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The group performed in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, [4] [7] [8] and in 1957, released an LP album, "Calypso," on Verve. [9] They made many radio and television appearances, including The CBS Morning Show with Will Rogers Jr., [10] The Mike Douglas Show, [11] Tonight Starring Steve Allen, The Ernie Kovacs Show, and Name That Tune. [8]
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Calypso music" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
During the 1956–57 American calypso craze, the Easy Riders, Burl Ives, and other interpreters of folk music further popularized the song, generally under the title "Marianne". [2] Harry Belafonte recorded the track on at least three albums. [3] "Mary Ann" continued to be a favorite with steel bands and calypso entertainers at Caribbean ...
Calypso is the third studio album by recording artist Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor (LPM-1248) in 1956. The album became his second consecutive number-one album on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, where it peaked for 31 weeks. Calypso was the first Long Play record album to sell over one million copies.
It is performed by Ricky Ricardo , Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball), Fred Mertz (William Frawley) and Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance) in the 1957 episode of I Love Lucy entitled "Ragtime Band". Muppet woodland animals performed a spoof of the song called "Man Smart, Critter Smarter" on a 1980 episode of The Muppet Show hosted by Joan Baez.
As a calypso/soca arranger, McIntosh scored out the music parts for the band that accompanies the calypso or soca singer. Melodic lines for horns (saxophone, trumpet, and sometimes trombone) and bass, as well as charts for guitars and keyboards, were written out for use by musicians at recording sessions and on the bandstand for live performances.
Many early kaiso/calypsos were sung in French Creole, as Trinidad gained a significant number of free and enslaved blacks from the French Antilles of Martinique, Guadeloupe, French-dominated Grenada and Dominica following the Cedula of population of 1783. The patois or French creole was the original language of the calypsonian and calypso music.
"Last Train to San Fernando" is a Trinidadian calypso song written by Sylvester DeVere, Randolph Padmore, and Mighty Dictator, [3] the latter being a pseudonym for Kenny St. Bernard. [4] Johnny Duncan, a British-based American musician, [5] recorded a skiffle version (accompanied by the Blue Grass Boys), which was a #2 hit on the UK Singles ...