Robert Mitchum - Calypso Is Like So

Artist: Robert Mitchum | Label: Shellac | Format: LP  |  Genre: Calypso | Vinyl Condition: Mint | Cover Condition: Sealed

Robert Mitchum
Calypso Is Like So
Shellac 029  - re-issue LP

Shellac present a reissue of Robert Mitchum's Calypso - Is Like So, originally released in 1957. When Harry Belfonte's Calypso became the first LP to sell over a million copies, it stimulated an unprecedented calypso craze stateside, with myriad musical and cultural repercussions. Of all the calypso oddities to appear in it's wake, Robert Mitchum's Calypso - Is Like So is certainly the most curious, as well as the most enduring. On this debut LP as a singer, actor Mitchum tackles Sparrow's "Jean And Dinah", King Radio's "Not Me", Wilmouth Houdini's "Coconut Water", and other Trinidadian anthems with considerable aplomb, infusing his delivery with a faux Caribbean lilt that flatters, rather than mocks; a few Don Rae adaptations broaden the palette of this most peculiarly appealing picture.

     Track List:
Jean and Dinah 
From a Logical Point of View 
Not Me 
What is This Generation Coming To? 
Tic, Tic,Tic 
Beauty is Only Skin Deep 
I Learn a Merengue, Mama 
Take Me Down to Lover's Row 
Mama, Looka Boo Boo 
Coconut Water 
Matilda, Matilda 
They Dance All Night 

NEW SEALED re-issue LP