The Jolly Boys cover Amy Winehouse's "Rehab".
They made a good solid effort at reviving mento as a genre. They failed to do that, but their "Great Expectation" album remains a masterpiece.
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@coversongoftheday.bsky.socialThe Jolly Boys cover Amy Winehouse's "Rehab".
They made a good solid effort at reviving mento as a genre. They failed to do that, but their "Great Expectation" album remains a masterpiece.
#CoverSong
#bluebeat
#mento
@dubcorner.bsky.socialNew on DubCorner: Mento's Living Archive — the Jolly Boys, scholarship and the debate keeping the riddim alive
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Lord Fly & The Dan Williams Orchestra “Medley of Jamaican Mento-Calypsos”1952
One of Jamaica’s earliest commercial recordings. Mento before ska.
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Lord Flea “Donkey Bray” 1957
Norman Byfield Thomas leads his Bluemoon Boys through a Jamaican mento novelty number, with a banjo-heavy arrangement and Flea braying the chorus himself. Released on Capitol as a single
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