SOURCE: FROM ATTILA TO THE SEVENTIES CD #6 TAPE #10. NARRATED BY PROFESSOR GORDON ROHLEHR.
What the Mighty Spoiler brought to the calypso was something quite unique. Spoiler brought the entire spirit of the street corner lime of old talk. The emphasis on fantasy, which is a part of the whole social milieu, helps to create a sense of the bizarre or a sense of the absurd. This was a concept that Spoiler introduced to the calypso or developed in the calypso. He developed that sense that fantasy could be true. It is as if he deliberately would start with a world of fantasy and suggest the points where the world of fantasy touched the world of everyday reality. Hence, we get calypsoes such as “Picking Sense Out of Nonsense”, “Bedbug”, “World of Tomorrow”, “Talking Backwards”, and “All Fool’s Day”, all of which were products of the period between 1951 and 1953.
