Tommy McCook
About the artist
Tommy McCook (3 March 1927 – 5 May 1998) was a Jamaican saxophonist. A founding member of The Skatalites, he also directed The Supersonics for Duke Reid, and backed many sessions for Bunny Lee or with The Revolutionaries at Channel One Studios in the 1970s. McCook was born in Havana, Cuba, and moved to Jamaica in 1933. He took up the tenor saxophone at the age of eleven, when he was a pupil at the Alpha School, and eventually joined Eric Dean’s Orchestra.
Top songs
- Tunnel One
- Reggae Merengue
- Riverton City
- The Shadow Of Your Smile
- Dancing Version
- Green Mango
- A Version I Can Feel
- Thunderball
- The Saint
- Heatwave
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- Eight Years After
- The Saint (The Saints Go Marching In)
- Cloak & Dagger
- A gigantic dub
- Special Version
- Caltone Special
- Silver Dollar
- Mandela
- A Dancing Version
- Freedom Sounds
- Alley Cat Ska
- angel of the morning
- A Dancing Dub
- Moody Ska
- Cotton Tree
- Dance With Me
- Rocket Ship
- The Shadow of You Smile
- A Loving Melody
- Heatwave - Moving
- Liquidator
- Revenge
- Hornsman Chant
- Hot lava
- Doctor Zhivago
- The Big Boss Of Dubs
- Death Trap
- Behold Dis Ya Dub of Class
- A Version I Can Feel With Love
- Last Flight To Reggae City
- Out Of Space
- Inez
- Plague Of Horn
- Mine Eyes
- Movement of his majesty
- African roots
- African Jumper
- The Gorgon Of Dubs & Horns
- Militant Salute At Tubbys
- Real Cool
- Wailing
- More Music
- Twelve Minutes To Go
- Tears Of Love
- Ska Jam
- Lambs Bread Herb
- Glorious Lion
- Jamaican Place
- Musical Store Room
- Ites Of Zion
- Riding West
- Tommy's Mood
- Grass Roots
- Smiling rockers
- Jamaica Bolero
- Rasta De Master
- Persian Cat Ska (aka In a Persian Market)
- Duke of Earl
- Yellow Bird
- Harvest in the East
- Jamaican Bolero
- Skanking rockers
- Jah
- When I Fall In Dub
- Get Me To The Church On Time
- Mighty gates of Gaza
- (Music Is My) Occupation
- Soul Serenade
- Way Down In South
- Down On Bond Street
- South Side Feeling
- Bigger Things
- Caution
- Dynamite
- Rocking jamboree
- Far Over Yonder
- Hop Skip & Rock
- Second Fiddle
- Rock Away
- Tubby's Control
- Heatwave (aka Moving)
- Everyday Sax
- Peanut Vendor
- Gold Street Skank
- The World Needs Love
- Harry Meet Tommy
- The Great Tommy McCook
- Your Ace from Space
- Lamb's Bread
- Move Along
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