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GUEST,Kevin Burke	Origins: L'Annee Passee (Belasco) (60* d)	RE: Origins: L'Annee Passee (Belasco)	30 Dec 11
On May 6rh, 1947 Lord Executor (Philip Garcia) testified under oath, in a deposition given at the U.S. consulate in Port of Spain, that he first heard the song as a boy growing up in Port of Spain in the 1890's His exact words: "I have known this melody since about the year 1893 when I was a little boy living in Henry Street. It was a popular song of that period." Later that year Lord Executor (who was not there to defend himself) was vilified in a New York City courtroom by the Trinidadian band leader Lionel Belasco. ("He is the lowest type of character we have in Trinidad".) In maligning Lord Executor, one of the greatest and most influential calypsonians of all time, Belasco insured that his words will forever live in infamy.

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