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When Harry Met Calypso
2015-02-22 11:12:17| Beverages - Topix.net
Nearly 60 years before Bunji Garlin and Nigel Rojas' Differentology got a half-minute play on the intro to an American TV show, Trinidad's indigenous music completely dominated American pop music for half a year. Between late 1956 and mid-1957, calypso mushroomed so huge in the US that nightclubs refitted themselves overnight as "calypso rooms" with limbo floorshows, legendary American singer Ella Fitzgerald covered a kaiso, three feature-length calypso movies were rushed into production in Hollywood and advertising copy for cosmetics was copied from the lyrics and written to the tune of Lord Invader's Rum and Coca-Cola.
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