My favorite of Harry's will always be "Shake, Shake, Shake, Senora (Jump In The Line)".

@DioneN

2 жыл бұрын

Ok, I believe you!🙌🏻

@oldermusiclover

2 жыл бұрын

mine is Jamacian Farwell

@technomikelyons

Жыл бұрын

"Land Of The Sea And Sun" is another great one -- a very gentle ballad.

@victoria-elliott-batman

11 ай бұрын

​@@DioneNThis comment made me laugh 😂

@Iansco1

7 ай бұрын

Even more because all I see is teenage (At the time) Lydia Deetz (Wynona Ryder) dancing on wires.

Harry Belafonte is a legend who has been performing since the 50's-60's. One of the most successful Jamaican-American pop stars ever, who popularized the Caribbean calypso musical style. A lot of his songs tell stories. He has a lot of hits such as "Matilda", "Mama Look a Boo Boo", "Water Boy", "There's a Hole in My Bucket", "Hava Nagila", "Jamaica Farewell" etc. He was also a great actor who starred in many films.

@carolynmorrissey1630

2 жыл бұрын

Also I he was in the USA For Africa video

@Music_Lover26

2 жыл бұрын

Harry Belafonte is 94 years young and still a strong activist for human rights. He does a really beautiful Christmas song called Mary's Boy Child that you might enjoy. Great reaction!

@kahahana

2 жыл бұрын

Everything he sang was great . To bad you did not grow up hearing him sing . Love his voice . So sexy .

@ivangranger8494

2 жыл бұрын

Also, ‘Marianne,’ and Mary’s Boy Child.’ We can’t forget those!

@romeodias

Жыл бұрын

there is nothing Jamaican in Mr Belafonte cause he is american. you may thinking about the ties bnetween him and the other great namely Mr Sidney Poitier.

This was a really big hit. He's from Jamaica. He became very active in Civil Rights with MLK. He's still alive and very vocal.

@radicaladz

2 жыл бұрын

Technically he was born in Harlem, but his parents were indeed Jamaican, yes.

@janeilsley7702

2 жыл бұрын

His parents were Jamaican he was born in Harlem but has a child he spent several yrs in Jamaica

His accent is Jamaican, he was born in Harlem, New York but his parents were Jamaican. I really loved this song of his.

it basically is about the banana boats unloading the bananas the tally man would count up and give them a price then everyone gets to go home

Now your next mission is to go watch Beetlejuice ASAP. Once THAT iconic scene is in your head - you'll never get it out.

@ithilnin123

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I saw this comment because I was about to mention the same thing!! 💁🏻‍♀️

@3DJapan

2 жыл бұрын

But listen to Jump in the Line first, it was also in the movie.

@rosemarymagrino772

2 жыл бұрын

His music is all over that movie. Heck it’s the whole soundtrack!

@zenaaubrey2701

2 жыл бұрын

😂🤣 I'm surprised they didn't mention Beetlejuice 🍿🎥 movie. Or Lil Wayne track "6 foot 7 foot"

His daughter, Sheri Belafonte, was a popular TV actress in the 80s. Beautiful lady!! 💁🏻‍♀️

Along with this song, "Jump In Line" are probably his two most popular and well known songs.

@carladams5891

2 жыл бұрын

Probably from the movie Beetlejuice.

Yup, you're right again Mel, it's a working song about loading bananas on cargo boats. Mr Tally man tallied bananas by six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch. Yes he was easy on the eyes, I was in lust with Harry Belafonte. He was a singer, actor and Civil Rights activist and a close friend of Dr Martin Luther King. Wonderful man❤️

@deneepowell7377

2 жыл бұрын

AMEN 💜

@kiwiwannabe9189

2 жыл бұрын

Saw him in concert....TWICE!! Pure Bliss!

@brandiswain2186

2 жыл бұрын

He's still living

@kizzieward6441

Жыл бұрын

I literally been googling the meaning of the song and couldn’t find it anywhere but oddly found it here !!💯💯

@kizzieward6441

Жыл бұрын

@@brandiswain2186not anymore 😢

Harry introduced us American kids to the great sounds of the Caribbean back in the 50s. American pop groups were definitely influenced. The Beach Boys did a great version of Sloop John B, and three college folk singers named themselves the Kingston Trio. You really would have some fun with a great song called Israelite. Thanks for what you're doing.

