The Mighty Sparrow

The Calypso Genius

National Records NLP8420 1966 12" 33rpm (Trinidad/Tobago)

Slinger Francisco is generally regarded as the greatest exponent ever of the calypso/soca art form . . . and I say that with the greatest respect for the genius of the late Lord Kitchener. His remarkable career spans five decades and counting, and along the way he’s won eight Trinidad Carnival Road Marches and eight Calypso Monarch titles (despite retiring from competition for many years, partly to give fellow calypsonians a chance).

Sparrow’s calypsos cover the full spectrum of the art form, from pointed and often poignant political and social commentary, to the downright ribald — although, like Kitch, he’s always eschewed crudeness and profanity, preferring to let listeners draw their own conclusions from his double entendres, which are occasionally accompanied by what must be the most salacious and infectious of laughs in the history of popular music.

Tracklist
A1  Bag Ah Sugar  
A2  Shanty Town People  
A3  Going Home Tonight  
A4  The Rebel  
A5  Honesty  
B1  B G Plantain  
B2  Obeah Wedding  
B3  Papa Jack  
B4  Sir Garfield Sobers  
B5  Bikini Girl  

    Liner Notes – Ewart Rouse

C

ondition:  LP is Good in a plastic-lined paper inner sleeve in a picture sleeve in Very Good condition 

A Note About Shipping To The U.S.
We are located in Canada, but have registered ourselves on eBay.com instead of eBay.ca because it gives us significantly better global exposure.  The problem with this is that eBay wants us to charge shipping appropriate to US, where media mail and other options make for fairly reasonable delivery costs. We tried it for a while but ended up losing money on shipping or having to cancel the orders because we couldn't afford to ship for those rates. To manage this we have set the US shipping to run a calculator based on an American location (we chose Plattsburgh as fairly close) and charging according to UPS pricing.  This avoids the cancellation issue, but appears to the buyer to be a prohibitive shipping cost and misrepresents the shipping as being only expedited. If you give us your postal code we will see if we can offer a more reasonable option, but generally we can get a single LP by air to most places in the continental US for $11, a few bucks less for ground.
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