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艺人

Harry Belafonte

语种

英语

厂牌

RCA Victor

发行时间

1962年02月14日

专辑类别

录音室专辑

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专辑介绍

by Cary Ginell

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,& awhich 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.