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  Ayesha Mohammed October 12, 2013 at 8:44am

  Wonderful! How often do we hear his voice in modernday Trini? How often do we publicly speak about him? What lasting honour has been established for all our heroes/
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  Trevor Leiba October 11, 2013 at 4:12pm

  Was Edric Connor the orginal of this song? 
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  John Ford October 10, 2013 at 2:04pm

  Fantastic.
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  Winston Dayal ( alias Gons) October 10, 2013 at 1:45pm

  Great singer and actor . When I was a kid I always called him Cedric . I really thought that was his name not knowing anyone by the name of Edric. Blessings .
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  Glenroy R Joseph October 10, 2013 at 12:08pm

  Edric Connor was much more than a singer and Geraldine Connor's Dad.

  He was a noted actor on stage and screen, and appeared in many successful Hollywood movies at a time when few blacks had meaningful roles in the movies.

  He was the harpoonist "Dagoo" in the movie Moby Dick (Gregory Peck), and who can forget his powerful voice leading the seaman's chant as the crew rowed their boats to their doom.

  He was in movies like the Vikings (Kirk Douglas), and Fire Down Below (Robert Mitchum), and appeared in several other movies in the fifties and sixties.

  It was Edric Connor who was responsible for bringing the legendary TASPO steel orchestra to England in 1952.

  He established Edric Connor Agency, representing black actors, dancers, writers and musicians, and In 1963 set up the Negro Theatre Workshop, one of the UK's first black theatre groups.

  On a personal note, when I entered Naparima College in 1958, we still used the old building, and in my class there was a school bench with Edric Connor's initials carved into it.

  Edric Connor from Mayaro was also a student at Naparima college.

   
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  Glenroy R Joseph November 16, 2011 at 8:59pm

  What a voice, huh?
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  Peter Gray November 16, 2011 at 8:55pm

  Very much appreciated!  Edrick Connor is a very under-recognised son of T&T.  And I agree with Kambiri that we should not wait until people are dead to appreciate their worth.

  Peter

   
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  kambiri de suza November 16, 2011 at 5:52pm

  why we have to wait till these people dead to play or to find these records 

  these should  be in the libraries

   
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  Randi Curvan November 16, 2011 at 5:15pm

  I first met Edric in 1955 on my 1st visit to England and never forgot it. He emigrated the previous year with my parents and we all met up in London the following April. Boy it was cold, but Edric's powerful voice was warming.

  Great man, great memories.
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  Mrs. P November 16, 2011 at 4:17pm

  Thank you so much for sharing this 1954 recording. I knew that it was an old Jamaican folk song, but never heard it in it's original form.