Calypso (album)

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Calypso
Studio album by Harry Belafonte
Released	May 1956[1]
Recorded	August 18, October 20, November 9, 1955
Studio	Webster Hall, New York City
Genre	Mento, calypso
Length	31:23
Label	RCA Victor
Producer	Ed Welker, Herman Diaz Jr., Henri René
Harry Belafonte chronology
Belafonte (1955) Calypso (1956) An Evening with Belafonte (1957)
Singles from Calypso
"Jamaica Farewell" Released: September 1956 "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" Released: December 1956

Calypso is the third studio album by recording artist Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor (LPM-1248) in 1956. The album became his second consecutive number-one album on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, where it peaked for 31 weeks. Calypso was the first Long Play record album to sell over one million copies.

In 2015 Calypso was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.^[2]

In 2018, Calypso was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".^[3]