1965
SKA DOWN JAMAICA WAY * FERDIE NELSON & IVAN YAP * TOP-DECK * UK
Driving Ska beat on this song that Ferdie Nelson gives a sort of potted history of the dance, while Ivan Yap (brother of producer Phillip 'Justin' Yap) supplies the Ska scatting. The instrumental line up reads like a who's who of the cream of Jamaican music with no less than four saxophone players the band are more or less what were known elsewhere as The Skatalites; the reissue is part of the Top Deck boxed set and is in Green vinyl.