Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
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.
The Tarriers appeared in a 1957 low-budget musical Calypso Heat Wave, in which they lip-synched to "The Banana Boat Song" and "Choucoune". After completing a European tour in early 1958, Arkin left the group to pursue acting. [1] His replacement was Clarence Cooper, a singer rooted in blues and gospel.
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]
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 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 ...
The now all-female group chose the name of Fontaine from a French-Canadian great-grandmother. [5] They cut two singles for Musicraft Records in 1946, and then worked on sustaining (non-sponsored) programs for NBC, meeting and working with Perry Como soon after he came to the network.
"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