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"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is a traditional Jamaican folk song. The song has mento influences, but it is commonly classified as an example of the better known calypso music. It is a call and response work song, from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships. The lyrics describe how daylight has ...
The first track "Day-O (Banana Boat Song)" largely contributed to the success of the album and has long been Belafonte's signature song, the single reaching number five on Billboard's Pop chart. "Star-O", the sixth track on the album (and B side of the "Day-O" single), is essentially a shorter reprise of "Day-O", with slightly different lyrics.
"Iko Iko" (/ ˈ aɪ k oʊ ˈ aɪ k oʊ /) is a much-covered New Orleans song that tells of a parade collision between two tribes of Mardi Gras Indians and the traditional confrontation. The song, under the original title "Jock-A-Mo", was written and released in 1953 as a single by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford and his Cane Cutters but it failed to ...
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) → ? – The current title is an improper use of parentheses in article titles, as it doesn't serve disambiguation purposes (Day-O and The Banana Boat Song both redirect here), nor is it the actual title of the song. The article should be moved to Day-O, Banana Boat Song, or The Banana Boat Song. I don't have ...
The song originally appeared in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much, where it serves an important role in the film's plot.In the film, Day plays a retired popular singer, Jo Conway McKenna, who, along with her husband (played by Jimmy Stewart) and son, becomes embroiled in a plot to assassinate a foreign prime minister.
"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" is a song composed by Allie Wrubel with lyrics by Ray Gilbert for the Disney 1946 live action and animated movie Song of the South, sung by James Baskett. [1] For "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", the film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song [ 1 ] and was the second Disney song to win this award, after " When You Wish upon a ...
And, ’Tis o’er the Hills, and far away, ’Tis o’er the Hills, and far away, ’Tis o’er the Hills, and far away, The Wind has blown my Plad away. Jockey was a bonny Lad, As e’er was born in Scotland fair; But now poor Jockey is run mad, For Jenny causes his Despair; Jockey was a Piper’s Son, And fell in Love while he was young:
F. D. Benteen later released a different version with guitar accompaniment in 1852 under the title "The Celebrated Ethiopian Song/Camptown Races". Louis Moreau Gottschalk quotes the melody in his virtuoso piano work "Grotesque Fantasie, the Banjo", op. 15 , published in 1855.