• Belafonte By Request is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Records in 1970. "Mr. Bojangles" (Jerry Jeff Walker) – 4:56 "Oh Linda" (Gordon Lightfoot)...
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    1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte was best known for...
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    activist, Harry Belafonte (1927–2023). Global Carnival (VHS, 1988) Don't Stop the Carnival (VHS, 1991) An Evening With Harry Belafonte & Friends (VHS/DVD...
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  • ISBN 978-0253116727, retrieved 27 November 2010 Belafonte Concert in Japan, Belafonte by Request, Belafonte...Live! Bronson, Fred (2003), The Billboard Book...
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    that they can go home. The best-known version was released by American singer Harry Belafonte in 1956 (originally titled "Banana Boat (Day-O)") and later...
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  • magnates. The show was hosted by Robin Leach for the majority of its run. Leach was joined by Shari Belafonte in 1994. At her request, in order to "bring the...
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  • Francisco After Dark / Come To Me" (Summertone 214) 1970 - Belafonte By Request - Harry Belafonte 1972 - Black Girl (Soundtrack) - Various Artists 1972 -...
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  • The Warm Touch (category Harry Belafonte albums)
    The Warm Touch is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Records in 1971. "Something in the Way She Moves" (James Taylor) – 3:10 "Circle 'Round...
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  • We Are the World (category Song recordings produced by Michael Omartian)
    They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984, musician and activist Harry Belafonte decided to create an American benefit single for African famine relief...
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  • Harry & Lena (category Harry Belafonte albums)
    issued by RCA Records by Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne. In 1970, Belafonte Enterprises produced an ABC television special featuring Harry Belafonte and...
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    London, and New York City. In London, she met the American singer Harry Belafonte, who became a mentor and colleague. She moved to New York City, where...
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    order of appearance: The Farafina Drummers Harry Belafonte - speech Sting (introduced by Harry Belafonte) – "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free", "They...
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    "Belafonte and Petula Clark Touch a Sponsor's Nerve", by Bob Williams, in the New York Post; 6 March 1968 "Incident at TV Taping Irks Belafonte", by Robert...
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  • Choreorographer for Harry Belafonte (1959–1963); he choreographed Belafonte specials on CBS-TV: "Tonight with Belafonte" (1959) which won Belafonte an Emmy, "New...
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    just returned from Jamaica where he had picked up a girl by claiming to be Harry Belafonte. One of Morris' best known characters on SNL was the Dominican...
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  • "Not 4 Sale" (2013); the latter in which he plays legendary actor Harry Belafonte. Following the last short film Not 4 Sale, Chong has had no acting roles...
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  • White Man's Burden (film) (category Films produced by Lawrence Bender)
    directed by Desmond Nakano. The film revolves around Louis Pinnock (John Travolta), a white factory worker, who kidnaps Thaddeus Thomas (Harry Belafonte), a...
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    "Day-O" by Harry Belafonte, as well as on Belafonte's 1957 hit, "Mama Look at Bubu". He led the chorus at recording sessions for Belafonte's iconic 1956...
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    stage. She was so unhappy with the request that she wanted to quit the show after only two days. Finally, Belafonte relented and respected her wish to...
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    was Catholic. In the early 1980s, through a chance meeting with Harry Belafonte, Starr landed a role in his 1984 hip hop film, Beat Street; she appeared...
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    doing, had to leave them again within hours. Following her birth, Harry Belafonte realized the toll the Civil Rights Movement was taking on her mother's...
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    What She Wants (RCA Victor, 1958) Songs by Burke and Van Heusen (RCA Victor, 1959) Porgy & Bess with Harry Belafonte (RCA Victor, 1959) Lena Horne at the...
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  • of the Flower Children. Pleis produced several of Harry Belafonte's albums, Belafonte by Request (1970), The Warm Touch (1971), and Calypso Carnival (1971)...
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  • called "Ambassador of Calypso" (Request RLP8029). In early 1959 he joined the vocal quartet accompanying Harry Belafonte on his national tour. Tenor/Baritone...
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  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (category Films affected by the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike)
    inspired by Cassandra Peterson's iconic Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) character. O'Hara later confirmed that the film would include Harry Belafonte's 1955...
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    animals. Morgan's celebrity impressions on SNL included Della Reese, Harry Belafonte, Maya Angelou and Little Richard. He returned to host on March 14, 2009...
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    nominations, as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2005, at the request of U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, John Prine became the first singer-songwriter...
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    and his siblings were assured an education thanks to the help of Harry Belafonte, who set up a trust fund for them years prior to their father's assassination...
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    Tyrone, Capt". www.marines.togetherweserved.com. Retrieved May 18, 2018. Belafonte, Dennis; Marill, Alvin H. (1979). The Films of Tyrone Power. Citadel Press...
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    600,000 copies of Planet Waves despite millions of unfulfilled ticket requests for the 1974 tour; he returned to Columbia Records, which reissued his...
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