Skip Jackson — born Tommy Brown — was a Jersey City singer, arranger, and producer who wrote and produced much of the catalog of Stan Krause's Catamount Records.
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He came up in the doo-wop era with the Shantons, neighborhood friends from Jersey City who began singing together in basements and at local dances; by his biographer's account he learned piano as a boy on a discarded instrument in the coal bin where his father worked as a building manager.
Through the 1970s he was the musical hand behind much of Catamount's output, arranging and producing the label's sides and, on some records, supplying the instrumentation and most of the vocals himself.
Under his own name he recorded as Skip Jackson & the Natural Experience, whose “Micro Wave Boogie” (Catamount, 1979) headlined the label's disco-era series.
His Catamount arrangement and production credits include 14 Karat Soul's “Doo-Wopp Disco” and “Please Say You Want Me,” the Catamounts' “Creation of Love,” the Metro-Liners, the Bonaires, and Greenville's “Just Got To Party.”
He continued making records with Stan Krause until his death in 1982.
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Flyers and photographs from across the archive that feature Skip Jackson.
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- Skip Jackson — Sir Shambling's Deep Soul Heaven — link
- Catamount Records — Classic Urban Harmony — link
- Skip Jackson discography — Discogs — link
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