Harry Belafonte (1927-2023) - 16 Top Tracks

 

Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was a Jamaican-American singer, actor and activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950's. His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.

Belafonte was best known for his recordings of "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)", "Jamaica Farewell", and "Mary's Boy Child". He recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He also starred in films such as Carmen Jones (1954), Island in the Sun (1957), and Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).

Belafonte considered the actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson a mentor, and he was a close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush and Donald Trump administrations. Belafonte acted as the American Civil Liberties Union celebrity ambassador for juvenile justice issues.

Belafonte won three Grammy Awards (including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award), an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. In 1989, he received the Kennedy Center Honors. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994. In 2014, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy's 6th Annual Governors Awards and in 2022 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Early Influence category.

1 Jamaica Farewell 3:00

2 Come Back Liza 3:05

3 Brown Skin Girl 2:45

4 Man Smart ( Woman Smarter ) 3:34

5 Day O 3:02

6 Water Boy 3:38

7 Scarlet Ribbons ( For Her Hair ) 3:12

8 Unchained Melody 3:20

9 Coconut Woman 3:15

10 Island In The Sun 3:21

11 Midnight Special 3:55

12 Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad 5:40

13 Michael Row The Boat Ashore 3:54

14 This Land Is Your Land 2:59

15 Come Away Melinda 2:24

16 My Old Print 3:23

Harry Belafonte - 16 Top Tracks

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries - Music from the Second Series

 

1 Greg J Walker*– Fan Dance Medley 3:00

2 Sam Lanin & His Orchestra– Too Busy 3:05

3 Duke Ellington– East St Louis Toodle-Oo 3:05

4 Kid Ory & His Creole Jazz Band*– Lil' Liza Jane 2:52

5 Doc Cook & His Dreamland Orchestra*– Spanish Mama 2:50

6 The Park Lane Orchestra*– I Don't Want Nobody But You 3:00

7 Ted Weems & His Orchestra*– My Baby Just Cares For Me 2:41

8 Jimmy Johnson & His Orchestra*– You've Got To Be Modernistic 3:02

9 Cab Calloway & His Orchestra*– Minnie The Moocher 3:15

10 Duke Ellington & His Orchestra*– Old Man Blues 3:04

11 King Oliver & His Orchestra– You Were Only Passing Time With Me 2:50

12 Cairo Club Orchestra– Bugle Call Rag 2:37

13 Ben Bernie & His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra*– Up And At 'Em 2:55

14 The New Orleans Wanderers*– Perdido Street Blues 2:58

15 Tuba Skinny– Jazz Battle 2:50

16 Harry James Angus– The Cider Song 2:02

17 Essie Davis And Greg J Walker*– Flamboyance 0:51

18 Harry James Angus– Let's Misbehave 1:36

19 Ted Lewis & His Orchestra*– The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise 3:18

Music from the Second Series

Dinah Shore – You And I

 

Dinah Shore (born Frances 'Fanny' Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality, and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1940's. She rose to prominence as a recording artist during the Big Band era. She achieved even greater success a decade later in television, mainly as the host of a series of variety programs for the Chevrolet automobile company.

After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman, and both Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own. She became the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo success. She had a string of eighty charted popular hits, spanning from 1940 to 1957, and after appearing in a handful of feature films, she went on to a four-decade career in American television. She starred in her own music and variety shows from 1951 through 1963 and hosted two talk shows in the 1970s. TV Guide ranked her at number 16 on their list of the top 50 television stars of all time. Stylistically, Shore was compared to two singers who followed her in the mid-to-late 1940s and early 1950s, Jo Stafford and Patti Page.

1 Who Told You I Cared? 2:53

2 I've Got My Eyes On You 2:27

3 Careless 3:06

4 Just A-Whistlin' And A-Whittlin' 3:00

5 Shake Down The Stars 2:58

6 The Nearness Of You 2:38

7 Yes My Darling Daughter 2:19

8 Down Argentina Way 2:26

9 Dinah's Blues 2:56

10 I Hear A Rhapsody 2:53

11 I Do, Do You 2:34

12 Honeysuckle Rose 2:41

13 Do You Care? 3:10

14 If It's You 3:14

15 Daisy Bell (On A Bicycle Built For Two 2:25

16 You And I 2:41

17 Chloe 3:04

18 Is It Taboo 2:40

19 I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) 2:39

20 Don't Leave Me Daddy 2:26

21 Everything I Love 2:56

22 Happy In Love 2:37

23 Sometimes 2:42

24 Blues In The Night 3:10

25 Sleepy Lagoon 2:50

26 Three Little Sisters 2:16

27 Manhattan Serenade 3:08

Dinah Shore – You And I