Love Sunday Oldies but Goodies: Jamaica Ska, Rocksteady Trending all night.

 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

We’re independent” is the joyous refrain heard on Derrick Morgan’s “Forward March,” 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 “Forward March” is still tethered to the R&B shuffle that influenced it, though it is slower than the ska beat heard on recordings made in the next few years. In 1960, Morgan occupied the top seven positions on the Jamaica charts and is regarded as the King of Ska; on Aug. 6, Morgan, now 82, will be honored by the Jamaican government with an Icon Award at the Independence Grand Gala in Kingston. #giveback #jamaica

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