STOP THAT TRAIN
Created on 18/08/2007Latest update on 22/03/2011
Artist: Spanish Town Ska Beats
Author: Winston Jones
Label: Blue Beat
Year: 1965
Jamaican trio with rightful author Winston Jones, produced by Prince Buster, one year before they switched over to rocksteady as The Spanishtonians.
Covers:
- 1967:
Keith & Tex [Keith Rowe & Tex Dixon, produced by Derrick Harriott, erroneously credited for years]
- 1968:
- 1969:
Ike Bennett & The Crystalites [instrumental as Easy Ride]
- 1970:
Scotty [as Draw Your Brakes, also in film The Harder They Come in '72]
- 1970:
Crystalites [as Stop That Man, also produced by Derrick Harriott]
- 1973:
Big Youth [as Cool Breeze]
- 1983:
Clint Eastwood & General Saint [dance hall hit]
- 1991:
- 1994:
- 1997:
Not to be confused with Bob Marley & The Wailers' Stop That Train, sung by Peter Tosh (on Summit in '71 and two years later on Catch A Fire) and covered by The Meters ('77).
