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36967943 | Play | Black But Sweet | 00:00 Tools | |
36967944 | Play | Song No. 99 | 00:00 Tools | |
36967947 | Play | Sweet Like a Honey Bee | 00:00 Tools | |
36967945 | Play | War Declaration | 00:00 Tools | |
36967946 | Play | Tiger Tom Kill Tiger Cat | 00:00 Tools | |
36967960 | Play | Bobby Sox Idol (Frank Sinatra) | 00:00 Tools | |
36967948 | Play | Caroline | 00:00 Tools | |
36967949 | Play | Stop Coming and Come | 00:00 Tools | |
36967951 | Play | Poor But Ambitious | 00:00 Tools | |
36967950 | Play | I Need a Man | 00:00 Tools | |
36967952 | Play | No Mo' Bench And Board | 00:00 Tools | |
36967953 | Play | Sweet Papa Willie | 00:00 Tools | |
36967954 | Play | The Cooks In Trinidad | 00:00 Tools | |
36967955 | Play | Trifling Men | 00:00 Tools | |
36967958 | Play | African Love Call | 00:00 Tools | |
36967956 | Play | Honey I'm Bound To Go | 00:00 Tools | |
36967957 | Play | Unfortunate Milley | 00:00 Tools | |
36967959 | Play | The Devil Behind Me | 00:00 Tools | |
36967961 | Play | Mama, Call the Fire Brigade | 00:00 Tools | |
36967962 | Play | Glorius Centenary | 00:00 Tools | |
36967967 | Play | Uncle Jo' Gimmie Mo'! | 00:00 Tools | |
36967979 | Play | Bobby Sox Idol | 00:00 Tools | |
36967972 | Play | Monkey Swing | 00:00 Tools | |
36967974 | Play | Blow Wind Blow | 00:00 Tools | |
36967965 | Play | Bandsman Shooting Case | 00:00 Tools | |
36967975 | Play | The Calypso Way | 00:00 Tools | |
36967964 | Play | That Big Black Woman | 00:00 Tools | |
36967978 | Play | Rum and Coca-Cola (Parts 1 & 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
36967966 | Play | Teacher Nose Gay the Shouter | 00:00 Tools | |
36967963 | Play | Uncle Jo' Gimme Mo' | 00:00 Tools | |
36967976 | Play | Brave Son of America | 00:00 Tools | |
36967969 | Play | He Had It Coming | 00:00 Tools | |
36967968 | Play | West Indian Sugar Crop | 00:00 Tools | |
36967970 | Play | Cipriani's And Bradshaw's Death | 00:00 Tools | |
36967971 | Play | He Dead, He Gone Already | 00:00 Tools | |
36967973 | Play | Mickey Cipriani's Career | 00:00 Tools | |
36967980 | Play | The Welcome of Their Majesties | 00:00 Tools | |
36967977 | Play | Arima Tonight, Sangre Grande Tomorrow Night | 00:00 Tools | |
36967984 | Play | Queen of the Amazon | 00:00 Tools | |
36967981 | Play | Tiger Tom Kill Tiger Cat, Damblay, Santapie and Rat | 00:00 Tools | |
36967982 | Play | way down sobo | 00:00 Tools | |
36967983 | Play | Moan People Moan | 00:00 Tools | |
36967993 | Play | Gin and Cocoanut Water | 00:00 Tools | |
36967990 | Play | Gravel Gertie | 00:00 Tools | |
36967995 | Play | Hot Dogs Made Their Name | 00:00 Tools | |
36967994 | Play | Hit and Run Away | 00:00 Tools | |
36967989 | Play | Cousin, Cousin, Scratch Here So for Me | 00:00 Tools | |
36967996 | Play | Good Night Ladies and Gents | 00:00 Tools | |
36967988 | Play | Don't Do That To Me | 00:00 Tools | |
36967986 | Play | Arima Tonight, Sangre Grande Tomorrow Ni | 00:00 Tools | |
36967985 | Play | Happy Land Of Canaan | 00:00 Tools | |
36967997 | Play | Moan, People, Moan | 00:00 Tools | |
36967991 | Play | Rum and Coca Cola | 00:00 Tools | |
36967987 | Play | Stone Cold Dead In The Market | 00:00 Tools | |
36968000 | Play | Johnny Take Me Wife | 00:00 Tools | |
36967992 | Play | Trinidad Hurricane | 00:00 Tools | |
36967998 | Play | Glorious Centenary | 00:00 Tools | |
36967999 | Play | Cecelia | 00:00 Tools | |
36968001 | Play | arima tonight, sangre grande | 00:00 Tools | |
36968002 | Play | Cecilia | 00:00 Tools | |
36968004 | Play | Rum And Coca-Cola | 00:00 Tools | |
36968012 | Play | The Cooks in Thailand | 00:00 Tools | |
36968007 | Play | Resisting Temptation | 00:00 Tools | |
36968003 | Play | Johnnie Take My Wife | 00:00 Tools | |
36968006 | Play | Johnny Take My Wife | 00:00 Tools | |
36968010 | Play | The Million Dollar Pair of Fee | 00:00 Tools | |
36968011 | Play | Sweet Like A Sugar-Cane | 00:00 Tools | |
36968005 | Play | Rum And Coca-Cola - Parts 1 and 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
36968015 | Play | Way Down Sobo (Leggo) | 00:00 Tools | |
88179056 | Play | caroline (1927) | 00:00 Tools | |
36968013 | Play | Gin & Coconut Water | 00:00 Tools | |
36968016 | Play | Cousin, Cousin Scratch Here So For Me | 00:00 Tools | |
