▶️#Rudeboy 👌🏾🏆🏆✊🏾. Happy Birthday to the Legendary Calypso King #MightySparrow 🇬🇩🇹🇹 "Jean and Dinah" (When The Yankees Gone) is a calypso sung by calypsonian Mighty Sparrow that became an international hit in 1956. The calypso, Sparrow's first hit, commented on the large-scale prostitution that the bases once supported and the desperation of those prostitutes following the closure of many American military bases in Trinidad in the post-war period. However, the calypso originated as a proposed radio commercial jingle. Sparrow says the jingle was rejected, so he changed the lyrics and created a new narrative while retaining the main characters -Jean and Dinah, Rosita and Clementina. #sparrow #calypso #calypsonian #calypsoicon #music #culture #trinidad #trinidadandtobago #Grenada
