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The Jolly Boys
30,145 listeners
A mento quartet from Port Antonio, Jamaica, formed 1955. They perform with bongos, banjo, rhumba box & kalimba / finger-piano. In the 50s, they…
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Sugar Belly
3,155 listeners
Sugar Belly (William Walker) was a Jamaican mento musician. He developed on his own the instrument he called the bamboo saxophone. At the height of…
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Lord Flea
1,741 listeners
Lord Flea was the stage name of Norman Byfield Thomas (1931/32 or 1933/34 – 18 May 1959), a Jamaican mento musician credited with "helping start…
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Lord Fly
1,338 listeners
Born in Lucea, Jamaica in 1905 to a musical family, Lord Fly (Rupert Linly Lyon , called 'Pertie' by friends and family) has the distinction of the…
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The Hiltonaires
606 listeners
60's era 'Ska-Lip-So' group influenced by Lord Fly that entertained tourists with a blend of calypso & ska sounds playing at a long term…
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Chin's Calypso Sextet
639 listeners
Chin's Calypso Sextet is one of the most prolific and most fondly remembered mento acts of the golden age. Chin's was consistently a strictly…
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Folkes Brothers
8,313 listeners
The Folkes Brothers were a Jamaican mento group, composed of John, Mico, and Junior Folkes. Their 1960 single "Oh Carolina" was the first hit song…
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Lord Foodos
981 listeners
Lord Foodos was a steel band calypso/mento musician who released some music in the late 1950s.
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Harold Richardson & The Ticklers
785 listeners
Harold Richardson, along with Count Lasher, may have been the very best singer in mento, or, at least, my favorite. His voice is a country voice --…
