#Day o banana boat song upgrade#

Please consider this before you buy vintage records to play on your budget record player. It is a song from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships. If you are playing on a low quality player (such as Crosley) or one that needs calibrated, you may experience excessive noise or skipping on even the slightest imperfection. 'Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)' is a traditional Jamaican folk song, the best-known version of which was sung by Harry Belafonte and is the most well-known calypso. That being said, Six Degrees of Toto play tests records on a high quality vintage Technics player that has been weight-adjusted. Sometimes surface wear, scuffs, and hairline scratches cause background noise or distortion, and this will be noted in the description and the record will be graded and priced accordingly. Day-o, day-ay-ay-o Daylight come and he wan go home Day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day-ay-ay-o Daylight come and he wan go home Work all night on a drink arum (Daylight come and he wan go home) Stack banana till morning come (Daylight come and he wan go home) Come, Mr.

#Day o banana boat song upgrade#

USPS Media Mail or upgrade to Priority Mail at checkout.Īll records are inspected and Six Degrees of Toto aims to only list records that will play through without skipping. Will be shipping in a record mailer with a cardboard insert for protection. TERMS OF SALE: Record has been cleaned and is in a new clear poly sleeve for protection. Outer sleeve has only very light wear and the color is vivid and bright. Vinyl is in gorgeous glossy condition, especially for its age. From the Album Very Best Of Harry Belafonte Janu4.8 out of 5 stars 234 ratings. Feature's the hits 'Day-O (Banana Boat Song),' 'Jamaica Farewell,' and 'Man Smart (Woman Smarter).' Lyrics Refrain C F C Day-o, day-o G7 C Daylight come me wanna go home F Dm G Day, me say day, me say day, me say day F C Me say day, me say day-o G7 C Daylight come me wanna go home Verse C G7 Work all night on a drink of rum C G7 C Daylight come me wanna go home C G7 Stack banana till de morning come C G7 Daylight come me wanna go home C G7 Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana C G7 C. Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) Harry Belafonte. The first LP to ever sell ever one million records. Just one phrase, the cry of Day-o, elicits an automatic smile for Belafonte's most beloved classic, Banana Boat Song. 1 Banana Boat and Other Famous Folk Songs The Collection Golden Records, Vol.Classic 1956 album by Harry Belafonte. So Chiquita came out with the Carmen Miranda based woman with a bowl of fruit on her head singing happily and bring you beautiful fresh fruit!ĭay-O & Other Hits Legendary Performer Calypso An Evening with Harry Belafonte & Friends 24 X Harry Belefonte All Time Greatest Hits, Vol. This is NOT a 'happy worker' song, it was a protest of the working conditions of the Chiquita Banana Plantations! So when you go to the grocery store and buy a 'bunch' of banana's you are typically buying only one sixth or one eighth of 2 haan's of banana's because they always pull the blossom apart into manageable and box-able bunches that are only 2 haan's each (because a single haan would not hold together as a bunch and a bunch with 3 haan would be unmanageable and would not colour out well for the middle haan as banana's are picked green and ripen on the boat coming to you.)Īlso this song is about the banana pickers and how they were used, abused, and treated like slaves. Listen to Banana Boat (Day-O) on the English music album 250 Greatest Hits of All Time by Harrry Belafonte, only on JioSaavn. (In North America people grow them as 'Elephant Ear Plants' because they never bloom!)

The fruit people eat is the blossom of a tropical flowering plant. Banana's grow in the 'up' position not hanging down. A 'Haan' is and actual count of the layers of the banana's in the blossom. The term is 'Haan' not 'hand' a 'hand' is a measurement used for the height of a horse at the shoulders. Work all night on a drink of rum Daylight come and me wan go home Stack banana till de mornin come Daylight come and me wan go home. General CommentThis version has at least closest to the right word for the measure of the banana's! Day-o, day-o Daylight come and me wan go home Day, me say day, me say day, me say day Me say day, me say day-o Daylight come and me wan go home. Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch