MAN SMART (WOMAN SMARTER)

Created on 31/12/2001
Latest update on 26/09/2022

Artist: King Radio
Author: Norman Span
Label: Decca
Year: 1936

Real name: Norman Span, one-eyed Calypsonian. Almost the same melody as in Rum And Coca Cola (see there).

Covers:

1945:

Macbeth The Great [and in '46 for Alan Lomax]

1952:

Harry Belafonte [his first flirt with mento and calypso; four years prior to his hit album Calypso]

1957:

Ben Bowers & Bertie King's Royal Jamaicans [as Not Me]

1957:

Desi Arnaz & Lucy Ball

1962:

Gary U.S. Bonds

1963:

Chubby Checker

1964:

Joan Baez

1964:

Joan Baez

1974:

Lois Fletcher

1976:

Robert Palmer

1977:

Carpenters

1979:

Rosanne Cash

1979:

Geraint Watkins

1995:

C.J. Chenier

1996:

Chaka Demus & Pliers

See also: Matilda.

Contact


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)

info@originals.be

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