Author:

Cook, Emory 1913-2002  Search this

Sparrow (Calypso singer)  Search this

Lord Melody 1926-1988-  Search this

Bilby, Kenneth M. 1953-  Search this

Warner, Keith Q  Search this

Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings  Search this

Subject:

Cook, Emory 1913-2002 Library  Search this

Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this

Physical description:

1 sound disc (67 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in

Type:

Sound recordings

Catalogs and collections

Place:

Trinidad

Washington (D.C.)

Date:

2000

1956

P2000

Notes:

Originally released as analog discs on the Cook label between 1956 and 1962.

Compact disc.

Notes by Kenneth Bilby and Keith Warner, and vocal texts in English, with bibliography and discography (29 p. : ill.) inserted in container.

Lord Melody ; Mighty Sparrow ; other performers.

Recorded in Trinidad by Emory Cook.

Contents:

Saturday night blowout (John Buddy Williams Band) (3:27) -- Carnival celebration (Small Island Pride) (2:17) -- Booboo man (Lord Melody) (4:18) -- Federation (Small Island Pride) (2:37) -- No, doctor, no (Mighty Sparrow) (2:58) -- Taxi driver (Small Island Pride) (3:24) -- Tuning of a pingpong (0:38) -- Yankees gone (Steel band procession) (2:21) -- Yankees gone (Mighty Sparrow) (1:44) -- Picong duel (Mighty Sparrow, Lord Melody) (4:22) -- Cowboy Sparrow (Lord Melody) (3:21) -- Reply to Melody (Mighty Sparrow) (3:51) -- Carnival proclamation (Lord Melody) (2:40) -- Paye (Mighty Sparrow) (4:08) -- Turn back Melody (Lord Melody) (4:11) -- Teresa (Mighty Sparrow) (4:44) -- Come go Calcutta (Lord Melody) (3:03) -- No crime, no law (Cammander) (2:48) -- He no dead yet (King Fighter) (3:19) -- Bongo man (Wrangler) (2:45) -- Neighbor Jacqueline (Wrangler) (3:07)

Topic:

Calypso (Music)  Search this

Sound recording libraries  Search this

Call number:

disc 000285

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_608204