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Re: yuh BEST xmas memories growing up at home......
« Reply #30 on: November 30, 2006, 09:21:12 AM »
Last summer ah had a parang lime with this man in he 80's lawd the man still bealting out the tunes. We had a parang session in July in Valencia.
right now ah jammin to some lara brothers parang.
traditoonal all de way..ah understand every 4th word lol
but real putting meh ind e x mas spirit
arrrrrrrrriba
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« Reply #31 on: November 30, 2006, 03:07:29 PM »
well, up to this year, we know christmas coming when the San Jose Serenaders start practising ...usually they start end of september. they are our back yard neighbours, and nothing beats lying down in your bed at night and falling asleep to the sounds of real parang and some latin numbers mixed in between.
Christmas night was spent at granny's in Santa Cruz, and the old timers from the 'country' namely flannigan town (somewhere by brasso) came up and played their cuatros and singing all the older songs and aguinaldos ...picture it, old men some of them no teeth, yes, and all having a really good time. must have the gingerbeer and sorrel, and of course the ponche creme.
ah yes, those days are gone, the old timers are gone, with my granny, but we still have family, and every year we celebrate...family is what christmas is about.. ;D

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« Reply #32 on: December 01, 2006, 05:58:54 PM »
meh shipment of blackcake and gingerbeer has arrived; ah playing songs tonight.

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« Reply #33 on: December 02, 2006, 01:01:39 AM »
Gettin tell by mami dat if I go downstairs to take a peak at my presents, sookooyah go come for me. Oh Gord dem was de days.

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Re: yuh BEST xmas memories growing up at home......
« Reply #34 on: December 02, 2006, 07:30:49 AM »
 Getting ah sound cutarse for burning down de christmas tree but still getting mih gun an sack.  ;D ;D
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« Reply #35 on: December 02, 2006, 02:37:26 PM »
Getting ah sound cutarse for burning down de christmas tree but still getting mih gun an sack.  ;D ;D
i hope you took it outside to bun it  :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
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Re: yuh BEST xmas memories growing up at home......
« Reply #36 on: December 03, 2006, 09:32:23 AM »
nothing could touch ah house tur house parang session with 14 drunk man and 2 oman with no teeth dey mouth in dey country.

it was in dey 80s boxing day. meh mudda tell we to find allyuh self by allyuh grandmudda in moruga fur christmas.
meh fadda dey shak shak man say we going parang boxing day...so get all dey sleep allyuh could master.
dey start off in meh grandmudda house, which i though coulda only hold 6 people at one time...but dey make meh ah lier
time dey leave dey...3 includin meh fadda drunk and we head up dey road. dis is roun 10am in dey morning.

tur cut dey story short
in dey last house 14 man tur to bout 20 and one seta oman with chile rap roun dey waist, clapping and singin any ole ting dat resemble dey song.
fight break out in dey road cause some oman notice dat ah chile rap roun one ah dey oman waist look like she husband frederick. So figh break out and mash up sey parang session.

Best days yes. :beermug:
and i will be bold tur say country christmas BETTER dan city christmas...well in dey ole days anyways

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« Reply #37 on: December 03, 2006, 02:13:36 PM »
TriniCana,
First welcome back; ask yuh folks from Moruga if they knoew 'Cosin' he was one of the best on the mandolin that neck of the woods.  distant relative.

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« Reply #38 on: December 03, 2006, 05:04:29 PM »
Little history less for the  younger generation:

QUEEN OF PARANG

By Louis B. Homer, historian, Trinidad and Tobago

(from the July-December 1991 issue of
 Caricom Perspective
 published by the Caricom Secretariat)
Reproduced on Silvertorch with permission

Daisy Voisin was a deeply religious and devoted person to La Divina Pastora (The Virgin Mary of Siparia). Siparia is a rural district in the south of Trinidad. When she ended her mortal reign on August 7, 1991, she was returned to the same church where she had received a message eighteen years ago. The mes­sage was to spread the Gospel of Parang through the world.

 Born at Carapal, Erin on 23 September 1924, she was the youngest of six daughters born to Juliana and Mathias Voisin. Juliana, her mother, came from Tocopito, Venezuela. Mathias, her father, was of French origin and he came from Arima. 

It was from her humble home at Coora Road, Siparia that Daisy began laying the foundation for her parang throne. Her interest in parang can be traced to her parandero stepfather and later to the Siparia Village Council where she was a chorus singer and musician in the 1960s. 

In 1968 she joined the Siparia Village Council and sang with the Siparia Cho­rale, Fyzabad Choir and the Morne Diablo Group. 

Her claim to fame came in 1971, when she replaced, because of illness, the lead singer of the Siparia Chorale in the Best Village competition. After that perform­ance there was no turning back for Daisy. She proved, in the years that followed, to be the undisputed Queen of Parang. 

As a leading cultural personality she became a household name not only in Trinidad and Tobago but throughout the West Indies where her group, La Divina Pastora Serenaders, performed to large audiences. In 1982 she received the Parang Association’s highest award, a gold medal. This was followed in 1988 with a Na­tional Humming Bird Silver Medal by the Government and one National Parang Association of Trinidad and Tobago Gold Medal for her contribution to parang. 

To see Daisy on stage was an exciting cultural experience. She was explosive, vivacious and tempestuous. She enjoyed every moment on stage. The fame of Daisy and the La Divina Pastora group took them as cultural ambassadors on missions throughout the Caribbean, Margarita, Venezuela and North America. 

She had created such an impact with her performances that she became the most sought-after parang voice in the nation. Her compositions include Sereno Sereno; Daisy Voisin; Daisy, Daisy, Daisy; El Nacimiento de las Verdad and the very popular Alegria, Alegria. She recalled that her most memorable occa­sion was when she sang “La Historia Trinitaria” for former Venezuelan Am­bassador to Trinidad, José Echevaria. 

Although a talented musician and singer, she never allowed popularity to get to her head. She was simple, yet sophisticated. Her voice had a rich tone which provided auditory excitement. Her tunes were always up-tempo, emotive and dramatic. The peak of excitement was reached with her customary expression “Aiyee”. 

In 1990, she made her last trip to New York. She died on 7 August 1991. 

As a true exponent of the art of parang, she was truly the Queen of Parang. The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen! 

Daisy came into the association, she had been a vibrant, authentic parang singer. Her lyrics always reflected something about Christ and religious thoughts. Her melodious voice, her charm when she swung that bouquet three times in the air before she began her performances, held her audience spellbound. She was an ideal parandera. She entered this coun­try’s Hall of Fame and national tribute should be paid to her in some form, whether it be a statue in Siparia or what­ever. 

Parang 

Parang was introduced in Trinidad by the Spaniards during their occupation (1498-1797). Regarded as a classical Christmas music, it comprises Spanish lyrics, Venezuelan music and Trinidadian rhythm. This combination has produced, over the years, a traditional flavour to our Christmas celebrations, without which Christmas in Trinidad will not be the same. 

The word PARANG represents as adulteration of the Spanish word PARRANDA. It depicts music, musical instruments or dances. It also means to wander without a fixed destination. 

Parrandoros are those who participate in the celebrations. They live in the agricultural districts of north and south of Trinidad. But so effective are their presentations that during the parang sea­son (mid-October to January) they penetrate, stimulate and satisfy the cultural hunger of the masses, regardless of race, colour or status. 

Parang is one of the brightest colours in the cultural rainbow of Trinidad. The singing, dancing and other movements which are associated with parang are completed with traditional instruments like the guitar, cuatro, maracas and man­dolin. Within recent years, new instruments were introduced. They include the violin, box base and flute. 

Parang music consists of aquinaldo or serenal. This is sung on arrival at a home. It is followed by the guarapo. The manzanare is sung at Christmas time.

