Caribbean Guitar (Chet Atkins album)
Overview
 
Caribbean Guitar is the title of a recording by American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 guitarist Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins
Chester Burton Atkins , known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle...

, released in 1962.

Atkin's treatment of "Banana Boat Song" is based on The Tarriers
The Tarriers
The Tarriers were an American vocal group, specializing in folk music and folk-flavored popular music. Named after the folk song "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill", and founded in 1956 by Erik Darling, Alan Arkin, and Bob Carey, the group had two hit songs during 1956-57: "Cindy, Oh Cindy" and "The...

' version, not Harry Belefonte's
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...

 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.
Quotations

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.

 
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