SHARP RARE "FLY FLYING SKA" BLUEBEAT BBLP803 PRINCE BUSTER FREE SHIPPING

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This is a very good original Blue Beat #803 album featuring Prince Buster and others. The sleeve has minor signs of age and is clean except for a small stain on the back. The record has little wear and sounds good with minor surface noise.

Fly Flying Ska was Prince Buster's second studio album. The album features many ska legends, including The Skatalites, Toots and the Maytals, Roland Alphonso, and Don Drummond among others.

Review by Dave Thompson - All Music Guide

Released in 1964, shortly after "The Ten Commandments of Man" introduced Prince Buster to the white British Mod audience that would (sundry fashionable convolutions notwithstanding) lionize him for the rest of the decade, Fly Flying Ska is less a Prince Buster album than it is a handy digest to the best of his recent productions. He contributes just five vocal performances to the set, including the lazy "Lucky Seven," and the conversely punchy "Flying Ska" -- a song better known under its alternate title "Wings of a Dove" -- but also craftily utilizing the theme to the traditional "El Condor Pasa." "Call Me," a peculiarly ska-ified hybrid of girl group harmonies and abandoned yodeling, and the caustic "Eye for an Eye" follow, but the jewel in the crown is "The Greatest," a boastful Buster buoyantly out-bellowing Cassius Clay by announcing himself as the double-greatest. Woven around these gems, Owen Grey ("River Jordan"), Don Drummond ("The Burial"), Roland Alphonso ("Roland Plays the Prince"), and two vocal duos, "Millie & Roy" and "Gaynor & Erroll," weigh in enjoyably enough, while the Skatalites serve up "Perhaps," a dynamic rendering of a '50s ballad that is now best-known as the theme to BBC TV's hit show Coupling. But best of all is the Maytals' "Ska War," a number that has also seen duty as both "Broadway Jungle" and "Dog War," but which remains one of that band's hardest hitting numbers, whichever name you know it under.

Track listing

"Flying Ska (Wings of a Dove)"

"Lucky Seven"

"Perhaps" (feat. The Skatalites)

"My Queen" (feat. Gaynor & Errol)

"I Go" (feat. Millie Small & Roy Panton)

"Roland Plays the Prince" (feat. Roland Alphonso)

"Call Me"

"Eye for an Eye"

"River Jordan" (feat. Owen Gray)

"The Greatest"

"Ska War" (feat. The Maytals)

"The Burial" (feat. Don Drummond)

I have been asked by an interested party wheather this album is a British pressing or a Jamaican so I have added some extra photos. The disc labels indicate Jamaican manufacturing and the jacket label indicates british production. I'm leaving it to the knowledgable collectors to decide what to bid.

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