I remember my mother singing that song to me as a little child and her stories of these calypsos was the best we a now in 2022 and it’s a fact that you don’t hear these songs no more I would love to be given the opportunity now to go on radio and bring those songs back
Ay this is my GrandDad who wrote this song! Thanks for uploading! Searched RU-vid for this years ago and couldnt find it anywhere, and radio doh play these tunes fuh nutting!
Hey Chris I am kinda taken with your sir name was you grand dad a st Lucian and you saying that Melody was your fathers father let’s have a chat on that I will tell you something I am thing of going to the radio station and offer some volunteer service to bring those songs back on air
As a child in 1960s Jamaica, I used to hear this played on RJR (was Radio Jamaica and Rediffusion), along w/tunes like "I see the Devil"). Just now I remembered the title, looked it up on YT, and was playing it and enjoying/reflecting w/my (young adult) children on the history of this great music, the wit, the comedy, the reality of everyday life. And for the first time I just understood a phrase in Lord Melody's 'Devil' -- "Let we go, I kyeanh stay/ Look di devil dung dey/" -- [how I catch it phonetically, based on Jamaican (aka Patois/Creole)]. Many of our Eastern Caribbean friends know...accents like Trini, Dominica, Bajan and such, are music to our JA ears! 😍 Nuff t'anks for uploading this, Danny! 💚
Thanks for sharing your story. It's my pleasure to share this great music, and heartening to know my uploads are appreciated across the Caribbean (and beyond). 🙂
I believe the Cook label is now owned by either the Americans or English. Are they getting all the royalties? These calypsos sound good because they use complex chordal harmonies...not the Soca crap you hear today
Emory Cook (founder of Cook record label) donated his master tapes to the Smithsonian in the USA who now control the licensing of those recordings. However! That only covers material released by Cook for the USA market. There was actually a separate subsidiary in Trinidad, Cook Caribbean Ltd, operated by Bruce Procope, which produced recordings solely for the Trinidadian market. Unlike the USA Cook catalogue, the Cook Caribbean Ltd catalogue of recordings is not owned by Smithsonian as it was not included in Emory Cook's deal. So I would assume the Procope family in Trinidad still hold the licensing rights. No company in the USA or UK has any right to them.
@@DannyFitzgerald Thanks for clearing that up (I changed my comment to a question..just to be accurate!) it's still sad that the Simthsonian is controling the US rights. On the bright side they are probably able to maintain the condition of the master tapes. Are there any performers on the Cook label in the US that are NOT on the Cook Caribbean Ltd. catalog? I really love the old stuff on this label. I am glad I found your channel. Thanks!
@@deaconblues3964 It seems there were many 7" releases in the Cook Caribbean Ltd catalogue that were not released outside of Trinidad. It's hard to say which artists appeared on either roster exclusively because so much (public) information about their catalogues is incomplete and/or lost!
