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The Mamas & The Papas - Safe in My Garden

Mento music placed a strong emphasis on a rhythm created by the combination of drums, banjo guitars, flutes, and horns. Mento is described as having a performance mode with a rhythmic impulse, with a response type of singing that is African in origin, while the scale patterns, harmonic concepts, and verse and chorus song types are British. But, when performed, it was quintessentially Jamaican.

Mento is regarded in some circles as the Jamaican equivalent to calypso. While some of the songs were aired regularly, others were banned as they were thought to be too sexually explicit.

In the late 1950s, more young Jamaicans emerged as singers and musicians and began recording their music. Around this time a young politician of Lebanese descent, Edward Seaga, who developed a keen interest in Jamaican music and artists, established a modern recording studio that released early recordings of blues artists... In 1962, Seaga sold the company to Byron Lee, who renamed it Dynamic Sounds which would grow in influence to the development of Jamaican music to be regarded as Jamaica’s Motown.    

The explosion of singers, musicians and recording studios in Jamaica in the late 50s produced a new Jamaican musical genre, Ska. 


The Mamas & The Papas - Safe in My Garden
  • Written by: John Phillips
  • Released in: 1968
  • Genre: Pop

"The Mamas and The Papas broke up in 1968 and reunited briefly in 1971. In 1982, the group was reformed, including founding member Denny Doherty and two new Mamas, Mackenzie Phillips and Elaine Spanky McFarlane."

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