Word: calypsos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style treatment of its own. United Air Lines opened a highly auto mated, $2,000,000 freight terminal two weeks ago in San Francisco. Eastern Air Lines is building something to match it in Atlanta. Using show biz, Pan American has run a TV ad in which a Caribbean calypso band rides pushbutton-directed pallets for a merry swing through the company's gleaming new $8,500,000 computerized terminal...
...musically illiterate performer on the pop charts. But give him a subject and a guitar and he comes up with a song in ten minutes. RCA Victor arrangers transcribe the work for him which he describes as "kind of intermediate between ballad and country-western, with maybe a little calypso." Then, with cracking, lackluster tenor and a backing of RCA trumpets, or fiddle and humming voices, he croons away. For the most part, the ballads are banal and ridden with sentimentality ("Here's the mail that came today/ His silver wings and green beret; Come all ye young maidens...
...afforded him: He has been forced to reach deep into his bag of tricks, coming up with virtually every phoney-baloney recording studio technique of goosing one non-existent voice and twelve non-existent melody lines into a passable record. The resulting styles skip from Chinese to Calypso, by way of a plethora of hoked-up Folk Rock, and the one catchy tune, Bamiba, turns out to be an old Kingston Trio favorite, complete with only slightly altered lyrics. This theft, I must add, is in the best tradition of militant songsters the world over, and it is only...
OTHELLO. This filmed stage production stars Sir Laurence Olivier playing Shakespeare's Moor in blackface with inexhaustible virtuosity, though his characterization shifts at times from classic to calypso...
OTHELLO. This filmed stage production stars Sir Laurence Olivier playing Shakespeare's Moor in blackface with inexhaustible virtuosity, though his characterization shifts at times from classic to calypso...