Charles Welsh & Chorus - Emmanuel Road & Mango Time - Jamaican Ring play or game song - mento

Emmanuel Road & Mango Time - Jamaican Ring play or game song mento ......one of the best known jamaican song emmaneul road origanated as a ring play game or game song that involves the passing of heavy stones round a circle of sqating men this song has heard as a calypso and in many other versions rhe present recording shows in its orgiginal form , sung to the thudding rhythm of the stones being passed around the circle ......the second song Mango time is an exsample of countrey dance style called mento a hybrid sort of music with a rhythm rather more foursquare than that of spanisch influenced music such as trinidadian calypso .. the performing group includes harmonica coconut grater scraped with a spoon , wooden trumpet .(a bass instrument made from a hollow brach of the trumpet tree :)),bottles , pipe joints , and a knife tapped on a pickblade . the melody of mango time is obviously of brittish origan , almost certenly a sea song imported via the port of kingstone in the 19th century( it seems closey related to the liverpool song maggie may) but the style of playing is wholly jamaican ..........enjoy!!! this piece of history