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King Radio
King Radio is credited on 104 releases across 20 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1955–2021 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
104
Pressings credited
20
Albums
8
Decades active
38
In collections
Biography
Norman Span, known as King Radio, was a top Trinidadian calypsonian active in the 1930s and 1940s. He was a waterfront worker in Port of Spain when he started performing in public in 1929. Six years later he started his short-lived recording career. He was the composer of many calypsos, several of which later became standards through popular recordings by Harry Belafonte such as "Matilda", "Man Smart, Woman Smarter", and "Brown Skin Girl".
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
104 releases · 20 albums · active 1955–2021
- Performance · 113
- Other credits · 1
Studios: Enactron Truck · Jamaica Recording Studio · Capitol Studios · Axis Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Harry Belafonte
- Rosanne Cash
- Maya Angelou
- Calypso Joe
- Le Steel-Band De La Trinidad
- Robert Mitchum
- Lois Fletcher
- Various
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