Calypso/Soca Road March - Trinidad & Tobago - 1932 to Present
It all starts with the tune. When Steel Talks takes a look at 87-plus Years of Carnival Road March Tunes

YEAR - ARTIST - SONG - album
- 2023 - Bunji Garlin - "Hard Fete"
- 2022 - Carnival Cancelled - COVID 19 Pandemic
- 2021 - Carnival Cancelled - COVID 19 Pandemic
- 2020 - Kes & Iwer George - Stage Gone Bad
- 2019 - Machel Montano, Bunji Garlin & Skinny Fabulous - Famalay
- 2018 - Machel Montano & Superblue - “Soca Kingdom”
- 2017 - Ultimate Rejects - “Full Extreme”
- 2016 - Machel Montano - “Waiting on the Stage”
- 2015 - Machel Montano - “Like Ah Boss”
- 2014 - Machel Montano - “MOR (Ministry of Road)”
- 2013 - Superblue - “Fantastic Friday”
- 2012 - Machel Montano - “Pump Yuh Flag - Double M
- 2011 - Machel Montano - “Advantage - The Return
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2010 - JW & Blaze - “Palance”
- 2009 - Fay-Ann Lyons - “Meet Super Blue”
- 2008 - Fay-Ann Lyons - “Get On”
- 2007 - Machel Montano - “Jumbie”
- 2006 - Machel Montano and Patrice Roberts - “‘Band of De Year’ B.O.D.Y.”
- 2005 - Shurwayne Winchester - “Dead or Alive”
- 2004 - Shurwayne Winchester - “Look De Band Comin’”
- 2003 - Fay-Ann Lyons - “Display”
- 2002 - Naya George - “Trinidad”
- 2001 - Shadow aka Mighty Shadow - “Stranger”
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2000 (TIE) Superblue / Iwer George - “Pump
Up” / “Carnival
Come Back Again”
- 1999 - Sanelle Dempster - “River”
- 1998 - Wayne Rodriguez - “Footsteps” - Charge
- 1997 - Machel Montano - “Big Truck” - Heavy Duty
- 1996 - Nigel Lewis - “Movin’”
- 1995 - Super Blue - “Signal to Lara”
- 1994 - Preacher - “Jump and Wave”
- 1993 - Super Blue - “Bacchanal Time”
- 1992 - Super Blue - “Jab Jab”
- 1991 - Super Blue (formerly Blue Boy) - “Get Something and Wave”
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1990 - Tambu - “No,
We
Ain’t Going Home”
- 1989 - Tambu - “Free Up”
- 1988 - Tambu - “This Party Is It”
- 1987 - Duke - “Thunder”
- 1986 - David Rudder - “Bahia Girl”
- 1985 - Crazy - “Soucouyant”
- 1984 - Sparrow - “Doh Back Back”
- 1983 - Blue Boy - “Rebecca”
- 1982 - Penguin - “Deputy”
- 1981 - Blue Boy - “Ethel”
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1980 - Blue Boy - “Soca
Baptist”
- 1979 - Poser - “Ah Tell She (Smoke Ah Watty)”
- 1978 - Calypso Rose - “Soca Jam”
- 1977 - Calypso Rose - “Tempo”
- 1976 - Kitchener - “Flag Woman”
- 1975 - Kitchener - “Tribute to Winston Spree”
- 1974 - Shadow - “Bass Man”
- 1973 - Kitchener - “Rainorama”
- 1972 - Sparrow - “Drunk and Disorderly”
- 1971 - Kitchener - “Madison Square Garden”
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1970 - Kitchener - “Margie”
- 1969 - Sparrow - “Sa Sa Yea”
- 1968 - Kitchener - “Miss Tourist”
- 1967 - Kitchener - “Sixty-Seven”
- 1966 - Sparrow - “Obeah Wedding”
- 1965 - Kitchener - “My Pussin’”
- 1964 - Kitchener - “This is Mas”
- 1963 - Kitchener - “The Road”
- 1962 - Blakie - “Maria”
- 1961 - Sparrow - “Royal Jail”
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1960 - Sparrow - “Mae
Mae”
- 1959 - Caruso - “Run the Gunslingers”
- 1958 - Sparrow - “Pay As You Earn”
- 1957 - Lord Christo - “Chicken Chest”
- 1956 - Sparrow - “Jean and Dinah”
- 1955 - Obernkirchen Children’s Choir - “The Happy Wanderer”
- 1954 - Blakie - “[Steel Band] Clash”
- 1953 - Vivian Comma - “Madeline Oye”
- 1952 - Spit Fire - “Post, Post Another Letter For Thelma”
- 1951 - Terror - “Tiny Davis”
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1950 - Killer - “In a Calabash”
- 1949 - Wonder - “Ramgoat Baptism”
- 1948 - King Radio - “Who Dead? Canaan”
- 1947 - Pharaoh - “King Pharaoh”
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1946 No - Competition - No Carnival
1945 World War II No Carnival
1944 World War II No Carnival
1943 World War II No Carnival
1942 World War II No Carnival - 1941 - Lion - “Whoopsin Whoopsin”
- 1940 - Beginner -
“Run Yuh Run”
- 1939 - King Radio - “Mathilda”
- 1938 - Lion - “No Norah Darling”
- 1937 - Lion - “Netty Netty”
- 1936 - Lion - “Advantage Could Never Done”
- 1935 - Lion - “Dingolay Oy”
- 1934 - Railway Douglas - “After Johnny Drink Me Rum”
- 1933 - King Radio - “Wash Pan Wash”
- 1932 - King Radio
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