Ska 45rpm JUSTIN HINDS + DOMINOES Save A Bread + On A Saturday Night ISLAND3048

	£		15
	$		19

It's always a problem grading these lovely old SKA records.

They went to lots of parties. 

That means that they're a bit battered and that's why many have names written on the label.

HOWEVER... they're usually cut VERY LOUD and though they look a bit rough, they sound OK (especially if you press the "Mono" button).

This means that a 60's Ska goodie can be perfectly acceptable, even if it looks R.A.A.B.B. (Rough As A Bear's Bottom).. 

Please "bear"🐻 that in mind when reading my descriptions.

Here we have what I think is ONE OF THE BEST RECORDS IN THE WORLD, and I'm very old, and consequently NEVER WRONG.

It's a 1967 UK red-and-white-Island issue of a Duke Reid recording of two toons by Justin Hinds and The Dominoes. The number is 3048. Hinds was, of course, the singer of "Carry Go Bring Come" which became a standard for the UK ska and two-tone bands, but to my mind this record is his greatest achievement.

The "A" side (which ought to have been the "B" side.. why did the old reggae record labels do this?) is "On A Saturday Night". There's a bit of a clicky start, and it's a good toon, ...but it's the OTHER side that we're interested in! 

The OTHER side is the magnificent "Save A Bread" and I'm always amazed that a Building Sociey hasn't used the tune on a TV advert.

Over a magnificent bass-led backing track that shuffles and lopes along like Johnny Depp heading for the horizon in "Pirates Of The Caribbean", Justin and his backing singers (possibly Dennis Sinclair and Junior Dixon) come up with a startling stream-of-consciousness lyric and lots of weird but wonderful vocal gymnastics.

A frequently repeated line is "What you know, you know. What you don't know, you don't know" and nobody can argue with that.

I am a sort-of guitarist and I am totally baffled by what the guitar player on this record is doing, and how he's doing it. 

It's one of those records where, every time you play it, you hear something new.

And here it is.. waiting for you to buy it, for a very good cause.

Conditionwise, it isn't perfect, but it plays a darn sight better than it looks.

"On A Saturday Night" has a few clicks at the start, which partly vanish with the application of the "mono" button. 

"Save A Bread" plays through beautifully, despite looking scruffy. 

It's the usual all-over-haze of mini-scratchlets and tiny rubs from being kept without a sleeve, since 1967, in a Schweppes box with other sleeveless records.

On my gear, with the "mono" button pressed, it plays beautifully without distortion or tracking problems, or grief to the lug 'ole.

I'd grade the disc at approximately heading up towards VG+ or thereabouts.

You could happily DJ with this record and the floor will immediately be filled by gyrating ex-skinheads (is ANYBODY ever an EX skinhead?).

It is a total classic record.

On the off chance you've never heard it, there are some uploads provided by various kind folk on You Tube. And while you're looking for "On A Saturday Night", have a hark at a different song of the same title by Brett Marvin And The Thunderbolts / Terry Dactyl And The Dinosaurs (more or less the same band). It's nothing like Justin Hinds, but it's a little hidden gem.

Buy Now, because what you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know.

SORRY! I only post to UK addresses. 

If you buy more than one record, I'll knock you a few bob off.

I'm not in this for profit, and I very rarely make any. What little profit I actually DO make mostly goes to a very fine wild animal recue charity (see above) so NO HAGGLING, chums, because the critters need to be fed.