Mo' Mento!
The priceless selections over at the brilliant blog Zerosounds (still!) and another Mento treat. It should perhaps be noted that this selection contains lyric writing at its Jamaican bawdy best, innuendo at its peak that at best is pure filth! As Zero G notes "The songs are traditionally chock-full of bawdy double entendres and poorly veiled sexual humour, which makes them rowdy and fun." This is so true and contains a favourite song that I bought as a single way back when and I thought by the legendary Prince Buster, so scratched it was almost unplayable but quite the funniest double entendres I had ever heard at the time in the classic 'Miss Constance' about the singer have a "running race" (ahem) with his girlfriend and what with all the interest in athletics at the moment from the Commonwealth games to the European games in Germany it seemed particularly apposite! Here is it performed by Charlie Binger's Six with Count Lasher on vocals! Believed to have been written by Lord Kitchener (Aldwin Roberts) and the liner notes here are worth reading alone and the most extensive I have ever seen for such a compilation complete with lyrics!
Check it out if you check one thing today . . . . . . it is absolutely filthy!
I LOVE IT!
Boogu Yagga Gal! - Jamaican Mento - Zerosounds
'Miss Constance' - Count Lasher with Charlie Binger's Six
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