🎸🌟🎶🎉🎤 The Young Ones of Guyana formed in the late 1960s and toured regularly outside its borders. In 1970, the band found themselves in London for Guyana’s first independence celebration, Mashramani, and took the opportunity to go into the studio. The result was this first album, On Tour, which the French version transformed into The Yellow Dances, les Danses Ă Sensation… accompanied by a teaser sleeve typical of the chart compilations of the time. It’s a shame, because it’s easy to miss. On On Tour, guitarist Carlton Ramprashad and his band mull over calypso, reggae, funk and other Latin grooves, covering a number of current hits. With the Farfisa organ in full force, the cover of Sing a Simple Song by Sly & the Family Stone, the steady rock of Monkey Man (Toots), the reggae of The Liquidator and No more Heartaches, two compositions by Harry J. Even bossa is present, with a cover of Meditation by Tom Jobim. The Young Ones’ fame was short-lived. A second and final album, Reunion, was recorded in 1973.
The Yellow Dances / On Tour – The Young Ones Of Guyana, 1970
