CALYPSO BEHIND THE WALL
Created on 01/10/2004Latest update on 17/11/2023
Artist: Growler
Author: Errol Duke
Label: Decca
Year: 1938
One of the first calypsos ever recorded in Trinidad and one can hear it: the horn section has been drinking. Reissued on Rounder cd Fall Of Man: Calypso - On The Human Condition 1935-1941 and on Bear Family box West Indian Rhythm ('06). Written by himself. The melody is probably older (like with Matilda and Rum & Coca Cola).
Covers:
- 1946:
Lord Kitchener [as Jump In The Line]
- 1948:
Lord Invader [as Labor Day]
- 1952:
Blind Blake & The Royal Victoria Hotel Calypso Orch. [real name: Blake Alphonso Higgs from the Bahamas]
- 1952:
Woody Herman [credited to that same Higgs and Jessie Cavanaugh]
- 1957:
Lord Flea & His Calypsonians [as Shake Shake Señora]
- 1958:
- 1958:
Joseph Spence [also from the Bahamas; instrumental recorded by Samuel Charters]
- 1961:
Harry Belafonte [as Jump In The Line, later also in film Beetle Juice]
- 1962:
Gary US Bonds [as Twist Twist Señora]
- 1966:
Laurel Aitken [as Shake]
- 1998:
Cherrie Poppin Daddies [in film Basketball]
Royalties on Jump In The Line claimed by Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts) and The Lion (Raphael De Leon), who sued Belafonte once he became successful. See also: Iron Bar and Rum And Coca Cola.
