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Well, I need to put the SPOTLIGHT on St. Vincent artists and PRODUCERS so the MEMBERS and PEEPERS can get a BETTER PERSPECTIVE of the TALENTS of the LAND of the BLESSED.

I will START the BALL ROLLING by FOCUSING FIRST on the MAESTRO, FRANKIE MCINTOSH.

Franklyn Maestro McIntosh aka Frankie McIntosh has helped to elevate calypso to great prominence, arranging and composing music for artists like the Calypso King of the World Mighty Sparrow, Beckett, Scorcher, Chalkdust, Shadow, Explainer and a host of other outstanding musicians.

Born in August of 1946 in St. Vincent, Franklyn McIntosh’s musical career began at the tender age of 3. His father schooled him in playing the flute, while he was simultaneously being trained in formal keyboard by a private instructor. By the age of 9 Franklyn was the pianist for the Melotones, a dance band led by his father.

By 1963, the Frankie McIntosh Orchestra, led by Franklyn was performing throughout St. Vincent, and word of his illustrious accomplishments soon spread to neighbouring Antigua, where in 1966 he was invited to work as a pianist for Laviscount Orchestra, an Antiguan group.

After two years in Antigua, Franklyn McIntosh migrated to the United States to perform on invitation with a New York based group, Tropicana Brass as well as to study and obtain his Music degree.

While pursuing a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music from Brooklyn College, the "Maestro" as Franklyn is referred to in some circles, performed with Tropicana Brass, free-lanced as pianist for several jazz groups and artists, including Jimmy Tyler, Snug Moseley and Donald Maynard, and toured Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Florida and New York with a cabaret musical band called Wonderful World of Charlie Brown and Yvonne.

In 1978 Beckett approached Franklyn McIntosh with calypso material and a musical relationship emerged. The "Maestro" arranged Beckett’s album, Coming High; this launched Beckett’s musical career nationally and led to him being signed by Casablanca Records.

Twelve albums later Frankie McIntosh was still arranging music for Beckett whose album Gal Ah Rush Me, soared to national acclaim with the hit single Teaser, winning Best Song and Best Arranged Song at the Caribbean Grammy Awards held at the Apollo Theatre in New York.


Frankie McIntosh



After Beckett’s success, other musicians approached the " Maestro" for assistance on their albums, and Franklyn McIntosh has since arranged music for dozens of artists from various Caribbean countries and Islands.

In addition to B.A. and M.A. degrees in Music from Brooklyn College and New York University respectively, Franklyn has received several citations and honors from various Organizations and record companies for his contribution to calypso. He has also won the Arranger of the Year award at the 1990 Caribbean Grammy Music Awards.

When asked about the future of Calypso music, the " Maestro" says he believes that Calypso-Jazz is the wave of the future. This innovative style of music is now being performed by artists like Clive Alexander, Raf Robertson and Len "Boogsie" Sharpe, and is gaining momentum throughout the Caribbean.

As regards to his future, Franklyn McIntosh declares that he would like to record and release some of his own compositions that reflect his experiences as a Caribbean person living in New York, thereby making his own musical statement.

In addition to an illustrious musical career, Franklyn McIntosh still has found time to be a devoted husband and father of four.

FRANKIE MCINTOSH

You just couldn't wait for Rummy huh?

geezuskrist!!! Again!!! Dude after doing this for the millionth time if it eh have no impact yet it eh having no impact again yuh know. yuh starting to have the buzzing mosquito in ear effect fer real.

Waiting on RUMMY is LIKE WAITING on WINNING the LOTTO.

Ohhhhhh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh

Doh WORREE, I will SHOW U the IMPACT soon ENOUGH.

Possibly the rebirth or an update avroom. lol.

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right now ah sellin wood plenty plenty wood... how much inches of wood yuh want...

Now, all the HISTORIANS or the PRETENDED HISTORIANS of the SOCA/CALYPSO INDUSTRY can always COME and CORRECT ANYTHING that I am about to SHARE about FRANKIE MCINTOSH.

