Word: calypso
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...about Good for Nothing Joe or Just One of Those Things; some rekindled the old glories of such sentiments as I Got Rhythm and Easy to Love. Her voice was commonplace, but her poised and charming delivery had the customers holding their breath. Everyone was ready to follow her calypso invitation...
...evening last week in Port-of-Spain, the political chieftains of the British West Indies and dignified officials from London's Colonial Office, attending a dance recital, leaped gaily up and joined the cast in a calypso "jump-up" while a steel band drummed and clanged. It was a week for exuberance in Trinidad: swiftly, almost offhandedly, the assembled leaders tore down the biggest roadblock in the way of fast-approaching nationhood for the British West Indian colonies...
...Calypso singers chanted it. and pounded on their drums: little children shrilled it, and waved their tiny Union Jacks. As she began a four-week cruise through the British West Indies last week, 24-year-old Princess Margaret knew, from the cheering crowds that lined the hot, sunny streets in Trinidad, that the welcome came from the heart...
Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister dutifully attended to the routine chores of visiting royalty. But her schedule allowed plenty of time for listening to throbbing calypso rhythms, watching native dancers and admiring the lush tropical countryside. At a formal dinner, Margaret set Trinidad society ladies atwitter with a modishly low-cut white silk gown and a dazzling new upswept coiffure...
Last week Margaret captivated Trinidad and was herself captivated by its charms. She even sent a lady-in-waiting to buy a stack of calypso records. In Tobago, boarding the royal yacht Britannia for the cruise to Grenada and British points north, Margaret could scarcely fail to see that the life of a princess can be quite a life indeed-comfortable, consequential, exciting and even...