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Digitally remastered by Dick Baxter (1992, BMG Recording Studios, New York, New York).
Belafonte's third and most successful chart album was full of the kind of folksy and calypso-style songs that made him one of the show business sensations of the late 1950s. Two of them, "The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)" and "Jamaica Farewell", were hit singles as well. The album itself spent 72 weeks in the US Top 40, 31 of them at #1, and made history by becoming the first 33 1/3 rpm LP by a solo artist to sell a million copies.
Includes liner notes by William Attaway.
Live Recording
Reissue producer: Chick Crumbpacker.
Personnel includes: Harry Belafonte (vocals); Millard Thomas (guitar); Tony Scott & His Orchestra.
Producers: Herman Diaz, Jr., E.O. Welker, Joe Reisman, Henri Rene.
Calypso Music | List Price | $7.99 (You save $0.40) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, International CDs, R&B, Rap, Easy Listening, Vocal, Contemporary Blues, Nostalgia, Calypso | | Label | RCA | | Orig Year | 1956 | | All Time Sales Rank |  8441  | | CD Universe Part number | 1111381 | | Catalog number | 53801 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 28, 1992 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Mono | | Personnel | Harry Belafonte - vocals
Harry Belafonte - vocals
Henri Rene - 1992, BMG Recording Studios, New York, New York
Millard Thomas - guitar
Francis L. "Joe" Howard
E.O. Welker
Tony Scott & His Orchestra.
Producers: Herman Diaz Jr.
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