@dagmar.6954

2 жыл бұрын

I think you are referring to Desmond Dekker's song "Israelites" which is done in a Jamaican reggae style.

@jaccilowe3842

2 жыл бұрын

@@dagmar.6954 Me Ears are Alight - as we used to say 🤣

@MCDreng

4 күн бұрын

The Kingston Trio were founded as primarily a calypso band in fact - that was what they wanted to make. But they included some other genres on their debut album (mostly American folk and then also inexplicably a Mexican song complete wirh "hilarious!" translation gags and an "even more hilarious!" Japanese accent joke in place of one verse's translation that rhey felt wasn't proper for 1950s US audiences.) well, Tom Dooley became a super hit and their producer told them "you're folk singers now, boys!" and they agreed because they knew how ahow biz worked

Once upon a time, the entire world was in love with Harry Belafonte.

@hannejeppesen1809

Ай бұрын

I happen to see him in New York City in 1969 I was living there and I was walking on the upper East Side, when across the street I saw some lights looked like something was being filmed. I was about to walk on, when someone said that is Harry Belafonte, I did a double take, and stayed, even from across the street he was very good looking. I knew of his music and acting before that.

Loved when they did the Banana Boat Dance on Beetlejuice lmao 😂😂😂. If you haven't seen it you should watch it, excellent movie 🍿

Mr. Belafonte was a Great Civil Right Activist and this song is about the work of Slaves in the West Indian Islands where the products were Bananas and Sugar Cane... So I think about it like the American Slaves singing in the Cotton Fields about running away in code; this song seems to be talking about the Day light being a relief from their burdens.... He is an amazing Man!

💖💖💖 You don't know our ''King of Calipso'', he was in the 50-60 and 70's very popular and had many hits, later he was Ambassador of UNICEF for the Children. He was born in New York, he had Hits as : Matilda (1953) Mary's Boy Child (1954) Banana Boat (Day-O) (1956) Mama Look A Boo Boo (1957) Jamaica Farewell (1957) Coconut Woman (1957) Island in the Sun (1957) Scarlet Ribbons (met Millard Thomas) (1957) Hole in the Bucket (met Odetta) (1961)

In answer to your question, Sean I believe that Harry's singing in a Jamaican accent

My Mama called Harry a heart throb. Another one she danced with us in the kitchen to. Mama loved kitchen dancing but mostly she loved all genre of music.

Harry Belafonte is an Jamaican American. He was a part of creating the “We Are The World” fundraising effort and was featured singing with the chorus in the music video. Please react to -The band/ The Staples “ The Weight” ( The Last Waltz) It’s an amazing song from the 70’s you’re love it!

@Rebel9668

2 жыл бұрын

I prefer The Band's "The Weight" on it's own. When I think of The Staple Singers it's always their song "I'll Take You There".

@victorcowboywest

2 жыл бұрын

Harry Belafonte was born in Harlem, N.Y. (3/1/1927)

@videocat1366

2 жыл бұрын

@@victorcowboywest You're right. I always forget that.

There is a hilarious scene in the movie Beetlejuice that features this song also. I love it, and I can't not see the scene when I hear it now. 😆

@kellyrose53

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! And the "black tarantula!" Part gets me every time🤣

Harry Belafonte is a true trailblazer. First black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. This song figures prominently in the wildly popular and super fun movie "Beetlejuice."

My mom had his album of island songs back when I was in grade school (the 50's). I would come home from school & this was one of the ablums that filled the house with such lovely music!

great tune was best in beetlejuice fantastic scene lol

@victoriataylor6741

2 жыл бұрын

Every time I hear this song, I see the scene from Beetlejuice in my head...lol

If you want a chain gang song, look no further than Sam Cooke's -Chain Gang-.

@oldermusiclover

2 жыл бұрын

true

This was the first song on his 1956 Calypso album, which was the first LP record album to sell over 1 million copies!

Harry is in the back row in the USA For Africa video standing next to Dan Aykroyd

Awww fond memories…. My parents played this album quite often & I still remember the lyrics~!!! ❤️

@groovygregsmith

7 ай бұрын

I hear you, x.

