But it didn’t pan out. In May 1957, a banner headline in Variety screamed that “Calypso is Stone Dead”. By the year’s end, the calypso fad went the way of all fads. The Trinidad-born music did not go ...

Much has been made of the so-called “Calypso Craze” that came to an apotheosis in the mid-1950s with the release of both Harry Belafonte's album Calypso (the first platinum LP ever recorded) and the ...