• Lord Invader – Brown Skin Girl
    • 1. Barrack-room Scandal
    • 2. Reincarnation
    • 3. Brooklyn, Brooklyn!
    • 4. Barbados
    • 5. Brown Skin Girl
    • 6. 29, Port of Spain
    • 7. Labor Day
    • 8. Where Jonah Gone

    One of Calypso's finest exponents, recorded in 1955

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