First Ska song I ever heard. It was 1964, it was brand new, I was 13. Took me ages to track it down. Found it in a tiny shop in Leytonstone, E. London and played it until I wore it out. Stayed my favourite for all time !!
My dad was a mod back in the 60s, he has all the bluebeat old vinyls. He passed away 2 weeks ago, 5 Feb 2023, he was 77, a legend in London. I have his records, he gave them to me since I am a punk and always loved ska. Rest i Peace Keith Beauchamp- Lait. You are a legend, Stained Glass Master. You will always be remembered ❤️
Sorry to hear that Don , Yep I remember it as well , We always called it Bluebeat . Also The Skatalites - Guns of navarone & many more Ska tracks like that ....
Thank you Keepingthefaith72, for bringing back memories for me now, I saw Prince Buster live at our local dance hall, I live in southeast Uk. During the Mods/Rockers time…. I was a Mod….. glorious day’s in my young day’s, if only we could turn back time??
Hey disability doesn't dissable your soul, it was a brilliant time for music, I have older brothers and grew up with this, the 3 of us still love these tunes! ❤
Blimey , thought this was a top tune in 1969 , at 14 , it,s seared in my memory , along with Return to Django , Long-shot kick de bucket, so many ,blew me away ,
Ive been Hated for years for saying after the Beatles, Bob Marley is the most over rated artest of all time. Give old time Jamaican Ska/Rock steady/bluebeat any day.
Im old enough for the revival in my teens and as soon as this started we'd run onto the dance floor in some little clubs in the backside of Birmingham, fabulous 👌
Someone other than me remembers Royale. I used to go with my then boyfriend, and his friends. My sister would come sometimes as well. We would go most weekends. The soul boys. The reggae boys went to Four Aces really great times. Who remembers clubs being open during the day in central London? 🪩
All these years I thought as a nine year old thought how cool was the specials black and white fella's ripping it Up ,then got reminded that one step beyond by madness was a cover also ,all good dance music and brought it to me a little Whitey' who wouldn't of heard it otherwise
I remember a guy dancing to this back in the early seventies in perfect unison, blew my mind and have never seen anyone with footwork since and this is 2022!!!!
Bloody hell this brings it all back...walking into the Twisted Wheel in Welling Kent in me parker and horse brasses, sporting a mod crop and strutting my stuff to this tune.
@@grahamstaddon1330 Born and bred in Welling. Twisted Wheel in Bellgrove Road Yes. Inferno in Station Approach before that. I still have Prince Buster Explosion album. Might be worth a penny. Happy days.
Probably the song that got me into ska. Trojan and the whole orange street thing. Never thought one day I'd see him.. then the next ones were long shot. Pressure drop. 007.
From what I found, it seems like the name "bluebeat" was used more in the UK. I guess you get different names from different places/people. I just love the richness of the sound and dancing all night at a rocksteady party in port antonio
Was in Next a few weeks ago and was virtually knocked off my feet when the start of this song came on had to hide my self in a corner and have a little stomp great tune.
dire que j'ai dansé tous les soirs sur cette musique dans une boite à Folkestone (UK) en 1967 avant de rencontrer la belle Maureen Ward et surtout son hyper jaloux boyfriend chef d'une bande de motards (rockers), souvenirs, souvenirs de l'avant reggae...
Magik sound it cost 0-6s4p in the sixties we all played it to death it became the beginning sounds of the specials etc and went onward and upward forever!!!!
WHEN THIS SONG CAME ON..A GUY USED TO DANCE THE ALI SHUFFLE TO IT AND MAN THE FLOOR WAS HIS..HE EVEN MOVED HIS STOMACH IN AND OUT.ONLY MY BROTHER COULD COPY HIS DANCING.
@keepingthefaith72 You are right ktf72. Bit of a giveaway as "Bluebeat" is the record label !!!!! hahahahahaha. These 'types' of music were not around at the same time, but were a progression of West Indian (mainly from JA) music from the early 60's until early 70's with the generic 'Reggae' which crossed over to pop. P.S. got this on my jukebox,,,,may have heard the 'B' side somewhere it's called :- "One Step Beyond" Del.
In Jamaica we never used the term Blue beat to describe Ska. That's a UK thing. Another example they term Dancehall, Ragga in the UK. We never say Ragga in Jamaica.
kwacou - Blue Beat is just a record label that released a lot of Ska. I’ve never heard anyone in the UK actually say Blue Beat when referring to Ska music.
