The Mighty Sparrow Congo Man LP 1965 Trinidad Calypso ULTRA-RARE Very Good Vinyl
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The Mighty Sparrow
Congo Man
National Records NLP5050 1965 12" 33rpm (Trinidad/Tobago)
Slinger Francisco ORTT CMT (born July 9, 1935), better known as Mighty Sparrow, is a calypso singer, songwriter, and guitarist of Trinidadian citizenship. Known as the "Calypso King of the World", he is one of the best-known and most successful calypsonians. He has won Trinidad's Carnival Road March competition eight times, Calypso King/Monarch eight times, and has twice won the Calypso King of Kings title.
Slinger Francisco was born in the fishing village of Grand Roy, Grenada, West Indies on July 9, 1935. He moved to Trinidad with his mother, his father having relocated there in 1937. He grew up in Port of Spain. He began singing as a small child, but his love of calpyso was discouraged while at Newton Boys Catholic School, where he sang in the choir. At the age of 14 he joined a steel band comprising neighborhood boys, and performed with the band at Carnival.
He received his performing name "Little Sparrow" during his early career, as a result of his energetic stage performances:
Your calypso name is given to you by your peers, based on your style. In the old days they tried to emulate British royalty. There was Lord Kitchener, Lord Nelson, Duke. When I started singing, the bands were still using acoustic instruments and the singers would stand flat footed, making a point or accusing someone in the crowd with the pointing of a finger, but mostly they stood motionless. When I sing, I get excited and move around, much like James Brown, and this was new to them. The older singers said "Why don't you just sing instead of moving around like a little Sparrow." It was said as a joke, but the name stuck.
—Mighty Sparrow
After a couple of years he changed his stage name to 'Mighty Sparrow'. On leaving school he began working for the government Control Board, but continued to perform calypso, which became the better paid of the two, and his residency at the Lotus Club made him a star locally.
Tracklist
A1 Congo Man
A2 Solomon Out
A3 Patsy
A4 No Bacchanal
A5 A Mother's Love
B1 Get Outa Here
B2 Well Spoken Moppers
B3 Man Like To Feel
B4 Steering Wheel
B5 Elaine See De Moon
Arranged By – B.Inniss
Written-By – Mighty Sparrow, The
Recorded at the Trinidad Hilton
Condition: LP is Very Good in a plastic-lined paper inner sleeve in a picture sleeve in FAIR condition (upper seam split
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