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  S. F. Thomas March 29, 2010 at 9:43pm

  LOL! Maybe that was what all that bacchanal was about ... u know ... about the court case...
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  Glenroy R Joseph March 29, 2010 at 9:34pm

  I've also heard that "Sugar Bum Bum" was about Kitch's wife.
  
  Maybe he used different names to protect the guilty ? :)
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  S. F. Thomas March 29, 2010 at 9:24pm

  Thanks for that info, we're going to have to declare you a national treasure LOL! I for one value your uploads to YT.
  
  I missed TT carnival that year. I was in Toronto at the time, an undergraduate student. I remember waking up one morning and seeing on the front page of the Globe and Mail a big photo of Trinidad police (unmistakable -- they used to wear the white pith helmet in those days) on the streets of PoS trying to put down the "Black Power" uprising. It was very upsetting as I recall. Funny, I was there on the UWI campus the previous year when the whole thing started with Geddes Grainger (Mackandal Daaga) calling out a protest at the visit to the UWI campus of the Canadian G-G, over the student protests at Sir George Williams U. in Montreal. So I missed Margie. I wonder if I would have gotten caught up in the "uprising" had I been there.
  
  Anyway, so who was Audrey (Sugar Bum Bum)? Maybe that story is there also in the interview you mention. I'll have to look for it.
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  Glenroy R Joseph March 29, 2010 at 7:18pm

  Lord Kitchener's calypso "Margie" was a hit in the year 1970.
  
  Desperadoes won the Panorama that year with a Clive Bradley arrangement of "Margie", and
  invaders came in third with the same tune.
  
  BTW the information about Kitch's love song to his wife came from his colleague Black Stalin. He told the story in the 1992 Showcase interview with Lord Kitchener.
  
  The complete interview is posted on this forum.
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  Kenny Wallace March 28, 2010 at 2:41pm

  This is amazing!!! When I see people of other countries other than the Caribbean playing like that I literally "swell up" inside!! Where are they from? Japan or China? Anybody knows? They just kept up that calypso rhythm. My eyes were transfixed on that young lady playing the lead tenor. She was all into it; swaying her body and everthing. I was also impressed with the nice intro and movement into the actual tune. That particular Kitch tune is one of his best for musical chord progression; I love it. Anybody observed how well the bass guitar payer did his part to enhance the music? Great job for a small group.
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  Daniel L March 28, 2010 at 11:44am

  Awesome!!! they got rythm seems like they grew up in T&T
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  S. F. Thomas March 27, 2010 at 5:49pm

  Oh! And I thought Audrey was his wife...
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  S. F. Thomas March 27, 2010 at 5:48pm

  Thanks for naming the tune. What year was that? Somehow I missed that one, it's not embedded in my consciousness. Must have come out somewhere between '77 and '86 when I was wrapped up in other things and didn't follow what was going on in Trini. That was my decade in the cultural wilderness ... broken when David Rudder burst on the scene with Bahia Gyul and De Hammer, and, well, I met dis woman who reminded me of my roots...
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  dunstan lawrence March 27, 2010 at 3:54pm

  look out for pan in de future 2011
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  Glenroy R Joseph March 27, 2010 at 11:15am

  The tune is Kitch's "Margie". believe it or not that song was supposed to be a love song to his wife.
  
  Remember?
  
  "Come let we lime, as de people say,
  now is de time, on Carnival day,
  ..................
  Just throw on yuh morning duster,
  And meet me down by Green corner".
  
  Sweet, sweet typical Kitch tune!