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People don't read even the headlines before commenting, how do you expect them to read the date?

There's a lot more that I would have loved to post on this thread, but I'm having network issues. We'll have a party on this thread when the issues are resolved.

pak:
The great Mighty Sparrow.

He was the darling of the AIT soca calypso show every Sunday in the late 90s.

Then we did not have a TV then, so we only listened to radio.

My favorite was "Who kill the Sparrow, nobody know - Sparrow DEAD!"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcJ9kJ1ryFg

The late Doe Abraham.

Drones need to be registered in Nigeria. The rules were made a long time ago and they are very necessary.

In fact, I don't think Nigeria does enough to regulate the use of drones. We need to do this

https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/remote_id

victorazyvictor:
I tot Wonderful world is by Louis Armstrong, or is there another one?

Sam Cooke - Wonderful World (1960)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4GLAKEjU4w?si=-6VeI-mNa7uyW8VB

victorazyvictor:
I tot Wonderful world is by Louis Armstrong, or is there another one?

Yes, there are two separate songs.

Gospelypso.

He made a lot of gospel songs in the 1990s and I think this was the most famous.

The Mighty Sparrow - Salvation (1992)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ymd6W3dEVI?si=L3E_EhhbuIZQfFoB

This was his song against tyrants and dictators.

The rule of the tyrants decline
The year, 1979
From Uganda to Nicaragua
It's bombs and bullets all the time

So they corrupt, so they vile
So it's coup after coup all the while
Human rights they violate
They thought they were so great
So in disgrace now they live in exile

[Chorus]
Gairy is a wanted man
Idi Amin is a wanted man
Shah of Iran fighting hard to survive
He, too, is wanted dead or alive

Strikes, demonstrations & wars
Injustice is always the cause
Politicians turn too soon from
Poor people into tycoons
Corruption must bring harass

South African Vorster resign in disgrace
Muzurewa take away Ian Smith place
The Uganda devil was easily cat straddled
Beaten up and chased - what a waste

[Chorus]
Gairy is a wanted man
Idi Amin is a wanted man
Shah of Iran fighting hard to survive
He, too, is wanted dead or alive

The Shah have a short time to live
Because the Ayatollah don't forgive
When you see church ruling state
With pure vengeance and hate
Situation must be explosive

General Somoza from Nicaragua
Thought it was easy with the Sandinistas
With the help of Venezuela, Panama and Cuba
They kick him straight to America

[Chorus]
Gairy is a wanted man
Bokassa is a wanted man
Ali Bhutto try so hard to survive
He too was wanted dead or alive

Grenadian mongoose was bad and so brave
They send the old bishop straight to the grave
After that, when Gairy skip town
With the diary and the Obeah gone
No more people to enslave

Trinidad neighbours all expectin' mayhem
Anytime anything can happen to them
Eric Williams taking a backseat to avoid Bacchanal
But everybody know he 'fraid, Carl

The Mighty Sparrow - Wanted Dead Or Alive (1979)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHIJJmTRbYE?si=BV-3YyVLAccNttBh

This was a tiny vinyl disc in my parent's record collection. The record must have been in the house since the beginning of time, but I only discovered it in the 1980s.

Tell your sister to come down here, cos me have something her to give she.
Tell she it's Mr Benwood Dick, the man from Sandy Grande.

She will remember me ai.
She must remember me.
Go on, go on, tell she Mr Benwood come

Mighty Sparrow - Benwood Dick (1959)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crf1Ly_PQ5w