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- Date Released: January 1, 1960
- Genre: International
- Style: Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records / Smithsonian Folkways
The Mighty Sparrow's famed antagonist at his best.
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We Say...
Like the Mighty Panther, Fitzroy Alexander (aka Lord Melody) sang in the Young Brigade Tent, and appeared before Princess Margaret in 1956. Melody also shared Panther's lightness of touch and irrepressible sense of humor. He's best remembered as the composer of "Booboo Man" (later covered by both Harry Belafonte and Ella Fitzgerald) and for a longstanding rivalry with the Mighty Sparrow, whom Melody antagonized, and often bested, in calypsos like "Cowboy Sparrow" and "Sparrow's Sister" (you can hear the two calypsonians going head-to-head on Calypso Awakening's "Picong Duel"). Subtlety was not a strong suit: Melody could be vainglorious in one verse, and self-deprecating in the next (see, for instance, the illustration for this album cover). But he was an uncommonly supple, acrobatic vocalist, who treated the rhythms accompanying bands laid down for him like rubber bands. On "The Jumble" he makes a crying jag sound ebullient.
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They Say...
This early album is from a fine and unjustly forgotten calypsonian who was a fierce competitor of Sparrow in the 1950s.
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The Letter |
3:28 |
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| 02. | |
Belmont Jackass |
4:16 |
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| 03. | |
Hungry Barbers |
3:24 |
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| 04. | |
Turn Back, Melody |
4:15 |
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| 05. | |
The River |
4:43 |
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| 06. | |
Si Senor |
3:46 |
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| 07. | |
Joseph |
5:13 |
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| 08. | |
The Jumbie |
4:07 |
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| 09. | |
Alexander the Murderer |
3:31 |
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| 10. | |
Kathleen |
4:00 |
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10 Total Tracks, 40:43 Total Length
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Credits
- Lord Melody - Vocals // Lord Melody - Main Performer
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