Lord Blakie - Steelband Clash

Calypso, Raw Kaiso at its best.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Calypso
• Trinidad
• Carnival
• Kaiso
• Music

[SuperSnk1]

Imagine this has been a Hit since about 1956 and although we have seen changes in the Kaiso music through these years Blakie's Gems continue to Glitter and remain Enjoyable . That is the Hallmark of a #1 Artiste; his music lives on.

[TrinLando08]

LONG LIVE KAISO!!

[sinfuldavy0]

Can anyone identify the guy in red singing back up. Is it David Rudder?

[kaisomania]

Does anyone have, CHINESE IN THE BUS STAND and BELIEVE IT OR NOT,by Blakie?

[napador]

She dfinitely cyah stop meh now coz she no more with us but I really did like Blakie and I would sing his tunes then and I still sing them now,in my next life ah coming back right their in TT to win a calypso crown.BTW i had a friend in TT and his surname was Carasco.

[dcarasco]

@napador --your parents cyan stop you now, Indian boy--go for it! 

[napador]

I could sing all his tunes when I was a lil boy growing up in Trinidad,I always got into arguements with friends who thought Sparrow was better.Because I, as an Indian boy could sing so good people used to ask meh to sing who knew me.I feel i could have been the first Indian Calypsonian in TT if my parents were not so prudish,they also stop me from beating pan.Ah still love de man.

[kaisomania]

BLAKIE COULD COLOUR THE ATMOSPHERE, LIKE NO OTHER.HIS PERSONALITY WAS UNMATCHED.

[MrMichaelxavier]

@TriniIntel Thank you for your insight and polite manner. Very helpful. God bless you and all my people in Trinidad Black White , Indian rich poor God's children all God's children, sing halelujah!

[jackassdiss]

KAISO KAISO!!!

[63Hinds]

Carlton Joseph was born in St paul Street I knew his Mother Esmee float she used to make the best float in them times float and ackra sell right on corner of St. Paul and Piccadilly St.

[TriniIntel]

@MrMichaelxavier I highly doubt he 'sanitised' his tune. Often at live shows verses get cut for time, are hummed or talked over, or are quite simply forgotten / mixed up (Terror was somewhat notorious for that). Blakie was not a man to worry much about offense. Furthermore, the verse in question was not offensive. It was merely an observation that an Indian man that was selling bread, was concerned for his life as the clash took place.