@@bjorntoulouse7523 ur actually both correct, ska was originally mislabeled as bluebeat in the uk which led to the naming of this label, but its the label name being mentioned in the title, they aren't saying the song is blue beat. However, ragga actually comes from Raggamuffin music which is in fact an original Jamaican cultural phenomenon from the mid to late 80's that was used to differentiate their rough-edged gritty electro-dancehall from the dulcet "digital dancehall" that preceded it. Although since the distinction isn't very clear out of context artists like Yellowman and Shabba Ranks could both just be considered Dancehall, whereas Shabba was really more of a distinctly raggamuffin artist, especially considering their heydays were a decade apart :) Some of my favorite early Ragga comps are Jamaican! They have some of the coolest cover art too
@@bjorntoulouse7523 they called all Jamaican music bluebeat, there's a video on youtube of Chris Blackwell saying he had to push the term "ska" in the UK (a term he notes is what they actually called it in Jamaica) because at the time everyone in the UK was still calling all Jamaican music blue beat
Malcolm Ekman -So you’re saying all late 50s / early 60s Jamaican music was called Bluebeat in the UK? I wouldn’t know myself, I didn’t get into it till about 71.
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First Ska song I ever heard. It was 1964, it was brand new, I was 13. Took me ages to track it down. Found it in a tiny shop in Leytonstone, E. London and played it until I wore it out. Stayed my favourite for all time !!
I had a problem getting this in the late 1970s too.
All time Classic!!!
It was my favourite too, wore out 2 copies
My dad was a mod back in the 60s, he has all the bluebeat old vinyls. He passed away 2 weeks ago, 5 Feb 2023, he was 77, a legend in London. I have his records, he gave them to me since I am a punk and always loved ska. Rest i Peace Keith Beauchamp- Lait. You are a legend, Stained Glass Master. You will always be remembered ❤️
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Loved dancing to this back in the sixties at out local disco, still love this music… I’m 78 now, disabled now! Sadly!
Sorry to hear that Don , Yep I remember it as well , We always called it Bluebeat . Also The Skatalites - Guns of navarone & many more Ska tracks like that ....
Thank you Keepingthefaith72, for bringing back memories for me now, I saw Prince Buster live at our local dance hall, I live in southeast Uk. During the Mods/Rockers time…. I was a Mod….. glorious day’s in my young day’s, if only we could turn back time??
Guns of navarone
Hey disability doesn't dissable your soul, it was a brilliant time for music, I have older brothers and grew up with this, the 3 of us still love these tunes! ❤
@@sharonclarke520 I agree whole heartedly Sharon, my only sadness is I can’t dance anymore, confined to a wheelchair.♿️🙁
Blimey , thought this was a top tune in 1969 , at 14 , it,s seared in my memory , along with Return to Django , Long-shot kick de bucket, so many ,blew me away ,
Liquidator and Elizabethan reggae.
I'll Get shit fer this, But I'd rather hear old guys like Buster, Jimmy Cliff and Desmond Dekker
Than Bob Marley any old day
Bob came at a time when truth was much more unacceptable.
Others got away with it.
Amen.
Ive been Hated for years for saying after the Beatles, Bob Marley is the most over rated artest of all time. Give old time Jamaican Ska/Rock steady/bluebeat any day.
I agree with this take, Bob isn’t bad by any means but Maytals, The Ethiopians, Barrington Levy, all much more superb
chitlika - Simmer Down was good, and er well. Ok then it’s just Simmer Down then
Im old enough for the revival in my teens and as soon as this started we'd run onto the dance floor in some little clubs in the backside of Birmingham, fabulous 👌
Gosh haven't heard this in decades my Dad had it 😊
Tottenham Royale 1975.....I danced my butt off to this ....great memories
YES ME TOO
Someone other than me remembers Royale. I used to go with my then boyfriend, and his friends. My sister would come sometimes as well. We would go most weekends. The soul boys. The reggae boys went to Four Aces really great times. Who remembers clubs being open during the day in central London? 🪩
My own personal Windrush memory is in this 60s big hit, dancing down the clubs..
Long live the Prince. RIP. Gone but not forgotten.
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All these years I thought as a nine year old thought how cool was the specials black and white fella's ripping it Up ,then got reminded that one step beyond by madness was a cover also ,all good dance music and brought it to me a little Whitey' who wouldn't of heard it otherwise
I remember a guy dancing to this back in the early seventies in perfect unison, blew my mind and have never seen anyone with footwork since and this is 2022!!!!
This is still one of the top boss ska tune,ever
Last night at THE SPECIALS show in NYC, Terry Hall said, "Without him we would not have existed!"
Well of course
Really hope you wasn't surprised
True..
@david healy Good point, spot on…👍
Terry Hall R.I.P.
Love this track so much
One of the baddest tunes of all time, hail the Prince of Ska, KTF!
R.I.P MR PRINCE BUSTER, 1st record i bought myself, with pocket money ♥♡ ★★★★★
Love this, only wish my parents were here to see it .Thats what i call dancing !
Bloody hell this brings it all back...walking into the Twisted Wheel in Welling Kent in me parker and horse brasses, sporting a mod crop and strutting my stuff to this tune.
Twisted Wheel 😍
Yes, there and the Roebuck in Lewisham.
@@grahamstaddon1330
Born and bred in Welling.
Twisted Wheel in Bellgrove Road Yes.
Inferno in Station Approach before that.
I still have Prince Buster Explosion album. Might be worth a penny.
Happy days.
@@TWOCV602 Been there, done that. 😀
@@TWOCV602 Did you ever go to the Inferno club, I think that was in welling.
Probably the song that got me into ska. Trojan and the whole orange street thing. Never thought one day I'd see him.. then the next ones were long shot. Pressure drop. 007.
Great song, great dance routine, great memories - God Bless all us oldies who can think back to the 60s and to better times!
💃🎶👯♀️👍we didn’t use guns or knlfes we danced you dig daddy oh
This was the very firs single I ever bought. The music and video sync is absolutely spot on. 10/10 for this one mate. Prince Buster rules.
Mollies 'My Boy Lolipop was the I heard.
I loved it as a 3 or 4 year old about the same time..
dancing at the 60s all nighters, in wigan. room at the top.
It gets me jumping about ...brilliant!
God knows I love the Ska music and will to my dieing day. It is a thing of glory.
A ska classic
love it my youth memories galore
From what I found, it seems like the name "bluebeat" was used more in the UK. I guess you get different names from different places/people. I just love the richness of the sound and dancing all night at a rocksteady party in port antonio
I can feel the atmosphere of the Bristol 'Heartbeat Disco' every time I hear this, 48 years ago! Amazing.
Takes me back to my teens in South London! G.
Was in Next a few weeks ago and was virtually knocked off my feet when the start of this song came on had to hide my self in a corner and have a little stomp great tune.
What an absolute. Classic wow I remember. Dancing to this chewing my gum like there was no tomorrow having a very sore tongue. The next day what times
I like this song since I heard it on X factor.This two attract a big crowd.They forgot there shopping.
I have this on vinyl, takes me back.
superb music even today sounds great
"Baby, do you wanna bump" (Boney M, 1975) was a remake of this song
In fact not remaked enough to put their own stample on it. The producer called himself as full writer under pseudonym "Zambi".
Great label Brill tuneeeeeeeee
You can't beat a bit of Bluebeat Colin, Great memories of an early Soul Scene .....
RIP the Prince of music
Why the name
It was still getting played 20 years later.At Biggin Hill flying club..Disco.
dire que j'ai dansé tous les soirs sur cette musique dans une boite à Folkestone (UK) en 1967 avant de rencontrer la belle Maureen Ward et surtout son hyper jaloux boyfriend chef d'une bande de motards (rockers), souvenirs, souvenirs de l'avant reggae...
Brilliant song cachy tune best allcapone song I've Hurd
Magik sound it cost 0-6s4p in the sixties we all played it to death it became the beginning sounds of the specials etc and went onward and upward forever!!!!
Jesus Christ The Specials stole everything
the prince is beyond cool
Excellent!
school disco 70s always play this still hits hard makes ya wanna shuffle
This is up there with The Maytals 'Dog War' AKA ' Broadway Jungle' as two of the heaviest Ska missiles ever recorded. Immortal stuff!
@david healy I've heard it and I'll go one better: Baba Brooks' *"Dreadnought"*.
I fully agree Man, it take me back to my young day of the 60s
Superb track. Like John W below I can feel the same, only it was in the Sheffield Heartbeat club, same era. Wow John we're old buggars aint we. lol
I'M DANCIN'!!!! I'M DANCIN'!!!!!
So this is where the specials stole their sounds!
Madness also stole One Step Beyond from Prince Buster .....
Boney M. The Bump! 1975
The Specials never heard Prince Buster
My eldest sister used to play this sound and she used to groove at too rank club
Good dancers still look good in todays Clubs
Lol.alcapone would love this song 😂😂
Top tune from a top man.
