c1964
CARNIVAL JAMAICA * LORD RIGBY * NATIONAL CALYPSO 2000 * UK
Brentford Road's top musicians provide a driving rhythm and strong beat behind this Calypso from entertainer and singer Lord Rigby. Produced by Coxsone Dodd and released in Jamaica on his Port-O-Jam label JA, Carnival Jamaica is a plea to establish an annual nationwide carnival; it's not known if the recoding date is earlier than the accepted one of 1964, and more likely to be 1962 or even 63, because, there was, in 1963, following the success of the Independence Festival, a small unit known as the Festival Office was established in the Ministry of Development and Welfare.