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Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use. count owen and his calypsonians - kalypso records japanese repress - mento Count Owen's middle period mento album, "Calypsos Down Jamaica Way" was originally published in 1960 on the label "Kalypso", a subsidiary of "Melodisc".

Mento is a Jamaican music style that is largely unknown outside of that is the grandpappy of reggae. For a ska or reggae fan, mento sounds familiar and exotic
and sometimes unfamiliar. Mento recordings are difficult to come by, but worth seeking out. It's music that lifts my spirits and relaxes my mind whenever I hear it.

During mento's middle period of the 1960s, Count Owen became prolific, as he recorded a string of five LPs that moved from mento to ska to rock steady.

"Down Jamaica Way" is the first Count Owen LP. It sticks to traditional rural mento instrumentation, and for the most part, repertoire.

Melody D'amour

Melodie d'amour, take this song to my lover
Shoo shoo little bird, go and find my love
Melodie d'amour, serenade at her window
Shoo shoo little bird, sing my song of love

Oh tell her I will wait, if she names a date
Tell her that I care, more than I can bear
For when we are apart, how it hurts my heart
So fly oh fly away and say that I hope and pray
This lovers melody will bring her back to me

Melodie d'amour, take this song to my lover
Shoo shoo little bird, go and find my love
Melodie d'amour, serenade at her window
shoo shoo little bird, tell her of my love

Oh tell her how I yearn, long for her return
Say I miss her so, more than she could know
For when we are apart, how it hurts my heart
So fly oh fly away and say that I hope and pray
This lover's melody will bring her back to me

Melodie d'amour, serenade at her window
Shoo shoo little bird, tell her of my love. for lisa!!!

Out The Fire
Go Fife Go .......enjoy this one !!!!