While most authorities stress the African roots of calypso, in his 1986 book, Calypso from France to Trinidad: 800 Years of History, that veteran calypsonian, The Roaring Lion ( Rafael de Leon ) asserted that calypso descends from the music of the medieval French troubadours.

In March 1934 he sent Roaring Lion and Attila the Hun to New York City to record ; they became the first calypsonians to record abroad, bringing the genre out of the West Indies and into pop culture.

Attila the Hun, Roaring Lion and Lord Invader were first, followed by Lord Kitchener, one of the longest-lasting calypso stars in history — he continued to release hit records until his death in 2000.

Together with the Roaring Lion ( Rafael de Leon ) he brought calypso to the United States for the first time in 1934.

This can be seen in numerous calypsos of the early to mid-1930s, from Roaring Lion and Attila the Hun in particular, who also recorded in New York at the time.

Lured by Decca Records, he travelled to New York City in 1941 with other calypsonians such as Roaring Lion and Atilla the Hun to make records and promote calypso music.

Soon, stars such as Lord Invader and Roaring Lion grew in stature ( the 1930s Golden Age of Calypso ) and became more closely aligned with the independence movement.

Leading calypsonians of the 20th century include Lord Kitchener, Roaring Lion, Lord Invader, Mighty Sparrow, Arrow and Lord Melody.

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Ribeiro is the grandson of the late Roaring Lion, noted as one of the greatest Calypsonians.

" Mary Ann ," composed by calypsonian Roaring Lion ( born name: Hubert Raphael Charles ), was popular with steelbands and revelers during a spontaneous Carnival celebration on V-J Day in Trinidad in 1945, at the end of World War II.

The 1951 Festival of Britain brought the Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra ( TAPSO ) and Roaring Lion to public attention.

Soul only had two chart hit singles, both which were Bonds's cast-offs, " Twistin ' Matilda " in 1962 and the Billboard Hot 100 number one hit " If You Wanna Be Happy " ( based on the calypso, " Ugly Woman ", by Roaring Lion ) in 1963.

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It was from her that Bret Harte took his famous character of Cherokee Sal in The Luck of Roaring Camp.

Friedrichstraße was Berlin's legendary street during the Roaring Twenties.

Griffith was born in Crestwood, Kentucky to Mary Perkins and Jacob " Roaring Jake " Griffith, who were of Anglo-Welsh ancestry.

He also had a great interest in ferryboats, at his fiancee's suggestion, their marriage was performed on the Roaring Bull boat, part of the Millersburg Ferry, in the middle of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.

During the 1920s, specifically in 1928, the components of the Dow were increased to 30 stocks near the economic height of that decade, which was nicknamed the Roaring Twenties.

He told the attendant he was going surfing at Roaring Beach, but the attendant noted it was a very calm day.

Chicago cabaret focused intensely on the larger band ensembles and reached its peak during Roaring Twenties, under the Prohibition Era, where it was featured in the speakeasies and steakhouses.

It has been suggested that this was a reaction to offence caused by the Governor-General of Canada, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis who was of Northern Irish descent and who allegedly arranged to have placed symbols of Northern Ireland, notably a replica of the famous Roaring Meg cannon used in the Siege of Derry, in front of Costello at a state dinner.

In October 2010, a plan was revealed to renovate the ailing Resorts Casino Hotel into a Roaring Twenties theme.

It was thinly disguised as " West Egg ," in counterpoint to Manor Haven / Sands Point, which was the inspiration for the more posh " East Egg " ( the next peninsula over on Long Island Sound ), Great Neck symbolized the decadence of the Roaring Twenties as it extended out from New York City to then-remote suburbs.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, when a tannery existed at the confluence of Roaring Branch and Stony Creek near the center of town, the peak population of 1, 250 was attained.

Roaring Spring was established around the Big Spring in Morrison's Cove, a clean and dependable water source vital to the operation of a paper mill.

Prior to 1866, when the first paper mill was built, Roaring Spring had been a grist mill hamlet with a country store at the intersection of two rural roads that lead to the mill near the spring.

The Roaring Spring Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Roaring Spring was established around the Big Spring, a clean and dependable water source vital to the operation of a paper mill.

Prior to 1866, when the first paper mill was built, Roaring Spring had been a grist-mill hamlet with a country store at the intersection of two rural roads that lead to the mill near the spring.

The house, which was constructed by the Roaring Spring Planing Mill in the old village triangle area, now contains apartments and an attorney's office.

Before 1868, Roaring Spring was called Spang's Mill, a hamlet in Taylor Township situated around a gristmill operated by George B. Spang.

The paper company underwrote the cost of extending a line from Altoona to Roaring Spring where the first telephone was installed in the head office of the mill.

Given the extent and central location of his original holding from the Mill Seat Tract, and the fact that most of the town's pre-1944 building lots are to, Bare's ability to shape the size and extent of development in Roaring Spring was substantial.

Indeed, one of the achievements that D. M. Bare mentioned with pride in his autobiography was the high degree of home ownership that Roaring Spring enjoyed by 1920.

By the mid-19th century, as Roaring Spring was first growing, the regional peculiarities of folk architecture were gradually disappearing under the railroad's and the industrial revolution's influences.