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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1975)
Boom SO Biggest thing oice,rresey fsjr BENE CAPPON -V NEw YORK, AprU fJULaat summer t Manhattan (oik music Impresario named Art D'Lusofr. plyiof hit trade InJreenwlcb VU lap, mad bli tor for himself by prMeaOnf same calypso, (are to the beard and beret self The reception wai m tremen dous that a boom in the making ... wh plain to the practiced eye a boom which haa duly become the biggest thing in pops music lines Elvis Presley squirmed out! of Tennessee. v "Art got the message Out some thing reloual was brewing,'' says Frea R a y ( i 1 d, a haro-to-queU spokesman for ffle DLugofl outfit, i "And even though most people till don't know what calypso is. everybody and hit grandmother --are enjoying it." , Grandmothers apart, the evM denes Is ' abundant. , For months, calypso recordings like "Mart-1 anne" and "Jamaica Ftrewell"! have ranked high m beat seller' liits. All-calypse ' rooms mush roomed In New York, Chicago, Mb' ami and othercies. In Milwaw kee recently, a pops concert billed I ai "Calypso, Night" broka HI f- tendance records. r N steck-lUtl Aatldato Inevitable there 'has been talk of cslypao as an antidote (or the rock 'n' roll delirium. But while It's true that the West Indian Im port edged the native-born (ad in Lot Angeles st one point, Presley words stilr top calypso favorites In nationwide diss sales, "Cslypao doesn't give the kids ... tht tame kind of muscular re lease," a recording company ex ecutive said. "Furthermore you ean't really dance to it. S I doubt if tt will eclipse rock W roll "Calypso has a special, exotic flavor, but It's the kind that doesn't go well aa a steady diet- something like Hawaiian music." Calypso's very success may be threatening ' to rock the banana ' boat. There's a shortage et au thentic talent in the land, and Tin : Pan Alley Is 'pumping paeudo calypao into the boom. The ex perts nay that nothing is so quick- lv fatal in a musical crazt as a . profusion ot imitators, Two Prdvioas tavaaleas Precisely why the Caribbean rhythm-and-aong should have cap tured the nation's oar after two previous Invasions - to the JOe and early 40s succumbed to waves of apathy Is fairly myste rious. Increased American travel in the West indies is doubtless a factor. f ' . . Mut virtual! evenmna In the music basinets concedes a lion's share In, popularizing it to Harry Belafontd. the honey-voiced trou badour and folk singer whose al- a . . I..., ,ft mA Hum, iaiypa, nee vhu mv- a millioa copies. ' .' ; - Belafonte . himself 1s tot lur- muA H rw "f hfliiW Mm nipvu mm mum .w, . music waa as big three years ago as It b today Judging from the alt of my -records and the crowds. bo com merited in toe Angeles.', "It's like everything else, the public It first to. catch on, the trade last" And what exactly, to calypaoT f IL. ImM,n . It. Mint lift in West Africa: tt echoes r beat I Orougni SO irittiu.u iu in jjuuh of slave ships. It hat tntsjeate rhythms, aimple melodic line, and irreverent, catchy lyrici rarely tuitsble In t h t r unrefined form for tbe ears of maiaen uuiei " The true) ealpysonlan. muter of the craft, makes ap the words m bo goes along. Second la tbe hier archy is the West Indian whs sings the rhymed ditties a calypsoniaa invents, r f WIUAJMTTi CONCMT tail I Kov-cti (tbevtky hM Uuvrd Wtrren, Wrhone r ttymour llpkln, f tonW MwlM Andtnen, Contrtlte sAUM UNATOI MASON TICKfTS ULIM JUNIOt IVMTHOKT i Wad. Afl M OHNINO NIOHT OAMI Amu ; SpMlal tlcken Now ee tale KINTONAUtTAM JAZ1 CONCIRT Tkura, Aprl U-t pj. TltfcMtl.U f BAMHIHOf , ouAm corenn tMvrOar, mUf 4 IAUM IA0HI CtUI y HOtSIIHOW t May sad ilfc , BOYKOUT ixpoimoM lMlay,May II aOtTLAND rrmrMONT . SIAJON TICKITt ' IfaMf fBUM i. . . r OOOFFICC . 1 :-: ..... .... . VIS 1WC ii . ' a ' . m visi ' r i i i i i i ; ; i i . 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