 1992 | Combination perfection. Incredible song. Sublime tandem. Reggae Royalty in full effect and peak sounding form. | ||
| Buju Banton |
Buju Moving
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7" single version | Penthouse | 1992 | The voice of Jamaica. A young Buju, backed by the great Donovan Germain, telling the world he has arrived and that he's hungry for his piece of big cake. | ||
| Echo Minott |
New Dimension
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7" single version | Blue Trac | 1989 | Fire track produced by Robert Livingston. | ||
| Wayne Fire |
Woman Pension
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7" single version | Blue Trac | 1989 | One month loving a no loving that! Word. | ||
| Tiger |
Pill Fi You Sickness
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7" single version | Blue Trac | The legendary Tiger in fine form. One of the decade's biggest Dancehall stars and a pioneering disciple of comedic stylings. | |||
| Tony Rebel & Wayne Wonder |
Cross Over The Bridge
|
7" single version | Penthouse | 1994 | Nice combination. | ||
| Cobra |
Selassie I Rule
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7" single version | Kingston 11 | 1994 | Cobra links up with Jammys on this hardcore, yet rare cultural banger. | ||
| Capleton |
No Competition
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7" single version | Fat Eyes | 1994 | The Prophet breaking it down for the masses. The words "Selassie I liveth every time..." were the harbinger to many a hits in the mid-nineties. Capleton eschewing slackness for virtue's sake and making some pretty darn good music in the process. "Bwoy if you dis Marcus..." | ||
| Louie Culture |
Them Fi Know
|
7" single version | Fat Eyes | 1994 | The ol' Ganga Lee links up with producer Bulby York on this early Louie Culture hit. | ||
| Little Kirk |
Hero
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7" single version | Fat Eyes | 1994 | Little Kirk's rendition of one of Mariah Carey's biggest hits and most recognized ballads. | ||
| Garnet Silk & Supervisor |
Used To Be My Girl
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7" single version | Steely & Clevie | 1994 | The O'Jays were bad, but Silk was baaaad. Like in the Run DMC kinda way. Meaning good! Easy little cover track. Romantic Love or Love for the Almighty, Garnet could sing angelically about it all. | ||
| Phil Collins |
Groovy Kind Of Love
|
7" single version | Atlantic | 1988 | All-time great ballad. Post Genesis Phil in full effect. | ||
| Singing Melody |
Groovy Kind Of Love
|
7" single version | Digital B | 1989 | Melody tearing up Bobby Digital's version of the "Love is not a Gamble" riddim with his take of the aforementioned Phil Collins smash. Fire tune. | ||
| Wayne Wonder |
Dream
|
7" single version | Digital B | 1989 | Eternal Flame in a Dancehall style. Not mad at this Wonder Bangles cover. | ||
| Shabba Ranks |
Wicked In Bed
|
7" single version | Digital B | 1989 | Huge nineties anthem. Shabba! | ||
| David Ruffin |
Walk Away From Love
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7" single version | Motown | 1975 | Birth year chune! Str8 up classic Motown vibes. | ||
| Bitty Mclean |
Walk Away From Love
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7" single version | Peckings | 2004 | Huuuge chune. Can't think of a more succesful Reggae cover, and there have been plenty of big ones. Bitty's signature hit and a song that arguably carried the genre for years. Bonafide classic. Treasure Isle niceness meets Bitty's pristine vocals. Put Peckings on the international map. | ||
| Shinehead |
I Do Love You
|
7" single version | White Label | 2007 | The great Dancehall veteran Shinehead sweetly croons this classic R&B track from GQ over the Rock Steady riddim. | ||
| Sandy Smith |
Make It With You
|
7" single version | Stone Love | 2007 | Jus' 'cause it ain't Bread, don't mean it ain't delicious. | ||
| Sizzla |
Non Stop Loving
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7" single version | Stone Love | 2007 | Whenever Sizzla's not busy pumping up pum pums, he's whispering sweet loving peans to the ladies and expressing his vocal range, and I'm most certainly here for it. | ||
| Tracy Chapman |
Baby Can I Hold You
|
7" single version | Elektra | 1988 | Segway classic tune. See what I did there? You will... | ||
| Wayne Wonder |
Fast Car
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7" single version | Volcano | 1988 | Taxi! | ||
| Wayne Wonder |
Anything For You
|
7" single version | Sonic Sounds | 1988 | Gloria Estefan style! | ||
| Bitty Mclean |
Lately
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7" single version | Slient River | 2007 | "It a Taxi Gang something, it a Bitty McLean somethiiiing..." Stevie Wonder, Jodeci and now Mr. Mclean with da 'Lately' niceness. | ||
| Bitty Mclean |
Tell Me (Remix)
|
7" single version | Peckings | 2007 | Wondrous dub mix. Bitty jus' Rangling on Bond Street. ("Learn da style before you use it!" so said Dufton Taylor.) Ear-gasm. To all the girls I've Loved before: "I was so wroooooooooong..." |
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