Belafonte at Carnegie Hall is a live double album

Double album

A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....

 by Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte

Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist. He was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s...

. It is the first of two Belafonte Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

 albums, and was recorded on April 19 and April 20, 1959. The stereo version of the album was released on the RCA Victor

RCA Records

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 label, in the "Living Stereo" series. The concerts were benefits for The New Lincoln School

The New Lincoln School

The New Lincoln School was a private experimental coeducational school in New York City enrolling students from kindergarten through grade 12.-History:...

 and Wiltwyck School, respectively.

CD issued track listing

1. "Introduction/Darlin'" – 3:59
2. "Sylvie" – 4:54
3. "Cotton Fields" – 4:18
4. "John Henry" – 5:11
5. "The Marching Saints" – 2:50
6. "The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)" – 3:40
7. "Jamaica Farewell
   Jamaica Farewell
   "Jamaica Farewell" is a calypso about the beauties of the West Indian Islands.The lyrics for the song were written by Lord Burgess . Lord Burgess was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1926. His mother was from Barbados and his father was from Virginia. The song first appeared on Harry Belafonte's...
   
   " – 5:10
8. "Mama Look a Boo Boo" – 5:24
9. "Come Back Liza" – 3:06
10. "Man Smart (Woman Smarter)" – 4:23
11. "Hava Nagila
    Hava Nagila
    "Hava Nagila" is a Hebrew folk song that has become a staple of band performers at Jewish weddings and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs.-History:...
    
    " (Traditional) – 4:03
12. "Danny Boy
    Danny Boy
    -Background:The words to "Danny Boy" were written by English lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly in 1910. Although the lyrics were originally written for a different tune, Weatherly modified them to fit the "Londonderry Air" in 1913, after his sister-in-law in the U.S. sent him a copy. Ernestine...
    
    " – 5:21
13. "Cucurrucucu Paloma" – 3:50
14. "Shenandoah" – 3:48
15. "Matilda
    Matilda (song)
    "Matilda" is a calypso lamenting a woman who took a man for all he was worth.The song dates back to at least the 1930s, when calypso pioneer King Radio recorded the song...
    
    " – 11:27

Side one

1. "Introduction/Darlin' Cora"
2. "Sylvie"
3. "Cotton Fields"
4. "John Henry"
5. "Take My Mother Home"

Side two

1. "The Marching Saints"

"ACT II-IN THE CARIBBEAN"

1. "The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)"
2. "Jamaica Farewell"
3. "Man Piaba"
4. "All My Trials"

Side three

1. "Mama Look a Boo Boo"
2. "Come Back Liza"
3. "Man Smart (Woman Smarter)"

"ACT III-ROUND THE WORLD"

1. "Hava Nagila"
2. "Danny Boy"
3. "Merci Bon Dieu"

Side four

1. "Cucurrucucu Paloma"
2. "Shenandoah"
3. "Matilda"

As of April 2008, the tracks in bold are only available on releases in Germany and Japan. The album was nominated for Album of the Year at the 1961 Grammy Awards.

Personnel

• Harry Belafonte
  Harry Belafonte
  Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist. He was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s...
  
   – vocals
• Millard Thomas – guitar
• Raphael Boguslav – guitar
• Danny Barrajanos – bongos, conga
• Norman Keenan
  Norman Keenan
  Norman Dewey Keenan was an American jazz double-bassist.Keenan began on piano before picking up bass at age 15. He worked with Tiny Bradshaw , Lucky Millinder , Henry Wells , Earl Bostic, and Cootie Williams, and jammed at Minton's Playhouse around the same time...
  
   – bass

Production notes:

• Bob Bollard – producer, liner notes
• Orchestra Conducted by Robert Corman
• Bob Simpson – engineer
• Lee Friedlander
  Lee Friedlander
  Lee Friedlander is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 70s, working primarily with 35mm cameras and black and white film, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of the photographs including fragments of...
  
   – cover photo
• John Gundelfinger – interior illustration

External links

• Belafonte At Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert
• Belafonte Tracks discography site.