The Essential Harry Belafonte

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Midnight Special
  3:57
• 2
  Island in the Sun
  3:23
• 3
  Zombie Jamboree (Back to Back)
  3:20
• 4
  Delia
  3:39
• 5
  Cocoanut Woman
  3:22
• 6
  Danny Boy (Live)
  5:21
• 7
  Jamaica Farewell
  3:03
  4.8 ★
• 8
  Turn the World Around
  4:29
• 9
  The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

  Harry Belafonte & Lena Horne
  4:07
• 10
  Cu Cu Ru Cu Cu Paloma
  5:30
• 11
  I'm Just a Country Boy
  3:05
• 12
  Venezuela
  2:58
• 13
  Hava Nageela
  3:10
• 14
  Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)
  2:46
• 15
  Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
  2:34
• 16
  Shenandoah
  3:46
• 17
  Angelina
  3:56
  5.0 ★
• 18
  Matilda
  3:13
• 19
  Empty Chairs
  5:20
• 20
  Jump in the Line
  4:22
• CD 2
• 1
  Jerry (This Timber Got to Roll)
  2:19
• 2
  Waly Waly
  4:44
• 3
  In That Great Gettin' Up Mornin'
  3:18
• 4
  Cotton Fields (live)
  4:29
• 5
  And I Love You So
  4:41
• 6
  Those Three Are on My Mind
  3:47
• 7
  Goin' Down Jordan
  5:37
• 8
  Abraham, Martin and John
  4:22
• 9
  On Top of Old Smokey
  5:59
• 10
  My Lord What a Mornin'
  4:29
• 11
  Jump Down, Spin Around
  2:00
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Mary's Boy Child
  4:23
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Mama Look a Boo Boo (live)
  5:18
• 14
  (There's a) Hole in the Bucket
  8:49
• 15
  Take My Mother Home
  5:55
• 16
  Try to Remember
  4:08
• 17
  Banana Boat Song (Day O) (live)
  3:48

More by Harry Belafonte

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

• Al Hall
  double bass [7]
• Albertine M. Robinson
  vocal [1.8, 2.14]
• Arthur Williams III
  vocal [2.14, 1.8]
• Babe Clarke
  alto saxophone [1.8, 2.14]
• Babi Floyd
  vocal [2.14, 1.8]
• Betty Volenec
  vocal [1.8, 2.14]
• Billy Stewart
  choir vocals [2]
• Bob Bollard
  producer [17]
• Bob Sirapson
  engineer [17]
• Brian Moore
  keyboard [2.14, 1.8]
• Brock Peters
  choir vocals [2]
• Charles Colman
  choir vocals [2]
• Claudio Roditi
  trumpet [2.14, 1.8]
• Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
  vocal arranger [1.8, 2.14]
• Daniel Barrajanos
  congas [2]
• Danny Cahn
  trumpet [1.8, 2.14]
• Dom Salvador
  keyboard [2.14, 1.8], orchestrator [2.14, 1.8]
• Dom Um Romão
  percussion [1.8, 2.14]
• Edward O. Welker
  producer [7]
• Ernest Calabria
  cuatro [17], guitar [17]
• Falumi Prince
  percussion [1.8, 2.14], solo [14], vocal [14]
• Francisco Centeno
  bass guitar [1.8, 2.14]
• Frank Floyd
  vocal [1.8, 2.14]
• Frantz Casséus
  guitar [2, 7]
• Fred Jacobs
  trumpet [1.8, 2.14]
• Gilbert E. Adkins
  choir vocals [2]
• Gloria Agostini
  harp [2.14, 1.8]
• Gloria Turner
  vocal [1.8, 2.14]
• Hal Archer
  alto saxophone [1.8, 2.14], flute [2.14, 1.8]
• Harold M. Jones
  flute [2]
• Harry Belafonte
  lead vocals [1.2, 1.8, 2.3, 2.14], producer [1.8, 2.14], vocal
• Herbert Stubbs
  choir vocals [2]
• Hilda Harris
  vocal [1.8, 2.14]
• Howard A. Roberts
  choir vocals [2]
• Howard Johnson
  tuba [1.8, 2.14]
• Irving D. Barnes
  choir vocals [2]
• James N. DeMeo
  flute [2]
• Joe Carlton
  producer [2]
• Joe N. Kenyon
  choir vocals [2]
• Joe Venuto
  marimba [2]
• Joe Wilder
  trumpet [2]
• John Nielsen
  choir vocals [2]
• Jorge Renan
  guitar [2.14, 1.8]
• Jose Rodrigues
  trombone [2.14, 1.8]
• Keith Loving
  guitar [2.14, 1.8]
• Kelly Martin
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Kurt Munkacsi
  sound [1.8, 2.14]
• Lani Groves
  vocal [1.8, 2.14]
• Larry Campbell
  vocal [1.8, 2.14]
• Lena Horne
  vocal [9]
• Leon Bibb
  choir vocals [2]
• Leopoldo Pineda
  trombone [2.14, 1.8]
• Lord Burgess
  choir vocals [2], guitar [7]
• Maeretha Stewart
  vocal [2.14, 1.8]
• Marvin Hayes
  choir vocals [2]
• Mauricio Smith
  alto saxophone [2.14, 1.8], flute [1.8, 2.14]
• Melvin Edmondson
  vocal [1.8, 2.14]
• Michael Tobas
  drums (drum set) [1.8, 2.14]
• Millard Thomas
  guitar [2, 7, 17]
• Milton Grayson
  vocal [2.14, 1.8]
• Naná Vasconcelos
  percussion [2.14, 1.8]
• Noah Rodriguez
  bongos [2]
• Norman Keenan
  bass [17], double bass [2, 7]
• Pamela Kordan
  vocal [1.8, 2.14]
• Ralph Hunter
  chorus master [17], conductor [17]
• Randy Peyton
  vocal [1.8, 2.14]
• Robert De Cormier
  conductor [2]
• Rodester Timmons
  choir vocals [2]
• Roy Thompson
  choir vocals [2]
• Samuel R. McCurry
  choir vocals [2]
• Scott Kuney
  guitar [1.8, 2.14]
• Stephen Harbachick
  choir vocals [2]
• Steve Thornton
  bongos [2.14, 1.8], congas [1.8, 2.14]
• The Norman Luboff Choir
  choir vocals [3, 11]
• Thelmo M. Porto
  percussion [1.8, 2.14]
• Trinidad Steel Drum Band
  performer [17]
• Ullanda McCullough
  vocal [1.8, 2.14]
• Victor Messer
  guitar [2]
• Vishek Woszczyk
  mix [1.8, 2.14]
• Vivian Cherry
  vocal [2.14, 1.8]
• William Eaton
  arranger [2, 6], conductor [2, 6]
• Yvonne Lewis
  vocal [1.8, 2.14]
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  The Essential Harry Belafonte

  2x CD
  4 October 2005