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An Entity of Type : wsb:Song, within Data Space : covidontheweb.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

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  • The Banana Boat Song
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  • Gramophone record
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  • jam
Subject
  • Bananas
  • Shirley Bassey songs
  • Number-one singles in Germany
  • RCA Records singles
  • 1957 singles
  • 1956 singles
  • Year of song unknown
  • Harry Belafonte songs
  • Calypso songs
  • Jamaican songs
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  • %22Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)%22 is a traditional Jamaican mento folk song; the best-known version was released by Jamaican-American singer Harry Belafonte in 1956 and later became one of his signature songs. That same year The Tarriers released an alternate version that incorporated the chorus of another Jamaican folk song, %22Hill and Gully Rider%22. The Tarriers version was later recorded by Shirley Bassey. Other recordings were made of the song in 1956-1957, as well as later. The song has mento influences, but %22Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)%22 was commonly classified as an example of the better known calypso music. It is a work song, 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.
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  • 5714dee225ac0d8aee4fadc6
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  • english
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  • RCA
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  • The Banana Boat Song
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