When I was a youngster I used to listen to an LP by Van Dyke Parks,
called ‘Discover America’. It opens with ‘Jack Palance’ by Mighty Sparrow,
it was my first encounter with the man eventhough I did not realize who
I was listening to in those days. Slinger Francisco alias Mighty Sparrow
is a local hero in Trinidad, with his 74 years of age he’s still performing.
I saw him last year in Amsterdam’s ‘Paradiso’. It was great to see the
living legend in person eventhough the old pervert embarrassed the joint,
shaking his lower parts the whole evening through. It is inherent to calypso
music to speak words with double meaning, I guess if you sing that kind of
lyrics your whole life it becomes part of you. It was good fun to witness.
Check out this 1966 LP of ‘Birdie’ the Calypso Genius, it
contains his massive hit, ‘Obeah Wedding’.
tracks;
1 Bag ah sugar
2 Shanty Town people
3 Going home tonight
4 The rebel
5 Honesty
6 B G Plantain
7 Obeah wedding
8 Papa Jack
9 Sir Garfield sobers
10 Bikini girl
Oh Man
You left me laughing my head off with the ‘old pervert’ comment
Perhaps its just a stage thing a la MJ crotch grabbing ( Was MJ pervert? :) or the hip hop artists whose hands always rest on their crotches?
Thanks again for the many wonderful LPs
wuod k
Crotch clutching serves a useful purpose, i.e. it fulfills the need to “tally me bananas”.
Crotch clutching serves a useful purpose, i.e. it fulfills the need to “tally me bananas”.
I love vintage calypso. Thanks for this and all the wonderful music you have turned me on to. I encourage you to keep posting.
I love vintage calypso. Thanks for this and all the wonderful music you have turned me on to. I encourage you to keep posting.
Super! Keep them great calypso records coming! /Regards from Sweden
Super! Keep them great calypso records coming! /Regards from Sweden
Have you seen that ? You and me on a jamboree took my files and posted them without telling anything about the GG where he found it. Shame on them. If you take a close look at the picture, even a blind man can see this is mine. Now I understand why they have NOT one link of any other blog on that page. Shame !
Have you seen that ? You and me on a jamboree took my files and posted them without telling anything about the GG where he found it. Shame on them. If you take a close look at the picture, even a blind man can see this is mine. Now I understand why they have NOT one link of any other blog on that page. Shame !
Mighty Sparrow – the Calypso Genius vol. 1 1966
(Honestly,
I loved this record and did not
know it was brand spankin’ new
when I heard it
for the first very time.)
Hi man1!
I am son of cold water flats
“Trini-poor-dads”. In 1966, my dad
was sent by the U.S.A.F. where angels fear to tread… the south china sea island chain. I was
fat and flabbergasted at the second
grade level in New York’s “Jail for black kids”- P.S. 116 elementary school.
I hated M.L.K. isms,
because his
speeches forced the people of Portland, Oregon U.S.A.
(white America of where I was)
to return to a racially divided and family divided Anarchy of
Jamaica, New York.
Now, your 1 record, cleared up issues about why my imported
family does not speak “the Queen or Kings english”(worked!). I loved this particular album for voicing the concerns of females in terms of losing someone who has not left this world, through the sympathy of a man, who has lost a spirit that cannot be reclaimed. This January 2010,
my Mother, Alice Charlotte Gamory-Mitchell ( of Syd Joe feat.
Sandy Gamory[my Grandfather] fame-been gone ),
Port Au Prince, Trinidad Carib’ “Passed for White” at a spanish catholic mission in Fairfield, California
called Holy Spirit Church.
I Appreciated your
Long humor and your Thin tales
for years, in fact, this 1 album
of yours gave me a glance into the future of living, loving and losing someone you hold on to for dear life, years before it really mattered. This 1 album spoke not to me but to the heart of a dialect that was forbidden to me.
Seriously, , I like your 1 album because your
lyrics bring our family together
in ways that young black kids
the United States of America,
could not. I was of the new born carib’ in this strange, jewish country
and have the scars to prove that
they “hit the thing before it grows too long to compete against them” .
I grew up. I accepted DAVID IKE. I personally hooked the others kids on this particular 1 album.
I miss your spirit (when you were young),
yet, you have sow of your own that only know you as Father.
Thanks a bunch.
Brian M.
Mighty Sparrow – the Calypso Genius vol. 1 1966
(Honestly,
I loved this record and did not
know it was brand spankin’ new
when I heard it
for the first very time.)
Hi man1!
I am son of cold water flats
“Trini-poor-dads”. In 1966, my dad
was sent by the U.S.A.F. where angels fear to tread… the south china sea island chain. I was
fat and flabbergasted at the second
grade level in New York’s “Jail for black kids”- P.S. 116 elementary school.
I hated M.L.K. isms,
because his
speeches forced the people of Portland, Oregon U.S.A.
(white America of where I was)
to return to a racially divided and family divided Anarchy of
Jamaica, New York.
Now, your 1 record, cleared up issues about why my imported
family does not speak “the Queen or Kings english”(worked!). I loved this particular album for voicing the concerns of females in terms of losing someone who has not left this world, through the sympathy of a man, who has lost a spirit that cannot be reclaimed. This January 2010,
my Mother, Alice Charlotte Gamory-Mitchell ( of Syd Joe feat.
