"Al Capone" (1964), Prince Buster's gangster-imagery ska hit whose gun-talk swagger fed the rude-boy aesthetic and later became a touchstone for the UK 2 Tone revival.

"Carry Go Bring Come," recorded by Justin Hinds & the Dominoes for Duke Reid's Treasure Isle label, is one of the group's best-known sides from the ska/early rocksteady period, its title itself a Jamaican expression for gossip and rumour-carrying.

Felix Headley "Deadly Headley" Bennett (1931-2016) was a Jamaican alto saxophonist trained at Alpha Boys School who worked as a session player from the 1950s, performing in the Studio One house band, Lynn Taitt's Jets and the Revolutionaries. He played on a vast number of ska, rocksteady and reggae recordings, including Bob Marley's first single "Judge Not" for Leslie Kong. Source note: Headley Bennett Wikipedia and AllMusic.

Independence-era ska recording by Derrick Morgan tied in popular memory to 1962 national celebration.

"Guns of Navarone," the Skatalites' ska instrumental take on the film theme of the same name, became one of the group's best-known recordings and a staple of ska compilations - an example of how Jamaican studio bands freely reworked film and pop themes into the new ska idiom.

Millie Small's 1964 international hit, produced by Chris Blackwell and widely cited as an early global breakthrough for ska.

"Oh Carolina," recorded by the Folkes Brothers in 1960 and produced by Prince Buster, is built on Count Ossie's Nyabinghi drumming - a rare case of Rastafari ceremonial drums appearing directly on a commercial Jamaican pop record, years before that influence became widely recognized in reggae history.

"Simmer Down," recorded at Studio One in 1963-64, was the Wailers' debut single and a number-one Jamaican hit - the record that established Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer as a serious commercial act years before international fame, cut with the same Studio One session musicians who would later become the Skatalites.

1966 single by Sir Lord Comic and His Cowboys, frequently cited among the first deejay records, translating the toasting style he had honed on the Admiral Deans sound system onto disc.

A Jamaican technology associated with the ska era. Starter record pending editorial verification.