There's a thread on "The Trailer Park" section inviting people to post "Country" songs, so I thought it might be a good idea to begin a thread for Calypso songs. Here's a good one to start, that was popular with us in Nassau (Bahamas) in the '60s. Later edit: The video can be watched only on YouTube, it seems. It's Harry Belafonte and Man Piaba.

I was lucky enough to see him do this at a rich persons wedding many years ago, great stuff.

I always consider this to be one of the finest, its old, but soca or calypso ?

We went to a concert in the ballroom of the British Colonial Hotel in Nassau in 1967 - and we've never forgotten them. All white-Bajans. What a thing! They did Big Bamboo and Ring Ting Ting and My Pussim, and this "clean" one!

An actual contemporarÅ· film - kitchener - pan in a minor

I'm not sure if Boney M qualifies as Calypso, but I will give it the benefit of the doubt. My two favourite songs of theirs are "By the Rivers of Babylon" - swinging gospel song, and "Brown Girl in the Ring", which I'm linking to here. It may or may not be true, but I've been told that it's based on a schoolyard game involving the cordial teasing of a mixed-race girl. "She looks like sugar in a plum" - something white inside something dark; I probably don't need to spell that out... (That sort of thing would probably be taboo in the US, but here in the Islands there is a much healthier attitude to skin colours.)

Americans are so weird about colour and race, everyone has chips on their shoulders, admittedly with reason in some cases...

My low point was walking theough a beautiful mall in LA and being told by an american friend not to hold hands to avoid trouble because we are a mixed race coupke. The surprise was 'because the african americans dont like it here.'!