Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) - Covers, Parodies and Other Uses

Covers, Parodies and Other Uses

• "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", the beatnik protests, "Don't sing about spiders, man! Like, I don't dig spiders". Stan Freberg's version was the basis for the TV advert for the UK chocolate bar Trio in the mid-1980s.
• Barry Frank released a version for Bell in 1957
• 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.
• 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.