George Browne (May 4, 1920 β March 23, 2007), better known as the Young Tig… Read Full Bio ↴George Browne (May 4, 1920 β March 23, 2007), better known as the Young Tiger, was a Trinidadian calypso musician.
Born Edric Browne in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, where his childhood was imbued with the African traditions of Shango and Spiritual Baptist Shouting, he assumed the name George E. Browne in homage to the family friend, Richard E. Braithwaite, whose library introduced him to works of black history and activism.
Browne joined a Norwegian tanker at the age of 20 and, after a brief stay in Australia, signed off in Scotland in 1941. After befriending other expatriate Trinidadians in Glasgow he relocated to London and began to earn his living as a musician. In 1947-8 he co-founded (with Bermudian Ken Gordon, uncle of newsreader Moira Stuart) the Three Just Men group and toured in Europe and North Africa with the trio the following year.
He inherited the name Young Tiger from the calypsonian Growling Tiger when in 1953 he recorded a cover version of Tiger's song "Single Man". Young Tiger's hits dating from that same year include "Calypso Be" and "I Was There" - the latter being his observations about the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II - and "Mamzelle Josephine". Subsequently embracing jazz music, he recorded with a number of bands, including Humphrey Lyttelton's Paseo Jazz Band. In the 1960s he pursued an acting career for a time - he played the role of Jesus Christ in a passion play produced at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Senegal in 1966 - and in 1970 he gave up music to open a London restaurant and health club with his then wife. When that was forced to close because of rent increases, they moved to the USA, where for a time they had restaurants in Florida and California.
He returned to the UK in the late 1980s, living in retirement in Croydon. His calypso "I Was There" featured on the 2002 Honest Jon compilation London Is the Place for Me: Trinidadian Calypso in London, 1950-1956. Following the re-release of his "Calypso Be" on London Is the Place for Me, Vol. 2 (November 2005), Browne played at the BBC "Electric Proms" festival in 2006, performing a few songs together with the London is the Place for Me Allstars.
Born Edric Browne in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, where his childhood was imbued with the African traditions of Shango and Spiritual Baptist Shouting, he assumed the name George E. Browne in homage to the family friend, Richard E. Braithwaite, whose library introduced him to works of black history and activism.
Browne joined a Norwegian tanker at the age of 20 and, after a brief stay in Australia, signed off in Scotland in 1941. After befriending other expatriate Trinidadians in Glasgow he relocated to London and began to earn his living as a musician. In 1947-8 he co-founded (with Bermudian Ken Gordon, uncle of newsreader Moira Stuart) the Three Just Men group and toured in Europe and North Africa with the trio the following year.
He inherited the name Young Tiger from the calypsonian Growling Tiger when in 1953 he recorded a cover version of Tiger's song "Single Man". Young Tiger's hits dating from that same year include "Calypso Be" and "I Was There" - the latter being his observations about the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II - and "Mamzelle Josephine". Subsequently embracing jazz music, he recorded with a number of bands, including Humphrey Lyttelton's Paseo Jazz Band. In the 1960s he pursued an acting career for a time - he played the role of Jesus Christ in a passion play produced at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Senegal in 1966 - and in 1970 he gave up music to open a London restaurant and health club with his then wife. When that was forced to close because of rent increases, they moved to the USA, where for a time they had restaurants in Florida and California.
He returned to the UK in the late 1980s, living in retirement in Croydon. His calypso "I Was There" featured on the 2002 Honest Jon compilation London Is the Place for Me: Trinidadian Calypso in London, 1950-1956. Following the re-release of his "Calypso Be" on London Is the Place for Me, Vol. 2 (November 2005), Browne played at the BBC "Electric Proms" festival in 2006, performing a few songs together with the London is the Place for Me Allstars.
African Dream
Young Tiger Lyrics
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We have lyrics for these tracks by Young Tiger:
Calypso Be This modern music's got me confused, To tell you friends I'…
I Was There Well, let me tell you ladies and gents I enjoyed myself…
I Was There (At the Coronation) Well, let me tell you ladies and gents I enjoyed myself…
I Was There At The Coronation Well, let me tell you ladies and gents I enjoyed myself…
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I couldn't find the lyrics to this anywhere, so I've transcribed this from what I could hear from this recording:
I had a little dream the other night, and it thrilled me with sheer delight
I had a little dream the other night, and it thrilled me with sheer delight
In my dream I had traveled far, and gone to my home back in Africa, and I was greeted quite happily with songs of peace and festivities.
Singing β Karanga de yohu Karanga Karangae yehyeh o yo meyo oh go Karanga de.
They received me with great ceremony bechaleoa(?) and his family. I was vetted and petted by everyone as if I were the prodigal son. When I think of my dream, well I had to laugh for they brought out and slaughtered the fatted calf, while they kept singing quite happily the song of peace and festivities.
What were they singing? Karanga de yohu Karanga Karangae yehyeh o yo meyo oh go Karanga de.
And the wine that flow and the soft wind that blows, and all hearts friendships was aglow. I felt like the great and exalted one, a predecessor of king Solomon. The queen of Sheba made her presence felt as before the shine of love we all knelt, while they kept singing quite merrily the song of peace and festivities.
Karanga de yohu Karanga Karangae yehyeh o yo meyo oh go Karanga de.
Well I woke up this morning with a sudden start and a heavy pounding of heart. There was a thunderous knocking at my door that shook the roof and the floor. It was my landlord with bad intent he came to collect his six weeks back rent as I was still in my revelry , I sung him the song of festivities.
What did I sing him? Karanga de yohu Karanga Karangae yehyeh o yo meyo oh go Karanga de.