UPC: 4000127166234
Format: CD (10 disc)
Release Date: Sep 04, 2006
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Personnel: Cyril Monrose (cuatro, violin, piano); Cecil Bonnes (banjo); Will West (clarinet); George Mutoo & His Demerara Orchestra, Clemons Smith (alto saxophone); Bert McLean's Jazz Hounds (piano); Bill Verwayne (drums, cymbals, wood block).
Recording information: 02/23/1938-02/12/1940.
Illustrators: Dr. David Evans ; Richard K. Spottswood; Richard G. Johnson; Alain Boulanger; Ray Funk; John Cowley; Don Hill; Lise Winer; Richard Noblett; Art Zimmerman; Kevin Burke.
Introduction by: Hollis Liverpool.
Photographers: Dr. David Evans ; Richard K. Spottswood; Richard G. Johnson; Alain Boulanger; Ray Funk; John Cowley; Don Hill; Lise Winer; Richard Noblett; Art Zimmerman; Kevin Burke.
In the late 1930s, Decca records entrusted a boatload of recording equipment to producer Ralph Perez, and asked him to record the latest Trinidadian music he could find, to complement their already impressive collection and fuel the "calypso-mania" that was infecting the States. Perez collected a musicologist's wish-list of the island's most unique and beautiful sounds: chants, songs, hymns, dance numbers, folk tunes, etc. This amazing collection from Bear Family Records gathers 267 of these recordings, and includes a 316-page book with thorough notes and introductions.
Recording information: 02/23/1938-02/12/1940.
Illustrators: Dr. David Evans ; Richard K. Spottswood; Richard G. Johnson; Alain Boulanger; Ray Funk; John Cowley; Don Hill; Lise Winer; Richard Noblett; Art Zimmerman; Kevin Burke.
Introduction by: Hollis Liverpool.
Photographers: Dr. David Evans ; Richard K. Spottswood; Richard G. Johnson; Alain Boulanger; Ray Funk; John Cowley; Don Hill; Lise Winer; Richard Noblett; Art Zimmerman; Kevin Burke.
In the late 1930s, Decca records entrusted a boatload of recording equipment to producer Ralph Perez, and asked him to record the latest Trinidadian music he could find, to complement their already impressive collection and fuel the "calypso-mania" that was infecting the States. Perez collected a musicologist's wish-list of the island's most unique and beautiful sounds: chants, songs, hymns, dance numbers, folk tunes, etc. This amazing collection from Bear Family Records gathers 267 of these recordings, and includes a 316-page book with thorough notes and introductions.
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - Hold Your Hand Madam Khan
2 - Bastardy
3 - Ida, Ida Let Me Know
4 - History of Man
5 - Sunny Grenada
6 - Anything for Love
7 - Don't Touch Me
8 - Jacks' Broth
9 - Madam Khan
10 - More They Try to Do Me Bad
11 - I Want to Build a Bungalow
12 - Excursion to Grenada
13 - Ba Boo La La
14 - I Don't Want No Bungalow
15 - Tres Bemoles
16 - Commission's Report
17 - Joe Louis
18 - Ruby Canera
19 - I Am Going to Buy a Bungalow
20 - Emmalene
21 - Seven Skeletons Found in the Yard
22 - My Troubles with Dorothy
23 - Clear the Way When the Bamboo Play
