Happy Holidays Bovine Ska and Rocksteady Listeners!
As you, the loyal listeners of the Bovine Ska these last 22 years know very well, we love The Bee Gees. This week’s show has been years in the making as we have selected our favorite rocksteady and reggae cuts from 1967-1982 of songs written by The Bee Gees and performed by The Bee Gees and Andy Gibb. We started by playing a superb cover by Alton Ellis of the Bee Gees first international hit “, Massachusetts,” and then moved on to cuts like Freddie McGregor’s version of “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” and followed that with great reggae and dub interpretations of the brother’s disco classics that you all know so well. Please add this show to your playlist, favorite it, or share it wherever people love The Bee Gees and the sounds of a young Jamaica. happy Holidays! XOXO Generoso and Lily​

Happy Holidays Bovine Ska and Rocksteady Listeners!
For the 22nd straight year we are celebrating the holiday season on the Bovine Ska and Rocksteady with beloved cuts of Jamaican rocksteady, reggae, mento of a Christmas kind. For our theme, given that Jamaica was an English colony at one time, some Jamaican Christmas customs are influenced by England’s traditions of the same holiday. However, these Jamaican traditions have become truly their own and we discussed them on this year’s Bovine Ska as well as playing classic and rare holiday cuts from Alton Ellis, Laurel Aitken, John Holt, and The Heptones to name a few. Please add this show to your playlist, favorite it, or share it wherever people love the holidays and the sounds of a young Jamaica. Merry Christmas! XOXO Generoso and Lily

Hello Bovine Ska and Rocksteady Listeners,

Even more sad news to pass along this week. Just a few days after Pastor Dr. Norris Weir of the legendary vocal group, The Jamaicans, passed away, we received the upsetting news that Trevor McNaughton, a founding and last surviving member of The Melodians passed away on November 20th at the age of 77. Generoso was fortunate to have met Trevor on a few occasions over the years and found him to be an exceptionally talented vocalist and gentleman. We honored Trevor and the group he helped make famous on this week’s program by playing songs that Trevor wrote and sang lead on, but also by spotlighting the label that he formed with The Melodians, Ken Boothe and Delroy Wilson, The Links Label. We send our love and respects to Trevor’s family and friends at this sad time.

Hello Bovine Ska and Rocksteady Friends,

We began this week’s Bovine Ska Radio Show by sharing sad news, as legendary singer and co-founder of the seminal vocal group, The Jamaicans, Pastor Dr. Norris Weir passed away on Friday evening. We send our deepest condolences to the Pastor’s wife, Fay, their family, and all of his colleagues and friends. In tribute to the Pastor, we started this week’s show with a set of Norris’ best work as both a solo artist and member of The Jamaicans. For our label spotlight this week, we focused on Hubert Cunningham’s Lord Cunningham Label, which features a rare mix of mento, Gospel, and reggae cuts from such artists as Max Romeo, Barrington Spence and Hubert himself. For our U.S. listeners, please have a happy and safe Thanksgiving this week. XO Generoso and Lily

Hello Bovine Ska and Rocksteady Listeners!
We began this week’s Bovine Ska with a recently unearthed Treasure Isle ska cut from Stranger Cole entitled, “Thinking Of The Future,” that we think started the show off with a bang. After another set of ska, our weekly mento set and a long set of rocksteady, we tore into a spotlight that we have been working on for some time: Al Reid’s amazing reggae imprint, ONE HEART…Barry Llewelyn, I-Roy, and Alton Ellis all cutting great sides for Mr. Reid. Please add this show to your playlist, favorite it, or share it wherever people love the sounds of a young Jamaica. XOXO Generoso and Lily​

Hello Bovine Ska and Rocksteady Listeners!
Over the cold weekend, we stayed in to watch a lot of new cinema, and then pulled some amazing cuts for this Tuesday’s Bovine Ska Radio Show. You might remember the spooky reggae cut by Owen Del and Newts called, “Barnabas Collins;” from last Halloween’s Bovine Ska Radio Show? Well, this week we will turned the spotlight on the label it was on: Andell Forgie and Bunny Lee’s HATCHET LABEL. Great reggae cuts from 1972-73 by Delroy Wilson, Horace Andy, Dennis Alcapone and many more! Please add this show to your playlist, favorite it, or share it wherever people love the sounds of a young Jamaica. XOXO Generoso and Lily​

Hello Bovine Ska and Rocksteady Listeners!
First, congratulations goes out to all you Red Sox fans out there on your World Series win! Besides watching the series this past weekend, we bought some choice sides and pulled a joyous radio show for you that began with two sets of ska that included an Owen and Leon Silvera cut for Treasure Isle that we have never played on the show before! Our label spotlight this week was on Hubert Lobban’s rare 70s reggae imprint, MACK RECORDS, which features great cuts from Delroy Wilson and Hubert that we know that you’ll enjoy! Please add this show to your playlist, favorite it, or share it wherever people love the sounds of a young Jamaica. XOXO Generoso and Lily​

Happy Halloween Bovine Ska and Rocksteady Listeners!
For this, the 22nd year that we have done our Halloween program, we decided to think very dead as we not only will honor the tradition of Halloween, but we will examine the many different celebrations of the dead throughout the world while playing ska, rocksteady, and reggae cuts about the recently deceased like Lloyd Clarke’s “Count Five Drop Dead,” The Revolutionaries, “Rigor Mortis,” and The Upsetters, “Dig Your Grave.” We wish you all a Happy and Safe Halloween and a blissful World Series ❤ Please add this show to your playlist, favorite it, or share it wherever people love the sounds of a young Jamaica. Stay alive friends XO Generoso and Lily

Hello Bovine Ska and Rocksteady Listeners!
We dedicated this week’s show to our dear friend, Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah, O.D. as she was awarded Jamaica’s Order of Distinction in the Rank of Officer today. Congratulations mother Barbara! Our program for Barbara began with two sets of rare ska and an amazing set of joyous mento. We ended the first hour with a rocksteady tribute to the late Wesley Tinglin, the co-founder of the Viceroys who passed away on September 18 at the University Hospital of the West Indies. We send love and respect to Wesley’s family and friends. For this week’s label spotlight, we looked at Winston Edward’s Stop Point Label, which features great cuts from I-Roy, Big Joe, and Augustus Pablo.

Please add this show to your playlist, favorite it, or share it wherever people love the sounds of a young Jamaica. Stay cool friends XO Generoso and Lily

Hello Bovine Ska and Rocksteady Listeners!
Sunday, October 14th, 2018 is Generoso’s 50th birthday, and so like he has done for these last 22 years, we have filled this week’s Bovine Ska with nothing but Jamaican cuts from the year of his birth, 1968, so expect to hear some wonderful rocksteadys and reggaes in this celebration. The first two sets feature cuts with “1968” in the title and we have even “intensified” the first set as 50 is a big birthday. For the remainder of the show, we borrowed an expression from our good friend Stranger Cole who says: “More LIfe. More Music,” so all of our songs will have “music” or “life” in the title, like Prince Buster’s “Musical College” and Delano Stewart’s “That’s Life.” Feel free to leave Generoso a birthday wish in the comments section and please share the show! XO