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Thread #73343   Message #1275605
Posted By: Jim Dixon
19-Sep-04 - 12:14 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Edward the VIII (Lord Caresser - calypso)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Abdication
Caresser's recording of EDWARD THE VIII is on the various-artists compilation "Don't Stop the Carnival," Pearl, 1999; and another compilation, "Roosevelt in Trinidad: Calypsos of Events, Places and Personalities, 1933-1939," Rounder, 1999.

EDWARD VIII, recorded by the Duke of Iron, Lord Invader and Macbeth the Great is available on "Calypso at Midnight!: The Live Midnight Special Concert," hosted by Alan Lomax, Rounder, 1999.

Harry Belafonte's LOVE, LOVE ALONE is on the Bear Family box set "Island in the Sun," 2002. Authorship is credited to John Hardy. His words are somewhat different:

...You can take his money. You can take his store,
But give him that lady from Baltimore.

CHORUS: It was love, love, love, love, love alone
Cause King Edward to leave his throne.

I don't know what Miz. Simpson got in her bone
That cause the king to leave his throne....

Rocker Johnny J. Blair recorded a version with a reggae beat, evidently derived from Belafonte's, that included these words:

...You can take his cow. You can take his goat,
But leave him with his yachting boat....

Another version called LOVE (AND LOVE ALONE)—the artist is unnamed in the description I found—is included in the various artists compilation called "Souvenir of Jamaica."

..Now, in the morning she gave him bacon and toast
And in the evening she gave him Simpson's roast.

Ah, take me money. Take me gold....

Taj Mahal's KING EDWARD'S THRONE is on his album "Hanapepe Dream."