 
   

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« Reply #39 on: December 03, 2006, 05:09:26 PM »
Some interesting facts about Crazy and soca parang;



PARANGSOCA'S SILVER JUBILEE

After just 25 years since first hearing, it already seems difficult to conjure a Trini Christmas scene without parangsoca and for that we must thank calypsonian Crazy who, in 1979, stamped his imprimatur on a formula that has remained largely undisturbed.

Born of a Venezuelan mother, Spanish was Crazy's first language, affording him the option of singing traditional parang in its native tongue but he opted to spike it by infusing soca rhythms, delivering for Christmas 1979 the seminal "Parangsoca", a composition hatched in collaboration with (the late) Clibert Harewood. The song's title was immediately adopted as the hybrid's generic name.

Not that we didn't have locally generated Christmas music before. Traditional parang from legendary groups like the San José Serenaders, Lara Brothers and Daisy Voisin's La Divina Pastora ruled the roost for decades, their style modernised by the likes of Las Estrellas and later, Sharlene Flores with Flores de San Jose (1993). Lennox Gray endured with "Around My Christmas Tree"and Kelwyn Hutcheon still charms with the piano-bar style of seasonal music, much of his indigenous work penned by Everad Leon.

Calypso maintained its fundamental tempo well past the advent of parangsoca.

Before that development there were works by Spoiler "Father Christmas" and Kitchener's "Drink a Rum", then Nap Hepburn's "Listen Mama", Rajah's "Is Christmas Again" and Sparrow's rambunctious "Well-Spoken Moppers", the latter also localising a number of seasonal standards. Even the normally staid Chalkdust pitched in with "Something Salt" but parangsoca, at which somany had scoffed, became the new dominant seasonal soundtrack.

In a recent interview by Calypso Dreams producer Geoffrey Dunn, conducted at Crazy's adopted home in California, USA, the parangsoca creator noted that his original work was fiercely criticised, some of that coming from even close calypso colleagues. "People say I singin' stupidness," Crazy recalled, adding: "Well, it has lasted for 25 years and I predict it would survive for centuries.

Defying detractors, Crazy attracted the attention of a variety of respected calypso composers, including his manager Gary Dore, Rawle Arthur and Brother Marvin, releasing hits like "Indian Parang Chick", "Muchacha" and "Yvonne" (respectively) and would later do cover versions of Reynold Howard's "Hooray, Hoorah" and SuperBlue's "Wave With Santa", scoring successes at every sequence.

Winsford "Joker" Devine jumped into the fray, most notably with "Rosie Balloon" for Mighty Trini and "I Love Christmas" sung by Designer and Merchant's lyrics became the template for what remains the official curtain-raiser: "The Parang Now Start". Bindley B boarded with "Santa Say" and "Santa Looking For a Wife" and Machel Montano released "Soca Santa", establishing continuity by spanning the age gorge and embracing a variety of personal and diverse singing styles under the rhythm and rubric of parangsoca.

Brother Marvin teamed with Baron to deliver some of the best-remembered hits of the genre, including "Come Go", "Its Christmas" and the sequel "Its Christmas Again", betimes releasing an album of cover versions of Christmas carols done in parangsoca tempo. Relator joined too, leaving us among his contributory gems the timeless "Let's Be Friends" and Ashford Joseph hit big-time with his composition "Trini Christmas"

Marcia Miranda gathered about her a gaggle of composers including Preacher, Delamo and Michael Neverson and even more musical arrangers in Pelham Goddard, Carl "Beaver" Henderson, Carlton James, Kenny Phillips, Jason Dasent, Leston Paul, Ming Low Chew Tung and Carlyle "Juiceman" Roberts to release Christmas jollies over 11 successive years from 1990.

Further evidence of parangsoca's pervading influence came in comedic novelties from the likes of Sprangalang ("Papito" et al) and Steve Neaves' "(We Parang the) Wrong House" (sung by Ninja). Even biting political commentary from Cro Cro became part of the parangsoca reference library.

