Word: calypsos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Williams, returning for her fourth appearance at Harvard, incorporates genuine gospel singing with the diverse influences of jazz, calypso, and country and western. Described by Downbeat as "The most gifted and imaginative artist gospel has produced," Miss Williams generates an excitement that drew three standing ovations from an electrified Harvard audience last year...
...sloppy "Sympathy for the Devil." Jagger introduced himself as the devil and the audience burst into applause in recognition of its own dreams of what Mick Jagger doing "Sympathy for the Devil" would be like, and sure enough, when I asked people later they could have sworn they heard calypso. Most disappointing about this particular song, and most of Jagger's vocal performance for that matter, was the absence, up until "Satisfaction," of any vocal improvisation. Much of the Stones' dynamic relies on Jagger's talent for splintering and then remaking the vocal line, a technique he borrowed from soul...
...UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Cousteau and the crew of the Calypso track California Grey Whales...
...Africa's most Christianized countries-but during the visit of Pope Paul VI last week, it seemed as if all of its 9,000,000 citizens had become instant Romans. There were Pope Paul coins, Pope Paul stamps and Pope Paul folk songs, including a pop calypso that likened the Pontiff's visit to "a shooting star in the dark of the night." Shop-door signs along the papal route proclaimed "Pepsi Welcomes the Pope...
...crowds began to gather at Entebbe airport half a day before the Pope was due: women in elegant, bright' ly patterned neck-to-ankle dresses, men toting six-foot cowhide horns, calypso singers and tribal dancers. Shouts went up when the East African Airways VC-10 appeared, flanked by four Fouga jet trainers: "There he is! He's coming, that good man." The Kampala police band, its drummers in leopardskin overalls, played the Uganda national anthem as President Milton Obote greeted the Pontiff. Heads of four other African states stood by in a LandRover: Tanzania's Julius...