Word: calypsos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...vocal range, both of them whirling and capering between times. The act begins at breakneck tempo, works itself into an autobiographical lather (Never Marry a Dancer), takes a breather when Albert throws all his theatrical technique into September Song a la Walter Huston. Then it sidles off into a calypso tempo (Man, Man Is for the Woman Made), goes serious again when Margo dramatizes a mother's prayer (from Irwin Shaw's Sons and Soldiers), winds up in a welter of straw-hatted vaudeville routines and a big burst of applause...
Almanac is at its best when Harry Belafonte sings with his intriguing Calypso style and in a few of the sketches for De Wolfe and Miss Gingold. Occasionally bizarre, like "Dinner for One," an aged spinster's banquet for suitors dead and gone, most of these skits have considerable wit and imagination. Though the parody of "Picnic" is rather distasteful, De Wolfe takes a delightful poke at "My Cousin Rachel." Miss Gingold, however, as the dancer, "La Pistachio," provides the most entertaining moments of the revue. Garbed in an uproarious butterfly costume, the lusty old harridan is hilarious...
CANADA Dry's advertising agency, out to meet the competition of Schweppe's quinine water (TIME, June 8), issued a calypso-beat song, Keep Cool, to the disk jockeys and jukeboxes. Sample lines...
Matilda, Matilda! (Harry Belafonte; Victor). Folk Singer Belafonte runs breathlessly through a calypso-type song about a two-timing girl-friend ("She-take-me-money-and-run-Venezuela...