https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-CE4xYIyng

This song is a calypso song by Lord Invader. It was released in 1943 and eventually became a huge hit in the United States, even making the Billboard’s U.S. Pop Single’s Chart. Lord Invader is a Trinidadian musician that has produced many songs with other Calypso musicians like Roaring Lion and Antilla the Hun. In fact, this song in particular was produced in New York city, but the the song was plagiarized by Morey Amsterdam and the Andrews Sisters, who made the song a hit. In this piece you can hear how his voice has a distinct gravelly tone to it, a signature of his. It also features the traditional steel drums and shakers normally found in calypso music. This time period was huge for calypso musicians as they had often travelled to the US to spread the sounds of msuic from Trinidad and Tobago.