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Their third album, Oh My Days, [3] was released in 2011 and featured contributions from young soul singer Liam Bailey, Hannah Caughlin, Jess Roberts, folksinger Jenny McCormick, bass player Jon Thorne and drummer Tom Page. The Memory Band also tour performing the music and songs from Paul Giovanni's score from the 1973 film, The Wicker Man.
The best-known version was released by American singer Harry Belafonte in 1956 (originally titled "Banana Boat (Day-O)") and later became one of his signature songs. That same year the Tarriers released an alternative version that incorporated the chorus of another Jamaican call and response folk song, "Hill and Gully Rider".
"Oh Happy Day" is a 1967 gospel music arrangement of the 1755 hymn [1] by clergyman Philip Doddridge. Recorded by the Edwin Hawkins Singers, it became an international hit in 1969, reaching No. 4 on the US Singles Chart, No. 1 in France, Germany, and the Netherlands and No. 2 on the Canadian Singles Chart, UK Singles Chart, and Irish Singles Chart.
This rendition replaces "My, oh my, what a wonderful day! Plenty of sunshine headin' my way!" with Uncle Remus instead singing the lyrics "Negroes are inferior in every way. Whites are much cleaner, that's what I say." [15] The phrase is mentioned on the song "Klap Ya Handz" from the debut album of hip-hop group Das EFX, when Krayz Drayz utters ...
Elvis is known to have performed "Oh Happy Day" during the dress rehearsal for his 1968 Comeback Show and at an August 5, 1976, concert at the Sahara in Las Vegas. He described the chord arrangement on "Oh Happy Day" as representative of early rock and roll, stating "Oh Happy Day" was similar to the songs "Blue Moon" and "Young Love" in this ...
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The bob-tail fling her over his back, Oh, doo-dah-day! Then fly along like a rail-road car, Doo-dah! doo-dah! Runnin' a race with a shootin' star, Oh, doo-dah-day! CHORUS See them flyin' on a ten mile heat, Doo-dah! doo-dah! Round the race track, then repeat, Oh, doo-dah-day! I win my money on the bob-tail nag, Doo-dah!, doo-dah!
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day; I would my true love did so chance To see the legend of my play, To call my true love to my dance; Chorus (sung after each verse) Sing, oh! my love, oh! my love, my love, my love, This have I done for my true love. Then was I born of a virgin pure, Of her I took fleshly substance Thus was I knit to man's nature ...