Calypso (CD)

By mixing it with folk and pop, Harry Belafonte brought calypso music to a worldwide audience in the early 1960s, with huge hits like "The Banana Boat Song" and "Jamaica Farewell." He was the first solo artist to sell more than a million copies of a 33 RPM album, and in addition to his enormously successful recording career, Belafonte also found favor as an actor on stage and screen. Perhaps most importantly, throughout his life Belafonte has been a tireless political activist and spokesman for human rights, and has done as much as any entertainer to help make the world a better place, both with his music and his political efforts.

• Category:  Music  »  Pop Vocal  »  Classic Pop Vocals
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: April 28, 1992
• Label: RCA Records (USA)
• UPC: 078635380125
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106720968
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #12493 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #402 in Pop Vocal (See Top 100 Pop Vocal Bestsellers)
• #119 in Classic Pop Vocals (See Top 100 Classic Pop Vocals Bestsellers)

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Personnel includes: Harry Belafonte (vocals); Millard Thomas (guitar); Tony Scott & His Orchestra.

Producers: Herman Diaz, Jr., E.O. Welker, Joe Reisman, Henri Rene.

Reissue producer: Chick Crumbpacker.

Includes liner notes by William Attaway.

Digitally remastered by Dick Baxter (1992, BMG Recording Studios, New York, New York).

Belafonte's third and most successful chart album was full of the kind of folksy and calypso-style songs that made him one of the show business sensations of the late 1950s. Two of them, "The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)" and "Jamaica Farewell", were hit singles as well. The album itself spent 72 weeks in the US Top 40, 31 of them at #1, and made history by becoming the first 33 1/3 rpm LP by a solo artist to sell a million copies.

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