Kenny-J's double-entendre humour ("De Paint Brush", "Cork in Her Hand") attracted some negative comment. Although his songs remain popular, critics arguing such lyrics crossed the line, given the season's underlying religious influence.

But it was Scrunter who best demonstrated the viability of parangsoca. The 1990s started Scrunter's foray into parangsoca with the generic "Xmas Soca Parang", followed in '91 by "Anita" and "(Ah Want a) Piece ah Pork", veering off into straight-ahead calypso for two years, before rejoining the Christmas jam in 1995 with "Parang Jam" and "Chutkaipan", the latter an amalgam of chutney, kaiso, pan and parang.

In 1997, he adapted Merchant's "Party Now Start" to make "Parang Now Start", topping an extraordinary cascade of hits released that year, including "Parranda", "Tribute to Daisy Voisin", "Backyard Jam", "Homemade Wine", "Madame Jeffrey", "Merry Christmas" and "Drinking Anything", swelling his already burgeoning parangsoca catalogue, adding to it a year later "That Ain't Working Here Tonight" and "Leroy". We got "Eat Something (Before You Go)" and "Nikita" in 2000 and last year he came down the chimney with "The Toy"; indeed a bag that makes him the most sought-after performer in the genre.

To top out the 25th year of parangsoca, an all-woman contribution, the CD Christmas With a Feminine Touch showcases the work of Denyse Plummer, Karla Gonsalves, Nicole Greaves, Debra Haynes, Marcia Miranda, Natalie Yorke, Lauren Birot and Lima Calbio adds some new touches to the basic beat as it heralds the silver jubilee.

"I want people to know why this tradition was started," Crazy said. "With the exception of a few bands like Moonlight Seranders and the Lara Brothers, parang music generally did not impact the whole country. The paranderos sang broken Spanish and while Trinidadians could dance to the beat, they didn't know the words. So I put it all together. That is how parangsoca was born."

Crazy noted the spread of parangsoca, saying: "Foreign work for calypsonians used to close after Miami Carnival in October but now Caribbean people in North America are demanding their music at this time instead of singing about chestnuts roastin' on an open fire, so parangsoca has evolved as the original Christmas music of Trinidad."
 

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« Reply #40 on: December 03, 2006, 05:15:05 PM »
A little Santa banter
By Terry Joseph
Dec 08, 1999

This week marks 100 years since the New York Sun published its celebrated editorial "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus", a piece that became even more famous when the touching prose was later set to music.

The story held well for 50 Christmases, until songwriter Tommy Connor disturbed its well-established morality, with "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus". Connor's radical treatment of the trusted icon earned him severe public castigation- the agreed reward for even examining the possibility of a philandering Santa.

Mark you, there were those who argued stoutly in his favour, saying that the main reason for Santa's trademark "Ho, ho, ho" is his exclusive right to a list of where all the naughty girls live. That database, they insist, is not limited to information about minors.

Right here at home, Nap Hepburn's timeless endorsement of the noble tradition ("Listen Mama") was later put to the test by calypsonian Bindley B, who is not alone with his tongue-in-cheek speculation that: "Santa Looking for a Wife."

Actually, if you consider Santa's unorthodox method of accessing homes (and at a time when the lady of the house might well have imbibed a few drinks), the argument that The Bearded One has no ulterior motive at least wobbles.

But locals can be excused for challenging the myth, since our architecture and climate include neither chimneys nor snow. Worse, our folklore has not produced a lot of do-gooders, so it would be patently awkward to have Papa Bois and a bunch of douens replace Santa and his elves, or fit La Diablesse or some off-duty soucouyant into the role of Clausian housemother.

But in those countries where all the components conspire to make Santa Claus possible, even the combination of Connor's eyewitness report and Bindley B's circumstantial evidence pales against the latest anti-Santa rally.

This year, the Internet has broadened its assault on an already burdened Santa. The Internet multi-search facility Dogpile, powered by Momma, spends a lot of its space questioning the existence of the portly philanthropist.