24 - Me and My Neighbor Don't Agree
25 - Will Dispute
26 - Shout All Guiana
27 - Why I Killed Winifred
Disc 2:
1 - O Lil', Lil' Gal
2 - Orphan Children
3 - Rubina
4 - Back to Grenada
5 - Lajebeless Woman
6 - Theresa
7 - Show Me What You Could Do
8 - Bushwoman Come to Town
9 - Lillian
10 - Censoring of Calypso Makes Us Glad
11 - Bamboo Band
12 - Shango
13 - Deliso
14 - Mr. Nankivell's Speech
15 - Cicilia
16 - Exploiting
17 - My Wedding Celebration
18 - School Boys' Adventure
19 - Banning of Records
20 - West Indian Rhythm
21 - Governor's Resignation
22 - Horrors of War
23 - Victoria
24 - Jimpy's Ingratitude
25 - Not Me with Matrimony
26 - League of Nations
27 - Tobago's Scandal
Disc 3:
1 - Captain, Put Me Ashore
2 - Give Me Back Me Ring
3 - Ancient Carnival
4 - Hojoe
5 - Sa Gomes' Emporiums
6 - It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
7 - Heroes of Old
8 - Vitalogy
9 - I Am Happy to Be in Love
10 - Poppy Day
11 - We Mourn the Loss of Sir Murchison Fletcher
12 - Strike
13 - Normandie
14 - We Want Sa Gomes
15 - Drinker and the Gambler
16 - How I Spent My Time at the Hospital
17 - Peter, Go Ring dem Bells
18 - What Kind of Shoes You Going to Wear
19 - When Me Body Lay Down in the Grave
20 - Jonah, Come out the Wilderness
21 - Mamy Mine My Baby for Me
22 - Ting a Ling Mi Bangola
23 - African War Call
24 - Play Mass, Don't Do Me That
25 - Little Gal, Mother Is Calling You
26 - Fire Brigade
27 - Archie Boulay
28 - They Say I Reign Too Long
Disc 4:
1 - Manuelita
2 - Beautiful Land of Iere
3 - Civil War in Spain
4 - I Don't Want Them to Stand Me Bail
5 - Next Door Neighbour
6 - I Want a Radio at Home
7 - Where Was Butler?
8 - Vendor's Song
9 - Guests of Rudy Vallee
10 - Why Me Craf Vex with Me
11 - Under the British Commander
12 - Tina
13 - Tropical Heat
14 - Barre-A-Oh
15 - Marian
16 - Girls of Today
17 - Man, Man, Man Peter
18 - Nellie Go out Mi Door
19 - Down the Road
20 - Darling Kimberlin
21 - Senorita Panchita
22 - Emilia
23 - Suspiro del Pobre
24 - Love Has Done for Me
25 - Jim Congo Myer
26 - Gertrude
27 - Miss Marie's Advice
Disc 5:
1 - Lopez Contreras
2 - Tierras Lejanas
3 - Linda Vista
4 - Mi Vida
5 - Old Man
6 - Only Foreigners
7 - Calypso Behind the Wall
8 - Too Botheration
9 - History of Woodbrook Vicinity
10 - Happy Man
11 - Hitler Demands
12 - Bosie Darling
13 - Trinidad Loves to Play Carnival
14 - Coldness of the Water
15 - In the Morning
16 - Police Diplomacy
17 - Diamond Ring for Emmaline
18 - Demasbar
19 - Ten Thousand to Bar Me One
20 - Buddy Abraham
21 - They Talk About Nora's Badness
22 - Who Has Done the Best for Humanity
23 - Love Me Emily
24 - Five Year Plan
25 - Home Sweet Home
26 - Time for Man Go Home
27 - So Many Women
Disc 6:
1 - Fare Thee Well
2 - Woman Headache
3 - Malicious Neighbours
4 - After the Bachanal
5 - Chamberlain Says Peace
6 - Christmas Morning the Rum Had Me Yawning
7 - Don't Tickle Me Dorothy
8 - In the Dew and the Rain
9 - I Don't Want No Calaloo
10 - Mois La Travy
11 - Peggy Dearie
