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

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

Shellacpresent a reissue of Robert Mitchums Calypso Is Like So, originally released in 1957. When Harry Belfontes 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 its wake, Robert Mitchums 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 Sparrows Jean And Dinah, King Radios Not Me, Wilmouth Houdinis 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 Lovers Row
Mama, Looka Boo Boo
Coconut Water
Matilda, Matilda
They Dance All Night

NEW SEALED re-issue LP