Volume One

Volume One Artist: Mighty Sparrow
Label: Ice Records
Category: Music


Buying details


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 780563913022
EAN: 0780563913022
ASIN: B00004Y6M9


Release Date: 2000-09-12

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Listmania:

  1. ESSENTIAL CALYPSO ALBUMS

Tracks:

  1. Jean And Dinah
  2. Jack Palance
  3. Robbery With V
  4. Don't Go Joe
  5. Our Model Nation
  6. Dan Is The Man (In The Van)
  7. Sparrow Come Back Home
  8. Congo Man
  9. Federation
  10. Calypso Twist
  11. Obeah Wedding
  12. No Money No Love
  13. Governor's Ball

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Excellent.......2006-02-08

This is a sterling album that not only takes me back to my childhood but also examines one the most famous exponents of this artform. THe songs are still as lyrical, poignent and accessible as when they written. Funny clever and entertaining just listen and you fall in love all over again

5 out of 5 stars R-I-K-K-I T-I-K-K-I T-A-V-I.......2005-07-23

Via his late 50s/early 60s singles, Mighty Sparrow staked out a claim as the greatest English-speaking pop artist of the 20th century. Exhibit A is on this disc. Melodies abound and Sparrow can sing them all with grace, style, and humor. The horn charts are of surpassing brilliance, "No Money No Love" being a prime example. The rhythm sections propel forcefully and rhythmically without ever taking the focus away from the song. Lyrically, he is by turns incisive and amusing, and usually both. I mean, can't you use a disc where the singer spells out the title of a children's tale in perfect cadence? (I know I can.) If I could keep only one disc from my collection, it would be this compilation. If I could keep only one song from my collection, it would be this disc's "Governor's Ball", an allegorical tale of a free spirit/lunatic who takes over a stuffy party, sung to a soaring melody and backed by a band equal to the singer.

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  1. A Musica Do Olodum: 20 Anos ~ Olodum
  2. The Platinum Collection ~ Mina
  3. BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2005 ~ Various Artists
  4. Volume 1 ~ Orange Twin Field Works
  5. Mocca Flor ~ Quadro Nuevo
  6. Noels Celtiques: Celtic Christmas Music From Brittany ~ L'Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde
  7. Qntal III: Tristan Und Isolde ~ Qntal
  8. Love, Peace & Poetry: British Psychedelic Music ~ Various Artists
  9. The Best of the Original Dubliners ~ The Dubliners
  10. Memorial Best ~ Kyu Sakamoto

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Don't Walk Dead ~ Metanoia

Here Comes Trouble ~ Scatterbrain

Voyager Leger ~ Hubert Mounier

Original Inevitable ~ The Franchise

Yes Darling, But is It Art? (Early Singles & Rarities) ~ Television Personalities

Eloquence ~ Bottom Line

Zombi (Dawn of the Dead) ~ Goblin

Dames ~ Original Soundtrack

We Got It Right ~ E-Male