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Old 05-31-2015, 06:40 AM   #458 (permalink)
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Both of those are great albums, especially the second one. An interesting piece of trivia about them though is that they're not actually calypso despite the titles. The style of music on those albums is mento, but the record label simply labelled all carribean music as "calypso" back in the 50s. This was done because they were marketed to an American audience and Americans knew the word "calypso" but not the word "mento".
You sound like you know a bit about Calypso.

I have to admit, i'm but a newbie. Do you know of any solid albums that you think we'd like?
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