The Jolly Boys
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Before reggae, ska and rocksteady was mento. Often mistaken for calypso, which originated in Trinidad and Tobago, mento is a purely Jamaican style, acoustic and rural. The Jolly Boys formed in 1955 after the disbanding of the Navy Island Swamp Boys, famed for being Erroll Flynn's preferred band for his yacht parties. In the sixties and seventies, The Jolly Boys performed mainly in hotels and clubs in Jamaica and the USA. It wasn't until 1989 that The Jolly Boys released their first album Pop 'n' Mento. This was followed by Beer Joint & Tailoring (1991) and Sunshine n' Water (1991), while two groups competed for The Jolly Boys label. Reunited as a single group in 2006, The Jolly Boys released Great Expectation in 2010, featuring covers of international songs revisited in mento style.
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Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Riders On The Storm
- Rum and Coconut Water
- Do it Again
- Love One Another
- Blue Monday
- As Lovely As You
- Fattie Fattie
- Ring of Fire
- Wheel & Turn Me
- Hanging on the Telephone
- Tenement Yard
- Been So Long
- Babadiya (Miss a Ram Goat)
- Coconut Woman
- Mattie Rag
- My Passin'
- Back to Back (Belly to Belly)
- Watermelon
- Crying Time
- Nightfall
- Ben Wood Dick
- Big Bamboo
- Shaving Cream
- Rehab
