Anyone familiar with an old group called The Jolly Boys? How 'bout you turey, or Bowl. They are wowing crowds in England!

totally agree gbb, I've heard of em, good time experienced ol boys giving it some..... They rock..

Very cool

Go here on youtube to see >>> /link{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnYBkEE05bA, Jolly Boys doing Lou Reed's Perfect Day}

J A M

Love them GBB! Perfect start to a Monday day.

Here is Manitas de Plata serenading Bridget Bardot to continue the sweetness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR0niexyRSU

Jolly Boys been around for eons.
Struggled in jamaica for so many years but now "foreign" is bigging dem up.
FINALLY

The Jolly Boys, joyously cover Iggy Pop's The Passenger:
http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/06/midweek-music-break-the-jolly-boys-and-the- passenger/

Classic mento on the Great Expectations album:
Emmanuel Road
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e755rDLD6N0

GO DOWN EMMANUEL ROAD
(One of the best known jamaican folk songs. Emmanel Road originated as a ring play game or game song that involves the passing of heavy stones round a circle of sqating men.)

go down emmanuel road girl and boy fe go break rock stone
go down emmanuel road girl and boy fe go break rock stone

break them one by one (girl and boy)*
break them two by two (girl and boy)
break them three by three (girl and boy)
break them four by four (girl and boy)
break them five by five (girl and boy)

what comes after one girl and boy when we break rock stone
what comes after two girl and boy when we break rock stone
what comes after three girl and boy when we break rock stone
what comes after four girl and boy when we break rock stone
what comes after five girl and boy when we break rock stone
two comes after one (girl and boy)
three comes after two (girl and boy)
four comes after three (girl and boy)
five comes after four (girl and boy)
finger mash no mind (girl and boy)
œmember play we a play (girl and boy)
finger mash no mind (girl and boy)
œmember play we a play (girl and boy)

go down emmanuel road girl and boy we go break rock stone
go down emmanuel road girl and boy we go break rock stone

la la la la la
la la la la la
la la la la la
la la la la la

* In the patois version "girl and boy" (gal and boy) is given as "galang boy". In the Jolly Boys version, notice WHO bruk rock stone.

Riders On the Storm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=izRWgNY2uWk&feature=related

Have some chuckles comparing the Jolly Boy's version of Rehab and the original by Amy Winehouse.
Amy's:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LTPRJqt2z4
The Jolly Boys:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1nLaFlmI98&NR=1

GeeJam Studio, in Pt Antonio, has captured some of that bright, inescapable "joy of life-seize the day", sexy mento sound that was all the rage in the 1950's. (yu muss get yu waist-line into it)...Albert Minott's lead-singing is as "rascally" as ever. Simple banjos and home made rumba boxes now join with some jazzy lifts in this modern version.
To remind of the buccaneer days, when the Jolly Boys were part of Errol Flynn's "rat pack", his widow, Patrice, mixes it up on the dance floor.

Jolly Boys Documentary:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDzzlNX-h7Q

turey...a little off the subject, but was Manitas' flamenco serenade of Brigitte Bardot supposed to bring back a memory of sultry lips in a smoky gypsy club-cave somewhere in the Camargue of France of Times Past or Lost?

Your amusement sent me flipping through my vinyl record collection where I found versions from favourite guitarists with amazing subtleties of interpretation.

Paco Peña - Rondeñas
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4JUqOyh06g&feature=related

Sabicas - Fantasía
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkAvqo1C99o&feature=related

Maybe a night in Malaga, without Bardot Zed.

Would a Spanish Jamaican Inn have had such encounters?

Thanks for Paco Pena and Sabicas.