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Thread #164   Message #4172004
Posted By: GUEST,D. Kingsley Hahn
11-May-23 - 04:53 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Banana Boat Song / Day-O (Lord Burgess)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banana Boat Song (Harry Belafonte)
A snippet of "hill and gully rider" can be briefly heard in one of the early whaling scenes in the 1956 John Huston version of "Moby Dick," in which A. L. Lloyd had a very small role as the chantey-master. Lloyd is seen earlier in the film, as the "Pequod" is leaving Nantucket, in a brief performance of "Blood Red Roses."