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.")
The third track, "Jamaica Farewell", is another calypso folk song about the beauties of the West Indian islands and a love left behind. This was the first album on which it was published. It reached number fourteen on Billboard's Pop chart, becoming the second hit from the album.
1956: Calypso - Harry Belafonte · 1957: Music from My Fair Lady - Original Cast · 1958: Music from My Fair Lady - Original Cast · 1959: The Music from Peter Gunn - Henry Mancini · 1960: Music from The Sound of Music - Original Cast · 1961: Camelot - Original Cast · 1962: West Side Story - Soundtrack · 1963: West Side Story - Soundtrack · 1964: Music from Hello, Dolly! - Original Cast · 1965: Music from Mary Poppins - Soundtrack · 1966: Whipped Cream & Other Delights - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass · 1967: More of The Monkees - The Monkees · 1968: Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience · 1969: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly
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.")
The third track, "Jamaica Farewell", is another calypso folk song about the beauties of the West Indian islands and a love left behind. This was the first album on which it was published. It reached number fourteen on Billboard's Pop chart, becoming the second hit from the album.
1956: Calypso - Harry Belafonte · 1957: Music from My Fair Lady - Original Cast · 1958: Music from My Fair Lady - Original Cast · 1959: The Music from Peter Gunn - Henry Mancini · 1960: Music from The Sound of Music - Original Cast · 1961: Camelot - Original Cast · 1962: West Side Story - Soundtrack · 1963: West Side Story - Soundtrack · 1964: Music from Hello, Dolly! - Original Cast · 1965: Music from Mary Poppins - Soundtrack · 1966: Whipped Cream & Other Delights - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass · 1967: More of The Monkees - The Monkees · 1968: Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience · 1969: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly
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