Calypso Season

• Artist: Various Artists
• Release Date: 1989
• Total Time: 51:11
• Type: Collection (various artists), Compilation (best of)
• Genre: World

Review

This is a fine collection full of unintended ironies. Most of it is in fact soca, balanced between names (Baron, Tambu, Sparrow) and unknowns (All Rounder). But there are two old-calypso cuts with acoustic guitar by Roaring Lion, and one by classic steelband The Desperados -- and all three strike like a cool breeze in a crowded dancehall. Still and all, the soca cuts are just fine in their own affably shallow way. Whoever selected this lot had fine ears (pity Mango couldn't have spared the time or the bucks for at least some kind of notes, fer crine out loud). ~ John Storm Roberts, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Somebody	Winsford Devine	Baron	(5:58)
Maxi Dub	Errol Ballantyne	Bally	(3:24)
Free Up	David Rudder	Tambu	(6:17)
Shaking It	Emmanuel Ector, Ronnie McIntosh	Ronnie McIntosh	(4:28)
Jail Them	Rafael DeLeon	Roaring Lion	(2:12)
Innocent Jimmy	Allrounder	Allrounder	(5:31)
Congoman	Francisco Slinger	Mighty Sparrow	(4:21)
Yah	Duke "Mighty Duke"	Duke "Mighty Duke"	(4:15)
One More, Officer	David Rudder	David Rudder	(4:28)
Somebody	Winsford Devine	Desperados	(2:30)
Caroline	A.L. Lloyd, Peter Miller, Geoff Moss, Mac McIntyre, Johnny Larke, Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers	Roaring Lion	(3:27)
Song for a Lonely Soul	David Rudder	David Rudder	(4:20)

Credits

Roaring Lion (Performer), Duke "Mighty Duke" (Performer), Mighty Sparrow (Performer), David Rudder (Performer), Baron (Performer), Bally (Performer), Tambu (Performer), Allrounder (Performer), Desperados (Performer), Ronnie McIntosh (Performer)