MADNESS

Created on 28/03/2003
Latest update on 08/05/2010

Artist: Prince Buster All Stars
Author: Buster Campbell
Label: Stellar
Year: 1963

Following the riddim of Buster's They Got To Go, cowriten with Derrick Morgan (see: Moon Hop).

Covers:

1963:

Derrick Morgan [as Blazing Fire; produced by Leslie Kong]

1963:

Lee Perry [parody as Mad Head]

1964:

Georgie Fame [accompanied Prince Buster on his first British tour]

1977:

Mighty Maytones

1979:

Madness [B-side of debut single The Prince; they also cut his One Step Beyond (see there)]

1991:

Selecter [with Rico and Prince Buster in person]

Real name: Cecil Bustamente Campbell; most influential Jamaican musician in days before reggae. In England his records were released on Blue Beat, soon synonymous for Ska.

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