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The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)" is a 1968 pop song, which was the theme song for the children's television program The Banana Splits Adventure Hour. [1] Originally released by Decca Records on the album titled We're the Banana Splits , the single release peaked at No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100 on February 8, 1969, [ 2 ] and No ...
The group formed from a collection of folk singers who performed regularly at Washington Square in New York City during the mid-1950s, including Erik Darling and Bob Carey. [1] "Eventually it became the Tarriers, with Bob, me, Karl Karlton and Alan Arkin," Darling told Wayne Jancik in The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders. According to Darling ...
Lil Wayne's 2010 song "6 Foot 7 Foot" (featuring Cory Gunz) from his album Tha Carter IV samples and derives its title from "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)". [18] The Conkarah song "Banana", released in 2019 by S-Curve Records, with contributions from Shaggy, samples largely and is an adaptation of the Harry Belafonte original. [19]
The song, a single attributed to The Banana Splits, peaked at #96 on Billboard's Top 100 in February 1969. [8] The version included on the We're The Banana Splits album is the same heard at the beginning of the show, while the single version is an entirely different arrangement and recording, with an additional verse.
"Banana Republic" was the first single from The Boomtown Rats' album Mondo Bongo. [1] It peaked at number three in the UK Singles Chart. [5] Breaking from the band's previous new wave sound, the song opens with a ska-reggae hook (that repeats at the close of the much longer album version). [6] However, the song itself is a more mainstream piece ...
The banana song may refer to: The Name Game , an American popular music song as a rhyming game that creates variations on a person's name. Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) , a traditional Jamaican folk song from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships.
The first track "Day-O (Banana Boat Song)" largely contributed to the success of the album and has long been Belafonte's signature song, the single reaching number five on Billboard's Pop chart. "Star-O", the sixth track on the album (and B side of the "Day-O" single), is essentially a shorter reprise of "Day-O", with slightly different lyrics.
Written by American singer Shirley Ellis (who based the song on a game she played as a child [3]) and Lincoln Chase. Ellis's recording, produced by Charles Calello, was released in late 1964 as "The Name Game". The record scored third on the Billboard Hot 100, and fourth on the magazine's R&B charts during 1965. The record was re-released in ...