Some of them would spend the rest of the day at the of the person they met at the blues dance where they end up making love then spend the rest of day sleeping until around11pm, then if they had spent time with the person they met at the blues dance, they would heading for their own to prepare for work the following morning. Staying at party or a dance all night until daylight the next day is known as "bleeching the night away" amongst Jamaicans. The music played by the sound systems at these dances were not just Ska music the turntable DJ's played a mixed varieties of tunes such as Laurel Aitkin's " Baba Kill Me Goat," " Nebuchadnezzar" and "Boogie In My Bones" in Mento calypso blues shuffle fashion. Often times a sound clash would be on the menu for the night. The DJ’s plays a mixture of everything, turning back the clock to the 1950's swing. These 60's tunes included a few of the old rhythm and blues tunes by Louie Jordan, Roscoe Gordon, Gene and Eunice, Shirley and Lee. The sound system DJ selector firing on all cylinders on his turntable and of course, the tunes were mellow too. Yea! Back in the early 50's it was the explosive R'n'B rhythms from America, its contagious fury igniting the youths in the dancehalls all over the country and boy meet girl. Oh what a la, la on the dance floor! News of the late 50's; states that the Blues had fathered another child it's mother was rhythm & blues. This baby was given name Rock'n'Roll, to a vast majority this was a new dance music heralding great change in popular music taste. In Jamaica however, the excitement and celebrations had begun a little earlier with the blues shouter Wyoming Harris' recording of Bloodshot Eyes that was quite popular with Jamaicans. |
