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2. Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) - Wikipedia

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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)". [18] 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. [19]

3. Stan Freberg - Wikipedia

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   The song concludes with the pianist taking a liking to the arrangement only after he gets into an uncontrollably accelerating groove, despite the histrionic singer's pleas to keep tempo; the singer has to escape the studio. Freberg's "Banana Boat (Day-O)" (1957) satirized Harry Belafonte's popular recording of "Banana Boat Song". In Freberg's ...

4. List of The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968 TV series) episodes

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   This is an episode summary of British TV comedy show The Morecambe & Wise Show, starring Morecambe and Wise.This was the first show of this title to be broadcast (although the duo's previous show, Two of a Kind, was credited as "The Morecambe & Wise Show" in the opening credits of its final two series), and ran on BBC2 and BBC1 for a total of nine series, plus eight Christmas specials, between ...

5. Harry Belafonte’s 10 Greatest Songs - AOL

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   Harry Belafonte, a transformational figure in American entertainment and activism, died at the age of 96 at home in Manhattan on April 25. The figurehead in popularizing calypso in America in the ...

6. Harry Belafonte - Wikipedia

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   One of the songs included in the album is the now famous "Banana Boat Song", listed as "Day-O" on the Calypso LP, which reached number five on the pop chart and featured its signature lyric "Day-O". [29] Many of the compositions recorded for Calypso, including "Banana Boat Song" and "Jamaica Farewell", gave songwriting credit to Irving Burgie. [30]

7. Calypso (album) - Wikipedia

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   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.

8. The Tarriers - Wikipedia

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   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."

9. Michiko Hamamura - Wikipedia

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   She was known as the "Banana Boat Girl" after she recorded a bi-lingual cover of the "Banana Boat Song" [1] ... on YouTube This page was last edited on 1 ...