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Originally named "The TRIPOLI Trinidad Steel Band", the outfit briefly renamed themselves "The ESSO Trinidad Steel Band" when the petroleum corporation Esso began sponsoring the group in 1964. But when Esso cancelled its sponsorship, the group again rechristened itself to the Tripoli Trinidad Steel Band. Some copies of this LP had stickers affixed to the front replacing the word "Esso" in the title with "Tripoli".

By 1964, the band entered the first Steel Band Music Festival in Trinidad and received a standing ovation at the Queen’s Hall for their. Hugh Borde who was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad in 1933, became the leader of the band in 1951, at the age of 18. He was already an excellent ping pong soloist on the instrument. By 1964, the band entered the first Steel Band Music Festival in Trinidad and received a standing ovation at the Queen’s Hall for their.

The band was no longer called the Esso Trinidad Steel Band, as the Esso Company was not sponsoring the band, anymore. In the late 1960s, in addition to their work with Liberace, the band also performed alongside top entertainers like Sammy Davis J. Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Della Reese, Dionne Warwick, and others. They also had major guest shots on television shows hosted by Ed Sullivan, Mike Douglas and David Frost. Back home in Trinidad, Borde won the prestigious Hummingbird medal Award in 1971. By 1976 Borde and his family left Trinidad and moved to Ypsilanti, Michigan

Redirected from Esso Steel Band). The Esso Trinidad Steel Band was a steel band from Trinidad, active from 1942 to 1976. The group began in 1942 as the Tripoli Steel Band, named after a lyric in the United States Marines' Hymn. In 1951, the group came under the leadership of Hugh Borde, who directed the ensemble to greater technical skill and established them as contenders in local Carnival competitions. In 1964, the group won the Steel Band Music Festival.

Steel drum ambassadors the Esso Trinidad Steel Band began their career in 1942. Originally named the Tripoli Steel Band in honor of the . Marines Hymn (with its reference to "the shores of Tripoli"), the group's roots lie in the evolution of the steel pan, the homemade percussion instrument forged from the milk tins, paint cans, and oil barrels clotting Trinidad's shores. When Esso terminated its sponsorship, the renamed Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band toured the world for over two years in support of the flamboyant pianist Liberace. When Borde relocated his family from Trinidad to Ypsilanti, Michigan, in 1976, the group effectively splintered, but his children (led by son Emile) later organized a new Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band lineup, releasing the LP Momentum in 1985. This version of the group continued touring into the next century.

The Esso Trinidad Steel Band was a steel band from Trinidad, active from 1942 to 1976.

He later produced the band's album, The Esso Trinidad Tripoli Steelband. To this day, he still says that the Tripoli Steelband was "the greatest group I've ever had the privilege to produce. In 1962, I worked with my first steelband," Parks says. It opened my eyes to what I think is the greatest music of the 20th century, on a popular level - calypso music. Like Ulysses, I went on an adventure with calypso music. Steel drum impressed me a great deal, because I had always been interested in tuneful percussion. The best group to express the love that I had.

Ysabols steel PAN and steel drum.