Harry Belafonte

3 Songs

42 Albums

Top Songs

Mary's Boy Child

Mary's Boy Child Lyrics

The Gifts They Gave

The Gifts They Gave Lyrics

Goin' Down Jordan

Goin' Down Jordan Lyrics

Discography

Greatest Hits Vol 1. [Audiophile Edition] [Another version] (2023)

Look Over Yonder / Be My Woman, Gal (Medley/Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, March 29, 1964) - Single (2020)

Look Over Yonder / Be My Woman, Gal (Medley/Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, March 29, 1964)

The Capitol Recordings (2018)

I Still Get a Thrill
How Green Was My Valley
Whispering
Farewell To Arms
Deep As the River
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
They Didn't Believe Me
Close Your Eyes

The Legacy of Harry Belafonte: When Colors Come Together (2017)

Mary's Boy Child
Pastures of Plenty
Medley: Look Over Yonder/ Be My Woman, Gal
Try to Remember
Those Three Are On My Mind
Island In the Sun (From "Island In the Sun")
Brown Skin Girl
Jamaica Farewell (Remastered)
On Top of Old Smokey
Abraham, Martin and John
Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)
Turn the World Around
Angelina
Matilda
Empty Chairs
All My Trials
Banana Boat (Day-O)
Jump in the Line
When Colors Come Together (Island in the Sun)

Sing Your Song: The Music (Soundtrack) (2011)

Can't Cross Over (River Come Down)
Turn the World Around
A Hole In the Bucket
Jump In the Line
Matilda
My Angel (Malaika)
Jamaica Farewell
Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
Jump Down, Spin Around
Island In the Sun
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)
Cocoanut Woman
Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)
Mama Look a Boo-Boo
Mark Twain
Sylvie

The Essential Harry Belafonte (2005)

Very Best Of Harry Belafonte (2001)

Mary's Boy Child
Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)
Bam Bam Bamba
Mama, Look A Boo Boo
Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
Island In the Sun (with Bob Corman and His Orchestra)
Two Brothers
Hold 'em Joe
I'm Just A Country Boy
Gomen Nasai (Forgive Me)
Jamaica Farewell
Coconut Woman
Cu-Cu-Ru-Cu-Cu Paloma
Jump In the Line
Jump Down, Spin Around
Angelique-O
Cotton Fields
Angelina
Suzanne (Every Night When The Sun Goes Down)
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)
Done Laid Around (a/k/a Gotta Travel On)
Land Of The Sea And Sun

Greatest Hits (2000)

An Evening with Harry Belafonte & Friends (1997)

Jamaica Farewell
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)
Eyando
Paradise In Gazankulu
Try to Remember
Dangerous Times
Eyala
Matilda
Kwela (Listen to the Man)
Skin to Skin
Island In the Sun
Turn the World Around
We Are the Wave

Paradise In Gazankulu (1988)

Move It
Sisiwami (Sweet Sister)
Capetown
Global Carnival
Monday to Monday
Kwela (Listen to the Man)
Amandla
Skin to Skin
Paradise In Gazankulu
We Are the Wave

Loving You Is Where I Belong (1981)

Genuine Imitation Life
Did You Know
I don't Need Her
Forever Young / Jabulani
Loving You is Where I Belong
Streets of London
I Told You
The Rose
Mary Makes Magic
Something to Hold On

Play Me (1973)

Long Long Time (Duet with Eloise Laws)
My Old Man
One Step
Morningside (For the Children)
Empty Chairs
So Close
If Only It Were Yesterday
Mr. Wiffen
And I Love You So
Play Me

Harry Belafonte...Live! (1972)

Abraham, Martin & John
Oh Brother
Carnival Medley
Someone Is Standin' Outside
Brother Moses
Out De Fire
Qonqoza (Knock Knock)
Mamani
Nonqonqo (To Those We Love)
Mahlalela (Lazy Bones)
Wedding Song
Pastures of Plenty
Suzanne
Mr. Bojangles
Look Over Yonder / Be My Woman, Gal

Calypso Carnival (1971)

Elegant Donkey (Jackass)
Mango, Coconut, Sugar Cane
Custer's Last Stand
Season for Carnival
Out de Fire
Black and White (Together)
Lena
Trinidad Carnival Time
Don't Stop the Carnival
Chinita

The Warm Touch (1971)

Fare Thee Well
Rainy Day Man
Her Song
Circle Game
Cycles
No Regrets
Louise
The Paris Song
Circle 'Round the Sun
Something in the Way She Moves

Belafonte By Request (1970)

I've Got a Secret
Put Your Tears Away
Scarborough Fair / Canticle
Marianne
You'll Still Be Needing Me After I'm Gone
Abraham, Martin and John
Big City Living
Missouri Birds
Oh Linda
Mr. Bojangles

Calypso (-0001)

Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
Brown Skin Girl
Come Back Liza
Hosanna
The Jack-Ass Song
Star-O
Dolly Dawn
Will His Love Be Like His Rum?
Jamaica Farewell
I Do Adore Her
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)

To Wish You A Merry Christmas (-0001)

Mary's Boy Child
The Gifts They Gave
Where The Little Jesus Sleeps
Medley: The Joys Of Christmas
The Twelve Days of Christmas
The Son Of Mary
A Star In the East
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Medley: We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Mary, Mary
Jehovah The Lord Will Provide
Christmas Is Coming
Silent Night

An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba (-0001)

Show Me the Way, My Brother (Iph'Indlela)
Lullaby (Thula Sthandwa Same)
Cannon (Mbayi, Mbayi)
My Angel (Malaika)
Hurry, Mama, Hurry! (Khawuleza)
Gone Are My Children (Baile Banake)
Beware, Verwoerd! (Ndodemnyama)
Give Us Our Land (Mabayeke)
Nongqongqo (To Thos We Love)
Hush, Hush (Thula, Thula)
Kwazulu (In the Land of the Zulus)
Train Song (Mbombela)

Belafonte at Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert (-0001)

Matilda (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)
Shenandoah (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)
Cucurrucucú paloma (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)
Merci Bon Dieu (From the "Haitian Suite") [Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959]
Danny Boy (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)
Hava Nageela (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)
Man Smart (Woman Smarter) [Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959]
Come Back Liza (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)
Mama Look a Boo Boo (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)
All My Trials (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)
Man Piaba (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)
Jamaica Farewell (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) [Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959]
The Marching Saints (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)
Take My Mother Home (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)
John Henry (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)
Cotton Fields (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)
Sylvie (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)
Introduction / Darlin' Cora (Live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959)

Jump Up Calypso (-0001)

Goin' Down Jordan
Angelina
Bally Mena
These Are the Times
Monkey
Kingston Market
Jump In the Line
Land of the Sea and Sun
Gloria
The Baby Boy
Go Down Emanuel Road
Sweetheart from Venezuela

An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri (-0001)

Irene (Erene)
The Wide Sea (Thalassa Platia)
The Baby Snake (Feedakee)
Walking On the Moon (Pame mia volta)
The Town Crier (Telalees)
In the Small Boat (Mes Tin Varka)
The Train (To Traino)
If You Are Thirsty (Kean Tha Depsasees)
Dream (Oneero)
My Moon (Fengari Moo)

Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall (-0001)

La Bamba (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
Old King Cole (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
I Know Where I'm Going (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
Henè Ma Tov (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
Didn't It Rain (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
The Red Rosy Bush (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
The Ox Drivers (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
One More Dance (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
The Click Song (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
A Hole In the Bucket (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain / Water Boy (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
The Ballad of Sigmund Freud (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
I Do Adore Her (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
Vaichazkem (Vayiven Uziaho) [Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960]
Chickens (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
A Little Lyric of Great Importance (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
Suzanne (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)
Jump Down, Spin Around (Live at Carnegie Hall, May 1960)

Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean (-0001)

Lead Man Holler
Angelique-O
Island In the Sun
Judy Drowned
Haiti Cherie
Cocoanut Woman
Love, Love Alone
Don't Ever Love Me
Cordelia Brown
Lucy's Door
Scratch, Scratch

Love Is a Gentle Thing (-0001)

Walkin' On the Green Grass
Delia's Gone
Go 'Way from My Window
Turn Around
Times Are Gettin' Hard
Green Grow the Lilacs
All My Trials
Bella Rosa
Small One
I'm Goin' Away
I Never Will Marry
Fifteen (Theme of "The World, the Flesh and the Devil")

"Mark Twain" and Other Folk Favorites (-0001)

Lord Randall
Mo Mary
Delia
The Next Big River
Soldier, Soldier
The Fox
The Drummer and the Cook
Kalenda Rock (Mourning Song)
Tol' My Captain
John Henry
Man Piaba
Mark Twain

Swing Dat Hammer (-0001)

Talkin' an' Signifyin'
Rocks and Gravel
Go Down Old Hannah
Swing Dat Hammer
Another Man Done Gone
Here Rattler Here
Diamond Joe
Grizzly Bear
Bald Headed Woman
Look over Yonder

In My Quiet Room (-0001)

