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"Grey Clouds" by The Girl Pat Steel Orchestra (1957)

Posted by Glenroy R Joseph on April 6, 2011 at 2:06am
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From the 1957 Cook Album, The Champion Steelbands of Trinidad. here is one of the first all girl steel bands, Girl Pat Steel orchestra.Pan people, these pioneering ladies deserve our recognition!

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  • Kelvinjames March 2, 2016 at 9:31am

    oh how I cherish this LP got it from my grand fathers collection,

  • Diane Burke March 1, 2016 at 11:49pm

    Wish i had a chance to play back then! good on you girls..thanks for sharing this.

    Diane

  • Rita Seethaler March 1, 2016 at 6:51pm

    An important piece of pan history - Fabulous music! this really makes my day! 

    Thank you Glenroy for posting this sound file and all the other interesting things you share - you've got lots of followers down under :-)

  • VICTOR MATTHIAS March 1, 2016 at 10:42am

    Thanks for this rendition, present/new players should be listen to this, then they may be appreciative of what the pioneers did .

  • Sherwin Campbell March 5, 2015 at 12:21am

    Great, just great. Being from La Brea, I remember distinctly that tone from Southern Symphony. Takes me way back. Thanks.

  • Salah Wilson March 4, 2015 at 1:35pm

    Great stuff Glenroy ......can you please send me this sound file ...I need it for my research

    sal_wils@hotmail.com 

    Regards

    Salah

  • kentish borde March 4, 2015 at 7:20am
    Proud to say my aunt Jean Manwarren(née Ewing) was a member of this band.Her brothers Hugh,Leon( dec)+ Terry(dec) were pioneers of the great Dem Boys+ Dem Fortunates. Her husband is the Titan king of many carnivals productions. Her son is Wendell Manwarren a member of 3-Canal.My uncle Terry(deceased) was a top costume maker for Harold Saldennah and made the first pan ashtray that we see in curio shops all over T+T..Thank you Glenroy for this.These were some very sophisticated ladies who early on defied the odds and the scorn of the naysayers for the love of pan.
  • Merle George March 11, 2013 at 12:46pm

    Absolutely great I just had to get up and dance

  • Anthony Corbin September 14, 2012 at 8:28am

    Just great! A lot better than some of the tasteless noisy crap 

    you hear nowadays with people jumping around and wrapped up 

    in their own egos.

  • Jennifer Ire September 12, 2012 at 4:10pm

    I did not realize how much I have missed hearing this. Thanks so much for the memories it has brought up.

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