He’s singing about working the banana 🍌 fields and coming in with their pick and getting it counted up for their pay!!! Great song to work by!! Great reaction!!😻

He was so handsome and man could he act ! When we were kids if my mom was mad at us All we had to do is sing Shut Your Mouth Go Away Mama Look A Boo boo Day . It made her laugh every time . Magically we weren't in trouble any more !

The song is about the workers who pick the bananas, which is done at night, that is why they sing, "daylight come and me wanna go home". "Come Mr. Tally Man, tally me banana" ... The tally man was the one who kept count of the amounts of bananas that each person picked, so they could get paid for their work.

Y’all have me smiling from the beginning. I have always loved Harry Belefonte and this song especially. The looks on your faces are priceless. “Come, Mr. tally man. Tally me banana.

This tempo is designed for cadence. While singing/swaying to a certain rhythm, your body becomes comfortable during a certain task.... and it just plain sounds good...

Love you guys,I use to sing this at work when I had overtime and drive my coworkers friggin nuts, they used to yell shut the hell up and go home, worked every time,🤣🤣🤣😂,try it's works after 10 times on a row.

Another great one by Harry is All Day All Night Marianne and Jamaica Farewell. 👍👍💯❤️

Jamaica Farewell was always my favorite

It's like every working song or sea shanty. Keeps the same rhythm and beat going till a task is done. His is from where he originates from. I'd like to say every hard worker gains to appreciate down time from hard labour to drink Rum or Whisky. Historically some got more time than others, depending on which trade you worked in. These songs spark up in a 'type of humour' from the hardship that people went through back then to keep spirits up, even to today.

Harry Belafonte is Jamaican. He was a one of the most handsome Black actors in the '50-'60s. He was also a civil rights activist. His daughter Sharry Belafonte is an actress, as well.

@sim5247

2 жыл бұрын

Well, "black ", his parents already both of mixed origin.

My dad loved Harry Belafonte! This makes me think of my mothers father who I never knew, but he was a foreman on a banana plantation in British Honduras in the 1920's.

In our house we also love his christmas album, been listening to it for 50 plus years, and now my kids love him too.

spot on Mel, yes banana plantation workers. Yes easy on the eye, he was a movie actor also and he is has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and activist for human rights. Harry is still going at aged 94

Had a crush on Harry as a little kid and did a performance of hole in the bucket, turning side to side dressed as a half woman, half man, had everyone in fits of laughter at the brownies concert. But definitely give shake shake shake Senora a listen to as well.

Love Harry Thanks for sharing. ❤❤❤❤❤

Harold George Bellanfanti (Harry Belafonte) singer, songwriter, activist,and actor. Best known for "THE BANANA BOAT SONG". He has performed blues, folk,gospel and show tunes. Some of his movies: "CARMEN JONES "(1954) "ISLAND IN THE SUN"(1957) "BUCK AND THE PREACHER "(1972) "UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT "(1974) Was a confidant with Martin Luther King Jr. Has won Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and others. In 1989 he received the" KENNEDY CENTER HONORS ".

RIP Harry! Thanks for the great music.

My favorite is "Haitie Cherie", a beautiful song by him.

I especially loved his appearance on "The Muppet Show" singing this song ! Very funny, He's a Master entertainer !

Harry belafonte who sings Calypso by the way, you'll find a couple of his songs in the movie Beetlejuice so if you ever watch Beetlejuice towards the end when the girls dancing floating around that's Harry belafonte singing

Oh, we all went crazy for this song back in the 50's! That was the first we heard from Harry Belefonte, but not the last!

Love this song. My mother had a Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall live album. I nearly wore that album out! He is a great performer and great person in many other ways!

@lindawendt5372

2 жыл бұрын

My mom also had that live album. I got it on Apple Music, could listen to it eight days a week.

My favorite Belafonte has always been "Jamaica Farewell" and "Yellow Bird" and "Island in the Sun" and "Zombie Jamboree", but it's hard to go wrong with the King of Calypso.

@ikreer9777

2 жыл бұрын

"Zombie Jamboree" Thank you! My college pastor played guitar and used to sing that for fun. I remember it now and then but had no idea who originally sang it. Thank you!

This calypso song by Harry Belafonte was so popular when it came out in the late 50's that there was talk of calypso replacing rock and roll. Thank you guys for finding it.

Getting tickets for Belafonte concerts at the Greek theatre each summer were the hardest thing to do. Your whole summer was built around Harry's performance. Brings back memories.

