Talk:Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)

message: Surprised that their is no mention of this songs use in the infamous Beatlejuice dinner party scene??? -sull   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.15.1.252 (talk) 20:39, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Why No Beatlejuice? 

message: An infobox was requested for the The Tarriers' 1957 version of "Banano Boat Song" at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/List_of_notable_songs/13. — Preceding unsigned comment added by InnocuousPseudonym (talk • contribs) 20:36, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 14 years later, . ----Ahecht (TALKPAGE) 17:45, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Tarriers

message: Shel Silverstein parodies the song with the track "Bananas" on his 1962 album "Inside Folk Songs". MBG 117.102.157.146 (talk) 12:16, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  parodies 

message: From article: (emphasis mine)
:German band Trio performed a parody where "Bommerlunder" (a German schnapps) substituted the words "daylight come" in the 1980s. In one rare coincidence, Trio and Harry Belafonte appeared in the same TV show with the latter watching Trio's act in disbelief.
Does somebody not know what the word "coincidence" means?  Sounds to me (just from reading this) like this was deliberately set up, rather than just a random event.  But I don't know the specifics.  Can we find a better way of wording that? Lurlock 14:48, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "rare coincidence"? 

message: "Belafonte's debut television performance of the song was in a famous muppet TV series, The Muppet Show."
I can't believe that Belafante, who's been performin this song since the 50s, never sang it on TV before the 70s.
:I believe the words from his mouth - "This is the very first - it's very special to me." Thus, this merits inclusion in Wikipedia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpg-KIKD5gU
[ Nov 1978 http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_314:_Harry_Belafonte ]
Whbjr (talk) 21:20, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Television Debut 

message: Doe anyone remember a radio or TV commercial from the 1960's or 1970's for Bic Banana pens that used the song? I think the lyrics "Bic Banana markers, you got to (or gotta) get some" replaced "daylight come and we wanna go home." NBK1122 (talk) 01:45, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I remember it as "Come Mr. Writer Man, buy the Bic Banana..." 2600:8807:C093:B400:515A:8BF7:8BCA:3C46 (talk) 03:57, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bic commercial 

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message: under Origins:
:The first recorded version was done by Trinidadian singer Edric Conner and his band "The Carribeans" in 1952, on the album Songs From Jamaica; the song was called "Day De Light".
Should that be "The Caribbeans"? That's the correct spelling of the word; -rrib- is a common error. --Thnidu (talk) 01:32, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  name of band 

message: Dame Shirley Bassey's version was equally well known and was a UK hit for her in 1957  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dannynewman (talk • contribs) 13:15, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Shirley Bassey

message: Marino Barreto Jr? Zipf (talk) 01:35, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Another Early Artist

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 16:54, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) → ? – The current title is an improper use of parentheses in article titles, as it doesn't serve disambiguation purposes (Day-O and The Banana Boat Song both redirect here), nor is it the actual title of the song. The article should be moved to Day-O, Banana Boat Song, or The Banana Boat Song. I don't have preference for either. Paul_012 (talk) 14:10, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

text: Seems we had it the wrong way round, anyway:  Martinevans123 (talk) 14:16, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

text: This is a tricky one, since there have been so many variations of the title. Even accepting that Harry Belafonte's version of the song is the definitive one, on his albums alone the song has been listed as "The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)" (as noted above), "Day O" (no hyphen), "The Banana Boat Song", "Banana Boat Song", "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", "Day-O (Banana Boat Song)" and "Banana Boat (Day-O)", and there are probably others. I should note that "Day O" was the song's title on his million-selling Calypso album, though no one else seems to have used that title. Given all that, the name of this article seems like a rather arbitrary choice. I don't have a strong opinion on it, though I somewhat do like the current name, maybe because I've gotten used to it. Korny O'Near (talk) 16:02, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The trigger for this request seems to be the inappropriate use of parentheses. So another solution would be to use a dash, e.g. Day-O – The Banana Boat Song. But I'm not sure this corresponds with any real world use? Surely there must be many other song titles that use brackets in this way? Martinevans123 (talk) 16:24, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, there are hundreds or more songs whose titles contain parentheses - including this one, at least some of the time. Korny O'Near (talk) 16:46, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

text: Comment: As pointed out above, this is far from a unique title situation. Song articles are often titled in this manner, so I'm not sure whether it's "improper" to keep them that way.  ONR  (talk)  00:27, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
=== Commentaries and amendations  re the preceding RM-disc'n sec'n ===
   Wow, I feel like the garrulous old-timer who bookends The Big Lebowski -- especially having just watched the first act (theater of Buster Scruggs last nite!   Anyhowz, the expression "the cost of doing business" comes to mind: even beyond the previous revisions, not just of true article and discussion pages, but also of all the documentation of the technology, and of all the discussion that they entail.   It's really easy to be distracted by the ... hmm, neither "pointless" nor "silly" adequately captures my meaning, since "necessary" is part of it, too ... discussions that we provide as part of the supporting structure and facilities.   Perhaps with Whitman i salute the crazy and glorious boondoggles of Evolution and Wikipedia, and salute the silly epiphenomenon of the top level of the necessary discussion of which this subject-matter discussion-subsection is a part!--Jerzy•t 04:39, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 4 November 2016 

message: Wow, I feel like the garrulous old-timer who bookends The Big Lebowski -- especially having just watched the first act (theater of Buster Scruggs last nite!   Anyhowz, the expression "the cost of doing business" comes to mind: even beyond the previous revisions, not just of true article and discussion pages, but also of all the documentation of the technology, and of all the discussion that they entail.   It's really easy to be distracted by the ... hmm, neither "pointless" nor "silly" adequately captures my meaning, since "necessary" is part of it, too ... discussions that we provide as part of the supporting structure and facilities.   Perhaps with Whitman i salute the crazy and glorious boondoggles of Evolution and Wikipedia, and salute the silly epiphenomenon of the top level of the necessary discussion of which this subject-matter discussion-subsection is a part!--Jerzy•t 04:39, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commentaries and amendations  re the preceding RM-disc'n sec'n 

message: I remember seeing this television publicity when I was younger. Can't seem to find it anywhere on the net though it's too bad  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.53.158.82 (talk) 00:18, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Television publicity?

message: TV advertising was different in the 1970s. Maybe there's a better source than this one? Might be mindless trivia, of course  (just like Justin Trudeau at High School?) Martinevans123 (talk) 16:02, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[List of Cadbury products|Cadbury's Whole Nut]] 

message: So what about Queen’s famous Day-oh interaction with the crowd? Surely it’s related to the intro of this song! 186.156.196.11 (talk) 16:10, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Queen Day-oh 

message: Because this article is about both the actual recorded cover of the song and the folk song, so which one should it be? Should they be two separate articles? WikiFloath (talk) 15:11, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should this be about the folk song or the actual song?