Harry Belafonte / Many moods of Harry Belafonte / Impex 6017-45 / UVP 64,90 €
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Description
Reissue by Impex Records
2 LP Set 45 rpm
Limited edition: 2500 copies worldwide
Side 1
1. Tongue Tie Baby
2. Who's Gonna Be Your Man
3. 'Long About Now
Side 2
1. Bamotsweri
2. I'm On My Way to Saturday
3. Betty An' Dupree
Side 3
1. Summertime Love
2. Lyla, Lyla
3. Zombie Jamboree
Side 4
1. Try to Remember
2. Dark As a Dungeon
Belafonte's follow-up album to The Midnight Special is another record stressing the diversity of world music. This time, a small combo accompanies Belafonte on the various tracks, as opposed to the big band approach of his last album. Several crowd-pleasers were introduced on this album for the first time: the calypso "Zombie Jamboree," which soon replaced "Matilda" as Belafonte's epic audience participation song; and the showtune "Try to Remember," from the off-Broadway show The Fantasticks. The two highlights on the album are both songs dealing with American folk music. "Betty an' Dupree" is a classic murder ballad in the tradition of "Frankie and Johnny," performed with the intensity the subject matter commands. Country-western composer Merle Travis' "Dark as a Dungeon," a protest song dealing with the dreary, bitter life of the coal miner was inadvertantly recorded during a thunderstorm, giving the song a dose of ominous spontaneity. Two of Belafonte's proteges from South Africa are also featured: singer Miriam Makeba and jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela. Some of the ballads are weak when compared to the more dramatic highlights, but still, this is a very satisfying album. --Cary Ginell, Allmusic.com
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