The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #138235   Message #3165568
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
05-Jun-11 - 03:29 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Murder in de Market (Caribbean)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Murder in de Market (Caribbean)
(Houidini's) "Stone Cold Dead describes a murder in Port-of-Spain's Grass Market in 1939. He recorded it himself in 1939 (as "He Had it Coming) but it got no popularity until Songstress Fitzgerald unearthed it......"

Time Magazine, Music: King of Calypso, Aug. 26, 1946. Unsigned article about Wilmoth Houdini (Edgar Leon St.-Clair his real name).

The 1939 incident may have been an unintentional copycat murder?