[78-L] Sidney & the Lion play calypso

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "Bill McClung" <bmcclung78 at gmail.com>
> Yes, please send the files.  I would love to know more.  I only have four 
> of
> the Deccas.  Were any other U.S. labels  releasing calypso in the late 30s
> and early 40s?     I buy them whenever I see them but most seem to be
> postwar.
> So far I've got calypso 78s on Apollo, Calypso, Disc, Emerald Beach, 
> Encino,
> Kalypso, Keynote, Lyragon, Richards, and Stinson.
>
London also issued calypso records; I presume they were recorded by
Decca(UK) in the West Indies, which were mostly British "colonies" at
that time? They have attractive special labels; they aren't that hard to
find, so I suspect they were sold as "vacation souvenirs" to visitors?

Steven C. Barr