Lord Invader

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Aguiti 00:00 Tools
Rum and Coca-Cola 02:32 Tools
Me One Alone 00:00 Tools
Pepsi-Cola 00:00 Tools
New York Subway 00:00 Tools
Yankee Dollar 00:00 Tools
Africa Here I Come 00:00 Tools
Out the Fire 00:00 Tools
You Don't Need Glasses To See 00:00 Tools
Tie-Tongue Baby 00:00 Tools
Barbados 00:00 Tools
Brown skin girl 00:00 Tools
Cousin Family 00:00 Tools
Sly Mongoose 00:00 Tools
Brooklyn, Brooklyn! 00:00 Tools
Mary Ann 00:00 Tools
Ten Thousand to Bar Me One 00:00 Tools
My Experience On The Rieperbahn 00:00 Tools
Labor Day 00:00 Tools
My Intention is War 00:00 Tools
When You Hear I Die 00:00 Tools
I'm Going Back to Africa 00:00 Tools
Brown Girl in the Ring 00:00 Tools
Auf Wiedersehen 00:00 Tools
No Place Like the West Indies 00:00 Tools
Goodwood Park 00:00 Tools
Mahalia, I Want Back My Dollar 00:00 Tools
Limbo Dance 00:00 Tools
Cries of Arkansas 00:00 Tools
Tied-Tongue Baby 00:00 Tools
Fidel Castro 00:00 Tools
Steel Band War 00:00 Tools
God Made Us All 00:00 Tools
Caro at Point Cumana 00:00 Tools
Barrack-room Scandal 00:00 Tools
Happy Land of Canaan 00:00 Tools
Cat O'Nine Tails 00:00 Tools
Reincarnation 00:00 Tools
Saga Boy's in Town 00:00 Tools
My Experience on the Reperbahn (#2) 00:00 Tools
Old Time Cat-O'-Nine 00:00 Tools
You're Wasting Your Time (#2) 00:00 Tools
Prince Rainer 00:00 Tools
Yankee Dollars 00:00 Tools
Chicago, Chicago 00:00 Tools
My Experience On The Rieperbah 00:00 Tools
The Soldiers Came and Broke Up My Life (#2) 00:00 Tools
Teddy Boy Calypso Bring Back The Old Cat O Nine 00:00 Tools
There's a Brown Girl in the Ring 00:00 Tools
Happy Land of Canaan (#2) 00:00 Tools
29, Port of Spain 00:00 Tools
Saga Boys In Town 00:00 Tools
Merrily We Roll Along 00:00 Tools
Chicago, Chicago (#2) 00:00 Tools
Paince Rainer 00:00 Tools
Reincartatio 00:00 Tools
Teddy Boty Calypso 00:00 Tools
demasbar 00:00 Tools
Reincarnation (The Bed Bug) 00:00 Tools
New York Sub 00:00 Tools
Mary Anne 00:00 Tools
The Soldiers Came and Broke Up My Life 00:00 Tools
Beautiful Belgic 00:00 Tools
Father Christmas 00:00 Tools
Where Jonah Gone 00:00 Tools
Carnival 00:00 Tools
As Long as it Born in my House (Lt. Joe) 00:00 Tools
Teddy Boy (Bring Back The Old Cat O-Nine) 00:00 Tools
Women Trying to Rule 00:00 Tools
Romancing With The Lord Invader 00:00 Tools
Introduction To Rum And Coca-Cola 00:00 Tools
Mahalia I Want Back Ma Dollar 00:00 Tools
Te We 00:00 Tools
Beway 00:00 Tools
My Experience on the Rapper Band 00:00 Tools
Mahalia, I Want Back Ma Doolar 00:00 Tools
Mother Love 00:00 Tools
Mahalia, I Want Back Ma Dollar 00:00 Tools
Lord Invader's Tune 00:00 Tools
Prince Rainier 00:00 Tools
Early in the Morning 00:00 Tools
Brown Skin Gal 00:00 Tools
Hello Joe 00:00 Tools
Ring a Rosy 00:00 Tools
Bassa Down 00:00 Tools
Barrack Room Scandal 00:00 Tools
Cat-O-Nine tails 00:00 Tools
29 Port Of Spain 00:00 Tools
Annie Rooney 00:00 Tools
Introduction To Tie-Tongue Baby 00:00 Tools
Labor Day Carnival 00:00 Tools
Teddy Boy Calypso (Bring Back the Cat-o-Nine) 00:00 Tools
See See Oh! 00:00 Tools
Call Him for Me 00:00 Tools
My Intention Is War (feat. Mighty Dictator) 00:00 Tools
That Game Named Poker 00:00 Tools
Hurricane Connie 00:00 Tools
Brooklyn,Brooklyn 00:00 Tools
Jackie Robinson 00:00 Tools
Cat O'Nine Tails (feat. Calypso Group) 00:00 Tools
