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Released
  
1960

Length
  
37:25

Swing Dat Hammer (1960)
  
Jump Up Calypso (1961)

Release date
  
1960

Genre
  
Folk music

Recorded
  
1960

Producer
  
Bob Bollard

Artist
  
Harry Belafonte

Label
  
RCA Victor

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Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording

Similar
  
Harry Belafonte albums, Folk music albums

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Swing Dat Hammer is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor (LPM/LSP-2194) in 1960. It is a collection of chain gang work songs. The last cut is a collection of workmen conversations.

Contents

At the Grammy Awards of 1961 Swing Dat Hammer won the Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording.

Here rattler here


Track listing

  1. "Look Over Yonder" – 2:51
  2. "Bald Headed Woman" – 3:30
  3. "Grizzly Bear" – 3:27
  4. "Diamond Joe" (Belafonte) – 3:36
  5. "Here Rattler Here" – 3:57
  6. "Another Man Done Gone" (Vera Hall, Alan Lomax, John Lomax, Ruby Pickens Tartt) – 2:21
  7. "Swing Dat Hammer " – 4:38
  8. "Go Down Old Hannah" – 3:47
  9. "Rocks and Gravel" – 4:10
  10. "Talkin' an' Signifyin' " – 5:08

Personnel

  • Harry Belafonte – vocals
  • The Belafonte Folk Singers – vocals
  • Millard Thomas – guitar
  • Robert De Cormier – conductor

    • Songs

    1Look Over Yonder2:51
    2Bald Headed Woman3:30
    3Grizzly Bear3:27

    References

    Swing Dat Hammer Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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