Roaring Lion

 

Discography

1949 78 The Lost Watch/ Kiskedee
The Lion/The Mighty Killer
A/12083 The Lost Watch

 

1951 78 Mary Ann/Little Mary Had No Lamb Parlophone M.P. 114
A Mary Ann
B Little Mary Had No Lamb

 

1951 78 Trinidad, The Land of Calypso/I Ain't Gonna Do It No More Parlophone M.P. 132
CEE 11 Trinidad, The Land of Calypso
I Ain't Gonna Do It No More

 

1951 78 Bananas/The Devil Fly Parlophone M.P. 135
A Bananas
B The Devil Fly

 

1951 78 Bubulups Is Sweet But I Love Miss Angeline/Stop Your Coming and Come Calypsotime CR.506
AT/25 Bubulups Is Sweet But I Love Miss Angeline
Stop Your Coming and Come

 

1952 78 The Army/Meon Las Cherchez Sa Gomes SG.115
Roaring Lion/Atilla
The Army

 

1952 78 Treat Them Rough/ Samson and Delilah Sa Gomes SG.116
Atilla/Roaring Lion
Samson and Delilah

 

1952 78 Ugly Woman/The Lost Watch Sa Gomes SG.117
Ugly Woman
(27) The Lost Watch

 

1954 78 Highway Code/Out De Fire Melodisc 1323
DA 2278 Highway Code
DA 2279 Out De Fire

 

1955 10" LP Caribbean Calypso Parlophone CPMD 13
Various Artists
Click to enlarge 1-1 Kalenda March (J'Ouvert Barriot)
2-3 Tick! Tick! (The Story of the Lost Watch)

 

1955 She Walks Like You and Talks Like You/Tamborina Melodisc 1334
She Walks Like You and Talks Like You
Tamborina

 

1955 78 Cheek To Cheek/Nigerian Girl Melodisc 1361
Cheek To Cheek
Nigerian Girl

 

1955 78 Dorothy Went To Bathe/Concertina Melodisc 1381
Dorothy Went To Bathe
Concertina

 

1958 Double 7" EP Calypso Carnival Decca
Various Artists
1/B-1 Little Mary Had No Lamb
2/A-2 Mary Ann

 

1958 Double 7" Your Musical Holiday in the West Indies Decca ED 754
Various Artists
4-1 Ugly Woman
4-2 Mary Ann

 

1958 LP Calypsos From the West Indies Monogram 834
Various Artists
Click to enlarge One-5 Wash Your Hands & Fingernails

 

1958 LP Your Musical Holiday in the West Indies Decca DL 8159
Various Artists
Click to enlarge One/1-4 Little Mary Had No Lamb
Two/2-3 Mary Ann
Two/2-5 Ugly Woman

 

1966 LP The Real Calypso Record, Book and Film Sales, Inc. RF 13
Various Artists
Click to enlarge A/1-2 Bing Crosby
A/1-3 Louis-Schmeling Fight
A/1-5 War
B/2-1 Four Mills Brothers

 

1968 7"; Old Time Carnival/Eye of a Needle Telco TW 3387
Old Time Carnival
Eye of a Needle

 

1971 LP Calypso Cavalcade, Vol. I Request SLP 731
Various Artists
Click to enlarge 2-3 Wash Your Hands

 

1971 LP Calypso Cavalcade, Vol. II Request SLP 735
Various Artists
Click to enlarge 1-4 Cheek to Cheek
2-3 Concertina

 

1975 7"; Carnival Long Ago/Calypsonian Government Camille 157
Carnival Long Ago
Calypsonian Government

 

1976 7"; I Ain't Gonna Do it No More/Hapney Rice Camille C161
A I Ain't Gonna Do it No More
B Hapney Rice

 

1976 7"; Carnival Long Ago/Calypsonian Government Lion LR-222
Arranged by Art DeCoteau
1 Carnival Long Ago
2 Calypsonian Government

 

1981 7"; P.N.M. Victory Song/Trinidad Carnival TREX Records B 833
A P.N.M. Victory Song
B Trinidad Carnival

 

