Lovey's String Band were a

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ian musical group. They are known primarily for having been the earliest known calypso group to have recorded. They originally formed sometime in the 1890s and continued performing until the early 1920s.

Recordings

The band did a recording session in

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in 1912, five years before the first

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recordings, and these instrumental recordings document a style of "hot" music in fashion in the Caribbean around that time. The recording was selected for preservation in 2002 by the National Recording Preservation Board of the

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.The Full National Recording Registry.
Library of Congress. Their first recording was the song "Mango Vert" for

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and a week later they switched stables to record with

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. Other songs in their catalogue include "Trinidad Paseo", "Petrol and Sara", "Mari-Juana", and "Manuelito".

References

{{Authority control Trinidad and Tobago musical groups United States National Recording Registry recordings