12 - Death
13 - Bee
14 - Sweet Emily
15 - Old Woman
16 - Hooray Hoorah
17 - Fire Girls
18 - Elsie Jambie
19 - Elsie
20 - Old Men Come Back Again
21 - Matilda
22 - John O'Carr
23 - It's the Rhythm We Want
24 - West Indian Sheik
25 - Dem Policeman
26 - Belle Trinidad
27 - Inequality of Life
Disc 7:
1 - My Life of Matrimony
2 - No Surrender
3 - Fire, Fire in Port-Of-Spain
4 - If the Follow Me They Get Fever
5 - Freddo
6 - Reine Maribone
7 - Charming Trinidad
8 - Gabilan Bombay
9 - Alla Nom [Go Way Man]
10 - You Better Let Me Go
11 - I Am Free, Single and Disengaged
12 - Don't Stop the Carnaval
13 - Soffie Bellah
14 - Too Much Sorry and Pain
15 - Joe Louis-Schmeling Fight
16 - Soup in Bottle
17 - High Brown
18 - Bad Woman Oh
19 - Blow Wind Blow
20 - Kash Kash Kmona
21 - Customs Fire
22 - Power of the Lion
23 - Where Is My Sister This Morning
24 - Ara Da Da
25 - Scorpion
26 - New Shop Law
27 - My Indian Girl Love
28 - Bing Crosby
29 - Mama I Want It
Disc 8:
1 - Memories of Trinidad
2 - Amanja Soqua Me
3 - Two Bad Men in the World
4 - Gambo Lai Lai Before the Court
5 - Leave Me Alone Dorothy
6 - Advantageous Young Girls
7 - Adeline
8 - You Pelt Me Bundle Before the Dro
9 - Hitler
10 - My Intention Is to Join the Volunteers
11 - Hitler Demanded Trinidad
12 - Romance in the Moonlight
13 - Caro at Point Cumana
14 - Ochro and Rice
15 - Invasion of Poland
16 - Sir Neville Chamberlain
17 - Hitler's Mistake
18 - Freedom and Liberty
19 - Clementina
20 - Not So Carolina
21 - Finland
22 - My Impressions of Demerara
23 - Sedition Law
24 - Two Sisters Scandal
25 - Run Your Run Hitler
26 - Hitler's Attitude
27 - Brambroocoo Dance
28 - Appetite
Disc 9:
1 - Let Them Fight for Ten Thousand Years
2 - Lion Oh
3 - Carnival Revue
4 - Run Your Run Hitler
5 - Do You Remember Me?
6 - Second Hand Girls
7 - Cocoa Tea Puzzle to Me
8 - No No No Miss Angeline
9 - In My Own Native Land
10 - When I Marry Dorothy
11 - Emily
12 - Germany Invade Poland
13 - Story of Mr. Paul
14 - Leave Me Alone Dorothy
15 - Matrimony Becomes a Papyshow
16 - Lillian's Slackness
17 - Don't Worry with Me
18 - Bertha I Feel You
19 - No, No, Mirie
20 - Demi Gal
21 - Nazi Spy Ring
22 - Deliso
23 - Ah Neighbours, Neighbours
24 - Happy Land of Canaan
25 - Suzi Qu
26 - I Send My Wife to the Market
27 - Shango Dance
28 - Rada Dance
Disc 10:
1 - Vieja Mia
2 - Carnival Again
3 - Sambo Why You Are Go
4 - Patria Preferida
5 - Gambie Law Ray
6 - Admiral Graf Spee
7 - No Wedding Bells for Me
8 - Li Li Pierrot Darrie
9 - Send Hitler to St. Helena
10 - Teener Have Sympathy
11 - Guardian Contest
12 - War
13 - Harold Change Your Mind
14 - Women Diplomacy
15 - Orphan Home
16 - Ellis Nottingham
17 - Policeman
18 - General Contreras
19 - Mi Quiero Casar
1 - Hold Your Hand Madam Khan
2 - Bastardy
3 - Ida, Ida Let Me Know
4 - History of Man
5 - Sunny Grenada
6 - Anything for Love
7 - Don't Touch Me
8 - Jacks' Broth
9 - Madam Khan
10 - More They Try to Do Me Bad
11 - I Want to Build a Bungalow
12 - Excursion to Grenada
