Lord Melody "Melo" the man and his Music

From Calypso Dreams...comments from Gypsy, Sparrow, Lord Superior, Harry Belafonte and David Rudder...insightful and thought provoking.

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Music

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• Calypso
• Trinidad
• Carnival
• Lord
• Melody
• Harry
• Belafonte
• Sparrow
• David
• Rudder
• World
• Music

[janell40]

Janell Alexander is my name and I have discovered that the late great Mr. Lord Melody, ia my grandpa...I am so excited to research his life's journey.

[CherCherico]

That's your opinion which is not much

[dbastard1977]

@CherCherico

Harry Belafonte has no talent and his fame was based solely on looks. Harry Belafonte didnt even sing calypso. He sang some offshoot of calypso geared solely towards white people who cannot understand the West Indian terms we use daily in our life. Harry is a wonderful man when it comes to civil rights but he cannot sing calypso to save his life. He was a pretty boy and that was all........

[greenfaceman]

It's not just the Calypso, but it is also Rock & Roll, Country & Western and these are names that they have given to Black people music. White people are the original cultural bandits. At least Harry admitted that he didn't feel up to the task of competing with real calypsonians. Melody says that Harry, has done a lot for Calypso Music. I am yet to hear White people say where the hell they stole Rock & Roll from, and now they are going after Jazz.

[edudrepus]

I bottom line is that I found out today that those were melody and sparrow's song's and that is a crime. I think I just hate Belafonte in general but he didn't even tell his audience the songs were Trinidadian.

[TriniIntel]

edud, if you actually take a look at the full documentary, you'll find that the people who he 'stole' from actually benefited from it. Melody did in fact get money from the covers (and much much more, since he moved around with Harry once they met) and Sparrow had doors opened for him through Belafonte's connections. Could he have done more? Probably. But he DID give back those whose music he covered.

[edudrepus]

Belafonte stole their song's and didn't do anything to tell the audience who's songs they were and who had created them.

[Tourguidegordon]

I am from Antigua and I saw this documentry on one of our local stations called Hama TV and I absolutely loved it. I could watch this a thousand times. I especially enjoyed Lord Blakie. I even downloaded a few of his songs on my cell phone. I have been to Trinidad a few times but never had the chance to visit a calypso tent :0(

Does anyone know where I can purchase this documentry?

My contact numbers are 1 268 785 3021 or 1 268 772 8738

Gordon Finch

[cool4rocknroll]

I have enjoyed watching this documentry about the calypso history. Each calypsonian spoke their opinon on how calypso use to be in the old time days. This documentry was mainly about the late calypsonian Lord Melody (1926 - 1988). Harry Belafonte did a cover song of Sparrow's "Jean and Dinah" and Melody's "Mama Look at Boo Boo". I always enjoyed Belafonte's work.