Album · 1959
King Sparrow's Calypso Carnival
King Sparrow's Calypso Carnival is a 1959 calypso album by Mighty Sparrow. It runs 12 tracks across 53 minutes. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.0/5 from 1 rating.
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Twelve songs from 1959, and some of the titles read like a newspaper index: "Russian Satellite" and "Mad Bomber" sit next to love songs for Teresa, Stella and Dorothy. That mix is the whole point of Sparrow. Three years after his first crown with "Jean and Dinah", he already treated calypso as a place for the week's news as much as for the dance floor. This is the young singer before the Madison Square Garden bills and the long run of titles, already working with the idea he kept for the next 70 years. Start here, then go to "Model Nation" and the political songs of the 1960s and 70s.
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12 tracks · 53 min
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- Is King Sparrow's Calypso Carnival good?
- Riffiter listeners rate King Sparrow's Calypso Carnival 4.0/5 from 1 rating.
- When was King Sparrow's Calypso Carnival released?
- King Sparrow's Calypso Carnival was released in 1959.
- How many tracks are on King Sparrow's Calypso Carnival?
- King Sparrow's Calypso Carnival has 12 tracks, with a runtime of 53 minutes.
- What genre is King Sparrow's Calypso Carnival?
- King Sparrow's Calypso Carnival is catalogued under Calypso, Soca.