 Throughout the 1970s, Parks acted as producer on Calypso albums for other artists, including The Esso Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band's "Esso" in 1971, and The Mighty Sparrow's 1974 album, "Hot and Sweet".The first track on "Discover America", "Jack Palance", is a one-minute clip of The Mighty Sparrow's actual version of the song.Parks did not cover any Mighty Sparrow songs on the album, but would later produce Sparrow's 1974 Warner Bros. release, "Hot and Sweet"; Parks would later re-release "Hot and Sweet" on his own record label, Bananastan in 2011.