Word: gilkyson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lord Flea. Columbia Records' answer to Victor's Belafonte (who still outsells the rest of the field) is Terry Gilkyson, son of a Pennsylvania insurance executive, who teamed up five years ago with ex-Truck Driver Richard Dehr and sometime Real-Estate Man Frank Miller to form a trio called The Easy Riders. They have sold more than half a million copies of a ditty called Marianne, long familiar to Caribbean tourists. Although this version's heroine is a sweet girl whom even "little children" love, her origins show through the bowdlerized lyrics...
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...
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