The majority of pages support Santa, but those that take the contrary view are fierce in their condemnation. And like the tens of millions who browse the net each day, I saw Momma "dissing" Santa Claus.

One website even attempts to incite Santa's elves to industrial action, by comparing their conditions of work to those of sweatshops in eastern Asia. "Had they landed jobs with UPS or FedEx," the site says, "they would not have been victimised for being unduly short, by being forced to work in degrading uniforms with the pointy little shoes and funny hats."

Arguing that Santa gets the free sleigh ride and all the glory after lolling off and sleeping all year (while the elves work non-stop at making toys), another site invokes the equivalent of an old trade union tenet: "Let those who labour hold the reins!"

Groups pursuing the interests of minorities worry about the imagery which, they say, implies that a white man with blue eyes and flaxen hair is once again being painted as the good guy. That site highlights the absence of Indian, Asian, Black or Hispanic types even at floor level in the Santa scenario, raising questions about equal opportunity and political correctness of the overall picture.
Even though he makes his home at the North Pole, the native Innuits do not enjoy any employment advantages, making Santa look like a farce and out-of-place person.

By far the most unsympathetic approach comes from the site that features the research of Joel Potischman and Bruce Handy, the result of which appears in an article titled The Truth About Santa. The pair takes a dispassionate and mathematical look at the Santa story and comes up with some startling findings.

To service all the good children, it appears that Santa must carry a sleigh payload of some 353,000 tons. And moving at the 650 miles per second speed required to complete the journey in one night, air resistance alone will expose the lead pair of reindeer to 14.3 quintillion joules of energy-more than enough to vaporise them within .00426 of a second.

Potischman and Handy estimate that (excluding children of non-Christian faiths) Santa needs to visit 91.8 million homes. Time zone consideration (assuming he travels east to west) gives Santa 31 hours to do the job, which means roughly .001 of a second to park the sleigh, climb down the chimney, fill the stockings, eat whatever snacks have been left for him and get back to his transportation.

Given that time, if Santa can fit in however brief a kiss or screen "wife-material", I would like to put on record my personal admiration of the man, which will also put me in his good books, in the event that those unbelievers on the Internet are all wrong.

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Re: yuh BEST xmas memories growing up at home......
« Reply #41 on: December 03, 2006, 05:22:03 PM »
thankis Alberts...ah go ask meh fadda bout dat

but not tur buss ya bubble bout Daisy
but to me dey QUEEN ah parang is dat lady from san jose serenders
she died from cancer longgg time ago. ah redness and she was in her late 40s when she died.
gosh ah cyah remember she name...but she was well before daisy

Mister Hoe help meh out nah...she was from Arima but move tur St Joseph and join up with dey older flores and dem. One ah dey Flores (Lenox) she and one ah dey Lara Brothers form San Jose Serenders, but when she died everybody went dey separate ways...

ah gonig and call home tur get she name...ah coming back

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Gloria is all meh fadda remember
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« Reply #42 on: December 03, 2006, 07:54:49 PM »
Some more interesting facts about TNT Christmas:

Christmas Dishes -then and now.
SEETA PERSAD Saturday, November 25 2006

Christmas was first celebrated in Trinidad in 1569. This as documented by NALIS says that the innovators of this observance were six priests of the Order of Observantines headed by Fr Miguel Diosdados, (who had arrived from England in TT) on December 21, for the feast of St Thomas the Apostle.

The priest and lay persons visited several villages on the island, and according to their written reports were well treated everywhere.

They identified among the many foods and fruits served sweet canes, batatas (potatoes) of several kinds; maize and cassavas

These foods have remained staples in the region as well as ingredients for celebratory food, although rarely acknowledged in TT of the present time as important indigenous fare. In the early days, Christmas became a highly religious event and most important among the people of the different ethnic backgrounds of this country.

Although some of the religious aspects had been somewhat lost in the celebration, it remains that time of the year when people come together to enjoy food, fashions and music.

