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  • Jump Up Calypso is an album by Harry Belafonte, originally released by RCA Victor in 1961. It reached number 3 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts. Backing...
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  • "Jump in the Line (Shake, Señora)" is a calypso song composed by Lord Kitchener and best known from a version recorded by vocalist Harry Belafonte in 1961...
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  • Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean...
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  • Recovering the Satellites "Monkey", a song by Harry Belafonte on the album Jump Up Calypso "Monkey", a song by Bush on the album Sixteen Stone "Monkey", a song...
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    among others. Later that year, RCA Victor released another calypso album, Jump Up Calypso, which went on to become another million seller. During the...
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    Calypso Rose or Linda McCartha Monica Sandy-Lewis (born April 27, 1940, in Bethel Village, Tobago) is a Trinidadian calypsonian. She started writing songs...
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    Victor 34 — — Swing Dat Hammer Released: 1960 Label: RCA Victor — — — Jump Up Calypso Released: 1961 Label: RCA Victor 3 — — RIAA: Gold Midnight Special...
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  • Jump Up Calypso, and also wrote "Can't Cross Over", and co-wrote "Goin' Down Jordan", on Belafonte's 1977 album Turn the World Around. Burgie set up his...
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  • The list of calypsos with sociopolitical influences is sectioned by main topics. Calypso music is a worldwide phenomenon. "Base (The)" (1958), Mighty Sparrow...
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  • by Louis Prima "Angelina" (Irving Burgie song), from the 1961 album Jump Up Calypso by Harry Belafonte "Angelina" (George Kooymans song), from the 1969...
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    of "Yankees Gone" was included in the album Jump Up Carnival in Trinidad. His prize for winning the Calypso King title was $40. In protest of the small...
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  • Soca music (category Calypso music)
    a genre of music defined by Lord Shorty, its inventor, as the "Soul of Calypso", which has influences of African and East Indian rhythms. It was originally...
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  • Jump Up Calypso (1961) The Midnight Special (1962) The Many Moods of Belafonte (1962)...
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    bachata, merengue, palo, mambo, baithak gana, bouyon, cadence-lypso, calypso, soca, chutney, chutney-soca, compas, dancehall, jing ping, parang, pichakaree...
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  • Records released several live tracks featuring him on their albums Jump Up Carnival and Calypso Kings And Pink Gin in 1957, which led to him recording a full...
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  • Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall (1960) Swing Dat Hammer (1960) Jump Up Calypso (1961)...
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  • It was featured on his 1962 album Twist Up Calypso. The song took its inspiration from the calypso song "Jump in the Line (Shake, Señora)". The song was...
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  • May 1959), a Jamaican mento musician credited with "helping start the calypso craze in U.S." With his band The Calypsonians, Flea toured America throughout...
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  • were actually made by guitarist Ernest Ranglin. The songs "Jump Up" and "Kingston Calypso" appeared on the Dr. No soundtrack. In 1964, the band was featured...
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  • Live at the Sands (Before Frank) (Reprise, 1998) With Harry Belafonte Jump Up Calypso (RCA Victor, 1961) The Many Moods of Belafonte (RCA Victor, 1962) The...
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