Research Catalog

Title

West Indian rhythm.

Publication

Germany : Bear Family Records, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Decca Record Company.

Description

10 audio discs : digital; 4 3/4 in. +

Alternative Title

• Trinidad Calypsos on world and local events featuring the censored recordings, 1938-1940
• West Indian rhythm : Trinidad calypsos on world and local events featuring the censored recordings, 1938-1940.

Subjects

• Calypso musicians > Trinidad and Tobago
• Trinidad and Tobago > Social life and customs
• Calypso (Music) > Political aspects
• Calypso (Music) > Trinidad and Tobago
• Calypso (Music) > Caribbean Area > History and criticism

Note

• Lyrics provided in the accompanying book.
• Consists of 10 CDs in 5 containers + 1 book, laid in box.

Credits (note)

• Originally recorded by the Decca Record Company, 1938-1940.

Contents

• Disc one. Hold your hand Madam Khan / Codallo\u0027s Top Hatters Orchestra -- Bastardy / Codallo\u0027s Top Hatters Orchestra -- Ida, Ida let me know / Codallo\u0027s Top Hatters Orchestra-- The history of man / Codallo\u0027s Top Hatters Orchestra -- Sunny Grenada / Harmony Kings\u0027 Orchestra -- Anything for love / Harmony Kings\u0027 Orchestra -- Don\u0027t touch me / Harmony Kings\u0027 Orchestra -- Jacks\u0027 broth / Harmony Kings\u0027 Orchestra -- Madam Khan / The Caresser -- The more they try to do me bad / The Caresser -- I want to build a bungalow / Codallo\u0027s Top Hatters Orchestra -- Excursion to Grenada / The Lion -- Ba boo la la / The Lion -- I don\u0027t want no bungalow / Atilla the Hun -- Tres Bemoles / Cyril Monrose String Orchestra -- Commission\u0027s report / Atilla the Hun -- Joe Louis / The Caresser -- Ruby Canera / The Caresser -- I am going to buy a bungalow / The Lion -- Emmalene The Lion -- Seven skeletons found in the yard / Lord Executor -- My troubles with Dorothy / Lord Executor -- Clear the way when the bamboo play / The Caresser -- Me and my neighbor don\u0027t agree / Joe Coggins -- Will dispute / Joe Coggins and Zeda -- Shout all Guiana / Ralph Fitz Scott -- Why I killed Winifred / Ralph Fitz Scott.
• Disc two. O lil\u0027, lil\u0027 gal / Harmony Kings\u0027 Orchestra -- The orphan children / Lord Executor -- Rubina / The Caresser -- Back to Grenada / Harmony Kings\u0027 Orchestra -- The Lajebless woman / Lord Executor -- Theresa / The Caresser -- Show me what you could do / Joe Coggins -- The bushwoman come to town / Ralph Fitz Scott -- Lillian / The Caresser -- The censoring of calypso makes us glad / Lord Executor -- The bamboo band / Black Prince -- Shango / The Caresser -- Deliso / Atilla the Hun -- Mr. Nankivell\u0027s speech / Atilla the Hun -- Cicilia / The Caresser -- Exploiting / The Caresser -- My wedding celebration / The Caresser -- The banning of records / Atilla the Hun -- West Indian Rhythm / Atilla the Hun -- The governor\u0027s resignation / Atilla the Hun -- The horrors of war / Atilla the Hun -- Victoria / Cyril Monrose String Orchestra -- Jimpy\u0027s ingratitude / Atilla the Hun -- Not me with matrimony / Atilla the Hun -- The league of nations / Lord Executor -- Tobago scandal / Lord Executor.
• Disc three. Captain, put me ashore / Zeda -- Give me back me ring / Joe Coggins -- Ancient carnival / The Lion -- Hojoe / The Lion -- Sa Gomes\u0027 Emporiums / The Lion -- It\u0027s a sin to tell a lie / The Lion -- Heroes of old / The Lion -- Vitalogy / The Lion -- I am happy to be in love / The Lion -- Poppy day / Lord Executor -- We mourn the loss of Sir Murchison Fletcher / Lord Executor -- The strike / Atilla the Hun -- The Normandie / Atilla the Hun -- We want Sa Gomes / The Carnival Vagabonds -- The drinker and the gambler / Atilla the Hun and Lord Executor -- How I spent my time at the hospital / Lord Executor -- Peter, go ring dem bells / Fitzjames Williams Sextet -- What kind of shoes you going to wear / Fitzjames Williams Sextet -- When me body lay down in the grave / The Lion -- Jonah, come out of the wilderness / The Lion -- Mamy mine my baby for me / The Lion -- Ting a ling mi bangola / The Lion -- African war call / The Lion -- Play mass, don\u0027t do me that / Al Philip Iere Syncopators -- Little gal, mother is calling you / Al Philip Iere Syncopators -- Fire Brigade / Atilla the Hun -- Archie Boulay / Atilla the Hun -- They say I reign too long / Lord Executor.
• Disc four. Manuelita / Atilla the Hun -- The beautiful land of Iere / The Tiger -- Civil war in Spain / The Tiger -- I don\u0027t want them to stand me bail / The Tiger -- Next door neighbour / The Tiger -- I want a radio at home / Black Prince -- Where was Butler? / Atilla the Hun -- The vendor\u0027s song / The Lion -- Guests of Rudy Vallee / The Lion and Atilla -- Why me craf vex with me / Emery Cournard Serenaders -- Under the British Commander / Emery Cournard Serenaders -- Tina / The Lion -- Tropical Heat / Cadallo\u0027s Top Hatters Orchestra -- Barre-A-Oh / John \u0027Buddy\u0027 Williams and His Blue Rhythm Orchestra -- Marian / John \u0027Buddy\u0027 Williams and His Blue Rhythm Orchestra -- Girls of today / The Lion -- Man, man, man Peter / The Lion -- Nellie go out mi door / Lord Executor -- Down the road / The Tiger -- Darling Kimberlin / The Tiger -- Senorita Panchita / The Tiger -- Emilia / The Tiger -- El suspiro del pobre / Cyril Monrose String Orchestra -- Love has done for me / The Lion -- Jim Congo Myer / Atilla the Hun and Lord Executor -- Gertrude / The Tiger -- Miss Marie\u0027s advice / The Tiger
• Disc five. Lopez Contreras / Codallo\u0027s Top Hatters Orchestra -- Tierras lejanas / Codallo\u0027s Top Hatters Orchestra -- Linda vista / Codallo\u0027s Top Hatters Orchestra -- Mi vida / Codallo\u0027s Top Hatters Orchestra -- Old man / The Growler -- Only foreigners / The Growler -- Calypso behind the wall / The Growler -- Too botheration / The Growler -- History of Woodbrook vicinity / The Growler -- Happy man / George Johnson and His Rhythm Kings -- Hitler demands / The Growler -- Bosie darling / The Growler -- Trinidad loves to play carnival / The Growler -- The coldness of the water / The Growler -- In the morning / The Growler -- Police diplomacy / The Growler -- The diamond ring for Emmaline / The Growler -- Demasbar / Lord Invader -- Ten thousand to bar me one / Lord Invader -- Buddy Abraham / The Lion -- They talk about Nora\u0027s badness / Lord Executor -- Who has done the best for humanity / Lord Executor -- Love me Emily / Atilla the Hun -- The five year plan / Atilla the Hun -- Home sweet home / The Caresser -- Time for man go home / The Caresser -- So many women / The Caresser.
• Disc six. Fare thee well / The Caresser -- Woman headache / The Lion -- Malicious neighbours / The Lion -- After the bachanal / Lord Beginner -- Chamberlain says peace / Lord Beginner -- Christmas morning the rum had me yawning / Lord Beginner -- Don\u0027t tickle me Dorothy / Lord Beginner -- In the dew and the rain / The Growler -- I don\u0027t want no calaloo / The Growler -- Mois la travy / The Caresser -- Peggy dearie / The Caresser -- Death / The Lion -- Bee / The Lion -- Sweet Emily / The Lion -- Old woman / The Lion -- Hooray hoorah / The Lion -- Fire girls / The Lion -- Elsie jambie / The Lion -- Elsie / King Radio -- Old men come back again / King Radio -- Matilda / King Radio -- John O\u0027Carr / King Radio -- It\u0027s the rhythm we want / King Radio -- The West Indian sheik / Atilla the Hun -- Dem policeman / Atilla the Hun -- La Belle Trinidad / Atilla the Hun -- Inequality of life / Atilla the Hun.
• Disc seven. My life of matrimony / Lord Executor -- No surrender / The Caresser -- Fire, fire in Port of Spain / The Caresser -- If the follow me they get fever / The Caresser -- Freddo / Atilla the Hun -- La reine Maribone / Atilla the Hun -- Charming Trinidad / The Lion -- Gabilan Bombay / Atilla the Hun -- Alla Nom (Go way man) / Lord Executor -- You better let me go / The Caresser -- I am free, single and disengaged / The Caresser -- Don\u0027t stop the carnaval / Lord Invader -- Soffie Bellah / Lord Invader -- Too much sorry and pain / King Radio -- Joe Louis-Schmeling fight / The Growler -- Soup in bottle / The Growler -- High brown / The Growler -- Bad woman oh / The Lion -- Blow wind blow / The Lion -- Kash kash kmona / The Lion -- Customs fire / The Lion -- The power of The Lion / The Lion -- Where is my sister this morning / The Lion -- Ara da da / The Lion -- Scorpion / Atilla the Hun -- The new shop law / Lord Executor -- My Indian girl love / Lord Executor -- Bing Cosby / The Lion -- Mama I want it / The Lion.
• Disc eight. Memories of Trinidad / George Cabral -- Amanja soqua me / The Caresser -- Two bad men in the world / Lord Executor -- Gambo Lai Lai before the court / Lord Executor -- Leave me alone Dorothy / The Growler -- Advantageous young girls / The Growler -- Adeline / Pretender -- You pelt me bundle before the dro / Black Prince -- Hitler / Lord Ziegfield -- My intention is to join the volunteers / Lord Invader -- Hitler demanded Trinidad / Lord Invader -- Romance in the moonlight / Lord Invader -- Cara at point Cumana / Lord Invader -- Ochro and rice / Lord Invader -- Invasion of Poland / The Lion -- Sir Neville Chamberlain / The Lion -- Hitler\u0027s mistake / The Lion -- Freedom and liberty / The Caresser -- Clemintina / The Caresser -- Not so Carolina / The Caresser -- Finland / Atilla the Hun -- My impressions of Demerara / King Radio -- Sedition law / King Radio -- Two sisters scandal / King Radio -- Run your run Hitler / Lord Beginner -- Hitler\u0027s attitude / The Lion -- Brambroocoo dance / Gorilla -- Appetite / Gorilla.
• Disc nine. Let them fight for ten thousand years / The Tiger -- Lion Oh / The Lion -- Carnival revue / The Lion -- Run your run Hitler / Sa Gomes Rhythm Boys with Cambulay -- Second hand girls / Lord Beginner -- Cocoa tea puzzle / Lord Beginner -- No no no Miss Angeline / The Tiger -- In my own native land / The Tiger -- When I marry Dorothy / The Growler -- Emily / King Radio -- Germany invade Poland / King Radio -- Story of Mr. Paul / King Radio -- Leave me alone Dorothy / Mighty Destroyer -- Matrimony becomes a papyshow / Mighty Destroyer -- Lillian\u0027s slackness / Lord Ziegfield -- Don\u0027t worry with me / Lord Ziegfield -- Bertha I feel you / The Growler -- No, no, Mirie / The Growler --- Demi gal / The Growler -- Nazi spy ring / The Growler -- Deliso / The Lion -- Ah neighbours, neighbours / The Tiger -- Happy land of Canaan / The Lion -- Suzi Qu / The Lion -- I send my wife to the market / The Lion -- Shango dance / The Lion -- Rada dance / The Lion.
• Disc ten. La vieja mia / Luis Daniel Quintana (Trovador de la media Noche) -- Carnival again / Lord Executor -- Sambo why you are go / Lord Executor -- Patria preferida / Luis Daniel Quintana (Trovador de la media Noche) -- Gambie law ray / Atilla the Hun -- The admiral Graf Spee / Atilla the Hun -- No wedding bells for me / Atilla the Hun -- Li li Pierrot Darrie / Atilla the Hun -- Send Hitler to St. Helena / Atilla the Hun -- Teener have sympathy / Lord Beginner -- The Guardian contest / King Radio -- The war / King Radio -- Harold change your mind / The Growler -- Women diplomacy / The Growler -- Orphan home / The Lion -- Ellis Nottingham / The Tiger -- Policeman / Young Pretender -- General Contreras / Luis Daniel Quintana (Trovador de la media Noche) -- Mi quiero casar / Luis Daniel Quintana (Trovador de la media Noche)
• Contents of accompanying book: 1938 sessions. Music, the instruments and the songs in calypsos / Donald R. Hill -- Netty, Netty: newspaper articles on the excursion to Grenada 1937 -- Spanish in Trinidad / Lise Winer -- Who was Butler? / Dick Spottswood -- Doing the Suzie-Q, some popular contemporary dances -- Hideous discoveries and monstrous crimes -- Dance music of the past: the Harmony Kings Orchestra / Denis Malins-Smith -- The censorship of records, 1937 / John H. Cowley -- Calypso, Magic, Religion and Folklore / Donald R. Hill -- Sophia Mattaloney, court cases 1905-1909 -- Buy me a zeppelin / Lise Winer -- The visit of the Normandie -- The Lead-up to war 1935-1939 / Richard A. Noblett -- Haile Selassie, Ras Tafari / Dick Spottswood & Lise Winer -- Decca\u0027s Guyanese recordings / Richard A. Noblett -- Murder at Fyzabad -- Recording for the Decca / Dick Spottswood -- Vainglorious appellations / Donald R. Hill & John H. Cowley -- Alien pedlars -- The Musicians / Donald R. Hill & John H. Cowley. -- 1939 sessions. Lord Caresser in Guyana / Richard A. Noblett -- Lucky Lindbergh / Lise Winer -- The Lambeth walk / Richard A. Noblett -- Fire losses in Port of Spain -- The Panama Canal / Lise Winer -- Charming Trinidad / Albert Gomes -- The fight of the century: Louis vs Schmeling / Lise Winer -- Big film losses -- The new shop law / John H. Cowley -- Calypso and the Portuguese connection / John H. Cowley, Donald R. Hill & Lise Winer -- Gumbo lai lai "promulgates." -- 1940 sessions. Germany invade Poland: war calypsos, 1940 / Richard A. Noblett -- The Muttoo Brothers Orchestra / Richard A. Noblett -- Cavalcade of leggos / John H. Cowley -- An ode to Sir Lennox O\u0027Reilly -- Canboulay, Carnival and calenda / John H. Cowley.

ISBN

• 9783899162295
• 3899162293

OCLC

• ocm78806848
• 77519467
• 78806848
• SCSB-5370495

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries