Jack Norton's Old-Time Radio Show: 1920s and 1930s 78 RPM Records
Sep 15, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 28 segments
Travel back to the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s as vaudeville blues and ragtime hokum musician Jack Norton spins his favorite 78 rpm records from his collection. From early hot jazz to jug band blues…
If you ever go down Trinidad, they make you feel so very glad.
Calypso sing and make a rhyme, guarantee you one real good fine time.
Go down Point Koumana.
Both mother and daughter working for the Yankee dollar.
Oh, beat it man, beat it.
Since the Yankee come to Trinidad, they got the young girls all going mad.
Young girls say they treat 'em nice, make Trinidad like paradise.
Go down Point Koumana.
Both mother and daughter working for the Yankee dollar.
Oh, you vex me, you vex me.
From Chickachick Carrie to Mona's Isle, native girls all dance and smile.
Help soldier celebrate his leave, make every day like New Year's Eve.
Go down Point Koumana.
Both mother and daughter working for the Yankee dollar.
It's a fact, man, it's a fact.
In old Trinidad I also fear the situation is mighty queer.
Like the Yankee girl, the natives swoon when she hear their bingle croon.
Go down Point Koumana.
Both mother and-
and-Dollar.
If you ever go down Trinidad, they make you feel so very glad.
Calypso sing and make a rhyme, guarantee you one real good fine time.
Go down Point Koumana.
Both mother and daughter working for the Yankee dollar.
Oh, beat it man, beat it.
Since the Yankee come to Trinidad, they got the young girls all going mad.
Young girls say they treat 'em nice, make Trinidad like paradise.
Go down Point Koumana.
Both mother and daughter working for the Yankee dollar.
Oh, you vex me, you vex me.
From Chickachick Carrie to Mona's Isle, native girls all dance and smile.
Help soldier celebrate his leave, make every day like New Year's Eve.
Go down Point Koumana.
Both mother and daughter working for the Yankee dollar.
It's a fact, man, it's a fact.
In old Trinidad I also fear the situation is mighty queer.
Like the Yankee girl, the natives swoon when she hear their bingle croon.
Go down Point Koumana.
Both mother and-
and-Dollar.
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