Sandy Gamory[my Grandfather] fame-been gone ),
Port Au Prince, Trinidad Carib’ “Passed for White” at a spanish catholic mission in Fairfield, California
called Holy Spirit Church.
I Appreciated your
Long humor and your Thin tales
for years, in fact, this 1 album
of yours gave me a glance into the future of living, loving and losing someone you hold on to for dear life, years before it really mattered. This 1 album spoke not to me but to the heart of a dialect that was forbidden to me.
Seriously, , I like your 1 album because your
lyrics bring our family together
in ways that young black kids
the United States of America,
could not. I was of the new born carib’ in this strange, jewish country
and have the scars to prove that
they “hit the thing before it grows too long to compete against them” .
I grew up. I accepted DAVID IKE. I personally hooked the others kids on this particular 1 album.
I miss your spirit (when you were young),
yet, you have sow of your own that only know you as Father.
Thanks a bunch.
Brian M.
7:02 AM 2/6/2010
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2988168377526999064&postID=7034360678911697137
Mighty Sparrow – the Calypso Genius vol. 1 1966
(Honestly,
I loved this record and did not
know it was brand spankin’ new
when I heard it
for the first very time.)
Hi man1!
I am son of cold water flats
“Trini-poor-dads”. In 1966, my dad
was sent by the U.S.A.F. where angels fear to tread… the south china sea island chain. I was
fat and flabbergasted at the second
grade level in New York’s “Jail for black kids”- P.S. 116 elementary school.
I hated M.L.K. isms,
because his
speeches forced the people of Portland, Oregon U.S.A.
(white America of where I was)
to return to a racially divided and family divided Anarchy of
Jamaica, New York.
Now, your 1 record, cleared up issues about why my imported
family does not speak “the Queen or Kings english”(worked!). I loved this particular album for voicing
the concerns of females in terms of losing someone who has not left this world, through the sympathy
of a man, who has lost a spirit that cannot be reclaimed. This January 2010,
my Mother, Alice Charlotte Gamory-Mitchell ( of Syd Joe feat.
Sandy Gamory[my Grandfather] fame-been gone ),
Port Au Prince, Trinidad Carib’ “Passed for White” at a spanish catholic mission in Fairfield,
California
called Holy Spirit Church.
I Appreciated your
Long humor and your Thin tales
for years, in fact, this 1 album
of yours gave me a glance into the future of living, loving and losing someone you hold on to for dear
life, years before it really mattered. This 1 album spoke not to me but to the heart of a dialect
that was forbidden to me.
Seriously, , I like your 1 album because your
lyrics bring our family together
in ways that young black kids
the United States of America,
could not. I was of the new born carib’ in this strange, jewish country
and have the scars to prove that
they “hit the thing before it grows too long to compete against them” .
I grew up. I accepted DAVID IKE. I personally hooked the others kids on this particular 1 album.
I miss your spirit (when you were young ,
yet, you have sow of your own that only know you as Father.
Thanks a bunch.
Brian M.
7:02 AM 2/6/2010
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2988168377526999064&postID=7034360678911697137
Mighty Sparrow – the Calypso Genius vol. 1 1966
(Honestly,
I loved this record and did not
know it was brand spankin’ new
when I heard it
for the first very time.)
Hi man1!
I am son of cold water flats
“Trini-poor-dads”. In 1966, my dad
was sent by the U.S.A.F. where angels fear to tread… the south china sea island chain. I was
fat and flabbergasted at the second
grade level in New York’s “Jail for black kids”- P.S. 116 elementary school.
I hated M.L.K. isms,
because his
speeches forced the people of Portland, Oregon U.S.A.
(white America of where I was)
to return to a racially divided and family divided Anarchy of
Jamaica, New York.
Now, your 1 record, cleared up issues about why my imported
family does not speak “the Queen or Kings english”(worked!). I loved this particular album for voicing
the concerns of females in terms of losing someone who has not left this world, through the sympathy
of a man, who has lost a spirit that cannot be reclaimed. This January 2010,
my Mother, Alice Charlotte Gamory-Mitchell ( of Syd Joe feat.
Sandy Gamory[my Grandfather] fame-been gone ),
Port Au Prince, Trinidad Carib’ “Passed for White” at a spanish catholic mission in Fairfield,
California
called Holy Spirit Church.
I Appreciated your
Long humor and your Thin tales
for years, in fact, this 1 album
of yours gave me a glance into the future of living, loving and losing someone you hold on to for dear
life, years before it really mattered. This 1 album spoke not to me but to the heart of a dialect
that was forbidden to me.
Seriously, , I like your 1 album because your
lyrics bring our family together
in ways that young black kids
the United States of America,
could not. I was of the new born carib’ in this strange, jewish country
and have the scars to prove that
they “hit the thing before it grows too long to compete against them” .
I grew up. I accepted DAVID IKE. I personally hooked the others kids on this particular 1 album.
I miss your spirit (when you were young ,
yet, you have sow of your own that only know you as Father.
Thanks a bunch.
Brian M.
this is a gooood album… hugs
this is a gooood album… hugs
we love this album – thet are a Calypso Bay favourite!
we love this album – thet are a Calypso Bay favourite!