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Harry Belafonte, Almanac, 18 February 1954 "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.
"The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)" is a 1968 pop song, which was the theme song for the children's television program The Banana Splits Adventure Hour. [1] ...
"Loving You Has Made Me Bananas" is a 1968 hit novelty song composed and performed by Guy Marks.It parodies broadcasts of the big band era with absurd lyrics. [1]It was first released in 1968 on ABC Records as a single with "Forgive Me My Love" on the B-side, [2] some two years after "Winchester Cathedral" had triggered a revival of this musical form that had fallen out of fashion in the 1950s.
Evan Jones was born on 29 December 1927 in Portland, Jamaica.His father, the Hon. Frederick McDonald Jones OBE JP, was a wealthy planter and Custos of Portland from 1965 until his death in 1971.
"Banana" is a song by the Jamaican reggae artist Conkarah featuring the Jamaican international artist Shaggy. 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.
"Mellow Yellow" was covered in 1967 by soul singer Big Maybelle on her album Got a Brand New Bag. [16] It was also covered in 1968 by British R&B singer/keyboardist Georgie Fame on his album The Third Face of Fame.
"Juanita Banana" is a novelty song adaptation from Mexican folk music by Tash Howard and Murray Kenton. [1] The song, which tells the story of a Mexican banana farmer's daughter with operatic ambitions and whose chorus is an adaptation of "Caro Nome" from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto, was originally released in the United States in 1966.
"Yes! We Have No Bananas" is an American novelty song by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn published March 23, 1923. It became a major hit in 1923 (placing No. 1 for five weeks) [2] when it was recorded by Billy Jones, Billy Murray, Arthur Hall, Snoopy's Classiks on Toys, Irving Kaufman, and others.