1985 EP Papal Visit 1985 WIRL W 231
Arranged by Frankie Francis
Click to enlarge A Welcome to Pope John Paul II
B Love Thy Neighbour

 

1986 LP Black Music in Britain, The Early Fifties Vol. 1 Port of Spain Shuffle New Cross Records NC 005
Various Artists
Click to enlarge One/1-8 Ugly Woman
Two/2-1 Tick! Tick! (The Story of the Lost Watch)

 

1986 LP Black Music in Britain, The Early Fifties Vol. 2 Caribbean Connections New Cross Records NC 006
Various Artists
Click to enlarge One/1-5 Mary Ann Calypso
Two/2-3 Trinidad, The Land of Calypso
Two/2-8 Kalenda March

 

1989 LP Calypso Season Island/Mango 828 172
Various Artists
Click to enlarge 1-5 Jail Them
2-6 Caroline

 

1993 CD Roaring Lion - Standing Proud Ice 930202
Arranged by Eddy Grant
Click to enlarge 1 Nora Darling
2 Dorothy Went to Bathe
3 The Lost Watch
4 Netty Netty
5 Ha' Penny Rice
6 Mary Ann
7 J'Ouvert
8 Caroline
9 Land of Calypso
10 Sally Water
11 I Ain't Gonna Do it No More
12 Six Feet of Earth

 

1993 CD Soca Carnival 93 Ice 930802
Various Artists
Click to enlarge 5 Netty Netty

 

1993 CD Caribana The Official 1993 Caribana Album 12 Soca/Calypso Hits 074648101320
Various Artists
5 Netty Netty

 

1994 Double LP Fun In The Sun A Soca Calypso Carnival Quality Records QLP 2022
Various Artists
2 Nora Darling
8 J'Ouvert

 

1994 CD Sacred 78's Ice 941402
Click to enlarge 1 Miss Tina
2 Rhumba Dance
3 Concertina
4 Love Thy Neighbour
5 I Am Going To Buy a Bungalow
6 Wash Your Hands
7 Suzi Q
8 The Blue Tail Fly
9 Royal Tour
10 Cheek to Cheek
11 Charming Trinidad
12 Weather Man
13 Bananas
14 I Ain't Gonna Do It No More
15 Bamsee Lambay
16 J'Ouvert Barrio
17 Mary Ann
18 I Wouldn't Work
19 Advantage Mussolini
20 Money Money
21 Ugly Woman
22 Ba Boo La La
23 I Can Make Love More Than Romeo
24 Some Girl Something
25 Netty Netty

 

1994 CD A Taste of Soca Ice 941302
Various Artists
1 Mary Ann

 

1995 CD Hot Soca Vol. 6 Baila Mi Ritmo Network
Various Artists
6 Land Of Calypso

 

1995 CD Viva Le King Ice 951002
Arranged by Eddy Grant Composers:
Click to enlarge 1 Papa Chunks
2 Jail Dem
3 Shango
4 Woopsin Woopsin
5 Man Centipede Attila The Hun/Roaring Lion
6 Ugly Woman
7 Out De Fire
8 All Women Are Beautiful
9 The Highway Code
10 Wash Your Minds
11 Song of Peace

 

1995 LP Carnival Special Vol 2 Ice 950201
Various Artists
Click to enlarge WB-3 Papa Chunks

 

1995 CD Carnival 95 Ice 950802
Various Artists
Click to enlarge 5 Papa Chunks

 

1996 CD Ringbang Carnival Special '96 Ice RDRCD-2379
Various Artists
Click to enlarge 7 Out De Fire

 

2002 CD London Is The Place For Me Honest Jon's Records HJRCD2
Various Artists
Click to enlarge 14 Some Girl Something
18 Spanish Calypso

 

2005 CD London Is The Place For Me 2 Calypso & Kwela, Highlife & Jazz From Young Black London Honest Jon's Records HJRCD16
Various Artists
Click to enlarge 9 Kalenda March

 

2006 CD JET LAG1: Calypsos from Trinidad & England 1930's-1950's Sly Mangoose vs. Bing Crosby & the Glasses- KICP-1131
Various Artists
13 Bing Crosby