Caribbean Rhythms (1957) CD

"This item is part of the Folkways (Cook, or Paredon, or Monitor) archives. . The original liner notes from the LP are included."

"San Andrés is a small, English-speaking island community of approximately five thousand inhabitants off the coast of Nicaragua. Previously unrecorded, the music is the product of an interesting cultural history, including English, North American and Latin American influences. Originally settled by Jamaican planters and their slaves, it was ceded to Colombia in the 1790s and, in spite of the cultural domination by this Spanish-speaking nation, it has been able to maintain the larger body of its earlier traditions..."

Thomas J. Price Jr

"San Andrés es una pequeña isla, con una comunidad angloparlante de aproximadamente cinco mil habitantes, que está ubicada frente a la costa de Nicaragua. Su música, nunca grabada hasta ahora, es el producto de una interesante historia cultural que incluye influencias inglesas, norteamericanas y latinoamericanas. Originalmente poblada por plantadores jamaiquinos y sus esclavos, la isla fue cedida a Colombia hacia 1790 y, a pesar de la dominación cultural de este país hispanohablante, ha podido mantener una nada despreciable cantidad de sus antiguas tradiciones..."

Thomas J. Price Jr.

101     So Them Bad Minded (Calypso)      Aguinaldo Hooker      2:12                              
102     Congo Malata (Calypso)     Aguinaldo Hooker     2:01                                         
103     Sound Bay Gal (Calypso)     Sonny Dilbert and Sandino Ellis     2:45                       
104     Donkey Race (Calypso)     Aguinaldo Hooker     2:08                                         
105     Mami Te Digo (Bolero-Mambo)     Sandino Ellis     3:57                                     
106     Stickman (Calypso)     Aguinaldo Hooker     2:14                                             
201     Stone Cold Dead in the Market (Calypso)     Sandino Ellis     1:39                         
202     Avelina     Sandino Ellis     2:05                                                         
203     A Colombian Pasillo (Instrumental)     n/a     2:10                                         
204     Al Oscuro     Sandino Ellis     2:40                                                       
205     Old Lady, You're Mashing Me Toe (Calypso)     Iva Dilbert and Sandino Ellis     2:13       
206     Juancito Lucupi (Guaracha Instrumental)     n/a     1:28                                   
207     Bagee (Calypso)     Aubon Baldonado     2:54                                               
208     Colombian Pasillo (Instrumental)     n/a     2:15