* - The closest actual English translation seems to be 'to break out of chains', although "vincebus" does not exist in Latin language. /
Click the Link above, left, to read an entertaining article on their first album; BTW, the "Comments" below the article are just as amusing as the review.
The album cover, based on the 1912 painting "Woman on the Top of a Mountain", by Charles Courtney Curran, is number 24 on Rolling Stone's list of "100 greatest album covers" - Click on Link above, left, to view the original album.
In the January 1996 issue, Mojo Magazine readers selected this album as number 11 on the "100 Greatest Albums Ever Made". In 2002, it was praised by a group of members of the British Parliament(!!) as being one of the greatest albums of all time.
... Formed in 1969 by Mick Abrahams, the former guitarist of Jethro Tull, the English sales of this album rivalled those of Jethro Tull’s next album, "Stand Up"
* - Released by James as ELMO James, late 1960 / Recorded live at the 'Tea Party Club' in Boston in February 1970, while the band was on its second American Tour
* - Rolling Stone "500 Greatest Songs " #73. / This was recorded at the University of Leeds Refectory on February 14th, 1970, and is their only live album released while the group were still actively recording and performing with their first and best-known line-up of Daltry/ Townshend / Moon / Entwistle.
Time:
1:21
Artist:
The Skatalites [Billed on the Jamaican single as as 'Roland Alphonso And The Skatalites']
Song:
Ball Of Fire [Title on UK single: 'Ball 'O' Fire'*]
Recorded November 18, 1978 At 'My Father's Place', Roslyn, Long Island, NY. This was recorded live and mixed directly to a 2-track stereo reel-to-reel tape. This tape was then duplicated and the duplicate used for a radio broadcast on WLIR-FM on December 11, 1978.
* - Recorded at John Street, Adelaide, South Australia, on April 1966 - all tracks previously unreleased // ** as the B-side of The Rolling Stones
'The Last Time", March 1965 {US release}
