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Neville Marcano : the Growling Tiger of Calypso.

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Format:
Sound recording
Author/Creator:
Growling Tiger (Calypso singer), 1916-1993, performer.
Contributor:
Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002.
Lord Iere, performer.
Indian Prince, performer.
Lady Iere, performer.
Series:
Alan Lomax collection. Portraits
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Calypso (Music)--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
Calypso (Music).
Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
Popular music--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad--1961-1970.
Popular music.
Ethnic music recordings--Trinidad and Tobago.
Local Subjects:
Ethnic music recordings--Trinidad and Tobago.
Genre:
Sound recordings.
Popular music.
Physical Description:
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
4 3/4 in.
Other Title:
Growling Tiger of Calypso.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. : Rounder Records, [1998]
System Details:
digital
optical
1.4 m/s
digital recording
Contents:
War (with Lord Iere, vocals)
Senorita Panchita #1
The parrot
Money is king
Bury Boula for me
War (with Lord Iere, Indian Prince, vocals)
The train blow (with Lady Iere, vocals)
When I dead bury me clothes
Rose of Caracas : instrumental
Getting along with the calypso music : Tiger's comments on calypso
Atomic energy calypso
Senorita Panchita #2 (with Lord Iere).
Participant:
Neville Marcano, known as Growling Tiger, lead vocals ; with, on tracks 1-9, 12: Randolph Thomas (Lord Iere), Robert Haytasingh (Indian Prince), Edna Pierre (Lady Iere), John Arindell, vocals ; Vivian Moses, fiddle ; Randolph Phipps, Ralph Charles, cuatro ; Paul Gervais, guitar ; Samuel Mira, Eugene Brito, flute ; Robert Charles, bass ; Emmanuel Williams, percusion.
Notes:
Recorded August 17, 1962, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, except the 10th and 11th tracks recorded July, 1966 at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, Rhode Island.
Compact disc.
Program notes by Matthew Barton and Steve Shapiro, texts, discography and bibliography ([24] p. : ill.) inserted in container.
OCLC:
38839670
Publisher Number:
011661171725
CD 1717 Rounder Records
Rounder CD 1717 Rounder Records

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