The Tennors - 'Ride Your Donkey'

[missuma2]

Used to always play this 45 RPM record @ my late Grandma's place - NYC - Harlem. Love this song...

[MikeN72]

Thank you for putting this up. This was my favourite tune for a long time, I only had a cassette tape recording from some old scratched up vinyl - this is a lot clearer :)

[cinemakramp]

@MikeN72 thanks I love this tune and appreciate when I get pep saying they like it.

[MrRaggaMuffin21]

So what's the video about?

[brutal101ladyboys]

Joe Strummer did a cover of this song, what a beatiful song

[bohsgerry]

have the 7" got it in camden mkt yrs ago,one of the best ska numbers,great for us skins

[LambNLions]

Last donkey ride, buck my backside like ah deh in deh in wild wild west, from there on , tis walk or skanti. Nice tune!

[rogerbly]

Riding your donkey and hoping for Cuba and the USA to become friends again.

[backinnadedays]

My dads favorite tune in the 60's, I use to watch my parents dancing away, friends drinking Long Life/Skol Beer, Tree top Orange chasers with white rum ... Those were the days cho ...Tuneeeeeeeeee

[KATHLEENDUZIT]

I remember when It first came out..I is a white boy.....68 yhears old...love it

[mikebt2000]

Memories of being a snot-nosed little kid in Jamaica in the 60's!!! Me and my friends really loved this!!

[cinemakramp]

@ThomasTube0303 I dont know why this comment was removed - it was great -Kerrie Cinemakramp.

[ThomasTube0303]

@cinemakramp Thank You very Much. It seems the second posting has survived, So all is well...(Fingers Crossed lol)

I think originally You Tube blocked Young Boy & Fiddle, & Ride Your Donkey....But then realized exactly what I was writing about........

And then came to their senses.

[SPOOKYDONKEY3030]

This is my song !!! My mom would play for it when i was a kid !!! hence the name !

[cinemakramp]

@SPOOKYDONKEY3030 - youre cool spooky donkey.

[budway1942]

Loved the song and the vid....lol

[MrEdyoulis]

I've loved Weather Report for decades so its great to find another Tennors song out there. Rock Steady at its best. Thanks!

[17DJLOVER]

The Orchid Ballroom, Purley, Surrey, they played this song all the time, I love it, its the first time I have heard it since the 60s. Thanks for posting.

[youthgoes]

Excellent song...a skin Oi! band from France called Survet Skins cover this. I still can't figure out what "tune" he's talking about here in terms of one called "Ride The Donkey". I know these songs often have sexually explicit lyrics and double entendres...anyone know what it's really about though? Lol I must be dense.

[SHARPDav08]

The singer of Survet Skin has a other band. It's a ska/reggae band called 8°6 crew.

[youthgoes]

Oh yeah? I will have to check them out then. Thanks man! Cheers!

[neverbeen2]

heard this on george lambs bbc 6 music radio show today.wot a tune :)

[FuzzyCabesas]

Ha, great video! I like the Byron Lee & the Dragonaires version better though.

[jwattie]

Oh my good god! This is so good it hurts!!!!!!

[btwells72]

Excellent post! I actually heard this tune as a Jacob Miller SOng (Lambs Bread Collie) ! Where is the video footage from?

[cinemakramp]

..the footage is from an old Cuban, pre-Castro travalogue on standard-8 film. We transferred from film to video. Thanks for your comment.

[GoodSoundz13]

@cinemakramp reall footage!

[allseeingeye8]

f&*king marvellous!!

Thank you v much u s.o.b.