Artist	Song
Robert Mitchum	Coconut Water
from Calypso - Is Like So...! (2008)
Lord Invader	My Intention Is War
from Calypso In New York (2000)
Roaring Lion	Life Could Be Sunny
from I'm Reed Fish (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2007)
Lord Melody	Creature from the Black Lagoon
from Calypso Kings and Pink Gin (1957)
Kitchener	Rain-O-Rama
from Forever Vol.1 (2009)
Wrangler	Bongo Man
from Calypso Awakening (2000)
Spoiler	Women Police
from Calypso - Best of Trinidad (2009)
Singing Sandra	For Whom the Bell Tolls
from Clean Heart (2008)
Wayne Rodriguez	I Remember Africa
from 1999 Calypso Compilation (1999)
Luta	Check the Foundation
from Goodwill Messengers of the Red White and Black (2008)
Atilla The Hun And Lord Beginner	Iere Now and Long Ago
from Calypsos from Trinidad - Politics, Intrigue & Violence In the 1930s (2011)
King Fighter	Indo Law Na Say So
from Hellish Calypso (1962)
Sugar Aloes	Jubilation
from Victory (2009)
Belasco's Orchestra	Blow Wind Blow
from Calypso - Best of Trinidad (2009)
Neville Marcano	Money Is King
from The Alan Lomax Collection: Portraits - The Growling Tiger of Calypso (1998)
Small Island Pride	Carnival Celebration
from Calypso Awakening (2000)
The Mighty Terror	Kitch Cavalcade
from The Calypso Kings (2008)
The Duke of Iron	Man Centipede
from Monkey Calypso (1958)
Atilla	Graf Zepplin
from Calypso - Best of Trinidad (2009)
Lord Melody	Jonah and the Bake
from Calypso Kings and Pink Gin (1957)
Mystic Prowler	No, Is Ah Jumbie
from Living Legends of Calypso (2009)
Sir Lancelot	Scandal In the Family
from The Rough Guide to Calypso Gold (2008)
King Solomon	Belafonte
from Calypso Kings and Pink Gin (1957)
Mighty Sparrow	Barack de Magnificent
from Barack de Magnificent (2008)

Comment:

The spirit of calypso is too irresistible, the sound too infectious to be bound to any one time or place. The music may have taken off in '20s Trinidad and started spreading in the '40s with classic cuts like Sir Lancelot's much-covered "Scandal In the Family," but that didn't stop Hollywood hero Robert Mitchum from cutting a 1957 album full of surprisingly convincing calypso cuts, like "Coconut Water." And it sure didn't prevent later generations of calypsonians, like Sugar Aloes, from keeping the sound current with bitingly political, [i]soca[/i]-tinged tracks like "Jubilation."

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