Calypso Carnival

Various Artists - International - Caribbean & Cuba | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 12, 2010)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rounder
• ASIN: B0000002SC
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,971 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #35 in Music > World Music > Caribbean & Cuba > Trinidad
  • #47 in Music > Indie Music > World Music > Caribbean & Cuba
  • #93 in Music > World Music > Caribbean & Cuba > Calypso

Track Listings

1. Ba Boo La La - The Lion

2. Neighbour - King Radio

3. Si-O-No-Valse - Gerald Clark And His Caribbean Serenaders

4. Bandandea - The Tiger

5. High Brown - The Growler

6. Depression-Pasillo - Lionel Belasco And His Orchestra

7. I Am Going To Buy A Bungalow - The Lion

8. I Don't Want No Bungalow - Atilla The Hun

9. I Want To Build A Bungalow - Codallo's Top Hatters Orchestra

10. John Thomas - The Caresser

11. It's The Rhythm We Want - King Radio

12. Tres Bemoles-Valse - Cyril Monrose String Orchestra

13. Marabella Wedding - The Tiger

14. Mama, Call The Fire Brigade - Wilmoth Houdini

15. Anything For Love-Tango Calypso - Harmony King

16. Vitalogy - The Lion

17. It's A Sin To Tell A Lie - The Lion

18. Saga Boy's In Town - Lord Invader

19. John O'Carr - King Radio

20. La Rosa-Valse - Gerald Clark And His Caribbean Serenaders

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 1-SEP-1999

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jump Up and Think, December 27, 1999

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Lawrence Waldron (New York City, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Calypso Carnival (Audio CD)

Calypso always educates you while you're dancing. Calypsonians inform, philosophize, speculate and entertain. They mount challenges and outright wars against each other (usually in a playful spirit). And it's all on this recording. And the original giants of this seminal Trinidadian musical form are all here: Lord Invader, Growling Tiger, King Radio, Lionel Belasco, Caresser, Wilmouth Houdini and the very late Roaring Lion: musician, scholar and author, who passed away this past year(1999). This CD is Calypso madness! But madness you could put in the Smithsonian for all its historical importance. In fact, the Smithsonian has committed a fair amount of Calypso from this period to its archives. This is Calypso at a critical stage, in that all its original cultural influences are right in your face. Cyril Monrose and Lionel Belasco spent half their lives in Venezuela playing the same music, so Trinidad's Spanish heritage is obviated. Greats like Invader and Tiger draw heavily on the African kalinda songs (music that accompanies an African style of martial arts, something like kapuera in Brazil). Lion was the darling of the white creoles of Trinidad, always dressed in suit and tie, his music shows various British and French influences. My favorites on the recording are Baboolala by Lion about a notorious pyromaniac, In the Dew and the Rain with it's irresistible tempo and John Thomas (take your bundle and go) cuz that John Thomas is just bad news! This music is from a time when the music of Latin America and the Caribbean was just emerging from a more or less homogenous type into distinct regional forms. This recording bears witness to those hip and happening times.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Witty Observations On Not Recent Events, April 17, 2000

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Grant Richter (Wisconsin, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Calypso Carnival (Audio CD)

One of the gentlest and most appealing albums I have purchased in years. The combination of clever and humorous lyrical content with fine musical backing is very easy on the ears. Van Dyke Parks did a wonderful album in the 70's called "Discover America", where some of this material was updated with "Hollywood" arrangements. It's great to be able to hear the original source tracks.

4.0 out of 5 stars ENJOYABLE CALYPSO AND EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR, February 12, 2007

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Martin L. King "zonule" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Calypso Carnival (Audio CD)

i am gonna tell you this, there is something about tracks like this that make me just forget that there is a modern life. this album i listen to as sort of a time machine vibe. i love the honest lyrics, the humor, and the crackly sound of the 78s. what i could do without though is the instrumentals. there is something about those violins that i do not particularly enjoy. other than that, the album as a whole is quite a nice example of what true calypso sounds like.