SLY MONGOOSE

Created on 27/11/2004
Latest update on 23/02/2024

Artist: Cyril Monrose String Orch.
Author: Phil Madison
Label: Victor
Year: 1923

As instrumental, with Lionel Belasco on piano and Cyril Monrose on violin. Re-issued on Rounder cd Goodnight Ladies & Gents: The Creole Music Of Lionel Belasco (1999). Jamaican mento popular in Trinidad; describes an affair between a newspaper reporter (the mongoose) and a preacher's daughter.

Covers:

1923:

Phil Madison [vocal version, also for Victor]

1924:

Lionel Belasco [vocal: Wilmoth Houdini, who introduced Sly Mongoose in '21]

1925:

Sam Manning [calypso actor & vaudeville star; reissued on Calypso Pioneers 1912-1937 (Rounder)]

1937:

Benny Goodman

1948:

Charlie Parker

1950:

Lord Invader

1950s:

Cedric 'Im' Brooks

1955:

Louis Armstrong

1962:

Count Lasher [as Slide Mongoose]

1970:

Aston Barrett

1988:

Monty Alexander

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