Mighty Terror

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Fitzgerald Henry (13 January 1921 – 14 March 2007), better known as The Mighty Terror, was a Trinidadian calypsonian. He was born Fitzgerald Cornelius Henry in Anguilla Village, Arouca, Trinidad. He studied trumpet as a child and also sang in church and school choirs. His career started in 1947, and following the success of his "Negroes Know Thyself" he debuted at the Calypso Palace Tent in 1948. He joined the Young Brigade Tent in 1949, where he continued playing until leaving Trinidad in 1953. In 1950 he his first 78 release was "Changing of the Indian Song". During his time in Trinidad he recorded first for Sa Gomes (1951), for Christopher (1952) and took part in the Dial sessions in 1953. He was one of the first major calypsonians to have records released on Emil Shallit's UK-based Melodisc Records, in 1950. In 1953, he took a job as a fireman on a ship and arrived in England later that year, going first to London. In his own words: "I jump in a taxi and I say, Do you know of a gentleman called Lord Kitchener? I figure he popular and a taxi driver should know. He tell me he dead long time ago. Not that one (I said). This one is a calypsonian from the West Indies, Trinidad." Popular or not, the taxi driver had not heard of Lord Kitchener so took him to a West Indian club where he was given the phone number of guitarist Fitzroy Coleman. Terror moved in with the Colemans and within a month he was regularly singing in the clubs and had won a contract to sing a jingle for th

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London Is The Place For Me

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London Is the Place for Me 6: Mento, Calypso, Jazz and Highlife from Young Black London

London Is the Place for Me 5: Latin, Jazz, Calypso and Highlife from Young Black London

London Is The Place For Me: Trinidadian Calypso In London, 1950-1956

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London Is The Place For Me - Trinidadian Calypso in

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London Is The Place For Me - Trinidadian Calypso in London, 1950-1956

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London Is The Place For Me 1: Trinidadian Calypso In London, 1950-1956

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Pan Poetry

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London Is The Place For Me - Trinidadian Calypso In London, 1950 - 1956

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A Guide to the Real Calypso

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Calypso @ Dirty Jim's

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Calypso At Dirty Jim's

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