"...he [Norman Luboff] then jumped on what Geoffrey Holder called at the time the Mad Fad from Trinidad, resulting in the release of the Calypso Holiday album."

"Jumped on" or jump started? Luboff was the musical director for the Colgate Comedy Hour Special that took Harry Belafonte's act from the ballroom to the national stage and is credited on the latter's first three studio albums including the (first?) million seller LP Calypso.

And the whole "...most popular song in pan" thing.