For such a small island, you have to admit Jamaica does produce some really innovative sounds, great musicians and world class sportsmen and women.

If I am correct the man describing the ska dance was Edward Seaga, Jamaican Prime Minister of the 1980s who has died in 2019 aged 90.

BEAUTIFUL SOUND .NO DIRTY WORDS JUST CLEAN SOUND NEVER FORGET THESE TIMES BLESS ....

My mom's generation! Kinston, JA. RIP mommy ska queen! 1952- 2001👑💋💫🇯🇲

We all enjoyed this today at my brother's house. It cheered me right well. Missing my💋♥️husband, Roy as he's away at the😭😭moment 😛❣️🕊️🔥✝️

Ska have evolved when I was introduced to it back in the 70's in London, England, Love Ska then and love it now..

So Ska is jazz with Caribbean rhythm.With guitar, trumpet, bass and drums.

This was the music l grew up with ska bluebeat rocksteady was always dancing round the front room Mum used to join in to' what memories Still listening in my 64th summer of life

ALWAYS REMEMBER ME AND FRIENDS DANCING LIKE THIS MANY YEARS AGO IN THE CLUBS WE CALLED ""BLUES CLUBS ""IN LONDON BEAUTIFUL FRIENDLY DAYS HOW I MISS SO MUCH BLESS ....

RIP Toots. Walk good in your eternal journey.

Wonder what became of the very capable little girl dancer....53 years on...she'd be 60+ now and able to look back at what must have been a wonderful time of her life. She was the star of the show.

music is great but what i also love is de fact it's de 1960's yet unlike so much place round de world look how nice and mix up everyone is: black, brown, yellow, white, everything in between. jamaica; out of many; one people! BOONOONOONOOS!

Still want to dance when I hear this ,at 74 I would look odd but who cares I would be back there having a great time 😎. This will always make you feel young and happy 😎

glad to see these people enjoying them self dancing,now you go to dance is war going on

Ska is the grandfather of reggae!!! Ska é o avô do reggae!!!

Brilliant and very educational too. Simple dance moves and great to watch. Thanks :)

Prince Buster - One Step Beyond, later covered by Madness (voice intro ".. well listen Buster..".

Amazing video....reminds me of my mom talking about growing up in Jamaica in the 60's

I love ska and this one especially. 😀. Oh to be young back then again

i am lucky enough to play in a reggae band..and i love playing ska music...brilliant

The band here is fantastic, out of this world, they have the ability to hit that special note ooooeee.

Love SKA , This SKA , Classik SKA , SKA SKA SKA , Jamming The SKA

the breakdown of the dance moves though!!!! haha...the BBC..haha

This is a trip! Gotta watch through the music to the Ska History and especially the Ska Dance moves. And I thought Ska was of the 1980s when I was dancing to The Beat, aka The English Beat and The Specisls-aka The Specials AKA 😂 NOW I get that The Kingmen had to have been listening to this up North in their 1960s college dorms-probably smoking some grass and spinning LPs of "Louie, Louie" by Toots and The Maytals when they came up with what most people are surprised to hear is a Reggae cover song about going on a cruise and meeting "a fine little Girl!" This music has a fascinating history of continously changing evolution. Successive generations will again "Discover Ska" after our generation has faded from memory. My dad was listening to Ska at Dartmouth college in early 60s-he lived at Kappa Sig frat where one of his frst Bros went on to do. "Animal House." Does anyone else notice that it's always been the rich educsted white kids who bring back from their Spring Break vacations the sounds from the poor ghettoes and sugarcain fields of the Caribbean? My dsd was from a big Irish blue collar family of poor Boston Irish-Catholic eight kid family. My Grampy hsd grown up a "Southie" in Boston's Irish immigrant white ghettoes of Boston. Unlike him, my Dad (oldest of eight kids) was able to make the strides of that successive generation of the American Dream and got a full scholarship for English Lit at Dartmouth Colee-it helped that he was an All Star ice hockey defenseman. He taught me about the music like this snd how it bridged the gap to and from cultures snd styles that most people in America back in my 1980s Salad Days dint know or acknowledge here or in England then. My dad is gone 5 years now but I still have amongst my 30+ Rolling Stones LPs the Chuck Berry Grestest Hits record he biought fot me, ssying "This is where Mick Jagger got all his ideas." Well not ALL of them were from Chuck, there was Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and more...but i knew the message he was trying too convey to my teen mind at that time living in a white middle to upper class world-that the white pop music I and everyone was listening to then in both England and America-English Beat, Stones, Pink Floyd-even Van Halen and REO Speedwagon-all owed their cultural succes and art to previous generations of poor blacks from the Southrrn psrt of our Western Hemisphere. This music which had been around since HIS teen and college years and in another forma before that blends us into one people. We've got a lot of people stirring the racial pot of hate in our world right now-media and politicians mostly, and from many faction-who forget that without each other we couldn't have Barbecue or Rock and Roll. What kind of world would that be to live in? They try to divide and conquer us. Well just keep dancing.....

Priceless! Do the Ska!