Jamaican Farewell is one of the most beautiful song ever. Harry was a civil rights leader too . Still going strong.

I believe he's Jamaican. He's got a daughter named Sherri. She's done some media things.

@lamusiclover2264

2 жыл бұрын

She was a supermodel, one of the biggest for a number of years. She has also done some acting. She is gorgeous and looks just like her dad.

Singing about picking bananas 🍌 all day wheew 😓

Love, love, love 💕 Harry Belafonte. His songs told wonderful stories & really got people dancing. Harry is from Jamaica 🇯🇲 & when he first started he was a total star & very good looking & he is very involved in civil rights. Check out Jamaica Farewell, it’s one of my favourite songs by Mr. B

Thank you for this video. Harry Belafonte is a god amongst men. He bailed MLK out of prison with his own cash. He helped fund the We Are Africa movement. He is an absolute treasure. This entire album RIPS. HARD.

“Jamaica Farewell” and “Jump in the Line”…two of his massive hits!

@rayj1011

2 жыл бұрын

It was also used in the movie "Beetlejuice."

@oldermusiclover

2 жыл бұрын

love the first one especially the pretty guitar in it

You guessed exactly right that this was a work song, like the gandy dancers on the railroad or the sea chanties of the whalers. But Harry could sing anything... check out "Jamaica Farewell" and "Matilda" and "Island in the Sun"

Jamaican Farewell is a beautiful song by Harry Belafonte. His Christmas album is one of the best ever!!

Harry was born in Harlem, his parents were from the caribbean. Great song, but my personal favourites are Island in the sun and Lucy's door.

This song is so much fun…. Play this at parties 🎉

Thank y'all for connecting that song to that title. I did not know they were connected. Gentleman can SING! He is such a tremendous force for good. A true American and world treasure.

I recommend "Dark as a Dungeon (way down in the mine)" as sung by the genius Harry Belafonte. My wonderful parents took me to see him live when I was 12 or so.

The Jamaican dock workers loaded boats at night. "Dayo" was the call of the dock foreman to turn in their count sheets for their night's labor. They were paid by the number of bundles carried. Tarantulas liked to hide in banana bundles & would bite the workers causing loss of limbs & serious illness. Harry was an advocate for workers' rights, especially workers of marginalized minority groups.

Harry Belafonte is one of the GOATS. He has many hits and I remember watching him on TV when I was little.

Harry Belafonte was one of my Daddy's favorites. Harry's Christmas song Scarlet Ribbons always make think of him. It's a super sweet Daddy song.

He was in the back row, with no solo, We are the World.

My Aunt love Harry and she introduced his music to me and my sister's at an early age and we love it too this Day

Harry Belafonte was born in New York. His parents came from Jamaica. His mother was Scottish and Jamaican. His father Dutch and Jamaican. He also has Kids who are actors. He favored singing Caribbean music.

This legend is a guy from the 1950s 1960s he knew martin luther king jr personally and he was behind the we are the world 1984 song with lionel richie and michael jackson . The song he was doing was a slave song and it is as well a jamaican folk song as but he was doing it in patwa because his mom was born in 🇯🇲 but sadly he was born and raised in NY from 1932 to 1940 he was in 🇯🇲 with one of his grandmothers he is nickname king of calypso he is jamerican which is american born but 🇯🇲roots back in 1950s and 1960s he's known for having albums because he sang he is a actor and just wat I was saying above a civil rights leader

Hey you two,,,,,, It makes my day to see you enjoy all the music I grew up on. Born in September 1944 … I was born with music in my SOUL. I see you move like I have too…..with all music.. I hope you make it…..🥰💃💥😇🙏

Mr. Harry Belafonte was in the top row of the artists, near the back, on the video y'all reacted to, " We Are The World". He's an icon!!💝

Harry era un activista para los derechos humanos, un gran artista y ser humano

JUMP IN THE LINE!!! Favorite Harry Belafonte song next to this one. (Beetlejuice brought me here!)

Love this song!!

I live for your reactions. You are both amazing people and always bring joy to my day. You share positivity and always have fun in what you do. I love this song we used to sing on camps around the fire.

He is from the Caribbean. A legend most definitely. This is one of his best known songs.