Today, Christmas meals consist of imported hams, and turkeys with various dishes such as pork, wild meat, and pastelles, paime, vegetable-rice, mixed vegetables, and pigeon peas. The average householder looks to the shops for prepared products to bring to the kitchen. There are also several catering companies that will take orders for Christmas dishes.

However in many of the rural districts in TT many of the people do not look to the shops for their products. It is made and prepared the old-fashion way. They cure their hams, prepare sorrel drinks, ponche-de-creme, egg nog and ginger beer from scratch.

Patsy Richards of Moruga is one such person who entertains a lot of friends and well-wishers. She starts her preparations in early November when she prepares her ham to be cured. “I normally prepare up to five hams for Christmas. Each one consists of ten pounds of pork and I use a pound of salt, brown sugar, spice and nutmeg. I usually wrap the meat into two layers of greased paper and several layers of newspaper, and tie securely. It must be tied in such a way as to secure the shape of the ham,” she explained. Richards uses the outdoor fire to boil the ham when it is ready. In days gone by, her grandmother baked in a round earthen oven. “The food really had a different taste when it was made in this oven. It was a unique way of baking the most difficult dishes,” she says.

NALIS says that in Trinidad and Tobago of yesteryear, devout persons observed days of fast before Christmas. Christmas Eve was considered a day for partial fasting, in that keepers of the custom accepted they should eat only fruit to stave off hunger.

It was a practical as well as health-benefitting exercise, for a too busy home maker did not feel obliged to prepare a regular meal while trying to have ready for the next day, large quantities of baked meats, bread and baked desserts; ham, pastelles and bottled drinks.

Healthwise, it “left the stomach clear” for the generous and sometimes too rich foods which are accepted as necessary on the Christmas menu. To break the fast at midnight without “dipping into” the festive foods for “the day,” some families prepared a pelau with pigeon peas, assorted meats and coconut milk. This, at a time when many households reared poultry in a backyard run, and it was always possible to get from this source the main ingredient ‘an old fowl.’ The slaughtered bird was rubbed with lime, or lemon, or sour orange before being put to boil in a generous amount of water with a securely tied bundle of mixed herbs, a pound of diced pumpkin and two pounds of green pigeon peas.

To this was added the trimmings and bones from the other meats when these became available, and the skin of the boiled ham cut in serving sized lengths. These boiled for at least one hour, with water being added whenever necessary. Assorted tubers and green bananas, including half ripe plantain cut in slanted pieces, were added when the meat of the fowl was considered “fairly tender,” with coconut milk and salt to taste. A “hot pepper” was usually added then as well, but would be removed before it “burst,” having given its flavour to the soup.

This hearty one-pot dish allowed “fortification” to those who would be busy either at work or at pre-Christmas Day celebration.


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« Reply #43 on: December 03, 2006, 08:00:15 PM »
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
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« Reply #44 on: December 03, 2006, 08:06:46 PM »
Cana, is dis one ah demtunes http://toronto-lime.com/music/parang/el_ciaman.htm
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 :beermug: :beermug: :beermug: That is Boss song!!!!! nice too bad....... lawd yes!!!!!! ah listen tuh that five times now ,......that right up dey with La Pascaulidad

Ah went and pull out meh Vinyl/yes meh  San Jose Serenaders record ; the  singer was Gloria Ferreira.. Wait nah when she sings man yuh does feel Trinidad all over..... yes she voice does resssurect all there is about this season fuh meh.
 And listen to the names in that side back then nah:

Anslem Flores
Wayne Flores
John Lezma
Lennox Flores
 Anthony Florres
Michael Lezama
Ronnie Kallicharran
Curtis Leslie

Look nah I start listening to this record ; I have one flipping Homesickness now...lawd why I does do this to mehself? more  :beermug: :beermug: :beermug:
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« Reply #45 on: December 03, 2006, 08:22:27 PM »
AlbertaTrini, do you know how to create an MP3 file from that record?
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« Reply #46 on: December 03, 2006, 08:27:20 PM »
AlbertaTrini, do you know how to create an MP3 file from that record?

