Sparrow's Flight

Track Listings

1. Boudoir Boogie

2. When Your Lover Has Gone

3. Paradise Rock [#]

4. What's New? [#]

5. Serenade to Satchmo [#]

6. Always [#]

7. Indiana [#]

8. Jump Steady [#]

9. Sparrow's Flight No. 2 [#]

10. I'll See You in My Dreams [#]

11. Yesterday [#]

12. Am I Blue [#]

13. What's New? [#]

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Sparrow's Flight

Tracks:

No, Doctor, No (Situation In Trinidad)
Sparrow Verses Melody Picong
Carlton Peeping At Me
Harry In The Piggery
Mango Vert
Gun Slingers
Jean Marabunta
Sailor Man
Eve
Stella
Short Little Shorts
Country Girl
Dear Sparrow
Post Card To Sparrow
Dorothy
Russian Satellite
Mad Bomber
No More Rocking

Album Description

Fueled by his experiences in post-war Port of Spain, Mighty Sparrow's First Flight reflects a world of bravado and high rhetoric where violence of tongue and hand, the cut and thrust of word and razor, were reduced to a finely-honed skill. Sparrow's calypsos, spun with an invincible exuberance, intertwine spiritual and social concerns resulting in unflinching social commentary. Incendiary and often scandalous, First Flight shatters popularly held perceptions of calypso as merely "party" music. 20-page booklet with extensive liner notes and photos, 18 tracks, and 76 minutes of music!

Customer Reviews:

Calypso legend.......2006-11-10

Excellent compilation of West Indian legend, Mighty Sparrow, whose politically minded lyrics predated Bob Marley or Peter Tosh. Mighty Sparrow rose in Trinidad and was one of the pioneering artists to bring Calypso outside of the Caribbean. Calypso, a form of music enslaved Africans in the West Indies used to communicate political information that European enslavers would not recognize because they were in the form of song. Think of it as vocal capoiera! Reggae, which is also great, is a much later genre that has its roots in calypso.