Tony Verity the presenter!! and the Boss Sound Of Ska!! By BL&D!!! 🎵🎶♩🎷📯🎺🎸🎹🎙🎤🎧

hiya all i remembering learning the ska dance moves when i was about 11years old long time ago now but i still have it keep up big up the ska for all time best ever and all can join in to come on then ska ska ska do the dance ROb the Mod ...

somehow I can't imagine letting my daughter dance the SKA back then...wooooh

My heart is beaming! Thanks for posting.

Know I've been neglecting punk and hardcore for a while and I promise to get back to them tomorrow. But this has to be seen now. A few days ago I posted some live footage of Toots and the Maytals.. Then I didn't realize it was part of a 40 minute documentary film called This Is Ska released in 1964. The film has been uploaded in four parts and offers an amazing glimpse into the ska scene in Jamaica in the early 1960's. Let's see all four parts. The white man introducing the film might seem familiar to some of you. He is Edward Seaga who would go on to become the 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica in 1980. On April 22, 1978, at the One Love peace concert, Bob Marley forced the then Prime Minister Michael Manley and record producer Seaga to hold hands. But at the time of this film he was the owner of WIRL l (West Indies Record Ltd.) a business he started in 1958. It began recording local musicians and singers. mostly performing a Jamaican variation of American rhythm and blues records. This first segment opens with Byron Lee & the Dragonaires playing Jamaican Ska. (I have to smile when I hear the name Byron Lee & the Dragonaires. When I was starting to get into reggae I was warned not to buy any of his records. He was considered sort of a hotel circuit tourist band that played watered down versions of the real thing. I never did buy any of his records, but he did do an OK job backing some famous singers, like Toots and the Maytals, among others.) The candid scenes of Jamaicans dancing to the ska beat are priceless and this documentary is a joy to see.

The Caribbean is a magical place!! ¡Saludos desde Puerto Rico!

Authentic Jamaican music

It’s a vibe u gotta feel. One love. One beat

I could watch this vid all day long love it

RESPECT!

Wow!! this history!!! awesome!!

i like the Ska. cool dance, Annette Funicello did the Ska.🐱

🔥🌹Almost religious beat🌹🔥 Lol Yes! I grew up growing. Where were you everybody? Reply with your stories. I would love to read them. Bless!💓

good ole days

Dance moves are best physio ever

Brilliant!

SKA,love it super chill down.

loved going to blues clubs in north london early '60s. heard a lot of r&b and calypso too.

Black Ska Matters! Tony (Scotland)

It's still like this. Jamaica is magical.

Yeaah, let's ska!

loved the break down of the actual shapes ... v good ! more ... ska ...

omg - absolutely fantastic - thank you sooooooooooooo much

Ska play it all the time do the ska

Ska. Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for this Great upload!

Very good old times !

first ska pit

Y ya entramos en la 4ta ola del ska...gracias Jimmy Cliff and everybody

Love love love SKA!!!

jamaica to the world

You have to bust the “Energetic” Row Boat dance when you’re having a great day; just have to be careful to not get the cops called on you!

I tried to follow the dance instructions. After that I'll be in traction for another 4 weeks

Brilliant.

Bloody hell I have surging excitement lol

after then, arrived the Reggae!!

awesome...

Thanks for this Great upload !!!!!!!!!

aw yeah,sweet sounds hmmm

who needs aerobics

Can anyone these days dance like this now

Or... try in your home... is very beautiful... and good for your health.. hugs...

don't worry. Jamaica is everything you want her to be and more

Good exercise

this is ska

sería tan feliz si estuviera en español :3 I

Vivan los tiempos rudos!! Rudy rudy! Rude boy!!!!

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Imagine if they danced like this in the clubs today? Less shootings, form fitting pants, extreme cardio workout. I might actually go to a club without a fully loaded ak47 for once!

mono tonic bollocks its dance pure and simple get on it and have a top top time enjoy.

Well, the video is almost 50 years old. Things change.

ha ha ha ,, great!

ska ska ska

Proof there is something called god.

A.H.M.?.......'Ellow? Mi seh,...'E.L.L...OH?......🕶💜

ahahaha ska ska ska gogogogogogo!!! big up!

wicked

Shake your hips! :D

Ohhhh RBF music video...

to the racists this is just people rembering good times so go away and let us enjoy without your inane comments

yup

Do the ska 💙Dublin MODS💚💚lreland💚💚💚💃👣👣💃😎😎Blues Brothers 💚💙💚💚⬇⬆💚💛❤

3:19 mame song!

flipwits25 months ago I want to learn more about the Asian guy at 2:04. Seems like he'd have a cool story to tell I"m guessing this may be Leslie Kong a top producer in Jamaica at that time.

the 'how to' is great a similar action to row in a boat... nowadays in jamaica steps are a similar action to f---- in public

like

Siguidop!

Lol so what is that little girl doing in that dancing crowd

well before 1959

Catdaddy was invented 1:17

now i know 'ska'

REGGAE MUSIC CREATED BY THE CHINESE , SOUND STUDIO ,RECORD SHOP , BYRON LEE, BUNNY LEE , AND CHANNEL ONE AND MISS CHIN, REGGAE MUSIC BELONGS TO THE CHINESE LIKE GANJA BELONGS TO THE INDIANS ,🇮🇳🇨🇳👍🏻

the Americans did the twist.

Only 38 people dead inside. I'd pray for them if any point but there isn't I just hope I never meet them

5:26 i know that move and it has nothing to do with rowing