In their 1994 album, the comedy music group Grup Vitamin included a Turkish cover of the song parodying the macho culture in the country.
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The song became a nationwide hit, and a promotional video for the song had been recorded. The Serbian comedy rock band the Kuguars, consisting of famous Serbian actors, covered the song in 1998, with lyrics in Serbian dedicated to the, at the time, Yugoslav national soccer team player Dejan "Dejo" Savićević.
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In one rare occurrence, Trio and Harry Belafonte appeared in the same TV show, Bio's Bahnhof, in 1982, with the latter watching Trio's act in disbelief. German band Trio performed a parody where "Bommerlunder" (a German schnapps) substituted the words "daylight come" in the 1980s.It reaches the conclusion that if the bananas weren't bent they wouldn't fit into their peels. This song asks repetitively why bananas are bent. Dutch comedian André van Duin released his version in 1972 called Het bananenlied: the banana song.In 1959 the Italian singer Gino Latilla sings a version in Neapolitan entitled 'E banane (Bananas), text by Carla Boni ( Cetra, SP 57).Not one, not two, but three things in it chocolatey biscuit and a toffee taste too." Stan Freberg's version was the basis for the jingle for the TV advert for the UK chocolate bar Trio from the mid-1980s to the early to mid-1990s, the lyrics being, "Trio, Trio, I want a Trio and I want one now. Freberg's version was popular and received much radio airplay Harry Belafonte reportedly disliked the parody. When he hears the lyric about the "deadly black taranch-la" (actually the highly venomous Brazilian wandering spider, commonly dubbed "banana spider"), the beatnik protests, "No, man! Don't sing about spiders, I mean, oooo! like I don't dig spiders". "Banana Boat (Day-O)" a parody by Stan Freberg, released in 1957 by Capitol Records, features ongoing disagreement between an enthusiastic Jamaican lead singer and a bongo-playing beatnik (Peter Leeds) who "don't dig loud noises" and has the catchphrase "You're too loud, man".It charted to number 13 in the US in 1957. The Fontane Sisters mimicked the Tarriers version in a recording of the song for Dot Records in 1956.The Tarriers, or some subset of the three members of the group ( Erik Darling, Bob Carey and Alan Arkin, later better known as an actor) are sometimes credited as the writers of the song their version combined elements of another song and was thus newly created. The Tarriers' version was recorded by Shirley Bassey in 1957 and it became a hit in the United Kingdom.
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This release became their biggest hit, reaching number four on the pop charts, where it outperformed Belafonte's version. They recorded a version of that song that incorporated the chorus of "Hill and Gully Rider", another Jamaican folk song. During recording, when asked for its title, Harry spells, "Day Done Light".Īlso in 1956, folk singer Bob Gibson, who had traveled to Jamaica and heard the song, taught his version to the folk band the Tarriers. Side two of Belafonte's 1956 Calypso album opens with "Star O", a song referring to the day shift ending when the first star is seen in the sky. Belafonte recorded the song for RCA Victor and this is the version that is best known to listeners today, as it reached number five on the Billboard charts in 1957 and later became Belafonte's signature song. In 1955, American singer-songwriters Lord Burgess and William Attaway wrote a version of the lyrics for The Colgate Comedy Hour, in which the song was performed by Harry Belafonte. Belafonte based his version on Connor's 1952 and Louise Bennett's 1954 recordings. The song was first recorded by Trinidadian singer Edric Connor and his band Edric Connor and the Caribbeans on the 1952 album Songs From Jamaica the song was called "Day Dah Light".