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Lil Wayne's 2010 song "6 Foot 7 Foot" (featuring Cory Gunz) from his album Tha Carter IV samples and derives its title from "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)". [17] The Conkarah song "Banana", released in 2019 by S-Curve Records, with contributions from Shaggy, samples largely and is an adaptation of the Harry Belafonte original. [18]
The song released in 2019 by S-Curve Records samples largely and is an adaptation of a famous song by Harry Belafonte called "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" released in 1956. The Belafonte original is a work song, from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships. The lyrics describe how daylight has come ...
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.
In 1988, Tim Burton's cult-classic movie "Beetlejuice" showcased Harry Belafonte's version of “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” in a comedically haunting way that forever altered people's ...
The idea was great and the song is so great, but then just the way it was put together, I had no idea it was going to be that fun and powerful and memorable." Watch Clarkson sing “Banana Boat ...
The Tarriers were an American vocal group, specializing in folk music and folk-flavored popular music. [1] Named after the folk song "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill", the group had two hit songs during 1956-57: "Cindy, Oh Cindy" (with Vince Martin) and "The Banana Boat Song."
Burgie and Attaway wrote a version of the lyrics for the "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" for the Colgate Comedy Hour, and it was then recorded by Belafonte for RCA Victor. This is the recording that is by far the best known to listeners today, as it reached number five on the Billboard charts in 1957 and later became his signature song .
The banana song may refer to: The Name Game , an American popular music song as a rhyming game that creates variations on a person's name. Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) , a traditional Jamaican folk song from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships.