@on the cusp

I remember you saying once how much you also enjoyed Belafonte.

He was a good man. RIP

@usefewersyllables

must have been a treat for you as a diver. The Caribbean and its islands can be quite dreamy.

The film is interesting in that it also shows the darker side of the islands, but love and romance always wins ; ).

You can watch it on youtube. The quality of the film copy is poor, but it is a good film.

Belafonte work will always be the movie "Island in the Sun", filmed on Grenada and Barbados in 1957. I love watching that movie, and comparing the Grenada scenes with the Grenada I came to know over a number of visits over the years, back when I used to travel. I do love that place, and would equally love to find a way to slip away to there...

@orlbucfan

His mother was the child of a Scottish Jamaican mother and an Afro-Jamaican father, and his father was the child of an Afro-Jamaican mother and a Dutch-Jewish father of Sephardic Jewish descent. Harry Jr. was raised Catholic and attended parochial school at St. Charles Borromeo.[12]

From 1932 to 1940, Belafonte lived with one of his grandmothers in her native country of Jamaica, where he attended Wolmer's Schools. Upon returning to New York City, he had a brief, unsuccessful stay at George Washington High School.[13] It was later reported that undiagnosed dyslexia and blindness in one eye contributed to his academic difficulties.[14] After dropping out of high school, he joined the U.S. Navy and served during World War II.[15][16] In the 1940s, he worked as a janitor's assistant, during which a tenant gave him, as a gratuity, two tickets to see the American Negro Theater. He fell in love with the art form and befriended Sidney Poitier, who was also financially struggling. They regularly purchased a single seat to local plays, trading places in between acts, after informing the other about the progression of the play.[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Belafonte

I cut my educated music fanatic teeth on 3 performing artists: Mahalia Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald, and Harry Belafonte. My parents weren't musicians. They were fans. I always thought Belafonte came from the Caribbean. Nope, he was born in Harlem. That explains his support of human rights. He was a first-class human being, and performing artist. Thanks and Rec'd!!

@QMS

That scene in Beetlejuice is a wonderful classic!

It was Sidney Pointier in the role of the Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
I get mixed-up pretty easy these days. Banana Boat is very cool.
Really helped to make the movie Beetlejuice work.

@Sima

That was a great find down the rabbit hole. It was lots of fun to read and listen to. I smiled and laughed through it.

His music was great. I am a bit young to have experienced it as a child, or maybe my parents just didn't let us listen to it, but I loved getting into his music as a young adult!

So, listening to these music videos I found a link that led me down a rabbit hole to...
Banana Boat Song... in Latin!!!