Louise Bennett-Coverly's Dah Day Light (aka: Day-O) is here: ADD: jamaican folk music

Two completely different songs, got mashed together. The result was neither 'authentic' calypso nor mento. It is 'Manhattan' (Tin Pan Alley) calypso.

The 'original' banana song is Louise Bennett's Dah Day Light. The Edric Connor recording is straight from the Bennett songbook. Neither work reflects the hill an' gully lyric.

Harry Belafonte's songs were 'adapted' by Irving Burgie (Lord Burgess) who also backed Bennett at her New York club dates. The two (2) takes on the above are Day-O and Star Oh, both were released on the million seller Calypso album. As above, neither track has a hill an' gully.

AFAIK the Lord Composer (Omri Mundle) release mentioned above is the 'original' Jamaican Hill an' Gully commercial recording but... everybody who as been anywhere near the place knows, it was a party game song for donkey years before that. And yes, there are no bananas.