Curry Tabanca - Trinidad All Stars 

Steel pan + Tassa drums = PERFECTION ❤

Only one who truly appreciates pan music can understand the historical relevance of this masterpiece!!!! Love it!!! I was only 9 years old at this time!

To this day it is the most stunning performance I've ever heard. It was the first time I understood that the judges choice and the people's choice. After the 1987 Panorama, the year of this great offering, the radio stations played Phase II's "This Feeling Nice" twice or 3 times & Renegades "Pan in A minor" 3 or 4 times but All Stars' "Curry Tabanca" was played 8 to 10 times. Eventually the stations didn't play either Phase II or Renegades as much but they jammed "Curry Tabanca" all through the year. It was the first year where I heard a lot of people said the judges didn't know what they were doing. I would have to agree. Thank all goodness we can play this & other Panorama classics to our hearts content.

My dad just passed away and his whole life he was an All Stars Fan I'm going to play this song and Woman of Bass at his funeral to send him off thank you All Stars for great pan over the years continue the great arrangements

The players in this steel band: they are truly all stars 🌟🌟🌟

2023 and still the BEST performance ever.❤❤❤

from 80 to 87 smooth could have won every panorama ...........every panorama!

Allstars forever. Curry Tabannca,this will always be my favorite. Love it..

Best ever! TTT used to show this video right after Sesame Street. Brings back memories.

The last 2 minutes and 41 seconds of this is the single greatest piece of music ever played at a Panorama - and I was right there in the North Stand (R.I.P) to witness it. 4th place my ass!

You ent never lied!!!! BEST arrangement to never win Panorama!!!! Talk about awesome....even today!

Trinidad All Stars at their finest... I love this Steel Orchestra. They will always be my #1 Band

Seriously 4th place, allthese years later still a claasic . Won the world panorama champion with this very arrangement.

Hmmm. Thirty-five years later and the perfection of this arrangement still gives me goosebumps!

This is my fave panorama performance of all time. Sick wit it! I can and will watch this over and over, love it.

One of the most exciting arrangements.

Man! You have to be there to really get the true feel of steelpan. Steelpan is best when heard live. Still, this is some great music!!!

Makes my pores raise everytime I listen to this rendition

I still remember every part of this arrangement all these years later. It was one of the best ever!!!

As a kid this arrangement blew my mind

Had to come back to this. Amazing!!!!

There is no way this band lost. And they came back later to win the International World Championship with this song. This song highlights our culture African, East Indian, Spanish, Creole, Chinese, Syrian, and every race in between.

This performance is the most memorable of my childhood. All the years going to the Savannah during panorama. I remembered watching it at home wiyh my mom and to this day, is still my favorite of all times. I still get excited hearing it. The opening did it for me. ❤

RIP Marcia Henville... The intro was indeed a performance worth waiting for and you at 0:30 to 0:40 when the camera turns away set the stage for a memorable performance that will forever live on. Even though you are gone you will never be forgotten, in the jam at 3:42 to 3:47. You left us with your love for life and music 5:35 to 5:50 show what a lost we have suffered as you displayed your talent on the pan. We all love you will never forget you.

That year All Stars should have gotten 1st 2nd and 3rd prize

That tenor crescendo run during the jam session at the end... My Heavenly Father.....that is just wonderful!!!

One of the best. Never grows old.

Simply amazing!!! WOW. Memories of my homeland. ❤

Nostalgia! The meaning of Panorama finals back in the day was Trinidad All Stars! I could listen to this perfomance 1000 times again and still be electrified by the sound.

What a fucking memory wow all stars forever 🍻🍻🇹🇹

I remember when they was Catelli! I went to school on george street and always use to go listen to them in the pan yard, love it!!

Only a few seconds in and my pores raising!!!! So proud of my country!

Still in love

This arrangement here. Genius level. This is God.

FANTASTIC!!! One of the most greatest Panorama performances EVER!!! Classic!!

this is when Leon smooth put himself on the map as an musical innovator . Hard !

The best arrangement never to have won Panorama. Because of this arrangement I switched from Despers to All Stars. Smooth is a Boss.

Tight! is an understatement. All Stars, as one would say one of the only bands that can sound like a single tenor; single Chellos and single bass when it a complete band of 120 players. The syncopation is unbelievable sharp even in the high pitch runs and accurate stops.

This arrangement by Smooth was so far ahead of its time the judges just did not get it. I was there and to this day, it still gives me goose bumps every time I hear it.

Best way to explain this awesome rendition and pan in general to a tourist, is to simply let them hear it. The vibe will raise their soul, and enhance their appreciation of modern music in the 21st century forever!

Am I in heaven or what? De music sweet! sweet! sweet!

I still get goose bumps everytime I hear this. I love my All-Stars!

Dis is one of Allstars best performences ever..even though i wus not born yet....jus t the harmony between the double seconds and the tenor when they play the chorus is breathtaking!!!

