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 ...

After half a century of service, first as a minesweeper during the war, then as the Gozo ferry boat and most famously as Jacques Cousteau's research vessel for 46 years, the Calypso is now being ...

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 ...