Tropical Dancing

Mighty Sparrow EP the rest

2010-05-04T04:37:00.000-07:00

I've had many of my blog visitors asking for the remaining 3 song

from the Mighty Sparrow EP on the Balisier label
I posted some time ago.

link

I finaly had the time to rip them.

HAVE FUN

3 remaining songs from the Balasier EP by Mighty Sparrow

Krosfyah CD - Ultimate Party - Pump Me Up '95

2009-10-17T01:28:00.000-07:00

PUMP ME UP

Krosfyah Site

CD fold front

CD fold inside

Get the CD here

# 1 in Suriname & The Netherlands

2009-08-08T05:49:00.000-07:00

A composition by Damaru.

Damaru wrote this song for his 3 months old daughter.
The lyric says
"I have a little garden in my heart just for you little black rose"
Solo

The songs became an instand hit in Suriname. During an interview Damaru said that the dutch singer Jan Smit was one of his idols. He loved his lyrics and his songs and wanted to do a duet with him.
That was not said to def mans ears and soon there duet of the song was released in Holland and reach #1 within a week.

Duet with Jan Smit

Part of the sales of this song go to SOS kinderdorp, which is an organization that helps orphan children to grow up in a family.

http://www.soskinderdorpen.nl/pages/default.aspx

Download link

Miriam Makeba goes Brasil

2009-05-24T02:52:00.000-07:00

From her Febr 3, 1966 show in Stockholm

Taken from YouTube

Lord Creator - Ma & Pa '62

2008-09-01T04:26:00.000-07:00

A huge hit back in Suriname. I was only 8 years old when this song was played constantly on local radio stations.
A tribute to parents.
The song was originally released on the Creative Calypso label in 1962.

The song can be found on the above cd

A great cd

A Calypso Ballad
Lord Creator – Remember Ma & Pa

Mighty Sparrow - William The Conqueror Balisier EP-EXJA 101

2008-02-27T10:14:00.000-08:00

Mighty Sparrow.Com

I don't think I have to say much about Slinger Fransisco aka Mighty Sparrow. I think he's the best known calypso singer worldwide.

Mighty Sparrow Discography from Calypso Archieves
Sparrow Albums from Hipwax

William The Conqueror – Mighty Sparrow 1958

Salsa by Joe Arroyo - Pa'l Bailador Mango CD '90

2008-02-17T06:00:00.000-08:00

Álvaro José Arroyo González also known as "Joe Arroyo" or "El Joe" is a Colombian salsa and tropical music singer and songwriter. Joe Arroyo was born in Cartagena.

More info on Arroyo

Joe is also known as the male Celia Cruz. Listen and you'll know why.

Pa’l Bailador by Joe Arroyo

Modern Merengue by Los Toros Band

2008-02-16T01:45:00.001-08:00

Los Toros Band – Aqui Si Hay Homdres_Polydor_CD’95

Soca (Soul Calypso) by Lord Kitchner

2007-11-25T04:43:00.001-08:00

Lord Kitchner is from Trinidad and Tabago born in 1922 and died in 2000. Kitch had been performing since 1936.

He has won many Calypso and Carnival contests over the years.
But "Sugur Bum Bum" was his biggest hit.

Download >>>>>>>>> Sugar Bum Bum SOCA

Tribute to LORD KITCHNER

Zouk by Tabou Combo

2007-11-21T02:03:00.000-08:00

A nice rhythm to dance on coming from Haiti.
This rhythm has been adopted my many bands form The Caribbean countries. It's great dance/party music.

Tabou Combo Information

Download Tabou Combo TUNE here

A Merengue by Alberto Beltran

2007-11-14T05:47:00.000-08:00

This is one of my favorite dance tunes/styles it comes in many variations from many countries, each with it's own variation.
This is a traditional one, by one of my favorites performers, Alberto Beltran (from the Dominican Republic) a great singer. Beltran does all South American music & dance styles.

The title of this 1954 (my birth year) song became his nickname "EL NEGRITO DEL BATEY"

This text is taken from "Los cien músicos del siglo" and translated, published in 2000 by "Cañabrava", in Santo Domingo and written by "el Lic. Antonio Gómez Sotolongo"Been born in La Romana, the 5 of June of 1924, his first steps like almost all of those did in their youth: strolling and letting hear his voice in any place where they allowed it. But his great day arrived in December of 1947, when he won a species of aid, made possible by the radiostation La Voz de Yuna. His interpretation was worth a lot and the praises were sung and a most important contract of exclusive feature with the diffuser. The 15 of January of 1947 his voice begun to be heard further and further away, when making debut in the most important radio station of that time. To that success others followed him, that took Alberto Beltrán till the top of the popularity.

In 1954 Beltrán traveled for the first time to Cuba, where his friend and compatriot Tirso Guerrero, who took him to the stage scene of Havana, presented him and quickly the singer of Quisqueya was in the front of the most famous Matancera Sonant. The radio and the Cuban television sent him to popularity in the greater one of the Antilles and his voice was registered on several records. Titles like El negrito del batey, of Héctor J. Díaz and Medardo Guzmán (piece that was written for Joseíto Mateo, but that A.B. recorded and he popularized it, first with the Matancera Sonant,

and soon with the Conjunto Casino). Ignoro tu existencia, of Rafael Pablo Mota, Todo me gusta de ti, of Cuto Estévez, and many others, opened the doors to him for a rutilante carreer. Its fame extended by all the orb and in that way it involved the work of important Dominican composers; and that's how it is what the record work that Alberto Beltrán with the orchestra of Billo Frómeta did in the studios of Radio Progress, in Havana, Cuba, in 1958. From then, the life of the brilliant singer was impregnated by the fame. The quality of its voice stayed through the years, for delight of several generations. This text is taken from "Los cien músicos del siglo" and translated, published in 2000 by "Cañabrava", in Santo Domingo and written by "el Lic. Antonio Gómez Sotolongo"

El Negrito Del Batey by Alberto Beltran