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Arnold Rypens
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Artist: Lion
Author: Hubert Charles
Label: Decca
Year: 1936
Borrowing the tune of I Ain't Got Nobody while the Mills Brothers never recorded that song (see there). With Gerald Clark, an emigrated bandleader from Trinidad in New York. Reissued on Rounder cd Roosevelt In Trinidad, stuffed with topical calypsos (see also: Roosevelt In Trinidad).
Covers:
Van Dyke Parks [crediting himself; he also cut The Lion's Bing Crosby (see there)]
Taj Mahal [crediting Van Dyke Parks]
That was the year the real Mills Brothers signed for newformed Decca. Their harmony vocals inspired anyone who couldn't afford musical instruments, not just downhome barbershop quartets or doo-woppers on the street corners of America, also township choirs in South Africa and calypsonians in Trinidad. Pre-war world-wide punk-attitude.
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)