My Choice 470 - Sudirman: Banana Boat Song video

We dedicate this song to our politicians who work so hard for us :)) This song is sung by the Malaysian singer late Sudirman Arshad. Dato' Sudirman Haji Arshad (1954 1992) was a lawyer, was a Malaysian singer, songwriter and actor. He was known as the 'Singing Lawyer', the 'People's Singer' and the 'Elvis of Malaysia'. Info about the song: "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is a traditional Jamaican mento folk song, Although it is really Jamaican mento, the song is widely known as an example of calypso music (calypso is Trinidadian). It is a song from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships. Daylight has come, the shift is over and they want their work to be counted up so that they can go home. The first recorded version was done by Trinidadian singer Edric Connor and his band "Edric Connor and the Caribbeans" in 1952, on the album Songs From Jamaica; the song was called "Day De Light". It was also recorded by Jamaican folk singer Louise Bennett in 1954. Bennett's "Day Dah Light," as well as six other Jamaican recordings covered and made famous by Belafonte, who was raised in Jamaica by Jamaican parents, can now be heard in their original Jamaican versions on the "Jamaica - Mento 1957-1958" CD *.Video by Alfred Grech, Mosta, Malta. © jasalf5959 - 2010 Music is copyrighted by its corresponding owners. No infringement of copyright is meant and if it does infringe, please message me and I'll remove it ...