Hearing rumors about him....might not be true....checking with my Trini peeps and New York peeps here.
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The Mighty Sparrow
In reply to analyst-kid
what rumours? he has COVID, he is gay, he has an outside child?
Rumors of his passing. Sudden he is 85 years old.
In reply to analyst-kid
why didnt you say so?
Sparrow has 'died' sooo many times before.phew.
In reply to Cheeks
Yep - I posted on of them but he is 85
In reply to analyst-kid
Swallow died
Well?
Dead or fake news?
In reply to Halliwell
King Swallow is dead.
I know of Swallows passing.....maybe someone mixed up Swallow with Sparrow....has to be someone who doesnt know much of calypso/soca because King Swallow is a legend himself.
In reply to analyst-kid
Swallow was good. I enjoyed his songs and seeing him perform.
In reply to analyst-kid
Yuh get yuh birds mix up or wuh.....
does/did Sparrow write for himself ?
In reply to camos
I know he wrote Jean and Dinah as a commercial before he made it into a calypso. So he wrote songs, great songs. I also heard that he sang some songs that other people wrote for him.
It was also said that he wrote "Die with my dignity" for Singing Sandra, a great calypso that won at the Carifesta celebrations. It was also said he wrote "One day" for Natasha Wilson, another great calypso.
In reply to cherri
But how many times they kill the man, He had to be a profet
In reply to methodic
thanks! he is probably the best story teller in the Caribbean.
In reply to methodic
Most of the songs Sparrow famous for over the last 50 years were written by Winsford (Joker) Devines.
One Day ( Sung by Natasha Wilson), Capitalism Gone Mad,Philip my Dear, Lying Excuses, In Time to Come (Sung by Crazy) all written by Trinidad's No.1 songwriter Winsford Devines
Sparrow, however wrote Jean and Dinah.
Die with my Dignity, sung by Singing Sandra was written by former monarch Tobago Crusoe.
He also wrote for Sandra the classic THE WAR WILL GO ON. Sandra won the Carifesta competition singing BOTH of Tobago Crusoe's songs.
The part I like about Devines is when he start a friendship with Bolong, a badjohn who told him ...We going get all your rights (copyrights)
Next they went to Sparrow, who claimed he couldn't remember what Devine had written. Bolong allowed him to refresh his memory, and the following day he too signed.
In reply to analyst-kid
Some ah dem ole time kaisonians were real reluctant to acknowledge dere writers. For years Short Shirt wudn give Shelly Tobitt credit
In reply to analyst-kid
thanks
In reply to analyst-kid
check this!
In reply to analyst-kid
can you provide any reference on Crusoe who is a great composer also writing "die with my dignity"?
In reply to VIX
way you find dat? lol
In reply to analyst-kid
nice bit of history Kid
In reply to sudden
Kid knows his kaiso history....I wish he also knew cricket history. Lol
King Swallow is a legend himself. In reply to analyst-kid
I knew swallow had medical issues, but sad to hear his passing.
Swallow's style was unique and infectious. He had his own niche in the 80's ,
though he released his music in NY labour day , his music would rally right until
ash Wednesday and beyond...hit after hit...
RIP to the big man........
In reply to methodic
This was common knowledge to all of us calypsonians and calypso archivists.
but still I have found a reference from the defunct BWIA's magazine Caribbean Beat
Article on Singing Sandra
In reply to analyst-kid
thanks, we go talk plenty more about calypso.
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