guitarist Chet Atkins
, released in 1962.
Atkin's treatment of "Banana Boat Song" is based on The Tarriers
' version, not Harry Belefonte's
more famous rendition.
Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell wrote the album is "Chet Atkins's versatility and curiosity have covered a lot of ground, and you would think that his talent would be able to encompass calypso and other Caribbean styles as well.
How dare you say 'penis' to a dead person.
[On finding her soul inside Roger Cobb's body] I don't believe this. I can't even die right.
You are rude, crude, and thoroughly unattractive.
[To his girlfriend] You bought me a gravestone for my thirty-eighth birthday?!
[To his dog] Don't look at me like that. I'm not going in there as a messenger boy; I'm a trained legal advisor. No more being looked down on by people who think they're better than I am because they're rich. From now on, I'm gonna be respected... by people who think they're better than I am because they're rich.
Is everyone here bananas?
[After Edwina has called him a 'peasant'] Listen, lady. Just because my grandfather didn't rape the environment and exploit the workers doesn't make me a peasant. And it's not that he didn't want to rape the environment and exploit the workers; I'm sure he did. It's just that as a barber, he didn't have that much opportunity.
[To Edwina] You're like an energy vampire. You suck the life out of people and take the fun out of being a lawyer.
The comedy that proves that one's a crowd.