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- Genre: International
- Style: Cajun/ Zydeco
- Label: Cook Records / Smithsonian Folkways
The hi-fi bric-a-brac of Trinidad ca. 1959.
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We Say...
The irrepressible Small Island Pride performed the first seven calypsos on this 1959 release ("Apple Vendor," which takes the sexual metaphors that gave "Taxi Driver" its bite and extends them even further, is especially strong, and the instrumental "Me Ting is Mine" is slinky and danceable), and the calypsonians who followed came close to matching him. "Neighbor Jacquelline" is a furious exchange between Mighty Wrangler, his band, and the backing chorus — "swizzle it, swizzle it, sweet like syrup," Wrangler sings, and the tent is set a-swirling. (Needless to say, this calypso too is a sexual metaphor, stretched almost to the breaking point.) Lord Commander's "You Can't Finish Pleasing People" takes up where Fats Waller's "Ain't Nobody's Business (If I Do)" left off, and the wryly argued legal casuistry of "No Crime, No Law" inspired Derek Walcott to compare Commander to "Germany's best poet of this generation, Bertolt Brecht."
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| 01. |  |
Mama Loves Mambo |
4:21 |
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| 02. | |
Banner Roll |
3:21 |
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| 03. | |
Mildred Don't Cry |
2:44 |
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| 04. | |
Apple Vendor |
3:08 |
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| 05. | |
Doggy in the Back Door |
3:12 |
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| 06. | |
Whey You Want to Touch it For |
3:00 |
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| 07. | |
Me Ting is Mine |
3:07 |
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| 08. | |
The Wrestler |
2:49 |
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| 09. | |
You Can't Finish Pleasing People |
3:02 |
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| 10. | |
No Crime, No Law |
2:54 |
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| 11. | |
Neighbor Jacquelline |
3:13 |
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| 12. | |
Sailor Man in Donkey Pants |
3:14 |
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12 Total Tracks, 38:05 Total Length
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