SLY MONGOOSE
Created on 27/11/2004Latest update on 09/10/2024
Artist: Cyril Monrose String Orch.
Author: Phil Madison
Label: Victor
Year: 1923
As instrumental, with Lionel Belasco on piano and Cyril Monrose on violin. Reissued on Rounder cd Goodnight Ladies & Gents: The Creole Music Of Lionel Belasco (1999). Jamaican mento popular in Trinidad; describes an affair between a newspaper reporter (the mongoose) and a preacher's daughter.
Covers:
- 1923:
Phil Madison [vocal version, also for Victor]
- 1924:
Lionel Belasco [vocal: Wilmoth Houdini, who introduced Sly Mongoose in '21]
- 1925:
Sam Manning [calypso actor & vaudeville star; reissued on Calypso Pioneers 1912-1937 (Rounder)]
- 1937:
- 1948:
- 1950:
- 1950s:
- 1955:
- 1962:
Count Lasher [as Slide Mongoose]
- 1970:
- 1988:
