Word: calypsos
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Even the choice of the capital by an 11-5 vote represented a declaration of independence. A royal commission from London had plumped for Barbados, but prosperous Trinidad had the most to offer its smaller, poorer neighbors, and copped the prize. Port-of-Spain's No. 1 Calypso Singer King Sparrow chanted...
...they've got to listen to the Calypso King...
These two have pushed the calypso hits, Terry Gilkyson's "Marianne" and the Tarrier's and Belafonte's "Banaha Boat Song" from the top rungs. The "respectable" disk jockies hope that calypso will end the rock and roll craze. Since calypso includes the "Big Beat," it will certainly be much more successful than the previous white hope--fife and drum music as exemplified by the "Yellow Rose of Texas." Rock and roll, however, is here to stay...
Away from it all for three weeks at a seaside bungalow called "Goldeneye" on Jamaica's north coast, Britain's crisis-weary Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden tried to forget all about the Suez Canal and environs by listening to the personalized serenade of a local calypso band. Sample of the topical lyrics sung...
Nkrumah's enthusiastic "P.G.s" (for Prison Graduate-an inestimable political advantage in a British colony) soon drowned out all others with loudspeaker-car cries, to a calypso-style rhythm, of "FREEDOM, NKROO-MAH, FREEDOM, NKROO-MAH." When the votes were counted, Nkrumah got 71 seats out of 104. Despite the loss of ten seats in Ashanti he had got his "reasonable majority...