36968017 | Play | Rum & Coca-Cola, Pts. 1 & 2 - Complete Version | 00:00 Tools | |
36968009 | Play | War Declaration (1934) | 00:00 Tools | |
36968014 | Play | The Million Dollar Feet | 00:00 Tools | |
36968028 | Play | Gin Coconut Water | 00:00 Tools | |
36968027 | Play | Gin and Coconut Water | 00:00 Tools | |
36968022 | Play | Bojangles the Tap Dancer - Million Dollar Feet | 00:00 Tools | |
36968021 | Play | Rum and Coca Cola - Take 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
36968029 | Play | song no 99 | 00:00 Tools | |
36968023 | Play | Cousin, Cousin, Scratch Here So For Me (Trinidad) | 00:00 Tools | |
36968018 | Play | Harlem Night Life | 00:00 Tools | |
36968019 | Play | Devil Behind Me | 00:00 Tools | |
36968020 | Play | Executor Doomed To Die | 00:00 Tools | |
36968032 | Play | Constantine | 00:00 Tools | |
36968031 | Play | Rum and Coca Cola - Take 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
36968024 | Play | rum and coca cola 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
36968033 | Play | Mama Call the Fire Brigade | 00:00 Tools | |
88179057 | Play | Rum and Coca-Cola, Parts 1 & 2 (complete version) | 00:00 Tools | |
36968025 | Play | Mary And Martha | 00:00 Tools | |
36968026 | Play | Come Ye Backsliders | 00:00 Tools | |
36968030 | Play | Black But Sweet (1931 год) | 00:00 Tools | |
36968036 | Play | Mickey Cipriani's Career (Sports Star) | 00:00 Tools | |
88179058 | Play | Rum and Coca-Cola Parts 1 and 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
36968037 | Play | Rum and Coca Cola (Take 1) | 00:00 Tools | |
89907702 | Play | Roosevelt Opens World's Fair | 00:00 Tools | |
36968034 | Play | 01 - Sweet Like a Honey Bee | 00:00 Tools | |
36968035 | Play | 02 - Song No. 99 | 00:00 Tools |
Wilmoth Houdini (Frederick Wilmoth Hendricks, November 25, 1895, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – August 6, 1977, New York, USA) was a prominent calypsonian. In 1916 he started his career in earnest when he began working with the African Millionaires, a large carnival group consisting of about 25 members. He arrived in New York sometime around 1927, after working on cargo ships and travelling extensively. Not long after his arrival there, he began cutting records with local bands for Decca Records, notably Gerald Clark's Night Owls. He released well over a hundred different 78s between 1928 and 1940, also under the names of Fredrick Wilmoth Hendricks (his given name), Edgar Leon Sinclair (the name on his US passport), and King Houdini. His 1939 composition "He Had It Coming" was a hit for Louis Jordan and Ella Fitzgerald under the new title "Stone Cold Dead in the Market". The song stayed on the top of the R&B charts for five weeks, and reached no. 7 on the pop charts. Gaining a good deal of recognition, Houdini wasted no time in organizing high-profile calypso festivals and concerts around New York, quickly becoming a respected member of the Caribbean communities there. After moving to New York (as one of the earliest Trinidadian émigrés), he was often the object of derision by the calypsonians still in Trinidad, who claimed that he was stealing their ideas and capitalizing on them in the USA. This can be seen in numerous calypsos of the early to mid-1930s, from Roaring Lion and Attila the Hun in particular, who also recorded in New York at the time. This led to Houdini's 1934 rebuttal, "Declaration of War". Towards the beginning of the 1950s he played regularly at the Caribbean Club on Seventh Avenue, New York, with his only real rival, The Duke of Iron, also a native of Trinidad. Houdini died on August 6, 1977, in New York City, where he had lived for the majority of his life. His song "Uncle Joe", although melodically not original, had a huge influence upon the American psyche, influencing Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Lord Mouse and the Kalypso Katz, Hazmat Modine, Bob Brozman, and C. W. Stoneking, to name but a few. He has inspired a newer generation of artists around the world, for example with his recording "Black But Sweet" covered by Mighty Dub Katz ("Son Of Wilmot"), Sabres of Paradise ("Wilmot"), Shantel ("Bucovina") and Eleftheria Arvanitaki ("Den milo ghia mia nychta ego"). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.