Try to Remember
Summertime Love
I'm Just a Country Boy
Long About Now
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
The Honey Wind Blows
Our Time for Loving
Raindrops
Portrait of a Sunday Afternoon
Quiet Room

Streets I Have Walked (-0001)

Come Away Melinda
This Wicked Race
The Borning Day
Amen
Sakura
Tunga
This Land Is Your Land
Mangwene Mpulele
My Old Paint
Waltzing Matilda
Erev Shel Shoshanim
Sit Down

Belafonte (-0001)

Sylvie
Jump Down, Spin Around
Unchained Melody
In That Great Gettin' up Mornin'
Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)
Noah
Take My Mother Home
Matilda
Suzanne (Every Night When the Sun Goes Down)
Troubles
Water Boy

Belafonte Sings the Blues (-0001)

Fare Thee Well
Sinner's Prayer
Mary Ann
God Bless the Child
Cotton Fields
The Way That I Feel
Hallelujah I Love Her So
In the Evening Mama
One for My Baby
Losing Hand
A Fool for You

Porgy and Bess (-0001)

There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York
Bess, Oh Where's My Bess
My Man's Gone Now
Street Calls
It Ain't Necessarily So
Bess, You Is My Woman
I Wants to Stay Here
Oh, I Got Plenty of Nothin'
Summertime
A Woman Is a Sometime Thing

My Lord What a Mornin' (-0001)

Goin' Down Jordan
In My Fathers House
Go Down Emanuel Road
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
All My Trials
Steal Away
March Down to Jordan
Swing Low
Oh Let Me Fly
Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
Oh Freedom
Stars Shinin' (By 'N By)
Buked and Scorned
Ezekiel
My Lord What a Mornin'
Wake Up Jacob

Belafonte at the Greek Theatre (-0001)

Zombie Jamboree (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)
Boot Dance (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)
Merry Minuet (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)
Sailor Man (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)
Pig (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)
Cruel War (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)
Hayoshevet Baganim (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)
In My Father's House (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)
Contemporary Dance (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)
Why 'N' Why (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)
Try to Remember (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)
Hoedown Blues (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)
Windin' Road (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)
Shake That Little Foot (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)
Glory Manger (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)
Look Over Yonder / Be My Woman, Gal (Live at the Greek Theatre, August 1963)

Calypso In Brass (-0001)

Mama Look a Boo Boo
The Naughty Little Flea
Judy Drownded
Reincarnation
Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
Sweetheart from Venezuela
Zombie Jamboree (Back to Back)
Tongue Tie Baby
Cocoanut Woman
Jump and Bray Medley: Hold 'Em Joe / The Jack-Ass Song
Jump In the Line

The Midnight Special (-0001)

Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad
Muleskinner
On Top of Old Smokey
Did You Hear About Jerry?
Gotta Travel On
Memphis Tennessee
Crawdad Song
Midnight Special

The Many Moods of Belafonte (-0001)

Dark as a Dungeon
Try to Remember
Zombie Jamboree
Lyla, Lyla
Summertime Love
Betty an' Dupree
I'm on My Way to Saturday
Bamotsweri
'Long About Now
Who's Gonna Be Your Man
Tongue Tie Baby

An Evening with Belafonte (-0001)

Mary's Boy Child
When The Saints Go Marching In
Eden Was Just Like This
Cu Cu Ru Cu Cu Paloma
Shenandoah
Come O My Love
The Drummer and the Cook
Danny Boy
Hava Nageela
Once Was
Merci bon Dieu

Belafonte On Campus (-0001)

The Dog Song
Hold on To Me Babe
Those Three Are on My Mind
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Sail Away Ladies
Waly, Waly
The Far Side of the Hill
Delia
The Last Thing on My Mind
The Hands I Love
Roll On, Buddy

Ballads, Blues and Boasters (-0001)

Big Boat Up the River
Black Betty
Four Strong Winds
John the Revelator
Pastures of Plenty
Back of the Bus
Boy
My Love Is a Dewdrop
Ananias
Blue Willow Moan
Tone the Bell Easy

Homeward Bound (-0001)

Little Bird
Tomorrow Is a Long Time
Suzanne
Softly
Don't Talk Now
If I Were a Carpenter
The Dolphin
The Last Time I Saw Her
Sad Heart
Homeward Bound

Belafonte Sings of Love (-0001)

Each Day (I Look for Yesterday)
The First Day of Forever
In the Name of Love
When Spring Comes Around
A Day In the Life of a Fool
In the Beginning
You Time
Once In My Lifetime
Sleep Late, My Lady Friend
Annie-Love
By the Time I Get to Phoenix

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