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LONDON BRIDGE Is FALLING DOWN (Count Basic; Decca). Following the latest vogue. Basic's band warms over (and up) the nursery rhyme of the world's most famed apocryphal structural failure...
...CROSBY AND MR. MERCER (Decca,). Last June, when the genial Westwood Marching and Chowder Club (North Hollywood Branch) put on its second Breakaway Minstrel Show, the Olio was enlivened by " 'Lasses' (Molasses) Mercer and 'Chittlins' (pig or calf intestines) Crosby in an erudite analyseration of swing." The "analyseration" was sung to the music of the 1920's famed duet Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean, new words by Lyricist Mercer (Cowboy From Brooklyn, et al.). The summer's most amusing ditty gets more amusing when Crosby explains to Mercer that jazz is merely old-fashioned...
Tourists long ago discovered Calypso, found it fun to pay a few dollars to have themselves described in an impromptu ballad. For nearly five years, Columbia and Decca have recorded Calypso songs in Trinidad, but U. S. enthusiasts could obtain discs only by hunting for them in New York's Harlem. By last week, with four midtown Manhattan shops (Liberty, Center, Marconi and Symphony) carrying them in stock Calypsos sold well to an eager public...
...typical Calypsonian inspiration was the visit of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Trinidad. Hammering long words into his melody regardless of accent (a Calypso trait), Atilla the Hun - a sober young father, mostly white, of nine children by his Negro wife - sings on a Decca disc...
Most popular Calypso singer is The Lion (real name: Hubert Raphael Charles), a young black buck who was taken to Manhattan in 1936 by Ralph Perez, successively a Calypso specialist for Columbia and Decca. The Lion, however, proved the most censorable of the Calypsonians, all of whose records Mr. Perez must submit to British officials before they may be sold in Trinidad. The Lion's share of the 1937 carnival was his song Netty-Netty, voted the most popular by the public, but banned on the island. On sale in the U. S., its words are allegedly unprintable...