HILTONAIRES Ska-Motion In Ska-Lip-So

[bugman]

Not sure what the rules are on posting this sort of thing any more. Anyways, the links still work, so grab a listen to this:

scratchyattic.blogspot.com/2009/04/hiltonaires-ska-motion-in-ska-lip-so.html

[baudolino]

I heard this album a few years ago. It's a prime example of falling between two (or more) stools. The Hiltonaires were an uptown outfit who played mento in tourist hotels. When ska became fashionable and mento's popularity waned, they added ska type drums and electric bass onto acoustic tracks, ending up with versions of old standards that are poor as mento cuts and worse as ska.

[I]

Indeed!

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