Lord Melody

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Carnival Proclamation 02:44 Tools
O Level Drinkers 05:06 Tools
Cowboy Sparrow 03:25 Tools
Booboo Man (Mama, Look at Bubu) 04:22 Tools
Sugar Pie 02:50 Tools
My Baby 02:53 Tools
Bong Bong Bong 03:49 Tools
Come Go Calcutta 03:07 Tools
Kathleen 04:00 Tools
Hi Nigger 03:05 Tools
Turn Back, Melody 04:15 Tools
Booboo Man 04:22 Tools
Radio Commercials 00:00 Tools
Creature From The Black Lagoon 03:23 Tools
Wait For Me 03:47 Tools
Crazy Love 03:32 Tools
Antiguan Girls 02:43 Tools
Doctor Make Your Love 02:57 Tools
Canada So Cold 03:09 Tools
Wau, Wau 04:33 Tools
Turn Back Melody 04:15 Tools
Mama Wan' Me 02:42 Tools
Belmont Jackass 04:16 Tools
Are You Guilty? 03:20 Tools
Donkey Race 03:06 Tools
Mr. Melody 03:00 Tools
Long Time Story 03:10 Tools
Melody Twist 03:44 Tools
So Long 02:58 Tools
The Creature From The Black Lagoon 03:34 Tools
Sparrow's Sister 02:47 Tools
Michael (Remove Your Face) 03:11 Tools
Marjorie 03:12 Tools
The Letter 03:28 Tools
Moses 02:49 Tools
Sack Dress 03:24 Tools
Georgie Porgie 02:53 Tools
The Seagull And The Mule 03:12 Tools
New York 03:42 Tools
The Management 02:47 Tools
Blackbird 03:05 Tools
Hungry Barbers 03:24 Tools
Princess Margaret 03:30 Tools
Dear Sparrow 04:18 Tools
Margie 03:39 Tools
Creature from Black Lagoon 03:26 Tools
Peddlers 03:14 Tools
Jonah and the Bake 03:06 Tools
Happy Harry 03:27 Tools
Nylon 02:44 Tools
The River 04:43 Tools
Yours Sincerely 03:07 Tools
Life In Brazil 02:37 Tools
The Jumbie 04:07 Tools
Alexander the Murderer 03:31 Tools
Woman Good, Woman Bad 03:16 Tools
Can Can 02:55 Tools
Romeo 02:59 Tools
Aphan Taat 02:37 Tools
Joseph 05:14 Tools
How Mommy Made Me 02:28 Tools
Sí Señor 03:46 Tools
Caroline 04:09 Tools
Let's Take a Chance 03:06 Tools
Si Senor 03:46 Tools
Down Down Dey 03:09 Tools
Mama Look A Boo-Boo 02:43 Tools
Overture 03:07 Tools
The Managment 02:46 Tools
Gloria 03:07 Tools
Michael 03:10 Tools
pedlers 03:16 Tools
Mama Look at Bubu 02:55 Tools
Kiss Me 02:55 Tools
Calypso Tent: Carnival 04:23 Tools
Michael Remove Your Face 03:30 Tools
Peddler 04:22 Tools
Mama Look A Booboo 00:30 Tools
Booboo Man (Mama, Look at Bubu) - Lord Melody 04:22 Tools
Mama Look A Boo Boo 03:00 Tools
Choro 04:22 Tools
Hi Nigger (Come Go Calcutta) 03:05 Tools
Tabu 03:16 Tools
Eight Hours a Day 04:22 Tools
Bongo Mood 03:05 Tools
Mama Look At Booboo 03:16 Tools
Boo Boo Man 04:22 Tools
Mr. Merlody 03:00 Tools
Michael, Please Remove Your Face 04:38 Tools
Conrad 03:30 Tools
Limbo Basso 03:30 Tools
Long Time Story (feat. Marjorie Johnson) 03:12 Tools
Primitif 03:30 Tools
are you guilty 03:00 Tools
Melo in Love 04:36 Tools
Are You So Guilty? 04:38 Tools
Come Go, Calcutta - Lord Melody 03:00 Tools
Carnival Proclamation - Lord Melody 03:00 Tools
Cowboy Sparrow - Lord Melody 03:00 Tools
Turn Back, Melody - Lord Melody 03:00 Tools
In The Name Of The Law 03:00 Tools
Country Girl 03:27 Tools
Sack Dress (feat. Marjorie Johnson) 03:27 Tools
Old Time Calypsoes 00:00 Tools
Picong Due 03:00 Tools
Cowboy Sparrow (1957) 00:00 Tools
Booboo Man (1956) 04:22 Tools
Wau Wau 04:33 Tools
London Town 02:53 Tools
Girl In France 03:27 Tools
Grine Um 03:27 Tools
Shaver Man 03:27 Tools
Bimini Gal 02:53 Tools
MacDonald Almanac 02:53 Tools
My Baby Is All Right 00:00 Tools
Madame Rasta 02:53 Tools
Not Tonight 00:00 Tools
No 04:38 Tools
Look 00:00 Tools
mr melody 04:38 Tools
Turn Back, Melody (1959) 00:00 Tools
Picong Duel 04:38 Tools
Are You Afraid 04:38 Tools
Calypso life in brazil 04:38 Tools
South Side Chicago 00:00 Tools
Booboo Man / Mama Look a Boo Boo 00:00 Tools
Shame and scandal 00:00 Tools
Tar Baby 04:38 Tools
Can-Can 04:38 Tools
Doctor Make You Love 04:38 Tools
Doolahin 04:38 Tools
Sparrow, Melody Horse Race 04:38 Tools