Love Harry Belafonte - 94 years old - American singer, songwriter, activist, actor. When I was a young girl in the late sixties my parents had an old record player and only had about 4 LPs - One of them was Harry Belafonte - did not like the LP's - big band stuff - so I listened to his album non stop.

This was my favorite song when I was about 8 years old. I love it.

YAY! I grew up listening to him, and another band, The Island Boys. They were my mother's records. My kids and some of their friends danced to Harry around my livingroom coffee table. Some real gems on that album, like "Brown Skin Girl ", and one the kids got a kick out of, "The Jackass Song". (It was an excuse to say a "naughty" word😂)

Loved this song when I was a little girl. Then it was sung in Beetlejuice's famous dinner party. Gotta love it!

love the guitar he used on his recordings remember when he came to San Diego many years ago people were singing this while wandering in the parking lot on way home

The Caribbean they harvest at night while it was cooler then enjoy the Rum with bananas and pineapple and coconut yummy...love it. And his sweet family his daughter can sing too xoxo 😘💕💗

Harry Belafonte was very good looking, tall lots of charisma and great features check out some of his live performances. He was friends with Martin Luther King and I believe Robert F. Kennedy.

He is a singer, actor, civil rights activist and humanitarian, born in the U.S. with Jamaican parents. He won 3 Grammys which includes a lifetime achievement award, an Emmy, a Tony and awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994, plus humanitarian awards through out his life. He has a lot of work in music, tv and movies to delve into.

It is a work song, hard and a little dangerous too. very hard work, but great song , calypso , Harry Belafonte great singer. He has a another call Jamaican farewell or Jamica Farewell very touching song.

I can't believe you guys never watched Beetlejuice! Especially Shawn! I typically resent reactions like mine, but I really am surprised❣

I met Harry Belafonte 10 years ago! He signed my CD!

Want another song he is in that I just never see people reacting to. A song the as kids we happily learned and would sing around campfires and in the car, Look up Harry Belafonte & Odetta - A Hole in the Bucket (Live)

Got to see the scene from "Beetlejuice" where the song happens in the scene at the table. He was such a handsome man with a great voice.

I am a 71-year-old woman, and he absolutely is my first celebrity crush. He is a wonderful singer and is known for his active involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. If you are fans of Christmas music, check out his recordings of "Mary's Boychild" and "I Heard the Bells".

Harry was born in New York City in 1927. His parents were both immigrants from Jamaica.

So good and Harry had many hits. My mom owned one of his records and so I have heard this song among others that he recorded so many times .

Harry Belafonte produced in 1984 the Breakdance movie Beat Street. He performed togerher with the greek Star Mrs Nana Mouskouri. I think he even performed something with Caterina Valente. Same as Quincy Jones. Back then these artists dared more experiments and new projects.

I first heard this at our elementary school May Day Dance! I still, to this day, carefully check bananas for spiders.

This was the very first record I ever bought. It was an EP with about 6 songs on it including this one. Great stuff. Jamaican accent. This genre was called Calypso. This is what Harry was known for.

His album "Calypso" was recorded in 1956 and was the first album to sell 1 million worldwide. This was the biggest hit on the album. the album was #1 on billboard top 100 for 31 straight weeks. It is the #4 album all time. A monster hit.

i love the 3 funny parodies different cast members sang during 3 different married with children episodes

Jamaican/American singer, actor and activist. My late father loved his music. He appeared in We are the world. During a break the other singer's began singing this to Harry. So sweet. His daughter was an actress too. A true legend.

@cachickadee

2 жыл бұрын

He’s still alive at 94!

@eviekelpie1

2 жыл бұрын

@@cachickadee oh wow! Amazing. I better edit my comment. Thanks

@Giovanni_Litterini

Жыл бұрын

@@eviekelpie1 He's still kicking at 95

@eviekelpie1

Жыл бұрын

@@Giovanni_Litterini yes incredible

This song is a Jamaican song and he has a terrific Jamaican accent when he does Jamaican songs but what is also amazing is he can sing in Spanish Hebrew and Japanese as well as in plain ordinary English with no accent at all

As a kid, my fav calypso tune was a little ditty called "Pig Knuckles & Rice Tonight ( You Eat It Once & You Want It Twice)" BTW, Harry B. & M.J. (Jackson, not Jordan) were the primary organizers behind '85's " We Are the World" (USA for Africa) song, performed collaboratively by so many celebrities.