Many early Trinidad and Tobago steelband took their names from current Hollywood movies.

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  • There was a steel band called "Rising Sun" from Belmont, POS. T&T.. From Belmont Valley Road opposite to the "Chinese Savanah" next to the "Rose Bowl". They got their name from the movie "Behind the Rising Sun" 1943. Starring Tom Neal, Margo and Robert Ryan. Check it out.

    Reggie Greaves.

    • Thank you  for the information.

  • We should add: Hills Sixteen,Leningrad, Red Army, Bad Twenty,Tropical Harmony

    • Correct, Courtney.

    • Courtney

      Thank you for the information.

      Do you know what specific movies are associated with these bands?

      Thanks again

      • They are not movies but taken during the war years e,g The Japanese Army were known as the Red Army therefore the names  was associated with war. Another name Lenningrade was associated with Russia.

        • With due respect to Mr. Leiba, the Red Army was not Japanese but Russian. Also the name of the band Bar 20 was derived from a movie of the same name. 

        • Actually, I believe "Red Army" referred to Stalin's Russian army (Stalin having been the strongman of the time in Russia.

  • Thank you for this interesting history research. 

    I had always thought that the "Gay Desperadoes" steelband was named after the movie, from the 1930's, of the same name.

    I have absolutely no data to back that up other than the name.  The movie you credit does fit the time period better.

    Do any old Despers members have any written or oral history, or perhaps that is what you already used.


    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027660/

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