Belafonte, Harry: Calypso

Harry Belafonte: Calypso - VINYL LP

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Title:

Calypso

Artist:

Harry Belafonte

Label:

Rumble Records

Product Type:

VINYL LP

UPC:

889397100308

Genre:

Vocal

Release Date:

2011-10-18

Number of Discs:

1

Calypso is the third studio album by recording artist Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor (LPM-1248) in 1956. The album became his second consecutive number-one album on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, where it stayed for 31 consecutive weeks. The first track "Day-O (Banana Boat Song)" largely contributed to the success of the album and it is still the song for which Harry Belafonte is best known, reaching number five on Billboard's Pop chart. It is a traditional Jamaican folk song, not a calypso, sung from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships. Daylight has come, the shift is over, and they want their work to be counted up so that they can go home (this is the meaning of the lyric "Come, Mr. Tally Man, tally me banana / Daylight come and me wan' go home.")

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