Perhaps that is why Calypso started to loose its appeal.
It did not stop for Lent.
I remember how excited I used to get when 12 noon Glorious Saturday came around and calypsos and Steelband music returned to the radio. How many of you remember those days?
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Personally l'll always believe that "sacrificing " our music for Lent was detrimental to our culture , and helped define our music as seasonal .
The idea that pan and calypso were of the carnival bacchanal, and had to be left behind on Ash Wednesday, became so ingrained in our culture, that it's effects remained , even to this day.
I used to try to remember as many different panorama arrangements as possible. I usually only got as far as the top three plus Starlift's panorama tune. As a "town man" I never appreciated Guinness Cavaliers, they were just too staccato for my liking. But Despers' Mama Dis is Mas and Obeah Wedding and North Stars, Hold on to Yuh Man was indelibly etched in my mind.
The problem was always steelbands had at least 4 or 5 tunes for the carnival and unless they made a recording you could not hope to know them all.
Steelbands had more than 4/5 tunes for carnival, but we learnt the tunes primarily to play in fetes.
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Randi the best thing was that fete start back.
Fete start back with PAN