I was conversing (through email) with my step-mother, and I recited half remembered lyrics to a song I remembered from when I was growing up. I said that surely my dad would remember the artist. But he didn't. Various lyric searches were no help, as the lyrics I remembered (scratch, scratch, my back) weren't exactly correct (substitute me for my, and that's what it was). And I couldn't remember the artist, only that I sorta remembered it being a "black" artist. I was pretty sure it was Buffy Sainte Marie (searches on her didn't work cause I was misspelling her name too.) Today, I tried again. Caribbean sings didn't work. Then I saw the key phrase...CALYPSO. Yah, that was what it was. And I remembered that the artist had a daughter who is a singer now.... That eventually led me to Harry Belafonte. Boy, I can't believe how fuzzy my memory was. I was thinking jamaican (he's Cuban), caribbean (instead of calypso), female instead of male. Hey, at least I got the lyrics mostly correct. Google is getting too much garbage in their search engine now a days. (success breeding...well, inbreeding. ) |
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