Sherwin and Glenroy; let me shed a little light here, Pouchet and Holman souces are inaccurate, first thing things first, Belgrave Bonapart and Theo Stephens was in the five top player in the TASPO ensemble, the others were Dudley Smith, Patsy Haynes, and "Pan" De Labastide, Williams, Betancourt, Spree, Davidson, Roach, then Ellie, in that order, all the TASPO players were "tenor pan players," and Ellie Mannette was the worst of the lot, but he was a tuner, Bonapart was a good arranger, but he was not the first to arrange for a steel orchestra, the first was "Bajan" Cecil Ward in 1946 for Sun Vallyians, the tune was "Home Sweet Home" for the first Island Wide Festival held in POS,
the first Music Festival was in 1952 and "Boy's Town was the winner, the second was in 1954, the winner Southern All Stars, the arranger Theo Stephens, the tune was "Anna", 1956 Festival the winner was Katzenjammers, the tune Jose Padilla "The Breeze and I" arranger "Everis Barkwyn", the 1956 ping pong soloist was none other that the best panist from South, Nurlin Tate, a guitarist, tU see he South made their full contribution, in the TASPO, and don't forget "Spree" was born in the South, and as for "Ellie" blowing anybody away he couldn't play with two much less three, the TRUTH WILL SET U FREE "ELLIE"...
You need to be a member of When Steel Talks to add comments!
Replies