RIP King of Calypso
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A life well lived
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I think that one of my earliest memories is hearing the banana boat song on two way family favourites.
Must have been about three or four at the time.
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RIP
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Apparently (according to Simon Mayo)
Day O / The banana boat song is Track one Side one of the first ever million selling album Calypso
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As a young child who had just been allowed to use his father’s record player, I fondly recall playing his copy of the ‘Mary’s Boy Child’ EP. R.I.P. Mr. Belafonte. Yours was a life well and purposefully lived.
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His appearance on The Muppets was my childhood introduction. A fantastic episode and what an entertainer.
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I recall this episode.
His popularity reached a new generation when his songs were featured in the film Beetlejuice.
I think of Banana boat(Day-O) more than the movie
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Many fond memories. The songs mentioned above from that inherited record which gets played at intervals. My parents also had a copy of Carmen Jones which was played regularly. I remember that and his activism throughout his life. May he walk in peace.
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Great LP with Harry’s voice beautifully captured.
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His political activism was also significant and praiseworthy (IMO), especially in the civil rights movement and for UNICEF.
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