The recording session included Dennis Campbell and Val Bennett on tenor saxophones, Raymond Harper and Baba Brooks on trumpets, Junior Nelson on trombone, Ernest Ranglin on guitar and bass, Jah Jerry Haynes on guitar, Gladstone Anderson on piano and Drumbago (Arkland "Drumbago" Parks) on drums.
[3] It was a crossover success, as British youth saw the image of Jamaicans wearing sunglasses and dressed in a rude boy style as iconic.
[4][5] The debut single by German disco-pop group Boney M., "Baby Do You Wanna Bump", was based on "Al Capone".
[6] However, the single did not mention Prince Buster as a composer, instead billing the writers as producer Frank Farian and George Reyam.
[7] AllMusic credits "Al Capone" with giving a sense of attitude to the 2 Tone movement, and as such, it was sampled by the Specials in their 1979 song "Gangsters".