1940s

WILMOTH   HOUDINI REAL NAME: Wilmoth Hendricks (aka Edgar Leon Sinclair) DATE OF BIRTH: ... PLACE OF BIRTH: ..., Trinidad EDUCATION: ... CAREER:                                 Houdini began singing in the late-1920s and continued performing through the 1940s. His calypsoes included: Mama Call The Fire Brigade; War Declaration; Caroline; Johnnie Take My Wife; Sweet Like A Honey Bee; Song No. 99; Uncle Jo' Gimme Mo'; Trifling Men; No Mo' Bench and Board; Sweet Papa Willie; Honey I'm Bound to Go; Cooks in Trinidad; Arima Tonight, Sangre Grande Tomorrow Night; Black But Sweet; I Need A Man; Stop Coming and Come; Tiger Tom Kill Tiger Cat; That Big Black Woman; West Indian Sugar Crop; Unfortunate Milley; Teacher Nose Gay The Shouter; Mickey Cipriani's Career; Glorius Centenary; Cipriani's and Bradshaw's Death; Bandsman Shooting Case; African Love Call; Devil Behind Me; Poor But Ambitious; Harlem Night Life; The Calypso Way; Trinidad Hurricane DIED: ... Compiled by Ronald C. Emrit