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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Duke Of Iron
Author: Cecil Anderson/Samuel Florman
Label: Monogram
Year: 1952
Trinidadian who moved to the US in 1923. Real name: Cecil Anderson. One of the big names of the first calypso movement in New York ('40s) along with Lord Invader and MacBeth The Great. This was his signature tune. Jamaican mento music was the main influencer.
Covers:
Lord Myric [on Folkways]
Roy Shurland & the Big Bamboo Orch. [in Nassau's biggest nightclub The Big Bamboo]
Emile Straker & his Merrymen [from Barbados; with different lyrics and elements from Rum And Coca Cola ("Working for the Yankee dollar"); hit B in '69]
Hiltonaires [following the Merrymen]
Stanley Beckford [following The Merrymen]
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)