Good music
al capone what more can you say ??/?? excellent zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
wicked love it
WHEN THIS SONG CAME ON..A GUY USED TO DANCE THE ALI SHUFFLE TO IT AND MAN THE FLOOR WAS HIS..HE EVEN MOVED HIS STOMACH IN AND OUT.ONLY MY BROTHER COULD COPY HIS DANCING.
Don't think I've seen this before but know the song. Not heard it in years.
Boney M. with The Bump and The Specials with Gamgsters.
You're not meant to dance just feel the groove and move your body accordingly.
C.A.P.O.N.E Capone
1st Bluebeat sound I ever heard - Esquire Club, Sheffield - mid 60s
Paul Simon late in the evening
Mojo for me, also Guns of Navarone, Skatellites.
At 1.25, it fit's the dancing more ;-)
Genius!
THIS BUL BEAT ALCAPONE THE KING XXXXXXXXX
R.i.p. chichi chick chick.
now this is old skool ska!
Cool Ska sound !!
Love this...
i used to have a prince buster lp in the early seventies, fuck knows what happend to it.
This is one for the original skinheads. I was one of em,only a kid then.still got me skanking though. For real...
never mind what music jaudra it is ,the dancing is fantastic!
How can anyone say "never mind the music" with this classic
+bkieee "Genre"
Jaudra? 😂 speak much?
I can tell that this video was from the 1950's but what were they really dancing to?
So good
Classic BlueBeat recording !!!,.ktf.
Al Capone padre ... non dimenticheremo te, ti vogliamo bene :)
remember the jamacian boys in the 70s skanking to this tune
The girls back then,so graceful,so dignified and sexy as all hell.
Today?
🤔
Crackin tune and vid!!!!
"Scarface - first you get the money, then you power and then you get the women"
Boom
@keepingthefaith72 You are right ktf72.
Bit of a giveaway as "Bluebeat" is the record label !!!!!
hahahahahaha.
These 'types' of music were not around at the same time, but were a progression of West Indian (mainly from JA) music from the early 60's until early 70's with the generic 'Reggae' which crossed over to pop.
P.S. got this on my jukebox,,,,may have heard the 'B' side somewhere it's called :-
"One Step Beyond"
Del.
Boom tune.. 💙
top shuffeling track,
Al Capone's guns don't Hargue!
Happy days.
Those SOUR HORNS kill me 😅
I feel like smoking weed right now. ugh haha
Who rambert the gram blue spot playing these tunes
My skinhead days!
awesome!
Is this gene Kelly or Fred Astaire ??
You've fitted the prince nicely on to this
Spike keep on keepin on
It's neither of those guys. I think it's a real soda jerk that filled in at the last minute.
Guinness !
In Jamaica we never used the term Blue beat to describe Ska. That's a UK thing. Another example they term Dancehall, Ragga in the UK. We never say Ragga in Jamaica.
kwacou - Blue Beat is just a record label that released a lot of Ska. I’ve never heard anyone in the UK actually say Blue Beat when referring to Ska music.
@@bjorntoulouse7523 ur actually both correct, ska was originally mislabeled as bluebeat in the uk which led to the naming of this label, but its the label name being mentioned in the title, they aren't saying the song is blue beat. However, ragga actually comes from Raggamuffin music which is in fact an original Jamaican cultural phenomenon from the mid to late 80's that was used to differentiate their rough-edged gritty electro-dancehall from the dulcet "digital dancehall" that preceded it. Although since the distinction isn't very clear out of context artists like Yellowman and Shabba Ranks could both just be considered Dancehall, whereas Shabba was really more of a distinctly raggamuffin artist, especially considering their heydays were a decade apart :) Some of my favorite early Ragga comps are Jamaican! They have some of the coolest cover art too
Malcolm Ekman - The Bluebeat label can’t have been named after the music, the label predates Ska music, originally releasing Jamaican R&B.
@@bjorntoulouse7523 they called all Jamaican music bluebeat, there's a video on youtube of Chris Blackwell saying he had to push the term "ska" in the UK (a term he notes is what they actually called it in Jamaica) because at the time everyone in the UK was still calling all Jamaican music blue beat
Malcolm Ekman -So you’re saying all late 50s / early 60s Jamaican music was called Bluebeat in the UK? I wouldn’t know myself, I didn’t get into it till about 71.
the sax playing is the bollocks
coooooooooool
al prince buster
Coolnes. Cooler than a cucumber.
WoW!!
Sound quality of this kicks arse over the version I grabbed on a c.d. ages ago. It never sounded bad but I dig this mo fo sho! Tanks!
TOO TRUE AS A SKINHEAD THIS IS A CLASSIC GREAT GREAT TUNE