Word: calypsos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general lustiness of the lyrics might corrupt the youth of the land. As sung in Trinidad, in its native state, the song might have been censored with more cause. Rum & Coca-Cola burgeoned on the Port-of-Spain waterfront in 1943. Its composer was a stocky Negro calypso singer named Rupert Grant, known for professional purposes as "Lord Invader." For Rum & Coca-Cola he took a tune, with alterations, from a popular Trinidad paseo (two step), and dogged out some doggerel...
Amsterdam, who describes himself as a "well-dressed hangover" has a well-stuffed musical memory. He is the son of Max Amsterdam, who plays with the San Francisco Symphony. Morey has explained: "The tune is calypso, of course, and then again it's not. It's really just an old Jewish melody with maracas [rhythm gourds] added...
Happy Go Lucky (Paramount) is a calypso excursion to Trinidad which lost its Hays office censors en route. The picture's mildly daffy happenings, concern Mary (My Heart Belongs to Daddy) Martin's campaign to capture a rich husband (Rudy Vallee). For Rudy, it is the second time around the course (first: as John D. Hackensacker III in Palm Beach Story-TIME, Jan. 4). He seems a little off his game. For Miss Martin, the story is merely a roundabout means of arriving at the discovery that her heart belongs to Dick Powell...
Background for all this is a lush setting which may be one of the last glimpses of old-style Hollywood opulence that cinema audiences will have for the duration. Happy Go Lucky also has love potions, sultry calypso songs and dances by a group of Trinidadians headed by "Sir Launcelot" Pinard, some first-rate Frank Loesser...
...Governor of Massachusetts, Winthrop Murray Crane. Agent Crane lost a bit on her first series, jacked prices to $2.20 for the second. She is the only agent who specializes in artists who shuttle between concert hall and nightclub. Members of her stable: Tap Dancer Lawrence, a Trinidad dancer and Calypso singer named Belle Rosette, a Negro singing quintet called the Sophisti-chords, three dancing Ecuadorian Indians...