1st RECORDING OF: Banana Boat Song (aka Day Dah Light) - Edric Connor (1954)

This is believed to be the first known recording of the traditional Jamaican folk/work song. Included in the LP “Songs From Jamaica” by Trinidadian singer Connor, this may not be all that close of a match to either the Harry Belafonte “Banana Boat (Day-O)” treatment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5BoECIz9gw or the more singable Tarriers best-seller “The Banana Boat Song” with its descending ‘Day-O, Day-O’ chorus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8zCxITc8ig , but you can hear that both of those...