Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Blame Fixer...

I like Harry Belafonte's Jamaica Farewell (wiki*), I really do, and I remember it from my younger days when it was a big hit for him, but it's awfully white bread, even for Calypso which is a heckuva lot older and more laid-back genre than Reggae.

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In his album "My Son the Folk Singer," Allan Sherman included a parody of the song: "I'm upside down, my head is turning around, because I gotta sell the house in Levittown!"

Well, OK, not that white bread! Anyway, here's a livelier instrumental version played on de steelpans, mon:


Thanks to SteelDrumMusic.

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