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Forum: Caribbean
Sep 28th 2018, 7:42 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 2,436
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Caribbean music

A reminder of the days when so many West Indians spent much of their lifetimes on US cargo ships. Angelina, Angelina......
Forum: Caribbean
Aug 19th 2018, 6:47 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 2,436
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Caribbean music

Here's a nice one - quite relaxing... Tiny Winey by Byron Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nuihAonUwg
Forum: Caribbean
Aug 3rd 2018, 1:46 am
Replies: 15
Views: 2,436
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Caribbean music

This, too, from Trinidad - maybe the catchiest soca tune of all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWbvdIwY02I
Forum: Caribbean
Jul 30th 2018, 8:29 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 2,436
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Caribbean music

One of my all time favourites is Sparrow's "Dan is de Man in de Van". This calypso is a scornful look at how school education in the British colonies was (in general) designed to keep black children...
Forum: Caribbean
Jul 20th 2018, 9:31 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 2,436
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Caribbean music

I have to say I couldn't understand much of what they were singing - but I guess the locals were OK with it! Here is an early "soca" tune from the '60s by a popular Bajan group - a wonderfully catchy...
Forum: Caribbean
Jul 19th 2018, 4:03 am
Replies: 15
Views: 2,436
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Caribbean music

My first visit to the Caribbean was in 1966. I took a three-weeks vacation on a round-trip ticket from Toronto, and the first stop was Nassau (Bahamas). At the airport I told a taxi to take me to the...
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