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Count Owen

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Count Owen was a baritone mento singer and bandleader whose Federal Studio sessions for Ken Khouri, collected as Calypsos Down Jamaica Way, document how mento was packaged and marketed to tourists as calypso.

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mentomusic.com; reissue label documentation.

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