I was so stoked when Trunk Records' recent email came in and their "50p Friday" album was a personal favourite ... "Calypso - is like so..." by Robert Mitchum.
I've had this album on my iPod for a long time ... I got given it in 128kbps and was desperate to get it in a better bitrate.
It is a mental record ... very, very funny and sing-a-long catchy ... with Mr Mitchum doing a very good version of the Calypso ... a style he learned after spending time in Caribbean. Its a firm family favourite ... especially with Olly's parents. Anne (my mother-in-law) is particularly fond of it.
Thing is ... she's not the only one. This is what Johnny Trunk has to say about it:
Yes, this is Robert Mitchum, the weed smokin' rum totin' super Hollywood bad guy. Think of Mitchum and you imagine Cape Fear, gangsters etc, tattoos, not a man capable of making a Caribbean rum-soaked album, singing in a half-cocked Jamaican patois. Well that's exactly what this is, a true classic. And he gets away with it. Most of the time. All there is left to say is tick, tick tick.I would heartily recommend this album ... especially at 50p. Snap it up ASAP before it goes.
Tx
http://trunkrecords.greedbag.com/buy/calypso-is-like-so-remastered-2/
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