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“Day-O” is so suffused with joy and pathos—that age-old human mishmash—that almost anybody with an actively beating heart sounds awesome singing it. Incredibly, in 1957, five more artists made it onto the U.S. Top Forty with their versions. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/harry-belafonte-and-the-social-power-of-song
@estherschindler The Banana Boat Song. One of my favorites.