Word: albums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...else. At least two songs-Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful? and Ten Minutes Ago-had the lilt to last for a while, and the record of Cinderella -issued well in advance of the show-was selling this week at the clip of a Broadway-hit album. However reminiscent of other Rodgers' works, the score had warmth and plenty of whirl to propel dancers through Choreographer Jonathan Lucas' gay patterns in a slick production handsomely set and costumed by William and Jean Eckhart...
...their third record album the Dunster Dunces attempt, with spirit and some courage, to prove they are different. So they sing arrangements in styles from J.S. Bach to Ralph Burns to pseudo-Elvis Presley, venturing beyond the time-tested realms of usual college groups, like the Whiffen-poofs. But the danger in being daringly different is that to be successful, you must usually be not only unusual, but good...
JERRY LEWIS, who tries not to be funny, and fails-chiefly because his squeaky voice is a weird amalgam of Al Jolson and Baby Snooks-in Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (Decca). But his album, Jerry Lewis Just Sings, is a bestseller...
...Manhattan's august music house, G. Schirmer Inc., do-it-yourself Calypso Kits (including bongo drums, a gourd and a pair of maracas) were selling briskly last week for $24.50 and up. Columbia Records has announced an album of calypso songs especially styled for children. Obscure pop singers are desperately shaking their hips and broadening their A's in the rush to learn calypso. And Hollywood is considering a dozen calypso films, including Calypso Grips So, and (taking advantage of the best of two possible worlds) Bop Girl Goes Calypso...
...some of the semipros still sing, mostly for rum, at public concerts in "Tents" (often palm-thatched bamboo shacks). In the U.S. there have been previous calypso flurries, including Rum and Coca-Cola in 1945, but the real boom was drummed in by Folk Singer Harry Belafonte, whose current album, Calypso, is one of the biggest selling LPs in RCA Victor history. In a velvety voice he sings Day 0 and Jamaica Farewell. (They are not really calypso, but no one seems to care...