I used to go out and play a nighttime, Saturday nighttime, for Mr. [Ivan] Chin‡ too. I play whole night, and get pay. I was a sound operator also [for] Mr. Chin. And he would send me to handle de whole thing. [We play] anything [on the set]. We mix—just a mix of calypso, waltz, everything. We can play everything—jazz and all dat. You can play everything what’s happening. You mix dem. They [the sound systems] used to play a lot of my songs. When they would go fe play all “Night Food,” man—oh!—sometime you hear “Night Food” blasting down de road. Oh yeah! They had to do it [i.e., play it on the sound systems]. Because de public want it. Is what de public want, they give de public.
Standout Tracks
Alerth Bedasse and the Calypso Quintet, “Night Food” (1952); Alerth Bedasse and Chin’s Calypso Sextet, “Big Boy and Teacher” (1956)
• Vocals, guitar, banjo, percussion
• (1928–2007)
• Active from the 1940s
• Member of Chin’s Calypso Sextet
• Lead singer, session musician
*Tom the Great Sebastian: one of the most prominent of the early Jamaican sound systems, founded in Kingston by Thomas Wong c. 1950.
†Coxsone: Clement Seymour Dodd (“Sir Coxsone Downbeat”), owner of the renowned Downbeat sound system and famous record producer who launched Studio One.
‡Ivan Chin: early producer of commercial mento recordings in Kingston during the 1950s, who also owned a small sound system.
Kingston, Jamaica, 2005
Arthur Robinson (Bunny)
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