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 1. La Pascualidad
2. el Ciaman
3.Manzanare
4.Coro coro
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Re: yuh BEST xmas memories growing up at home......
« Reply #47 on: December 03, 2006, 08:42:43 PM »
you have to record the album into your computer and then convert them to MP3 files.
try this webpage  http://tech.yahoo.com/gd/recording-songs-from-albums/153231
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« Reply #48 on: December 03, 2006, 08:51:27 PM »
Thanks; I'll get my son unto this.

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« Reply #49 on: December 03, 2006, 09:08:13 PM »
AlbertaTrini, do you know how to create an MP3 file from that record?

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 1. La Pascualidad
2. el Ciaman
3.Manzanare
4.Coro coro
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Ah know de first 3...ah probably know de odder two if ah hear dem.  Ah miss meh paranging days oui! :'(
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Re: yuh BEST xmas memories growing up at home......
« Reply #50 on: December 03, 2006, 09:10:03 PM »
Thanks; I'll get my son unto this.
ya goin an share ;D ;D ;D ;D
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« Reply #51 on: December 03, 2006, 09:21:53 PM »
well leh meh get the techonology tuh wuck and then all persons go get a little xmas present oui...

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Re: yuh BEST xmas memories growing up at home......
« Reply #52 on: December 04, 2006, 08:25:08 AM »
Cana, is dis one ah demtunes http://toronto-lime.com/music/parang/el_ciaman.htm
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 :beermug: :beermug: :beermug: That is Boss song!!!!! nice too bad....... lawd yes!!!!!! ah listen tuh that five times now ,......that right up dey with La Pascaulidad

Ah went and pull out meh Vinyl/yes meh  San Jose Serenaders record ; the  singer was Gloria Ferreira.. Wait nah when she sings man yuh does feel Trinidad all over..... yes she voice does resssurect all there is about this season fuh meh.
 And listen to the names in that side back then nah:

Anslem Flores
Wayne Flores
John Lezma
Lennox Flores
 Anthony Florres
Michael Lezama

Curtis Leslie

Look nah I start listening to this record ; I have one flipping Homesickness now...lawd why I does do this to mehself? more  :beermug: :beermug: :beermug:

Ronnie Kallicharran <----------pecan ya should know dis fella.. if meh directions and maco meter wuking good, den he was ya neighbour at one time....ah talking long time eh...ya shoud know what ah mean

Alberta datz dey ting self - Gloria Ferreira RIP

dey flores from st joseph is on meh mudda side ah family - so ya know is parang from december furst till boxing day
in dem days didn't have paramin and lopinot - only arima and st joseph by dey park.

ah remember when ah was reeeeel young - (ah was now learnin tur pee standing up)  dem sisters from lopinot (goritti) come down in curepe and start tur buss lyrics with lennox and dem...hear nah up to dis day i will never forget dat.
dem girls coulda sing boy....one ah dem useta work in republic bank on independence square
and during christmas she usta sing tur dey customers and dem...Bank full and she line always long.  :rotfl:

forget bass guitar and piano and electric drum
it was chack chack, hand clappping, scratcher, ah tock tock, ah box and string ting, 2 cuatro and ah mandarin and bout 15 voices and ah fella only bawling ' eye yi yaaaaaa' in dey back ground - he was normally drunk  :rotfl:

dem days gone into memories.

ever since how she name come into dey family....and telling people she could sing parang
steal dey people name from under dey foot and take over dey scene dat she is dey 'true' spanish from st joseph - family separate and gone dey way living normal

ya doh hear one note again >:(



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« Reply #53 on: December 04, 2006, 08:28:41 AM »
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Ronnie Kallicharran <----------pecan ya should know dis fella.. if meh directions and maco meter wuking good, den he was ya neighbour at one time....ah talking long time eh...ya shoud know what ah mean

Alberta datz dey ting self - Gloria Ferreira RIP

dey flores from st joseph is on meh mudda side ah family - so ya know is parang from december furst till boxing day
in dem days didn't have paramin and lopinot - only arima and st joseph by dey park.

