Cook Records released several live tracks featuring him on their albums " Jump Up Carnival " and " Calypso Kings And Pink Gin " in 1957, which led to him recording a full album for the label the next year.
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Her nickname, " The Gin Palace ", came from her luxurious fittings and a corruption of her name ( "'A Gin Court "'), pink gin being a popular drink among Royal Navy officers at the time.
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Cedric Charles Dickens ( great-grandson of Charles Dickens ) records in " Drinking With Dickens " that a'Burnt Pink Gin'consists of 1 tsp Angostura burnt by heating over a flame and then poured into " a large tot dry gin ".
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Caroline Elkins describes the club as having had a reputation during colonial times as'the Moulin Rouge of Africa', where the elite'drank champagne and pink gin for breakfast, played cards, danced through the night, and generally woke up with someone else's spouse in the morning .'Today, the club is still frequented by the upper echelons of Kenyan society.
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Sparrow refused to officially participate in the competition for the next three years, but he continued to perform unofficially, even winning another Road March title in 1958 with " P . A . Y . E . " He did perform at the 1957 carnival in the Young Brigade Calypso Tent, where the four songs he performed were recorded and later released on the album " Calypso Kings and Pink Gin ".
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Known as the'Crown Prince of Calypso', Cypher was an established calypsonian since the 1940s and appeared on the Cook Records compilations " Calpypso Kings and Pink Gin " ( 1958, with " PNM Balisier " ), " Calypso Atrocities " ( 1959, with " Sailor Man in Donkey Pants " ) and " Calypso Exposed " ( 1961 with " Love Miss Dove " ).
