King Radio

For other uses, see King Radio (disambiguation).

King Radio ca. 1937

Norman Span, known as King Radio, was a top Trinidadian calypsonian active in the 1930s and 1940s. ^[1]

He was a waterfront worker in Port of Spain when he started performing in public in 1929. Six years later he started his short-lived recording career. ^[2] He was the composer of many calypsos, several of which later became standards through popular recordings by Harry Belafonte such as "Matilda", ^[3] "Man Smart, Woman Smarter", ^[4] and "Brown Skin Girl". ^[5]

References

1. Quevedo, Raymond (1983). Atilla's kaiso: a short history of Trinidad calypso. University of the West Indies. p. 100. OCLC   11727508.
2. Sullivan, Steve (2013). Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings. Vol. 1. Scarecrow Press. pp. 607–608. ISBN   978-0-8108-8296-6.
3. Pereira, Alberto; Johannes Maerk (2002). Turismo, desarrollo y recursos naturales en el Caribe. Plaza y Valdes. p. 50. ISBN   9789707220683.
4. Catlin, Roger (8 July 1993). "Comedy in the round, and all-around comedy with Steven Wright". Hartford Courant . Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
5. Crowley, Daniel J. (May 1959). "Toward a Definition of Calypso (Part I)". Ethnomusicology . 3 (2): 57–66. doi:10.2307/924286. ISSN   0014-1836. JSTOR   924286.