Wilmoth Houdini

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Black But Sweet 00:00 Tools
Song No. 99 00:00 Tools
Sweet Like a Honey Bee 00:00 Tools
War Declaration 00:00 Tools
Tiger Tom Kill Tiger Cat 00:00 Tools
Bobby Sox Idol (Frank Sinatra) 00:00 Tools
Caroline 00:00 Tools
Stop Coming and Come 00:00 Tools
Poor But Ambitious 00:00 Tools
I Need a Man 00:00 Tools
No Mo' Bench And Board 00:00 Tools
Sweet Papa Willie 00:00 Tools
The Cooks In Trinidad 00:00 Tools
Trifling Men 00:00 Tools
African Love Call 00:00 Tools
Honey I'm Bound To Go 00:00 Tools
Unfortunate Milley 00:00 Tools
The Devil Behind Me 00:00 Tools
Mama, Call the Fire Brigade 00:00 Tools
Glorius Centenary 00:00 Tools
Uncle Jo' Gimmie Mo'! 00:00 Tools
Bobby Sox Idol 00:00 Tools
Monkey Swing 00:00 Tools
Blow Wind Blow 00:00 Tools
Bandsman Shooting Case 00:00 Tools
The Calypso Way 00:00 Tools
That Big Black Woman 00:00 Tools
Rum and Coca-Cola (Parts 1 & 2) 00:00 Tools
Teacher Nose Gay the Shouter 00:00 Tools
Uncle Jo' Gimme Mo' 00:00 Tools
Brave Son of America 00:00 Tools
He Had It Coming 00:00 Tools
West Indian Sugar Crop 00:00 Tools
Cipriani's And Bradshaw's Death 00:00 Tools
He Dead, He Gone Already 00:00 Tools
Mickey Cipriani's Career 00:00 Tools
The Welcome of Their Majesties 00:00 Tools
Arima Tonight, Sangre Grande Tomorrow Night 00:00 Tools
Queen of the Amazon 00:00 Tools
Tiger Tom Kill Tiger Cat, Damblay, Santapie and Rat 00:00 Tools
way down sobo 00:00 Tools
Moan People Moan 00:00 Tools
Gin and Cocoanut Water 00:00 Tools
Gravel Gertie 00:00 Tools
Hot Dogs Made Their Name 00:00 Tools
Hit and Run Away 00:00 Tools
Cousin, Cousin, Scratch Here So for Me 00:00 Tools
Good Night Ladies and Gents 00:00 Tools
Don't Do That To Me 00:00 Tools
Arima Tonight, Sangre Grande Tomorrow Ni 00:00 Tools
Happy Land Of Canaan 00:00 Tools
Moan, People, Moan 00:00 Tools
Rum and Coca Cola 00:00 Tools
Stone Cold Dead In The Market 00:00 Tools
Johnny Take Me Wife 00:00 Tools
Trinidad Hurricane 00:00 Tools
Glorious Centenary 00:00 Tools
Cecelia 00:00 Tools
arima tonight, sangre grande 00:00 Tools
Cecilia 00:00 Tools
Rum And Coca-Cola 00:00 Tools
The Cooks in Thailand 00:00 Tools
Resisting Temptation 00:00 Tools
Johnnie Take My Wife 00:00 Tools
Johnny Take My Wife 00:00 Tools
The Million Dollar Pair of Fee 00:00 Tools
Sweet Like A Sugar-Cane 00:00 Tools
Rum And Coca-Cola - Parts 1 and 2 00:00 Tools
Way Down Sobo (Leggo) 00:00 Tools
caroline (1927) 00:00 Tools
Gin & Coconut Water 00:00 Tools
Cousin, Cousin Scratch Here So For Me 00:00 Tools
Rum & Coca-Cola, Pts. 1 & 2 - Complete Version 00:00 Tools
War Declaration (1934) 00:00 Tools
The Million Dollar Feet 00:00 Tools
Gin Coconut Water 00:00 Tools
Gin and Coconut Water 00:00 Tools
Bojangles the Tap Dancer - Million Dollar Feet 00:00 Tools
Rum and Coca Cola - Take 2 00:00 Tools
song no 99 00:00 Tools
Cousin, Cousin, Scratch Here So For Me (Trinidad) 00:00 Tools
Harlem Night Life 00:00 Tools
Devil Behind Me 00:00 Tools
Executor Doomed To Die 00:00 Tools
Constantine 00:00 Tools
Rum and Coca Cola - Take 1 00:00 Tools
rum and coca cola 1 00:00 Tools
Mama Call the Fire Brigade 00:00 Tools
Rum and Coca-Cola, Parts 1 & 2 (complete version) 00:00 Tools
Mary And Martha 00:00 Tools
Come Ye Backsliders 00:00 Tools
Black But Sweet (1931 год) 00:00 Tools
Mickey Cipriani's Career (Sports Star) 00:00 Tools
Rum and Coca-Cola Parts 1 and 2 00:00 Tools
Rum and Coca Cola (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Roosevelt Opens World's Fair 00:00 Tools
01 - Sweet Like a Honey Bee 00:00 Tools
02 - Song No. 99 00:00 Tools
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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.