How to play Day-o , otherwise known as The Banana Boat Song on piano. "Banana Boat (Day-O)" by Stan Freberg, produced in the 1950s by Capitol Records, features ongoing disagreement between an enthusiastic lead singer and a bongo-playing beatnik (Peter Leeds) who "don't dig loud noises" and had the catchphrase "You're too loud, man". 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, "Don't sing about spiders, man! Like, I don't dig spiders".[6] Stan Freberg's version was the basis for the TV advert for the UK chocolate bar Trio in the mid-1980s. Sarah Vaughan recorded the song for Mercury Records in 1956. Barry Frank released a version for Bell in 1957[7] Dutch comedian André van Duin released his version in 1972 called Het bananenlied: the banana song. Jamaican singer Shaggy recorded a dancehall version for his 1995 album Boombastic. Children's singer Raffi has performed the song in concert, replacing the line "I work all night on a drink of rum" with "I work all night 'til the morning come", and the line "Hide the deadly black taranch-la" with "A beautiful bunch o' ripe banana!" He also recorded this song on his 1980 album, Baby Beluga. The Kidsongs Kids sing this song on "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing". There is also an instrumental outro as heard on CDs and cassettes. Jason Derulo samples this song in "Don't Wanna Go Home". American rapper Lil Wayne samples the line "6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot bunch" for the song "6 Foot 7 Foot". The Harry Belafonte version was used in 1988 film Beetlejuice. Hasil Adkins recorded a previously unreleased rockabilly version of this song that was included on the 1990 Norton album, Peanut Butter Rock and Roll. Fleksnes Fataliteter The Norwegian comedy character Marve Fleksnes uses the phrase "Day-O" whenever he sees a situation which he can benefit from, or when agitated or insecure. Harry Belafonte sang this song in an episode of The Muppet Show Country music artist Neal McCoy references the song in his song "Hillbilly Rap" off his self-titled album. The Serbian comedy rock band The Kuguars, consisting of famous Serbian actors, covered the song in 1998, with lyrics in Serbian language dedicated to the, at the time, Yugoslav national soccer team player Dejan "Dejo" Savićević. The song became a nationwide hit, and a promotional video for the song had been recorded. Australian children's entertainers The Wiggles cover it in their 2008 album You Make Me Feel Like Dancing. http://youtu.be/7rHNi9M3fnc Please comment , like and share .. Please ! Subscribe here : http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=pianoandkeys

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