CALYPSO: A WORLD MUSIC

Album cover: Harry Belafonte. Calypso. RCA Victor, 1956.

Harry Belafonte's Calypso was the first album to sell over one million copies in entertainment history. However, only two of the selections on the album were actually calypsos; the rest were other types of Caribbean songs. Since World War II, Americans often used the term "calypso" to refer to any type of song from the English-speaking Caribbean.

Courtesy of Ray Funk.

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