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The Firesign Theatre parodied the Banana Boat Song on their 1985 album 'Eat Or Be Eaten' as an ad for 'Rastafarian Motors' auto repair shop ('You should be smoking, not your car!').

Country music artist Neal McCoy includes snippets of the Banana Boat Song in his 'Hillbilly Rap', which can be found on his That's Life album.

Their version tells a story of deer hunting.

Musical comedy group Da Yoopers parodied the song as 'It Was Eino' on their 1996 album We're Still Rockin'.

Parodied as 'Gay-O' in The Simpsons episode about gay marriage entitled ' There's Something About Marrying,' season 16.

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The Flash animation 'Osama Bin Laden Has Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide', produced shortly after the Septemattacks, features a parody version of the song apparently performed by Colin Powell (with George W.

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In the TV series In Living Color, Jim Carrey, who portrays Canadian rapper Snow (while parodying the song ' Informer'), sings the chorus inside a subway train.

In one rare coincidence, Trio and Harry Belafonte appeared in the same TV show with the latter watching Trio's act in disbelief.

German band Trio performed a parody where 'Bommerlunder' (a German schnapps) substituted the words 'daylight come' in the 1980s.

In 1972, the Dutch artist & comic AndrГ© van Duin used the melody for a song 'Bananenlied' (Banana Song) exploring the question of why bananas are bent.

Stan Freberg's version was the basis for the TV advert for the UK chocolate bar Trio in the mid-1980s. 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'.

'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'.

There have been a number of parodies of this iconic song over the years: The cry 'Day-O!' by itself has become a frequently-used bit at baseball parks in late innings and in NBA arenas when the home team needs a rally, as spectators want to 'go home'. The Tarriers, or some subset of the three members of the group ( Erik Darling, Bob Carey and Alan Arkin) are sometimes credited as the writers of the song, perhaps because their version of the song, which mixed in another song, was an original creation. This version was re-recorded by Shirley Bassey in 1957, and became a hit in the United Kingdom.

It outdid Belafonte's original on the pop charts, reaching number four. They recorded a version of that song that mixed in the chorus of another Jamaican folk song, 'Hill and Gully Rider', and released it, spawning what became their biggest hit. Also in 1956, folk singer Bob Gibson, who had travelled to Jamaica and heard the song, taught his version of it to the folk band The Tarriers. In 1956, singer/songwriters Irving Burgie and William Attaway wrote a version of the lyrics that was recorded that same year by Harry Belafonte this is the version that is by far the best known to listeners today, as it reached number five on the Billboard charts in 1957 and later became Belafonte's signature song. It was also recorded by Louise Bennett in 1954. The first recorded version was done by Trinidadian singer Edric Connor and his band 'Edric Connor and the Caribbeans' in 1952, on the album Songs From Jamaica the song was called 'Day De Light'. It was thought to be sung by Jamaican banana workers, with a repeated melody and refrain, but with many different sets of lyrics, some possibly improvised on the spot. Its popular version was adapted by Irving Burgie. The song was originally a Jamaican folk song.

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