Calypso Bacchanal - Count Bernadino

 

Calypso Bacchanal

Count Bernadino 
Calypso Bacchanal (Calypso Party)
Photograph by Andrew Aitken
Carib LP-2020
1962

From the back cover: The difference between a Calypso singer and a Calypsonian is the difference between Count Bernadino and all the others you have heard. A Calypsonian, while singing and accompanying himself on the guitar will make up lyrics as he goes along, usually to fit the occasion or the mood, and never lose a beat. All of this comes out as if he had been doing it for years, but in truth these lyrics are fresh, new and bright because they were just invented, and both you and the Count are hearing them for the first time. This is the element of surprise which has been delighting audiences at the famed British Colonial Hotel in Nassau for the past year and a half.The Count and his group which includes: John Clark, piano; Little Sparrow, steel pans; Fred Callender, bass: Eddie White, tenor sax and flute; Charles Emlok, alto sax; Lord Lynn, tenor sax; Rudy Pinder, drums and Roy Shurland on maracas introduced Calypso to the Jamaican Room in New York City and later did an extended engagement at the Palladium there. They have recently been at the Eden Roc Hotel, Miami Beach and at almost every important club and resort in the U. S. including Coney Island. Wherever they have performed audiences have recognised theirs as the "real Calypso." Listen now as they do such famous Calypsos as Red Shoes, Water She Garden, Time Marches On and other favorites. Presenting Count Bernadino, a real, live, Born in the Bahamas, genuine Calypsonian.

Come On
Love Alone
Convoy
Mable
Sha-Bop
Go Down To Bimini
Red Shoes
Time Marches On
Back To Back
Chinese Baseball
Water She Garden
Mama Lay, Lay, Lay