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     Beetlejuice - Day-o (Banana Boat Song)

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     BeetleJuice (1988) - Day-O (Banana Boat Song) #1080p

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     BEETLEJUICE - (Day-O) The Banana Boat Song By Harry Belafonte | Warner Bros.

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   Song: Harry Belafonte - Day-o (Banana Boat Song) Movie: Beetlejuice (1988) Watch FULL HD 1080p version: • Beetlejuice - Day-O (FULL HD) Lyrics: Day-o, Day-ay-ay-o Daylight come and me...

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   Watch the iconic scene from BeetleJuice where the guests sing and dance to the Banana Boat Song by Belafonte in HD.

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   Mar 18, 2012 · Harry Belafonte - Beetlejuice - Banana Boat Song - Day O. mrblue123456781. 3K subscribers. Subscribed. 16K. 2.2M views 11 years ago. Banana Boat Song (Day O) Harry Belafonte...

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6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Day-O_(The_Banana_Boat_Song)Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) - Wikipedia

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   The lyrics describe how daylight has come, their shift is over, and they want their work to be counted up so that they can go home. The best-known version was released by American singer Harry Belafonte in 1956 (originally titled "Banana Boat (Day-O)") and later became one of his signature songs.

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   Apr 26, 2023 · Perhaps the first thing most people think of when they hear “Banana Boat (Day-O)” is the iconic scene in the 1988 Halloween classic, Beetlejuice. In the scene, the two ghostly main characters...

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   Where can I stream Banana Boat Song (Day-O) by Harry Belafonte?

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   Who wrote Banana Boat (Day-O)?

   • Belafonte got a hold of the song during an appearance on the Colgate Comedy Hour in 1955. Songwriters Lord Burgess and William Attaway re-wrote some of the lyrics to “Banana Boat (Day-O)” for the show, which the audience immediately gravitated toward. Belafonte then recorded the rewritten version for his breakthrough album Calypso.

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   Who wrote banana boat & Gully Rider?

   • The best-known version was released by American singer Harry Belafonte in 1956 (originally titled "Banana Boat (Day-O)") and later became one of his signature songs. That same year the Tarriers released an alternative version that incorporated the chorus of another Jamaican call and response folk song, "Hill and Gully Rider".

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   Why is Banana Boat (Day-O) a call-and-response song?

   • There, he learned the tradition of the call-and-response work song. Tunes like “Banana Boat (Day-O)” were meant to be started by one worker and repeated by the rest in refrains to make the work day less mundane. “Banana Boat (Day-O)” is said to have originated around the turn of the 20th century in Jamaica.

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