Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election campaign (see below), ebullient Nnamdi Azikiwe, Premier of Nigeria's Eastern Region, announced that he would ask Britain for self-government in May. Probable result: local self-government for two of Nigeria's three regions sometime this year, independence for the entire Federation (pop. 32 million...
...fastest-spinning property in pop records this week is not a sideburned bad boy from Tennessee, but a scrubbed-faced, clean-cut campus type from Hollywood. Beefed up in an echo chamber-homogenized and pasteurized in a release called Young Love (Dot Records), the baby baritone of Cinemactor Tab (The Girl He Left Behind) Hunter has teenagers wrapped in a burlap...
...Manhattan's august music house, G. Schirmer Inc., do-it-yourself Calypso Kits (including bongo drums, a gourd and a pair of maracas) were selling briskly last week for $24.50 and up. Columbia Records has announced an album of calypso songs especially styled for children. Obscure pop singers are desperately shaking their hips and broadening their A's in the rush to learn calypso. And Hollywood is considering a dozen calypso films, including Calypso Grips So, and (taking advantage of the best of two possible worlds) Bop Girl Goes Calypso...
Clearly calypso is the biggest thing in the pop-music business since rock 'n' roll started rolling, but why is something of a mystery. Few people can "dance calypso" (there is no formal style) or sing it in the shower. In Trinidad, its place of origin, it was sung extemporaneously, first by plantation workers and later by semiprofessionals with such exotic names as the Growler, Attila the Hun and the Lord Executor. The lyrics might relate some back-fence gossip, reflect on the paternity of a neighbor or comment on political news. In Trinidad some of the semipros...
...Duke of Iron, or Lord Flea and His Calypsonians (Lord Fish Ray, Count Spoon, et a/.), whose cleaned-up version of the nocturnal wanderings of a flea (The Naughty Little Flea; Capitol) is also a nightclub favorite. All told, calypso records account for roughly a quarter of current pop sales...