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  Noel June 7, 2014 at 11:31am

  I remember the song, but all the words I remember is the coda "Alec Bedser, who teach you to bowl Australia". Nothing more stuck. 
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  Glenroy R Joseph June 7, 2014 at 9:23am

  And I believe this was before Christie sang about "Miss Sweden" in the mid fifties.
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  Glenroy R Joseph June 7, 2014 at 9:19am

  Yuh must be getting old Noah :) , what happen ,yuh forget this was a popular  Kitchener calypso ?

  And Alec Bedser was a famous  English Cricketer (bowler) in the 1940's and 50's
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  Noel June 7, 2014 at 2:48am

  Bruteforce! remember them?

  Nice memories. Thanks

  However, on listening keenly I am forced to ask whether they was some 'tiefin' done. The first two lines of the melody are exactly the same, as far as I remember, as those of another calypso of the period. I think it was Christo who sang it. It celebrated the victory of Miss Sweden in the Miss Universe competition of that year.

  I found myself singing along, but using the words "I was present this year, Long Beach California" and then again "I'm congratulating, Miss Hillevi Romkin, What a perfect figure, five foot 7 , tall like mi brudder."

  I really liked this calypso (even more than the Kitch classic Bruteforce played here. So it stuck in my mind all these years.
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  david de castro December 16, 2011 at 11:02pm

  WHAT A LOVELY JOLT TO MY MEMORY.I STILL HAVE THIS RECORD.IT IS A PINK RECORD. AROUND 1955 THIS WAS THE MOST POPULAR STEELBAND RECORD.WE MARVELED HOW GOOD THE RECORDING WAS.THAT MY FRIENDS WAS A LONG TIME AGO.--NICE "BANDIT" 
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  Patrick Louison August 24, 2011 at 8:46pm

  In this episode, the West Indies triumvirate Steelband, Calypso & Cricket meet the English twins Alec & Eric Bedser.  What a lovely song.  Thanks for refreshing the memory with this classic.  More than ever though is the creativity in the liner notes.

  Thank you, Sir.
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  Foy Barnes July 12, 2011 at 12:50pm

  Hi Glen, I respect your vast pan knowlegde, but the sailor story really does not hold up under scrutiny. I have heard that story of the sailor bringing pan to Antigua in 1945, and can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is pure garbage.  How can this be true when the first Panorama (old name: Steelband Competition) any place in the world, was held in St. Thomas in 1946 and won by HELLS GATE STEELBAND out of Antigua. The tune they played was "PEANUT VENDOR".  Really, could they have acomplished that in one year?
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  Glenroy R Joseph July 11, 2011 at 8:07pm

  The tune from back then is stuck somewhere in my memory, and when I hear it, I'll know it.
  
  I have some music from Brute Force including this cut , but as far I know I haven't heard that first tune yet. It may have been "Doris -O is a Mama Paul", but I'm not sure.
  
  And while on the subject of Antigua pan, i wish an Antiguan Pan historian would step forward and tell the story of how pan grew in Antigua.
  
  The story goes that a sailor brought a pan to Antigua from Trinidad (in 1945, I believe).
  
  What happened after that?
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  Glenroy R Joseph July 11, 2011 at 7:50pm

  Foy I have to agree with you.
  
  I'm not 100 percent certain, but I believe, if my memory serves me right, that the first steelband I ever heard on Radio in Trinidad was Brute Force of Antigua.
  
  This would have to been in the early 1950's, when we had that speaker box called Reddifusion mounted on the wall.
  (The guy who mounted the Reddifusion box tried to convince me that there were people inside the box, but I digress)
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  Glenroy R Joseph June 21, 2011 at 5:54pm

  FYI, this calypso is about English cricket great Sir Alec Bedser.(4 July 1918–4 April 2010).

  For cricket fans out there, he is considered to be one of England's best cricketers of the twentieth century, one of their best medium fast bowlers ever, and was a dominant bowler in the nineteen fifties.

  He was knighted in 1996.