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Biggest thing
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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
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