The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Island in the Sun
  3:25
• 2
  Cocoanut Woman
  3:21
• 3
  Scarlet Ribbons
  2:43
• 4
  Mama, Look a Boo-Boo
  2:53
• 5
  Man piaba
  3:32
• 6
  John Henry
  3:32
• 7
  Tol’ My Captain
  2:49
• 8
  Suzanne (Every Night When the Sun Goes Down)
  3:23
• 9
  Hold ’em Joe
  2:38
• 10
  I’m Just a Country Boy
  3:06
• 11
  Matilda, Matilda
  3:42
• 12
  In That Great Gettin’ Up Mornin’
  3:18
• 13
  Unchained Melody
  3:19
• 14
  Jump Down, Spin Around
  1:59
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Sylvie (Bring Me Little Water)
  5:22
• 16
  I Do Adore Her
  2:49
• 17
  Dolly Dawn
  3:16
• 18
  Come Back, Liza
  3:08
• 19
  Brown Skin Girl
  2:46
  5.0 ★
• 20
  Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
  3:36
• CD 2
• 1
  Jamaica Farewell
  3:07
• 2
  Try to Remember
  3:25
• 3
  Merci, bon dieu
  2:55
• 4
  Once Was
  2:58
• 5
  Hava nagila
  3:16
• 6
  Danny Boy
  5:27
• 7
  Shenandoah
  3:21
• 8
  Cu-Cu-Ru-Cu-Cu Paloma
  5:31
• 9
  Lucy’s Door
  3:44
• 10
  Cordelia Brown
  2:55
• 11
  Don’t Ever Love Me (Yellow Bird)
  2:50
• 12
  Haiti cherie
  3:19
• 13
  Judy Drownded
  3:28
• 14
  Angelique-O
  2:42
• 15
  Losing Hand
  4:20
• 16
  One for My Baby
  4:38
• 17
  Cotton Fields
  5:18
• 18
  God Bless the Child
  5:06
• 19
  Sinner’s Prayer
  3:43
• 20
  Bella Rosa
  3:23
• CD 3
• 1
  The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)
  3:06
• 2
  Mary’s Boy Child
  4:23
• 3
  There’s a Hole in My Bucket (live)

  Harry Belafonte with Odetta
  4:17
• 4
  The Son of Mary (Greensleeves)
  3:24
• 5
  Jump in the Line
  3:44
  4.0 ★
• 6
  All My Trials
  4:35
• 7
  Times Are Getting Hard, Boys
  3:31
• 8
  Turn Around
  2:24
• 9
  Go ’way From My Window
  3:08
• 10
  Delia’s Gone
  4:32
• 11
  Oh Freedom
  3:21
• 12
  Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
  4:00
• 13
  Look Over Yonder
  2:55
• 14
  Diamond Joe
  3:40
• 15
  Swing Dat Hammer
  4:40
• 16
  The Land of the Sea and Sun
  3:00
• 17
  The Midnight Special
  3:46
• 18
  Gotta Travel On
  4:21
• 19
  Long About Now
  4:01
• 20
  Bamotsweri

  Harry Belafonte with Miriam Makeba
  2:36

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Turn the World Around

Turn the World Around 1977

Pure Gold

Pure Gold 1975

An Evening With Belafonte / Mouskouri

An Evening With Belafonte / Mouskouri 1965

Jump Up Calypso

Jump Up Calypso 1961

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) / Jamaica Farewell

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) / Jamaica Farewell 1956

Calypso

Calypso 1956

Release credits

• Arman Stephanian
  choir vocals [13]
• Billy Stewart
  choir vocals [1.1, 2.12-13]
• Bob Bollard
  producer [5]
• Bob Sirapson
  engineer [5]
• Brock Peters
  choir vocals [2.12, 1.1]
• Charles Colman
  choir vocals [1.1, 2.12]
• Daniel Barrajanos
  congas [2.12-13, 1.1]
• Edward O. Welker
  producer [13]
• Ernest Calabria
  cuatro [5], guitar [5]
• Frantz Casséus
  guitar [1.1, 2.12]
• Gene Corman
  arranger [11]
• George Goodman
  choir vocals [13]
• George Guadagno
  drums (drum set) [13]
• Gilbert E. Adkins
  choir vocals [1.1, 2.12]
• Harold M. Jones
  flute [2.12-13, 1.1]
• Harold Samuel
  arranger [6]
• Harry Belafonte
  arranger [11, 14], lead vocals [1.1, 1.12, 2.12-13], vocal [3.3, 3.5, 3.12, 2.2, 2.9-11, 2.14, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5-8, 1.12-14, 1.17-20]
• Herbert Stubbs
  choir vocals [1.1, 2.12]
• Howard A. Roberts
  choir vocals [2.12, 1.1]
• Irving D. Barnes
  choir vocals [1.1, 2.12]
• Jack Eddleman
  choir vocals [13]
• James Eby
  choir vocals [13]
• James N. DeMeo
  flute [2.12, 1.1]
• Joe Carlton
  producer [2.12, 1.1]
• Joe N. Kenyon
  choir vocals [2.12, 1.1]
• Joe Venuto
  marimba [1.1, 2.12]
• Joe Wilder
  trumpet [1.1, 2.12]
• John Gonsalves
  choir vocals [13]
• John Nielsen
  choir vocals [1.1, 2.12-13]
• Joseph Crawford
  choir vocals [13]
• Ken Emery
  choir vocals [13]
• Lawrence Gellert
  arranger [13]
• Leon Bibb
  choir vocals [1.1, 2.12]
• Lord Burgess
  choir vocals [2.12, 1.1]
• Marvin Hayes
  choir vocals [1.1, 2.12]
• Millard Thomas
  guitar [2.12-13, 1.1, 1.5-7, 3.5]
• Milt Okun
  arranger [11]
• Ned Wright
  choir vocals [13]
• Noah Rodriguez
  bongos [1.1, 2.12]
• Norman Keenan
  bass [5], double bass [1.1, 2.12-13]
• Odetta
  vocal [3]
• Paul Westbrook
  choir vocals [13]
• Ralph Hunter
  chorus master [5], conductor [5]
• Robert De Cormier
  conductor [2.12-13, 1.1]
• Robert Haring
  percussion [13]
• Rodester Timmons
  choir vocals [2.12, 1.1]
• Roy Thompson
  choir vocals [1.1, 2.12]
• Samuel R. McCurry
  choir vocals [2.12, 1.1]
• Sherman Sneed
  choir vocals [13]
• Stephen Harbachick
  choir vocals [2.12, 1.1]
• The Norman Luboff Choir
  choir vocals [12, 14]
• Trinidad Steel Drum Band
  performer [5]
• Victor Messer
  guitar [2.12-13, 1.1]
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  The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection

  3x CD
  29 September 2017