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Artist: Roaring Lion
Author: Raphael De Leon
Label: Guild/Musicraft
Year: 1946
Real name: Hubert Raphael Charles. The Caribbean region had to wait for V-Day '45 and the capitulation of Japan before carnival could be celebrated again. Mary Ann was the song of the first post-war edition. Credited to Raphael De Leon, alias The Roaring Lion (see: Ugly Woman). Lyrics were based upon a smutty song from San Andreas: Sound Bay Girl, see: Folkways collection Caribbean Rhythms. Re-issued on Ice, Eddie Grant's label and on cd Sacred 78's.
Covers:
Lord Invader [for Moses Asch in New York]
Xavier Cugat [credited to Davis/Castro, authors of another Mary Ann, first cut by Ukelele Ike (Cliff Edwards)]
Blind Blake & The Royal Victoria Hotel Calypso Orch. [from the Bahamas]
Charmer [alias Louis Farrakhan]
Terry Gilkyson [as Marianne; credited as the author since]
Hilltoppers [idem; top 3 US]
Burl Ives & His Trinidaddies [hosted a tv-show with Sir Lancelot Pinard as a frequent guest]
Bobbejaan Schoepen [as Marianne]
Harry Belafonte [covered Ray Charles' Mary Ann in '58 (see there)]
Cobi Schreijer [as Marianne, crediting Peggy Seeger]
Terry Gilkyson also wrote the Dean Martin hit Memories Are Made Of This and the Disney-smash Bare Necessities from Jungle Book. In Marianne he only altered the spelling.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)