Four Mills Brothers- The Lion

The Lion- Four Mills Brothers

[@FastANDBulbous117]

Van Dyke Parks brought me here. I had no idea his version was a cover! This is nice. :)

[@konohito]

you prolly already figured but the calypso album was all covers

[@SeahorsesJay]

​@@konohitoYet, the arrangements couldn't take them further away from their origins. Really great album!

[@williamtkoltek1350]

@@konohito Yeah, that's what I was going to say. But it's a great album, as strange as Parks' others

[@CHEEPHARDWARE]

Adore You Lion and Van Dyke is Much Appreciated For It

[@JJ21210]

Check out the Taj Mahal version, too (better than the Parks version, tho no disrespect -- Parks is quite a musician).

[@fractuss]

I'd love to but can't find it.

[@JJ21210]

Looks like no one has posted it yet -- unfortunate. If you think about it, please check from time to time -- someone is bound to share it.

[@JJ21210]

@@fractuss It's finally up! I hope you see this ... th-cam.com/video/h24fv5f360A/w-d-xo.html

[@mbesaccia]

@@JJ21210 i appreciate this too!

[@JJ21210]

@@mbesaccia Yay! That entire Taj Mahal album ( _Music Fuh Ya_ ') is great, and it's on YT if you have time to listen.

[@MizikMag]

Any translation fot the non speaking English peps? Come from Martinique and a passionnate of the early trini calyspso....

[@JJ21210]

The lyrics (below) refers to a lot of movies and singers of the 1930s, ultimately saying that the four Mills Brothers are the best. In a few places where I couldn't discern the lyrics, I inserted a blank space ____. And if I wasn't sure about the lyrics, I put them in between question marks, ?like this? . Finally, the movie he refers to as "We Are Not Dressing" is "We're Not Dressing" -- he stretched it to make the lyrics work with the melody.
Among the singers on the movie screen
The negroes are the best ever heard and seen
Among the singers on the movie screen
The negroes are best ever heard and seen
Morton Downey went to a singing school
But the four Mills Brothers, they're sweet and cool
in "I ain't got nobody, nobody cares for me,"
Well, Bing Crosbie was interesting
Starring in the picture "We Are Not Dressing";
For instance, on the ship the princess near die
When he croon to her the song ____ and on the beach
Made his name singing "Love Thy Neighbor"
But I still prefer to hear the four Mills Brothers in
"I ain't got nobody, nobody cares for me."
The best crooner is Rudy Vallee,
But for voice control, Mr. Bing Crosbie.
For mystery pictures, we know Bela Lugosi
Relaxation ?we are all but to sleep?.
Mae West, of course, is a fair piece singer,
But I still prefer to hear the four Mills Brothers in
"I ain't got nobody, and nobody cares for me."
For those of you have seen "The Big Broadcast,"
Cab Calloway, well he was unsurpassed
Well, when his orchestra started syncopating
Got so peppy that ________
and when he _______ "Hey dee ho, hallelujah"
Was accompanied by the four Mills Brothers in
"I ain't got nobody, nobody cares for me."