13 - Ba Boo La La
14 - I Don't Want No Bungalow
15 - Tres Bemoles
16 - Commission's Report
17 - Joe Louis
18 - Ruby Canera
19 - I Am Going to Buy a Bungalow
20 - Emmalene
21 - Seven Skeletons Found in the Yard
22 - My Troubles with Dorothy
23 - Clear the Way When the Bamboo Play
24 - Me and My Neighbor Don't Agree
25 - Will Dispute
26 - Shout All Guiana
27 - Why I Killed Winifred
Disc 2:
1 - O Lil', Lil' Gal
2 - Orphan Children
3 - Rubina
4 - Back to Grenada
5 - Lajebeless Woman
6 - Theresa
7 - Show Me What You Could Do
8 - Bushwoman Come to Town
9 - Lillian
10 - Censoring of Calypso Makes Us Glad
11 - Bamboo Band
12 - Shango
13 - Deliso
14 - Mr. Nankivell's Speech
15 - Cicilia
16 - Exploiting
17 - My Wedding Celebration
18 - School Boys' Adventure
19 - Banning of Records
20 - West Indian Rhythm
21 - Governor's Resignation
22 - Horrors of War
23 - Victoria
24 - Jimpy's Ingratitude
25 - Not Me with Matrimony
26 - League of Nations
27 - Tobago's Scandal
Disc 3:
1 - Captain, Put Me Ashore
2 - Give Me Back Me Ring
3 - Ancient Carnival
4 - Hojoe
5 - Sa Gomes' Emporiums
6 - It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
7 - Heroes of Old
8 - Vitalogy
9 - I Am Happy to Be in Love
10 - Poppy Day
11 - We Mourn the Loss of Sir Murchison Fletcher
12 - Strike
13 - Normandie
14 - We Want Sa Gomes
15 - Drinker and the Gambler
16 - How I Spent My Time at the Hospital
17 - Peter, Go Ring dem Bells
18 - What Kind of Shoes You Going to Wear
19 - When Me Body Lay Down in the Grave
20 - Jonah, Come out the Wilderness
21 - Mamy Mine My Baby for Me
22 - Ting a Ling Mi Bangola
23 - African War Call
24 - Play Mass, Don't Do Me That
25 - Little Gal, Mother Is Calling You
26 - Fire Brigade
27 - Archie Boulay
28 - They Say I Reign Too Long
Disc 4:
1 - Manuelita
2 - Beautiful Land of Iere
3 - Civil War in Spain
4 - I Don't Want Them to Stand Me Bail
5 - Next Door Neighbour
6 - I Want a Radio at Home
7 - Where Was Butler?
8 - Vendor's Song
9 - Guests of Rudy Vallee
10 - Why Me Craf Vex with Me
11 - Under the British Commander
12 - Tina
13 - Tropical Heat
14 - Barre-A-Oh
15 - Marian
16 - Girls of Today
17 - Man, Man, Man Peter
18 - Nellie Go out Mi Door
19 - Down the Road
20 - Darling Kimberlin
21 - Senorita Panchita
22 - Emilia
23 - Suspiro del Pobre
24 - Love Has Done for Me
25 - Jim Congo Myer
26 - Gertrude
27 - Miss Marie's Advice
Disc 5:
1 - Lopez Contreras
2 - Tierras Lejanas
3 - Linda Vista
4 - Mi Vida
5 - Old Man
6 - Only Foreigners
7 - Calypso Behind the Wall
8 - Too Botheration
9 - History of Woodbrook Vicinity
10 - Happy Man
11 - Hitler Demands
12 - Bosie Darling
13 - Trinidad Loves to Play Carnival
14 - Coldness of the Water
15 - In the Morning
16 - Police Diplomacy
17 - Diamond Ring for Emmaline
18 - Demasbar
19 - Ten Thousand to Bar Me One
20 - Buddy Abraham
21 - They Talk About Nora's Badness
22 - Who Has Done the Best for Humanity
23 - Love Me Emily
24 - Five Year Plan
25 - Home Sweet Home
26 - Time for Man Go Home
27 - So Many Women
Disc 6:
