http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Lion
Calypso musician Roaring Lion wrote a tribute song in 1939 entitled “Bing Crosby”, in which he wrote: “Bing has a way of singing with his very heart and soul / Which captivates the world / His millions of listeners never fail to rejoice / At his golden voice…”[53]
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“I can’t get a cold, Hucka D.”
Hucka D.:
Lion’s Roar — Byng. Feel it.
bb:
Tell me the story.
Hucka D.:
Byng has a golden voice. (pause)
bb:
Yes?
Hucka D.:
Pure. Known throughout Frank and Herman Parks. Golden.
bb:
What is the significance of that?
Hucka D.:
Lisa initiated the 3333 protectate. Byng syng.
bb:
s-y-n-g?
Hucka D.:
Yes. Lion’s Roar.
bb:
I think another community, shall we say, in the area might be called 4 Minutes. Like Second Life, Jeogeot, had a 6 Minute Hill. (pause). Baker Bloch is heading there now. (pause) But he’s gotta fall outta the sky first.
Hucka D.:
Dorothy. Landing.
bb (after checking):
Why am I not surprised. Nothing there.
Hucka D.:
Back to Byng then. But good you checked anyway.
bb:
Mystery path parallel to Byng. Otherwise, I could not easily reach upper Byng from lower Byng. Considerably more difficult it would be. Considerably.
Hucka D.:
Lisa made it. With Pete.
bb:
Another thing I have is that
Further, the lyrics of many of his “war calypsoes” (essentially insult songs) presage those of similar hip-hop battle rap songs by over 50 years. An extract from his lyrics to “War” (recorded during the 1930s by Roaring Lion with Executor, Caresser, and Attila and directed against their fellow calypsonian Wilmoth Houdini) is a particularly good example of such lyrics:
The earth is a trembling and a tumbling
And the heavens are falling and all
Because the lion is roaring.
My tongue is like the blast of a gunman…
Destruction, desolation and damnation —
All these I’ll inflict on insubordination,
For the Lion in his power is like the rock of Gibraltar.
… oops. Lion roaring is war here, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
I put that in.
bb:
Did you get bored?
Hucka D.:
Yes. I want to fly like Superman.
bb:
Great. So Lisa made this Lion’s Roar place on Byng.
Hucka D.:
That is correct.
bb:
Part of the 3333 Initiative.
Hucka D.:
To protect. You. Now all you need is a singing bowl of your own.
bb:
I think it can be the creek.
Sunklands 