Released 2012 Producer Nedra Olds-Neal Release date 2012 Genre Calypso music | Length 52:21 Artist Harry Belafonte Label Lumi OMP | |
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The Very Best of Harry Belafonte is a compilation album by Harry Belafonte, released by Legacy Records in 2012. It includes fourteen of his best-known songs released from 1956 through 1966.
Contents
Track listing
- "Man Smart (Woman Smarter) (Live)" - 4:29 - (King Radio (Norman Span))
- "Mama Look a Boo Boo (Live)" - 5:17 - (Lord Melody)
- "Jamaica Farewell" - 3:03 - (Lord Burgess (Irving Burgie))
- "My Angel (Malaika)", duet with Miriam Makeba 3:17 - (Fadhili William)
- "Try to Remember" duet with William Eaton - 4:06 - (Tom Jones, Harry Schmidt)
- "Island in the Sun" - 3:23 - (Belafonte, Burgess)
- "Matilda" - 3:14 - (Span)
- "Jump in the Line" - 4:23 - (Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts))
- "A Hole In the Bucket (Live)", duet with Odetta (Holmes) - 4:30 - (Traditional)
- "Suzanne (Every Night When the Sun Goes Down)" - 3:13 - (Belafonte, Millard J Thomas)
- "Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)" - 2:46 - (Jack Segal, Evelyn Danzig)
- "Cocoanut Woman" - 3:22 - (Belafonte, Burgess)
- "Shenandoah" - 3:46 - (Traditional)
- "Banana Boat Song (Day-O) (Live)" - 3:48 - (Traditional; arranged by Belafonte, Burgess & William Attaway)
Personnel
Songs
1Jamaica Farewell (Live)4:00
2Matilda Matilda3:55
3Sylvie5:11
References
The Very Best of Harry Belafonte (2012) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA