The 70s start­ed off with the "Black Pow­er Rev­o­lu­tion" (or was it a mutiny?), some of which was doc­u­ment­ed in ca­lyp­so like, Mighty Duke's Mem­o­ries if 1970. The lat­er years of that decade how­ev­er saw, high­light­ed in a num­ber of pop­u­lar ca­lyp­soes, the glo­ry that was brought to Trinidad and To­ba­go by Hase­ly Craw­ford in 1976 and Janelle Pen­ny Com­mis­siong in 1977. These were two of the great­est mo­ments in Trinidad and To­ba­go's his­to­ry that at­tract­ed wide­spread glob­al at­ten­tion. Craw­ford was the first, and still the on­ly Trinidad & To­ba­go ath­lete to win an Olympic gold medal in the 100m at the 1976 Games in Mon­tre­al, Cana­da, while Com­mis­siong be­came the first "black" win­ner of the Miss Uni­verse beau­ty pageant in San­to Domin­go in 1977.

Craw­ford's achieve­ments were her­ald­ed in The Mighty Spar­row's ca­lyp­so Craw­ford:

Nine­teen sev­en­ty six Olympic crowd/

Saw how Hase­ly made Trinidad proud/

His place will be on top the rest/

By test he's the best/

Mon­tre­al Olympics ah wouldn't lie/

First time ah see ah hu­man be­ing fly/

All over the world the peo­ple know/

Trinidad and To­ba­go sports hero.

Then in Mae­stro's GOLD:

Craw­fie we Craw­fie/

They say they nev­er see that yet/

Start to fin­ish/ Mov­ing like ah jet/

Lane one...Mon­tre­al/

Gold medal/

Gold Gold/

The fastest hu­man in the whole wide world.

For the Car­ni­val sea­son of 1978 Lord Kitch­en­er had a proud na­tion singing and danc­ing to Miss Uni­verse when he paid trib­ute to Com­mis­siong for the glo­ry that she brought to T&T in Ju­ly of 1977:

It was twelve o'clock the hour a night in Ju­ly/

When a TTT an­nounc­er brought tears to mih eye/

...You ought to know it first/ O

ur Pen­ny is the queen of the uni­verse/

Pen­ny love­ly Pen­ny/

Girl you re­al­ly make it look easy/

...This year sev­en­ty eight/

Well we go­ing to cel­e­brate/

Doc­tor Williams and the pres­i­dent will par­tic­i­pate.

Not to be out­done but in not as pop­u­lar a ca­lyp­so, The Mighty Spar­row did his trib­ute in ca­lyp­so to Com­mis­siong en­ti­tled "First Black Miss Uni­verse":

Trinidad and To­ba­go went to San­to Domin­go/

Flash ah smile and steal the show/

Pen­ny...Pen­ny/

She'll go down in his­to­ry for com­ing first/

Pen­ny...Pen­ny/

And for me is the one and on­ly black Miss Uni­verse.