Teddy Boy Calypso 00:00 Tools
Romancing With Lord Invader 00:00 Tools
Social Party 00:00 Tools
Reincarnation [the Bed Bug] 00:00 Tools
The Sport Pool 00:00 Tools
My Experiencee On The Reperbahn (#2) 00:00 Tools
Chicago,Chicago 00:00 Tools
Rum and coca cola (audio) 00:00 Tools
Barbados,Barbados 00:00 Tools
Tee Way,Tee Way 00:00 Tools
Cousin Family (feat. Felix & His Internationals) 00:00 Tools
Reincarnation the Bed Bug 00:00 Tools
Rum & Coca Cola (Live) 00:00 Tools
Crisis In Arkansas (feat. Calypso Group) 00:00 Tools
My Experience On The Reperbahn (feat. Calypso Group) 00:00 Tools
Rate Rate Ray 00:00 Tools
Pepsi-Cola (feat. Felix & His Internationals) 00:00 Tools
Teddy Boy Calypso Bring Back the Old Cat O' Nine 00:00 Tools
Rum Coca Cola 00:00 Tools
Teddy Boy Calypso (Bring Back the Old Cat-O-Nine) 00:00 Tools
Jonah 00:00 Tools
Brooklyn, Brooklyn 00:00 Tools
Fan Me Saga Boy 00:00 Tools
Out The Fire (feat. Felix & His Internationals) 00:00 Tools
McGee 00:00 Tools
Some Girl Something 00:00 Tools
Old Time Cat-O´-Nine 00:00 Tools
Down At Rockaway 00:00 Tools
Enraptured Soulz 00:00 Tools
Mary Ann (feat. Felix & His Internationals) 00:00 Tools
The Soldiers Came And Broke My Life 00:00 Tools
Cat O' Nine Tails 00:00 Tools
Cat O-Nine Tails 00:00 Tools
Fidel Castro [edit] 00:00 Tools
Pepsi Cola 00:00 Tools
Trinidad: Old Time Cat-O'-Nine 00:00 Tools
08-lord invader-aguiti 00:00 Tools
SOFFIE BELLAH 00:00 Tools
Reincarnation - The Bed Bug 00:00 Tools
Barbados, Barbados 00:00 Tools
Tee Way, Tee Way 00:00 Tools
Auf Wiederseh'n 00:00 Tools
Té Way 00:00 Tools
Reincartation (The Bed Bug) 00:00 Tools
Lord Invader / My Experience On The Rieperbahn 00:00 Tools
Britannia Rules 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Carnaval 00:00 Tools
Romance In The Moonlight 00:00 Tools
My Intention Is To Join The Volunteers 00:00 Tools
Ochro And Rice 00:00 Tools
Chicago, Chicago [#2] 00:00 Tools
Lord Invader / Me One Alone 00:00 Tools
You Don't Need Glasses to See (feat. Gerald Clark & the Calypso Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
Hitler Demanded Trinidad 00:00 Tools
Lord Invader / You Don't Need Glasses To See 00:00 Tools
as long as it born in my hous 00:00 Tools
brittania rules 00:00 Tools
Rum And Cola-Cola 00:00 Tools
Happy Land of Canaan [#2] 00:00 Tools
Dock Site Baby 00:00 Tools
Mary Anne - Lord Invader 00:00 Tools
Steel Band War (feat. Calypso Group) 00:00 Tools
You're Wasting Your Time [#2] 00:00 Tools
rum and coco cola 00:00 Tools
Little Jeannie 00:00 Tools
Aguiti - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Pound Your Plaintain in the Mortar 00:00 Tools
Lord Invader / Paince Rainer 00:00 Tools
Lord Invader / New York Subway 00:00 Tools
Lord Invader / Reincartation (The Bed Bug) 00:00 Tools
Beautiful Belgique 00:00 Tools
Teddy Boy Calypso (Bring Back The Old Cat-O Nine) 00:00 Tools
Zombie Jamboree 00:00 Tools
The Soldiers Came and Broke up My Life [#2] 00:00 Tools
Lord Invader / Mahalia, I Want Back My Dollar 00:00 Tools
Lord Invader / Africa Here I Come 00:00 Tools
