Artist: Louise Neptune
Author: traditional
Year: 1939
Quadrille about a fatal knifing on the market in Barbados, early 20th century. Short version obtained by anthropologist Melville J. Herkovits in Toco, Trinidad.
Covers:
Wilmoth Houdini [first commercial recording as He Had It Coming, crediting himself]
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan [as Stone Cold Dead In The Market, hit US in the slipstream of the calypso wave triggered by Rum And Coca Cola (see there)]
Macbeth The Great [idem during the Town Hall Calypso concert organised and broadcasted by Alan Lomax]
Gracie Barrie [idem]
Maya Angelou [as Stone Cold]
Jimmy Smith [with Stanley Turrentine]
Russ Henderson [vocal: Vernon Neptune]
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)