Typically Tropical

Typically Tropical, the pseudo-Caribbean-flavored duo, was initially born from some half-cocked, half-baked scheme to compose a reggae song by two Morgan Studios employees, Geraint Hughes and Jeff Calvert, in 1974, in the wake of Calvert's own return from a Jamaican vacation. According to Hughes, the pair penned "Barbados" in just two hours, sitting down with just a piano and guitar. The two then took their song, later revered or reviled depending upon who was commenting, into Morgan and, under the cover of darkness, cut a demo using whatever they could get their hands on for ...