Lord Kitchener – The Grandmaster of Calypso and Soca
Aldwyn Roberts (18 April 1922 – 11 February 2000), better known by the stage name Lord Kitchener (or “Kitch“) – The Grandmaster of Calypso and Soca
Lord Kitchener Speaks
The Grandmaster ‘Lord Kitchener’ talks about his childhood, musical influence, life in London, Calypso in the US and Harry Belafonte’s contribution to the artform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8GTbL1Im5o
Lord Kitchener – ‘Old Lady Walk Ah Mile and Ah Half’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBFe0g77R5s
View more videos below
Lord Kitchener – ‘Sugar Bum Bum’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGYLvp2w9A4
Lord Kitchener – ‘Trouble in Arima’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKmnYRKZeGI
Lord Kitchener – ‘Take You Meat Out Me Rice’ [Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqWLwZIncec
Lord Kitchener – ‘Drink A Rum’ [Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BOfBCl7d9U
Vintage “Made for Steelband and Road March” Songs by Lord Kitchener, pre-eminent composer of Steelband Music:
- Kitchener’s compositions were enormously popular as the chosen selections for steel bands to perform at the annual National Panorama competition during Trinidad Carnival. Over the years his music was recognized not only as superbly suited to the steelband, but he continued to write songs not just for the pan, but about the instrument.
- Also, Lord Kitchener won the “Road March” competition ten times between 1965 and 1976, more times than any other Calypsonian..
1967 – Lord Kitchener’s classic calypso and Road March ‘Sixty Seven’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htfNpr04gjg
1967 Panorama champions Guiness Cavaliers steel orchestra- Kitchener’s ‘Sixty Seven’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcHo2wZPdTU
1973 – Lord Kitchener – ‘Rain-O-Rama’ [Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjbPwgHiVSQ
The Inside Out Steelband concert at the One World Theater in Austin, Texas on April 16, 2013, with this arrangement of Lord Kitchener’s hit ‘Rain-o-rama’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWELLmNmSVg
1979 – Lord Kitchener – ‘Symphony In G’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lr8-yLiRVY
Desperadoes Steelband – Kitchener’s ‘Symphony in G'[Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_03Xoq1P3rM
1980 – Lord Kitchener – ‘No Pan’
– this is Kitch’s description of Carnival 1979 when the steelbands went on strike and there was no pan on the road [Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OECT5EVyp2o
Desperadoes Steelband – Kitchener’s ‘No Pan’ [Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVjFfnA_1yY
1985 – Lord Kitchener – ‘Pan Night and Day’ [Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oNjN3Uq7ew
Skiffle Bunch steel orchestra playing Kitchener’s ‘Pan Night and Day’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzl-Q0uHOLc
1987 – Lord Kitchener – ‘Pan in A Minor’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVCUdjI0CLk
Aldwyn “Kitch” Roberts’ soca ‘Pan in A Minor’ played by Steel Pan Lovers from FINLAND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L50GHUa8elo
1988 – De Grandmaster Lord Kitchener – ‘Is De Pan In Me’ – a true genius of the art-form [Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_yLHQNZEyE
“The Pan in Me” (‘Is De Pan In Me’) by BP Renegades Steel Orchestra [Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcSVT5El4wc
1990 – Lord Kitchener – ‘Iron Man’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agjmEHDAc_4
Deltones steel orchestra – ‘Iron Man’ – Panorama Finals 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhu0iUeJ9yE
1997 – Lord Kitchener – ‘Guitar Pan’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY2ZF58ndTE#t=132
Renegades steel orchestra – ‘Guitar Pan’ (Slow version)[Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heDRR-owVn4
Lord Kitchener performing ‘Toco Band’ – as a guest artiste at the 1999 Dimanche Gras. The last time he would grace the Savannah Stage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLiNTgtwUfU
Rising Stars Youth Steel Orchestra from the US Virgin Islands, performing ‘Toco Band’ arranged by Sean Steele (1999) [Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaQYiZRFooo
Interviews
Interview Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts) – Part 1
(6.52 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8yRBvpFIjk
Interview Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts) – Part 2
(8.51 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo9K75zgZys
Interview Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts) – Part 3
(7.43 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkVLRaeLgBY
Interview Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts) – Part 4
(2.30 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFv3xuArzf4
Interview Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts) – Part 5
(1.00 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzcyvfnHVVk
