| Mighty Sparrow, The / First Flight: Early Calypsos |
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| Album: | First Flight: Early Calypsos | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Mighty Sparrow, The | Added: | 07/2005 | |
| Label: | Smithsonian/Folkways | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-01-22 | Pull Date: | 2006-03-26 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | 12 Mar | 5 Mar | 26 Feb | 19 Feb | 12 Feb | 5 Feb | 29 Jan |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 08, 2008: | At the Cafe Bohemian Mango Vert | 4. | Feb 28, 2006: | at the Cafe Bohemian Dear Sparrow | |
| 2. | Feb 05, 2008: | CARNAVAL at the Cafe Bohemian No, Doctor, No (The Situation In Trinidad) | 5. | Feb 25, 2006: | New World Disorder Short Little Shorts | |
| 3. | Mar 07, 2006: | At the Cafe Bohemian Harry In The Piggery | 6. | Feb 21, 2006: | At the Cafe Bohemian No More Rocking |
| Album Review |
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| Don Farrell Reviewed 2006-01-24 | ||
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Early Calypso ( 1958-59 )from Trinidad, part of the Emory Cook Collection. ( Thank you Emory and Martha Cook for recording and donating these sounds) Great vocals, chorus and instrumentation. Fantastic lyrics. Great social/political commentary, cool party songs 1: 2:59 1958 Carnaval song about new Tax system 2: 4:23 Calypso war between Sparrow & Lord Melody 3: 4:57 cool brass song about a busy body **4: 5:13 nice male chorus, brass, "sleeping with a hog". Song about social control through embarrassment ***5: 3:41 a woman offers a man a hairy object to eat "if you eat it right the hair won't stick in your teeth" 6: 4:04 gun runners " from cannon to razor blades" 7: 4:03 about a prostitute who is also a pickpocket. 8: 2:49 about a cuckoled husband 9: 4:31 a revenge song about a woman bureaucrat **10: 4:30 sexual challenge with a drunken woman **11: 5:50 "Short Little Shorts" 12: 3:14 song about a man trying to seduce a young woman but first convince the mother to change her ways. **13: 4:16 Dear John letter and baby who is the image of his uncle Joe 14: 3:53 being apart at Christmas time 15: 3:06 being lovesick. **16: 5:04 condemming the Russians sending a dog into space 17: 3:54 late 1950's American cities time bomber ***18: 5:14 a brief time when calypso vied with Rock & Roll for International acclaim. D Farrell 01/2006 | ||
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