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It's Ska — but we call it Blue Beat!

Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 7 March 1964

I SUPPOSE we'd all reckoned without Jamaica. Since the failure of that embarrassing calypso which we were told would sweep the nation — the nation remained unswept — we have tended to rule out the West Indies altogether.

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