WILMOTH HOUDINI - Trinidad Calypsos - EXCELLENT 1939 Decca 3-record Album 78
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WILMOTH HOUDINI - Trinidad Calypsos - EXCELLENT 1939 Decca 3-record Album 78
Decca 3-record Album 78, 78 RPM. Includes 18005 thru 18007
WILMOTH HOUDINI and his Royal Calypso Orchestra - A Special Collection of the World-Famous Music of Trinidad - CALYPSOS .
1939 issue; recorded in New York, September 11, 1939.
Records are in EXCELLENT E / E- condition. Labels are Good. Binder is in Very Good Condition, shelf wear, not torn. Binder Spine is Intact but a little loose.
Twelve Photos of Trinidad Bands Inside Front Cover.
Houdini was incredibly prolific, composing reportedly thousands of songs, many of them brilliant, spur-of-the-moment constructions, and he released well over a hundred different 78s between 1928 and 1940. A song Houdini had recorded in 1939, "He Had It Coming," was covered by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan as "Stone Cold Dead in the Market" in 1946 and shot to the top of the R&B charts, where it remained for five weeks, even crossing over to reach number seven on the pop charts. The success of the song brought Houdini a great deal of attention, and he used his high-profile situation to promote and organize a series of calypso concerts and festivals in the city, and he was greatly respected within New York's Caribbean community for his efforts (although in Trinidad he was often targeted in local calypso songs as an outsider -- leading to Houdini's 1934 retort called "Declaration of War"). - from allmusic
Tracks are:
Monkey Swing
He Had It Coming
The Welcome of Their Majesties
Hot Dogs Made Their Name
Roosevelt Opens World's Fair
Johnny Take My Wife
Terrific and Scarce WILMOTH HOUDINI 3-record Album in EXCELLENT E / E- Condition, with Binder in Very Good Condition.
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