Artist: Wilmoth Houdini

Title: Ambitious

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 1993

Label: Smithsonian Folkways

UPC: 096297701027

Genre: International, Caribbean

Album Tracks

1. Sweet Like a Honey Bee
2. Song No. 99
3. Uncle Jo' Gimme Mo'!
4. Trifling Men
5. No Mo' Bench and Board
6. Sweet Papa Willie
7. Honey I'm Bound to Go
8. The Cooks in Trinidad
9. Arima Tonight, Sangre Grande Tomorrow Night
10. Black But Sweet
11. I Need a Man
12. Stop Coming and Come
13. Tiger Tom Kill Tiger Cat
14. That Big Black Woman
15. West Indian Sugar Crop
16. Unfortunate Millley
17. Teacher Nose Gay the Shouter
18. Mickey Cipriani's Career
19. Glorius Centenary
20. Cipriani's and Bradshaw's Death
21. Bandsman Shooting Case
22. African Love Call
23. The Devil Behind Me
24. Poor But Ambitious

Wilmoth Houdini was the most recorded calypsonian of his generation. His songs covered a variety of styles and topics including prostitution murder satire Carnival social equality and male-female relationships. Historic Calypsos from 1928 - 1940.