Word: calypso
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...member of four significant folk groups: the Folksay Trio, whose version of Tom Dooley was imitated by the Kingston Trio in their first hit single; the Tarriers (a threesome that included the young Alan Arkin), whose The Banana Boat Song, aka Day-O, was a top-of-the-pops calypso hit; the Weavers, with Darling replacing Pete Seeger in 1958; and the Rooftop Singers, which had a No.1 pop hit with Darling's 12-string-guitar arrangement of Walk Right In. One way Darling wasn't a regimental folkie: his politics were libertarian, of the Ayn Rand stripe...
Even more surprising is to see Naipaul as a boy showing off for girls with his acrobatics and singing "Ol' Man River" as he darns his socks. Much of his mischief and provokingness he got from his Caribbean origins, he acknowledges; and to see the calypso Naipaul before he began taking snuff from a silver spoon is to see a much more human and endearing figure than the master usually admits...
...really launched Disney's latter-day renaissance in animation. The story about Ariel, a mermaid who longs to be human and trades in her voice for a chance at the prince of her dreams, is fleshed out with some uninspired back-story for the prince. The film's great, calypso-style "Under the Sea" number doesn't have quite the bounce it did on screen. And Ariel's Jiminy Cricket-like sidekick, the Jamaican-accented Sebastian the crab, isn't nearly as funny when robbed of the film's witty animation (despite Tituss Burgess's best efforts in the role...
...these people jump and shout along with their favorite anthems of soca and calypso - particularly favoring Machal Montano, the biggest name in Caribbean music since Bob Marley - blasting from huge trucks equipped with gargantuan sound systems. Rigs of the same size serve a bottomless supply of drinks. "I've always heard about it, so my other expatriate friends talked me into doing this," Fred Bauer, 46, an engineering designer who moved to the country a year ago from Texas, told me. "I'm from the South so I know what Mardi Gras is like. Here, it's a different flavor...
...music from the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, but the group’s business manager, S. Adam Goldenberg ’08, who is also a Crimson editor, says that Friday’s audience shouldn’t be surprised by some Calypso or Latin music. Goldenberg also references the group’s ability to take “really traditional American music and bring to it new life and new energy in a really fun and exciting way.” After a Chinese dance performance by Kevin...