Heritage HTCD 45 : Various Artists

Boogu Yagga Gal
Jamaican Mento
1950s

Genre: Jamaican

This is the rural music, which fed into Ska and Reggae. Played on improvised instruments - bamboo clarinet, fife, and drum box. Rare, rhythmic, raunchy!

Track Details

Count Lasher vocals - Charlie Binger's Six :
Calabash
Miss Constance

Count Lasher's Calypso Quintet :
Dalvey Gal-Parson
Slide Mongoose

Charlie Binger & his Calypsonians - vocals by Count Lasher :
Talking Parrot
Cinemascope

The Jamaican Calypsonians - vocals by Lord Lebby :
Dr. Kinsey
Etheopia

Local Calypso Quintet - vocals by Bedasse :
No Money No Music
Rough Rider

Chin's Calypso Sextet - vocals by A. Bedasse :
Boogu Yagga Gal
Depression

Chin's Calypso Sextet - vocals by E. Bedasse :
Big Boy and Teacher
Red Tomato

Chin's Calypso Sextet - vocals by E. Bedasse :
Calypso Pepperpot
Woman Tenderness

Calypso Quintet - vocals by Bedasse :
Walk and Talk
Night Food

Bedasse with The Jamaican Calypsonians :
Look Out Fe You Tongue
Jamaican Gal

Lord Power & his Calypsonians :
Mambo La-La
Special Amber Calypso

 
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