Cuando Calypso de Harry Belfonte se convirtió en el primer LP en vender más de un millón de copias, estimuló una moda de calipso sin precedentes en los Estados Unidos, con innumerables repercusiones musicales y culturales. De todas las rarezas de calipsoque aparecieron a su paso, Calypso Is Like So de Robert Mitchum es sin duda la más curiosa, así como la más duradera. En este LP debut como cantante, el actor Mitchum aborda ´Jean And Dinah´ de Sparrow, ´Not Me´ de King Radio, ´Cocount Water´ de WilmouthHoudini y otros himnos trinitarios con considerable aplomo, infundiendo su interpretación con un falso ritmo caribeño que halaga, en lugar de burlas, algunas adaptaciones de Don Rae amplían la paleta de esta película particularmente atractiva
 
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In 1956, at the height of the short-lived calypso craze that saw Harry Belafonte top the charts worldwide, Robert Mitchum filmed two movies in the British West Indies, 'Fire Down Below' and 'Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison'. 
Calypso originated in Trinidad, and Mitchum filmed 'Mr. Allison' in Trinidad's sister island, Tobago. As his co-star, Deborah Kerr, remembered, 'He possessed enormous musical knowledge and sense of rhythm. He'd mastered the West Indian songs with their complicated rhythms before a week was up in Tobago'. By the time they'd finished filming 'Fire Down Below', Mitchum was singing calypsos at local clubs, and he continued to do so after he returned to the United States. Someone from Capitol Records heard him sing at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills, and signed him up. Over the course of several nights in the Spring of 1957, Mitchum recorded his classic calypso LP, 'Calypso - Is Like So...' Using his droll sense of humor, he made up new calypsos from older numbers he'd heard in the islands. The result - A lounge classic. We've revisited that LP, complete with its fabulous 'white man gone to ruin in the tropics' cover.
 
A1 Jean And Dinah    
A2 From A Logical Point Of View    
A3 Not Me    
A4 What Is This Generation Coming To?    
A5 Tic, Tic, Tic    
A6 Beauty Is Only Skin Deep  
 
B1 I Learn A Merengue, Mama    
B2 Take Me Down To Lover's Row    
B3 Mama, Looka Boo Boo    
B4 Coconut Water    
B5 Matilda, Matilda    
B6 They Dance All Night