My first year in Trinidad!!!! Boy the best ever!!!!! Good entertainment - seems like yesterday. x

This just makes me so happy...wonderful music from a wonderful country. #SweetTnT

Classic, 🔊🔊🎶🎶🇹🇹🇹🇹☝🏿☝🏿

The greatest panorama song ever! ever!!

Probably the single best example of how inadequate Panorama judging is when face to face with innovative emotional genius

OMG,,,,,,MOST AMAZING PAN ARRANGEMENT I'VE EVER HEARD! Absolutely stunning! One of my favorite songs...completely renovated and brought to justice....WOW! How could this performance not have won?

The best performance that never won Panorama 😭.

After so many years I still get goose bumps listening to this. Great arrangement.

Thank you All Stars, brings back fond memories. Curry was my first T&T panorama experience and 21 years later, still outstanding!! A belly full of All Stars...

One of the great performances that never won the panorama competition.

One of the sweetest arrangements ever, would have won if they didn't go over the time limit.

This makes my West Indian scalp tingle when I hear this musical work of art. :) Amen.

The very best of pan music.👍👍👍👍👍

A night that I will never forget!!!!!

oh gosh to be there live to hear this ......

GENIUS !! A magical moment in time!

The greatest final night "performance" that could have possibly been allowed by the musical Gods at that time. Musical Mastery that set the bar for Panorama after this performance.

So much can be said about this arrangement...when you hear the tassa at 8:37, you figure thats the climax....then when the pans come back in at 8:45 simulating the tassa, you are sent completely over the edge, over the top, wild..genius stuff

Leon "smooth" Edwards - The genius. One of a kind, bruh!

Man that sent chills up muh spine!

Daddy you played for all stars original name catteli you work there for 35 years as a supervisor and I will continue to listen to all stars the best band love you daddy RIP and they thief them this song tho I cried out when they lost this song

I am not a big pan lover but this is my all time favourite in terms of pan music......that piece of Tassa and the intro laaawwwddd have mercy.....sweeeeettttt music!!! I'm jealous of anyone who heard that live in the Savannah the night it was played.....

personally i never heard such a fantastic performance...it is just outstanding...specially played at full volume

The best band that year. Every aspect was on point.

Jeez & friggin ages, this is ah classic!

All Stars all the way #1 - 2024 'A Trini to D Bone'

This video gave me tabanca when it finished! thats why I replayed it over and over and over...allyuh get the point! :)

Curry Tabanca just keeps on inviting me to listen, enjoy immensely and learn. And I go willingly ever so often. It must be the twenty plus years I lived in Trinidad. The arrangement and execution are immortal. What more can I say! Play on! Play on! Love it!

A Masterpiece in Steel Orchestration

12 bass means 12 full length 54 gallon drums each with only two or three bass notes on it., sometimes even four. All placed in a cluster., and note just how all the players are moving together playing exactly the same bass notes. In a big band 6 to 8 players on each flank., right side and left side of band. Part of the absolutely genious of the history of the steel band (orchestra).

!!Just great !!! Curry Tabanca, Trinidad All Stars, from Trinidad to world.....what else?

ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE

Outstanding! Thank you.

I was there too gail and I still cant believe they came 4th .

Wow such energy, they know how to get the stage rocking. They all started together and they all finished together not one note out. That’s skill.

Fantastic...

Whoever had this video, THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING IT.

One of the great arrangements that never won the Panorama competitive.

Pure Awesomness!

BEAUTIFUL!!!Sweet Music!!!

A legendary arrangement

Nice rhythm, I love this kind of music, and makes my spirit and my heart rejoice greatly!

This was the first time I fell in love with steal.

Best EVER. Brings back some great memories and the best feelings.

OMG! I Absolutely Love this arrangement! So Beautiful!

Still listening.....Up to today......love dem baddd

That was a fantastic calypso, and it sounded freaking fabulous on steel pan.

2023 wow 😲👌🙂🤩🏆😍

Wow !!!! Incredible!

How did this not win?!?!?!

Best ever.

Marcia Henville is featured in this video

One of the All Time Great Performance..Should have Won ..Bravo Leon "smooth " Edwards

This very true, Smooth is a genius and was at the Big Yard for all of All Stars 80s performances and have such great memories after all these years. Curry Tabanca and Hammer were masterpieces and these videos give me thrills and warmth up here in the US every time I hear them.

One of the 1st bands to use the 12 bass only a trini would understand

Big Fete in the North Stand, This is the best of T&T culture right here. RESPECT!!

Played mas in 69 and 70 with Starlift with QRC Sixth form mates. Diehard Starlift fan until I heard this performance at the very Panorama. The greatest performance on at a Panorama finals. " Smooth" is a genius. Now diehard All Stars fan. Long Live All Stars !!