“Scandal Ska” 1989. Mango Records. Compilation by various artists’ ska recordings from 1960-1962. While it’s not the soundtrack to the 1989 film Scandal (starring Joanne Whalley and John Hurt, the movie is “a fictionalized account of the Profumo affair” that brought “down the U.K. government when it was revealed that high-class hooker Christine Keeler was simultaneously servicing both the British Minister of War and a Soviet naval attaché”), a couple of the songs on Scandal Ska are featured in the movie to highlight the contemporary popular music of post-independent Jamaica in England. A couple of the numbers directly address the political scandal including the title track/opener “Scandal” by Skatalites founder/tromboonist Don Drummond, “Christine Keeler” by saxophonist Roland Alphonso, the bluesy-ska “Mr. Kruschev” by Skitter (Noel Simms, considered as one of Jamaica’s most gifted percussionists) and “Russian Roulette” by King Edwards. Also of note on Scandal Ska are Bob Marley’s (going by Robert Marley) first recorded single “Judge Not,” Jimmy Cliff’s “Miss Jamaica” and Desmond Dekker’s (the first “superstar” of reggae) debut single “Honor Your Mother & Father.” It’s an interesting comp overall but not necessarily a record I need to have in our collection (it came to us as a part of a larger vinyl acquisition) so I’m totally willing to let this one go.