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4 unusual facts about Lord Invader


Lord Invader

Ironically, In the early 1940s, radio stations in the USA would not play his own version on the grounds of its using the copyrighted name, Coca-Cola, and its references to prostitution and alcohol.

In the last half of 1958, he returned to New York City and continued recording for Moses Asch.

During his tenure in New York City, he became a fixture in the local calypso scene and recorded many tracks for Moses Asch.

Morey Amsterdam

However, the original version of the song was written and performed by a Trinidadian calypso singer named Lord Invader, and Amsterdam was subsequently involved in a copyright suit over the song, which dragged on until 1948.



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