Miracles guitarist Marvin Tarplin came up with the main riff after listening to calypso singer Harry Belafonte’s “Banana Boat Song”. Robinson wrote the majority of the lyrics straight away ...

To be considered, songs must have been commercially ... of Fame – "Banana Boat (Day-O)" (1956) and the albums Calypso (1956) Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (1959). His many other awards ...

Harry Belafonte wrote music history. How did the black boy from Harlem manage to become one of the greatest artists of the 20th century in the middle of racist America? The film portrait tells the ...