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Episode: Love Sunday Oldies but Goodies: Jamaica Ska, Rocksteady Trending all night.
Description: Love Sunday Oldies but Goodies: Jamaica Ska, Rocksteady Trending all night.Jamaican Oldies music featuring Ken Boothe, Delroy Wilson, Gregory Isaacs, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Dennis Brown, Derrick Harriott and Freddie McKay
Weâre independentâ is the joyous refrain heard on Derrick Morganâs âForward March,â which conveys the exuberance felt by Jamaicans when their island, a British colony since 1655, became a sovereign nation. Ska was developed in the late 1950s in Kingston studios, and the emergent sound on âForward Marchâ is still tethered to the R&B shuffle that influenced it, though it is slower than the ska beat heard on recordi...