I welcome even the "WET BEHIND the EARS" SOCA/CALYPSO LOVERS as well.

First, we will CONCENTRATE on the IMPACT that FRANKIE MCINTOSH has had on TRINIDAD.

First up is EXPLAINER....the BIGGEST HIT of EXPLAINER'S CAREER and one of the CLASSIC SOCA songs of all time.

Now, pay CLOSE ATTENTION to the ARRANGING of this TRACK....now if anyone can POINT out any soca song, ARRANGED by a TRINI, that is SIMILAR to this TRACK, feel FREE to POINT it out.

Yes, this TRACK will GO DOWN as one of the TOP 10 CLASSIC SOCA songs of all time, IMO.

So here it is, LORRAINE by EXPLAINER....and ARRANGED by Frankie McIntosh of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Buoyyyyy, SPARROW couldn't WIN a SOCA ROAD MARCH ah TAHL.....HE TRIED, he TRIED, he TRIED....so SPARROW came to FRANKIE and said, FRANKIE buoyyyy, ah getting real FRUSTRATED....ah TRIED this TRINI ARRANGER and that TRINI ARRANGER but ah just caah get that SONG that will have EVERYONE GOING CRAZY on the ROAD in T&T, so HELP ME OUT nuh MAESTRO...ah BEG yuh, HELP me out nuh....doh FORGET ah GRENADA me BORN eh....we're NEIGHBORS, so help out ah FELLOW WINDWARD ISLANDER nuh.'

With those WORDS from the MIGHTY SPARROW, de MAESTRO, Frankie McIntosh said, I will help END your DROUGHT....this CHUNE will win U the ROAD MARCH of T&T....so said, so done.

And so, SPARROW BROKE his SOCA ROAD MARCH DROUGHT in Trinidad when he came out with this TRACK in 1984....which by the way ended a drought of 12 years of not WINNING a ROAD MARCH by the MIGHTY SPARROW.

You would have to go back to 1972 when Sparrow won with "DRUNK and DISORDERLY"...so that is basically a 12 year gap/drought.

And yes, the FRANKIE MCINTOSH ARRANGED TRACK was SPARROW'S FIRST SOCA ROAD MARCH TRACK and it so happens to be the LAST ROAD MARCH TRACK of his ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER....all thanks to Frankie McIntosh of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Again, this is 1984....LISTEN to the PACE of the TRACK....and LISTEN to the UNIQUE SOUND of the TRACK.....now, if you can find a SONG ARRANGED by a TRINI that is SIMILAR, BRING IT!

Yes LADIES and GENTLEMEN, another CLASSIC TRACK, I am speaking of Doh Back Back by the MIGHTY SPARROW and ARRANGED by Frankie McIntosh of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

You want CALYPSO?

Well, NO PROBLEM....FRANKIE has EVERYTHING COVERED.

Yes, they said that this CALYPSO HELPED to BRING DOWN the GOVERNMENT of Trinidad and Tobago.

And who was BEHIND the ARRANGING of this TRACK....yes, you got it, Frankie McIntosh of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

In some QUARTERS, they said this song is one of the TOP 3 CALYPSOES EVER MADE.

Yes, I am SPEAKING of "THE TRINIDAD" aka SINKING SHIP by Gypsy

Well, the YEAR is 1981 and CHALKDUST, who already won BACK to BACK (1976 and 1977) CALYPSO MONARCHS (should have won more=he got CHEATED) in Trinidad, thanks to the PROLIFIC ARRANGER out of TOBAGO, the LEGENDARY Art DeCoteau.

And now it is the PROLIFIC ARRANGER out of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the MAESTRO, Frankie McIntosh, who gives CHALKDUST his THIRD CALYPSO MONARCH with his WINNING TRACK "Ah Can't Make"

The KING of MAINSTREAM SOCA, Kevin Lyttle, is the REASON why TRINIDAD created the GROOVY SOCA COMPETITION.

THE END.

Ohhhhhhhhh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh