CALYPSO BEHIND THE WALL
Created on 01/10/2004Latest update on 13/06/2024
Artist: Growler with Clemons Smith & his Broadway Syncopators
Author: Errol Duke
Label: Decca
Year: 1938
One of the first calypsos ever recorded in Trinidad and one can hear it: the horn section has been drinking. Reissued on Rounder cd Fall Of Man: Calypso - On The Human Condition 1935-1941 and on Bear Family box West Indian Rhythm ('06). Crediting himself (Errol Duke was The Growler's real name). Sometimes Raymond Quevedo (alias Attila The Hun) comes in the picture too.
Covers:
- 1946:
Lord Kitchener [as Jump In The Line (see footnote)]
- 1948:
Lord Invader [as Labor Day, crediting himself (Rupert Grant); '48 was the year carnival was first celebrated in Harlem, NY (on Labor Day)]
- 1952:
Blind Blake & The Royal Victoria Hotel Calypso Orch. [real name: Blake Alphonso Higgs from the Bahamas]
- 1952:
Woody Herman [credited to that same Higgs and Jessie Cavanaugh]
- 1957:
Lord Flea & His Calypsonians [as Shake Shake Señora]
- 1958:
- 1958:
Joseph Spence [also from the Bahamas; instrumental recorded by Samuel Charters]
- 1961:
Harry Belafonte [as Jump In The Line, later also in film Beetle Juice]
- 1962:
Gary US Bonds [as Twist Twist Señora]
- 1966:
Laurel Aitken [as Shake]
- 1998:
Cherrie Poppin Daddies [in film Basketball]
- 2001:
Shaft [as Shake Señora]
Royalties on Jump In The Line claimed by Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts) but also by The Lion (Raphael De Leon), who sued Belafonte once his cover hitted. See also: Iron Bar and Rum And Coca Cola.
