RARE Calypso: Melody Vs. Sparrow: COOK #1185- HEAR

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COLLECTOR'S ITEM!!!! All Emory Cook's recordings and notes were donated to the Smithsonian Institute.

EMORY COOK: During the late 1950s, calypso music in Trinidad was undergoing changes that reflected the island's political ferment. During that fertile period, Emory Cook, one of the pioneers of high-fidelity recording, was producing a sizeable and varied collection that he released on his labels. Cook was quite enamored of calypso, at least partly for its improvisational qualities, and he went out of his way to record more or less spontaneous musical and vocal interactions in their natural settings.

TRACKS:

SIDE 1:

• Mighty Sparrow "Dear Sparrow"
  March Of Dimes Quartet "Señorita"
  Lord Melody "Jonah And The Bake"
  King Fighter "Silly Men" (Cocoo Soop)
  Mighty Cypher "P.N.M. Balisier
  King Solomon "Mornin' Time"
  Tent Band "Road March Hit Tunes"

SIDE 2:

• Lord Melody "Creature From The Black Lagoon
  Mighty Sparrow "Situation In Trinidad
  March Of Dimes Quartet "General Election"
  Mighty Sparrow "Sailor Man"
  Sparrow Vs. Melody "Picong...a Duel With Insults at 6 Inches" (NOTE: Front Cover Photo shows the historic moment that the Kings of Calypso do their Insults "fight"! ...sounds familiar in these times!?)
  Chang-Kai-Shek "Naughty Boy"
  King Solomon "Belafonte"

A wallflowers' view of the goings-on inside a Port of Spain carnival tent, circa 1957 (In a tent somewhere in Port of Spain, calypso kings of past years gather to exchange extemporaneous lyrical insults, just like a game of ping pong. The result is highly amusing, highly enlightening and highly creative. Those assembled include legendary rivals Lord Melody and Mighty Sparrow, besides King Fighter, King Solomon and Nat-Hepburn with the March of Dimes Quartet. (Be sure to listen to SWF40453 Calypso Awakening from the Emory Cook Collection.)

A solid cross-section of the day's leading calypsonians — King Solomon, the Mighty Cypher, the King Fighter and the improbably-named Chaing-Kai-Sheik — joined Lord Melody, Mighty Sparrow and a shifting array of small bands to record this wallflowers' view of the goings-on inside a Port of Spain carnival tent, circa 1957. The proceedings are off-the cuff and informal; King Solomon sings to the accompaniment of a single guitar (check out his curt dismissal of Harry Belafonte, which rounds out the album), and the calypsonians alternate between insulting each other — or themselves, as Lord Melody does on "Creature from the Black Lagoon" — and chiming in on one another's choruses. But the album was also a showcase for Emory Cook's engineering skills; it's recorded so well, you can hear the cocktail glasses clinking in the background.

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