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Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Lord Invader
Author: traditional
Label: Smithsonian/Folkways
Year: 1947
There was also a Black Boy In The Ring, sheetmusic published in Walter Jekyll's Jamaican Song And Story (1907), another ring tune for children, while the real origins probably go back to slavery days. Moses Asch from Folkways always asked his artists not to forget the little ones: near the end of every session, he asked his folk artists if they remembered any ring tune or counting-out rhyme. Asch was a businessman and knew the sales potential of his children compilations dwarfed his reputed folk output.
Covers:
Louise Bennett [for Folkways]
Children at San Juan Girls' Government School - San Juan, Trinidad [ring tune for children in Trinidad, Tobago, St. Kitts, Anguilla and Jamaica; Alan Lomax recording credited to these children and saved up for his Caribbean Voyage comp]
Exuma [as Brown Girl]
Malcolm's Locks [with Lizzie Mitchell (pre Boney M), who all of a sudden got greedy after their success]
Boney M [B-side of Rivers Of Babylon]
Beenie Man [featuring Danielle]
Hazy Shade [as So seh'n Sieger aus; German stadion hymn]
Boney M version signed Frank Farian without scruples. Exuma questions this copyright, while claiming their own.
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)