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Lord Invader (Rupert Westmore Grant; 13 December 1914 – 15 October 1961) was a prominent calypsonian with a very distinctive, gravelly voice. He was born in San Fernando, Trinidad. He became active in calypso in the mid-1930s, and was considered a country bumpkin by his contemporaries, because of his humble beginning. It was Grant's tailor who gave him his moniker by commenting, "I tell you, Rupert, you should call yourself Lord Invader so when you go up to the city you be invadin' the capital." With a new name, in 1937 he went to the capital city of Port of Spain and began his career in earnest. He competed in many calypso competitions (including the very first Calypso King competition) and recorded for RCA Bluebird. Lured by Decca Records, he travelled to New York City in 1941 with other calypsonians such as Roaring Lion and Atilla the Hun to make records and promote calypso music. He wrote many calypsos; his most famous lyrics, "Rum and Coca-Cola", were plagiarised by Morey Amsterdam and became a hit for the Andrews Sisters. Invader travelled to New York and sued, eventually winning compensation, although the final settlement allowed Amsterdam to retain his copyright. Ironically, In the early 1940s, radio stations in the USA would not play his own version on the grounds of its using the copyrighted name, Coca-Cola, and its references to prostitution and alcohol. He stayed in New York for a few years because of the lengthy court case. During his tenure in New York City, he became a fixture in the local calypso scene and recorded many tracks for Moses Asch. Eventually, he won his court case, but would not see his settlement check for seven years, so he returned to Trinidad in the meantime. He opened a calypso club there and penned and recorded many original songs. He is often credited with writing "Zombie Jamboree", although the song was actually written by Lord Intruder (Winston O'Conner), who released it on the B-side of his 1953 single "Disaster with Police". It was covered by Conrad Eugene Mauge Jr, who recorded it in 1959 and was also often credited for writing it. The confusion probably stems from the introduction of the version by the Kingston Trio, which mentions "Lord Invader and his Twelve Penetrators". At long last, Invader collected his money from his court case, and began to tour the U.S., later expanding to Britain and Europe. In the last half of 1958, he returned to New York City and continued recording for Moses Asch. He would continue to return to his homeland for business and pleasure, although by now he had, with Wilmoth Houdini, made himself one of America's most successful calypsonians. On 15 October 1961, Lord Invader died at a Brooklyn, New York hospital. The following discs give a good idea of his work: Calypso in New York (Smithsonian Folkways 40454), released in 2000, is a collection of Invader's recordings across his whole career. Calypso at Midnight and Calypso After Midnight come from a live recording organized by Alan Lomax in New York in 1946. Calypso War, Kings of Calypso, and Trojan Calypso boxed set all feature the same set of songs recorded in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Folkways Records also have a number of CDs that Invader recorded in the late 1950s in New York, including, Calypso (1955), Calypso Travels, and There's a Brown Boy in the Ring and Other Children's Calypso Songs (1959). In 1961, Invader released an atypical LP, West Indian Folk Songs for Children (Caedmon Records). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.