On the Just Dance Now notification, Harry Belafonte is credited as the artist. From The Muppet Show 314 - Harry BelafonteNeeded to trim this to get it uploaded. The extra sound effects from the Just Dance Kids 2014 version are removed in the remake. 
However, it is available on Just Dance Now and Just Dance 2018 in Kids Mode.
It is a call and response work song, from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships. The song has mento influences, but it is commonly classified as an example of the better known calypso music.
An avatar for the routine can be found in the Just Dance Unlimited files, but it cannot be unlocked. 'Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)' is a traditional Jamaican folk song. The routine’s skeleton theme is likely a reference to the fact the song was featured in the film Beetlejuice. Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) is the oldest song on Just Dance Kids 2014. Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) was referenced by Ubisoft on the ESRB label of Just Dance Kids 2014, in wich the following lyric was cited "Work all night on a drink a' rum". Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) is the second song by Harry Belafonte in the franchise, after Jump in the Line ( Just Dance 2). Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) Act I Finale Lyrics: Business friends: I have only known this amazing, amazing man and his unique daughter for a few monthsI don't even know how many, I'd have to. Around the time of Freberg’s heyday, Harry Belafonte contributed his “Day-O” (a/k/a “The Banana Boat Song”) to the library of pop-music earworms:įreberg accepts the song’s virtues at face value as I said, the guy really could perform.Gold Move in-game Appearances in Playlistsĭay-O (The Banana Boat Song) is featured in the following playlists: These little three(ish)-minute gems of artistic melodrama tended to conclude with hurt feelings, slammed doors, or worse. I bet THAT made for some interesting sessions in the studio…! The classic Stan Freberg musical piece featured a nearly note-for-note reproduction of some popular song… and a performer openly at explosive loggerheads with his accompanists or studio technicians. It was almost as though he’d at some point heard Song X, Y, or Z, and thought: Wow. DayO (Banana Boat Song) Lyrics by Harry Belafonte from the Classic Original Recordings Presents: The Ultimate Collection album - including song video. Harry Belafonte originally recorded Banana Boat (Day-O) written by Bill Attaway, Irving Burgie and Traditional and Harry Belafonte released it on the. Stan Freberg - the comedian, writer, all-around wizard of words and pop culture who flourished on radio and television in the 1950s-60s - seemed to specialize in a particular form of not-quite-parody: poking fun at the process by which recordings are made in the first place. (I guess from a certain perspective, even the work of this group - contemporary songs performed in old-fashioned styles - could be considered parody.) Is it the melody? the lyrics? a particular performer, or even a specific performance? The humor seems to rely strictly on the upending of expectations: we have to know the song to get the joke, and we have to know it well enough to recognize what’s been changed. Still…)Īnyhow, parody may be unique among the various forms of satire in that we can’t always tell what’s being made fun of. I mean, I know Dylan has great respect for old music. The best-known version was released by Jamaican singer Harry Belafonte in 1956 (originally titled Banana Boat (Day-O)) and later became one of his signature. 
(Talk about a whiplash response when I read that little tidbit. Apparently though, the intention isn’t always to induce laughter, especially when it comes to lifting music from old folk songs and like sources:īob Dylan took the tune of the old slave song “No more auction block for me” as the basis for “Blowin’ in the Wind.” Usually (as the ‘pedia points out) this is done with humorous intention - think Weird Al Yankovic - and that’s what this post is about. Wikipedia’s got an interesting article on the musical parody genre: “borrowing” the lyrics or music of existing songs, and recasting them with different music or lyrics, respectively.
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