ah remember when ah was reeeeel young - (ah was now learnin tur pee standing up)  dem sisters from lopinot (goritti) come down in curepe and start tur buss lyrics with lennox and dem...hear nah up to dis day i will never forget dat.
dem girls coulda sing boy....one ah dem useta work in republic bank on independence square
and during christmas she usta sing tur dey customers and dem...Bank full and she line always long.  :rotfl:

forget bass guitar and piano and electric drum
it was chack chack, hand clappping, scratcher, ah tock tock, ah box and string ting, 2 cuatro and ah mandarin and bout 15 voices and ah fella only bawling ' eye yi yaaaaaa' in dey back ground - he was normally drunk  :rotfl:

dem days gone into memories.

ever since how she name come into dey family....and telling people she could sing parang
steal dey people name from under dey foot and take over dey scene dat she is dey 'true' spanish from st joseph - family separate and gone dey way living normal

ya doh hear one note again >:(



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Re: yuh BEST xmas memories growing up at home......
« Reply #54 on: December 04, 2006, 08:31:58 AM »
Cana, is dis one ah demtunes http://toronto-lime.com/music/parang/el_ciaman.htm

nah  datz santa rosa - ah talkin bout san jose
santa rosa from arima
san jose from st joseph


doh quote meh, but ah think dis is how tings happen after gloria
gloria was from san jose but when she died:

lara brothers came into play lead by tito i think
san jose  lead by lennox - dat mash up when he get married to sharlene and she form she flores dey san jose
santa rosa came bout by one ah dem in dey orignal band - ah go find out jus now

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« Reply #55 on: December 04, 2006, 11:39:34 AM »
right, Gloria's name was actually Gloria Alcala (I think that's the married name) and she was venezuelan by birth, and yes after she died (RIP) the Serenaders were no more. we now have the Flores de San Jose, and the young side is los jovenes de san jose, led by a younger Flores, Mario. the girls you mentioned were the Guerero sisters, and they still sing, but in different groups. Even the guys in that family sing, too. real talent.
you guys have real good memories, digging up all these things from the past. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, or what?

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« Reply #56 on: December 04, 2006, 12:41:37 PM »
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« Reply #57 on: December 04, 2006, 01:21:06 PM »
right, Gloria's name was actually Gloria Alcala (I think that's the married name) and she was venezuelan by birth, and yes after she died (RIP) the Serenaders were no more. we now have the Flores de San Jose, and the young side is los jovenes de san jose, led by a younger Flores, Mario. the girls you mentioned were the Guerero sisters, and they still sing, but in different groups. Even the guys in that family sing, too. real talent.
you guys have real good memories, digging up all these things from the past. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, or what?


I remember her...she had a very beautiful voice. 
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« Reply #58 on: December 04, 2006, 01:21:30 PM »
right, Gloria's name was actually Gloria Alcala (I think that's the married name) and she was venezuelan by birth, and yes after she died (RIP) the Serenaders were no more. we now have the Flores de San Jose, and the young side is los jovenes de san jose, led by a younger Flores, Mario. the girls you mentioned were the Guerero sisters, and they still sing, but in different groups. Even the guys in that family sing, too. real talent.
you guys have real good memories, digging up all these things from the past. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, or what?

well ann thanks for dis, cause i always though Gloria was from Arima....learn something new again
did she have any kids dat ya know of ???

it woulda be nice if all dem old parang groups come together in dey park and put down some vintage parang tur show dem youngas and dem what it really made of.

ah go certainly make ah trip home for dat

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« Reply #59 on: December 04, 2006, 02:40:38 PM »
AlbertaTrini, do you know how to create an MP3 file from that record?

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 1. La Pascualidad
2. el Ciaman
3.Manzanare
4.Coro coro
Saiy siay
dais ah big big tune man..
ah have all ah dem excpet the fus one on recording..
number one i knwo by heart being ha ole paranderos of sorts.

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