Carnival Proclomation (1958) 04:38 Tools
Wahbeen Life 00:00 Tools
Come Go Calcutta (1957) 04:38 Tools
Missing Frozen Chicken 04:38 Tools
Mama Looka Booboo 04:38 Tools
Booboo Man (Mama Look a Boo Boo) 00:00 Tools
Mama Want Me 00:00 Tools
Bong, Bong, Bong 03:51 Tools
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Lord Melody (1926 – 26 September 1988) was a popular calypsonian, best known for singles such as the self-deprecating "Boo Boo Man", "Shame & Scandal", "Jonah and the Bake", "Juanita" and "Rastaman Be Careful". Melody's career spanned some forty years, from the early development of popular calypso to his embrace of a reggae influenced sound in the late 1970s. Melody was born Fitzroy Alexander at San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, raised at an orphanage in Port of Spain, and met Alwyn Roberts (soon to become better known as Lord Kitchener) after moving to Arima while still in his teens. Roberts took him under his wing and they returned to Port of Spain, where Lord Kitchener became the leading calypso star, with Melody one of his main challengers. His popularity increased locally when Lord Kitchener emigrated to England in 1947. Melody began singing in the calypso tents in the mid 1940s and was one of the leaders of the Young Brigade tent during the 1950s and early 1960s. He also regularly toured the Caribbean. His early successes included "Berlin on a Donkey", mocking Adolf Hitler, and "Boo Boo Man". In 1954 he won Trinidad's Calypso King title with "Second Spring", and he was signed to the American Emory Cook's record label, Cook Records, in 1956. He was one of six calypsonians who were chosen to sing for Princess Margaret at the Governor's House during her visit to Trinidad in 1956; the others were Sir Galba, Mighty Dictator, Mighty Spitfire, Mighty Panther, and Lord Viper. Melody went on to compose a number of other songs that poked fun at his own appearance, such as "Creature from the Black Lagoon". His first album, Lord Melody Sings Calypso, was released in 1957, with a second album, Again! released the following year. He frequently sparred in song with the Mighty Sparrow. Rivalry between Melody and the Mighty Sparrow was recorded in the calypsos "Ten to One is Murder" and "Cowboy Sparrow". The humorous rivalry between the two calypsonians was immensely popular with audiences. Another one of Melody's calypsos, "Shame & Scandal" (composed in 1962), became an international hit and was recorded in the U.S., Europe and Australia. His greatest success came when Harry Belafonte recorded his songs "Boo Boo Man" (retitled "Mama Look at Bubu") and "Sweetheart From Venezuela" (aka "Juanita"), having a top 20 hit in the US with the former in 1957. "Mama Look a Boo Boo" was also recorded by Robert Mitchum and many other singers. In 1958, his "Cricket, Lovely Cricket" became a favourite on British radio, and his records started to become available in Europe, with several singles becoming favourites with Britain's West Indian community in the late 1950s. In the first half of the 1960s, his popularity waned, but he again found success in 1965 when his "Melody Mas" won the panorama at the Carnival. In the late 1960s Melody moved to New York, and he subsequently toured with Belafonte. He was diagnosed with cancer in the early 1970s and the illness restricted his career, although in 1979 he released the I Man album, a reggae tinged album on which he expressed his embrace of Rastafari, the singles "Rastaman Be Careful" and "Brown Sugar" becoming local hits in the same era. In 1982 he made another album, the soca-styled Lola. His health continued to deteriorate and he died from cancer in September 1988, in Port of Spain. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.