1 - Fare Thee Well
2 - Woman Headache
3 - Malicious Neighbours
4 - After the Bachanal
5 - Chamberlain Says Peace
6 - Christmas Morning the Rum Had Me Yawning
7 - Don't Tickle Me Dorothy
8 - In the Dew and the Rain
9 - I Don't Want No Calaloo
10 - Mois La Travy
11 - Peggy Dearie
12 - Death
13 - Bee
14 - Sweet Emily
15 - Old Woman
16 - Hooray Hoorah
17 - Fire Girls
18 - Elsie Jambie
19 - Elsie
20 - Old Men Come Back Again
21 - Matilda
22 - John O'Carr
23 - It's the Rhythm We Want
24 - West Indian Sheik
25 - Dem Policeman
26 - Belle Trinidad
27 - Inequality of Life
Disc 7:
1 - My Life of Matrimony
2 - No Surrender
3 - Fire, Fire in Port-Of-Spain
4 - If the Follow Me They Get Fever
5 - Freddo
6 - Reine Maribone
7 - Charming Trinidad
8 - Gabilan Bombay
9 - Alla Nom [Go Way Man]
10 - You Better Let Me Go
11 - I Am Free, Single and Disengaged
12 - Don't Stop the Carnaval
13 - Soffie Bellah
14 - Too Much Sorry and Pain
15 - Joe Louis-Schmeling Fight
16 - Soup in Bottle
17 - High Brown
18 - Bad Woman Oh
19 - Blow Wind Blow
20 - Kash Kash Kmona
21 - Customs Fire
22 - Power of the Lion
23 - Where Is My Sister This Morning
24 - Ara Da Da
25 - Scorpion
26 - New Shop Law
27 - My Indian Girl Love
28 - Bing Crosby
29 - Mama I Want It
Disc 8:
1 - Memories of Trinidad
2 - Amanja Soqua Me
3 - Two Bad Men in the World
4 - Gambo Lai Lai Before the Court
5 - Leave Me Alone Dorothy
6 - Advantageous Young Girls
7 - Adeline
8 - You Pelt Me Bundle Before the Dro
9 - Hitler
10 - My Intention Is to Join the Volunteers
11 - Hitler Demanded Trinidad
12 - Romance in the Moonlight
13 - Caro at Point Cumana
14 - Ochro and Rice
15 - Invasion of Poland
16 - Sir Neville Chamberlain
17 - Hitler's Mistake
18 - Freedom and Liberty
19 - Clementina
20 - Not So Carolina
21 - Finland
22 - My Impressions of Demerara
23 - Sedition Law
24 - Two Sisters Scandal
25 - Run Your Run Hitler
26 - Hitler's Attitude
27 - Brambroocoo Dance
28 - Appetite
Disc 9:
1 - Let Them Fight for Ten Thousand Years
2 - Lion Oh
3 - Carnival Revue
4 - Run Your Run Hitler
5 - Do You Remember Me?
6 - Second Hand Girls
7 - Cocoa Tea Puzzle to Me
8 - No No No Miss Angeline
9 - In My Own Native Land
10 - When I Marry Dorothy
11 - Emily
12 - Germany Invade Poland
13 - Story of Mr. Paul
14 - Leave Me Alone Dorothy
15 - Matrimony Becomes a Papyshow
16 - Lillian's Slackness
17 - Don't Worry with Me
18 - Bertha I Feel You
19 - No, No, Mirie
20 - Demi Gal
21 - Nazi Spy Ring
22 - Deliso
23 - Ah Neighbours, Neighbours
24 - Happy Land of Canaan
25 - Suzi Qu
26 - I Send My Wife to the Market
27 - Shango Dance
28 - Rada Dance
Disc 10:
1 - Vieja Mia
2 - Carnival Again
3 - Sambo Why You Are Go
4 - Patria Preferida
5 - Gambie Law Ray
6 - Admiral Graf Spee
7 - No Wedding Bells for Me
8 - Li Li Pierrot Darrie
9 - Send Hitler to St. Helena
10 - Teener Have Sympathy
11 - Guardian Contest
12 - War
13 - Harold Change Your Mind
14 - Women Diplomacy
15 - Orphan Home
16 - Ellis Nottingham
17 - Policeman
18 - General Contreras
19 - Mi Quiero Casar