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Bermuda Calypso Festival
Bermuda Calypso Festival For the calypso fanatics only–this 8″ album from the 1950s has a couple of nice numbers–”Three Old Maids” is a reworking of “Lovin’ old Lady Is Nice”, and the Three Deuces...
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Monogram 843
Duke of Iron – Calypso Carnival Monogram 843 Not to be confused with the other Duke of Iron album entitled Calypso Carnival –this one was released on Monogram Records and has a very groovy pic of the...
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Old School Calypso
Early calypso music, probably 1940s, as one of the tracks “Nora the War is Over” celebrates the end of World War II. Side 1 Small Island – Duke of Iron Dorothy One Morning – MacBeth Cousin Family –...
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That Guy. You Know, the One who sells food. From a southern state.
I’ve decided the only way to avoid getting the blog taken down is to never publish the name of the artist, or even the album, so nothing is searchable. So this post features commercials from a Southern...
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L’amour Avec Emil
This album cover gets my vote for suavest of the week, by far. That Emil is just Dovetonsiling like a crazy mofo, yes? The album donor did a little research on the artist and found he was an...
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Come Up and See Me Sometime
My quest continues for world dominance in the “teach your parakeet to talk” record category. Granted, you only get a short snippet of this one because it started getting on the nerves of the person...
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Here’s Harley!
I don’t listen to this album a lot, but I have to admit it’s one of my top 10 favorite finds ever. It’s a self-published one-man album by Harley Frye from West Lafayette, Indiana. I found a sealed...
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Explosion of the Tone Cabinets
It was the image above (seen in its entirety here) that made me ask around for some music by this guy. I mean, isn’t this a great album cover? And sure enough, my e-buddy JS has a link to Cliff’s...
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Blinded By Turds
A very long time ago, I used to receive a catalog from Publishers Central Bureau selling cutout albums and out of print books. They sold some of the Request (calypso) library that had been...
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