"Jonah and the Bake" by Lord Melody(1957)

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During the postwar years after Lord Kitchener left for England, and before The Mighty Sparrow "arrived" on the scene in 1956, the Lord Melody was probably the most notable calypsonian around.

Melody was funny, imaginative and lyrical, and one of his biggest hits of that era was "Jonah and the Bake", a story of a Baptist preacher from Laventille and his four little children.

From the 1957 record album "Calypso Kings and Pink Gin" here is Lord Melody's "Jonah and the bake", recorded live at the Young Brigade Calypso tent, where he is introduced by the Mighty Sparrow.