I would certainly list your five, but I would have to add The Duke of Iron, Macbeth the Great, and Wilmoth Houdini from the Classic Trinidadian Calypsonians; and a personal favorite, Walter Gavit Freguson from Costa Rica.
In any case I greatly appreciate the uploads. I'm presently trying to separate out the Calypso (and some other Caribbean music) from the folk and gospel music I have been collecting as internet downloads,
I started enjoying Calypso around 1946 from hearing the Andrews Sisters sin Rum and CocaCola in the Lowes theater on Grand Concourse in the Bronx (where I lived at the time). I was able to find some records in the second hand stores on 6th Ave (aka The A of A) but lost contact with that world when I went off to school at MIT
About 20 years ago we bought a house on St. Vincent, but the only calypso I could find was one Sparrow CD in the airport in Antigua. Now they have a whole rack full of Sparrow and Kitch in the front of the store. Rounder has a few CDs and blogs like yours are letting me get records from the period when I was too poorto buy any even if I could find them.
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I would certainly list your five, but I would have to add The Duke of Iron, Macbeth the Great, and Wilmoth Houdini from the Classic Trinidadian Calypsonians; and a personal favorite, Walter Gavit Freguson from Costa Rica.
In any case I greatly appreciate the uploads. I'm presently trying to separate out the Calypso (and some other Caribbean music) from the folk and gospel music I have been collecting as internet downloads,
I started enjoying Calypso around 1946 from hearing the Andrews Sisters sin Rum and CocaCola in the Lowes theater on Grand Concourse in the Bronx (where I lived at the time). I was able to find some records in the second hand stores on 6th Ave (aka The A of A) but lost contact with that world when I went off to school at MIT
About 20 years ago we bought a house on St. Vincent, but the only calypso I could find was one Sparrow CD in the airport in Antigua. Now they have a whole rack full of Sparrow and Kitch in the front of the store. Rounder has a few CDs and blogs like yours are letting me get records from the period when I was too poorto buy any even if I could find them.
Keep up the good work
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