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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 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.
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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". [28] Many of the compositions recorded for Calypso, including "Banana Boat Song" and "Jamaica Farewell", gave songwriting credit to Irving Burgie. [29]
“Beetlejuice” 'Banana Boat (Day-O)' scene, a (mini) oral history with Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara ... The idea was great and the song is so great, but then just the way it was put together ...
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."
"Dancing Ride" – Here Comes a Song "Daniel and Molly" – Here Comes a Song "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" – You Make Me Feel Like Dancing "Day of Joy, Day of Peace" (Hamish's Lullaby) – Santa's Rockin'! "Decorate the Tree" – Yule Be Wiggling "Di Dicki Do Dum" – Big Red Car "Ding Dong Merrily on High" – Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas
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 ...