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Calypso music by The Merrymakers Steel Orchestra: Boys and girls love saturday night (Germany, 1963). This video is the Original Merry Makers Steel Orchestra from 1963 in Germany at the beginning of a European Tour. The name of the song is "Boys and Girls Love Saturday Night." The personnel includes Alfred (Sack) Myers (leader) on seconds along with Danny (Squeeze) Grant, Alfred (Valjah) Cooper drums, Rudy (Two Left) Smith, Herbert (Herbie) George, and Clem (Cuma) Anderson on tenor, Ansel (Babulal) Joseph (tuner) on cello, Cecil (Lord Horse) Yueille on bass, Nolan (Limbo) Jacobs dancer, Daphne (Papette) Shepherd singer. They left TT in December 1962 and arrived 23 December 1962. This was early in the tour. They existed till 1964 as Merry Makers. Then a few went back to Trinidad in 1964 and the remainder formed a group called The Modern Sounds of Trinidad and started playing jazz. That was Rudy Smith, Danny Grant, Ansel Joseph and a person they sent for, George Shockness. They stayed the balance of the time in Spain through 1966. The four of them split up then: Ansel to Paris and then home to TT, Rudy and George to Sweden, Danny stayed in Spain then on to London. info by Charlene Lusk