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Track List

  1. Click here to play a sound clip! Saturday Night Blowout The John Buddy Williams Band
  2. Click here to play a sound clip! Carnival Celebration Small Island Pride
  3. Click here to play a sound clip! Booboo Man Lord Melody
  4. Click here to play a sound clip! Federation Small Island Pride
  5. Click here to play a sound clip! No, Doctor No The Mighty Sparrow
  6. Click here to play a sound clip! Taxi Driver Small Island Pride
  7. Click here to play a sound clip! Tuning of a Ping Pong Unknown artist
  8. Click here to play a sound clip! Yankees Gone Steel band procession
  9. Click here to play a sound clip! Yankees Gone (Jean & Dinah) The Mighty Sparrow
  10. Click here to play a sound clip! Picong Duel The Mighty Sparrow and Lord Melody
  11. Click here to play a sound clip! Cowboy Sparrow Lord Melody
  12. Click here to play a sound clip! Reply to Melody The Mighty Sparrow
  13. Click here to play a sound clip! Carnival Proclamation Lord Melody
  14. Click here to play a sound clip! P.A.Y.E The Mighty Sparrow
  15. Click here to play a sound clip! Turn Back, Melody Lord Melody
  16. Click here to play a sound clip! Teresa The Mighty Sparrow
  17. Click here to play a sound clip! Come Go, Calcutta Lord Melody
  18. Click here to play a sound clip! No Crime, No Law Commander
  19. Click here to play a sound clip! He No Dead Yet King Fighter
  20. Click here to play a sound clip! Bongo Man Wrangler
  21. Click here to play a sound clip! Neighbor Jacqueline Wrangler

 

Calypso Awakening
from the Emory Cook Collection

Live Recordings 1956 - 1962
67 minutes.

See review

eCaroh Price: $15.95

A flourishing of Calypso creativity, a dramatic period in Trinidad's history and an audio engineer inspired these exciting tracks, originally released on Cook Records between 1956 and 1962. Emory Cook used innovative recording techniques to capture the active interplay between calypsonians and their audiences. We hear classic song-duels between calypso legends like The Mighty Sparrow and Lord Melody, lively steel band processions, and a wide range of provocative calypso songs about life, love and politics. Live and studio recordings from Trinidad. 32 page booklet presents notes, song texts, Cook discography, bibliography. 67 minutes.

 

See also:
Lord Melody Sings Calypso
Lord Melody - Again! Lord Melody Sings Calypso
King Harry and King Fighter Sweet TnT
John Buddy Williams - Kaiso
Living Legends of Calypso
The Best of the Mighty Sparrow
Essential Sparrow

CD Recording Description

The 32 page booklet presents notes and song texts of recordings taken from the Emory Cook collection.

A flourishing of Calypso creativity, a dramatic period in Trinidad's history and an audio engineer inspired these exciting tracks, originally released on Cook Records between 1956 and 1962. Emory Cook used innovative recording techniques to capture the active interplay between calypsonians and their audiences.

We hear classic song-duels between calypso legends like The Mighty Sparrow and Lord Melody, lively steel band processions, and a wide range of provocative calypso songs about life, love and politics. Live and studio recordings from Trinidad.

Review

Calypso Awakening captures a period of artistry that we have come to hold in very high regard. The combination of  studio and live recordings from  the Cook Collection feature classic songs by Sparrow, Melody and Small Island Pride. Other performances include King Fighter's "He Nah Dead Yet" and the live steelband rendition of "Yankees Gone", later renamed by Sparrow  as "Jean and Dinah". 
 
The superb live recordings place the listener in the audience at the tents and among the steelband chippers on the streets as far back as fifty years ago. One does not have to guess what it was like then. Calypso Awakening takes you there. [March 2006 - eCaroh/Ron]

 

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