Island In The Sun - The Harry Belafonte Hits Collection 1953-1962

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The Paragons, a ska group out of Kingston, Jamaica, turned the song into a Jamaican anthem with their 1967 cover of the song on their debut album On the Beach. Michael Rennie as Hilary Carson, a retired war hero, whom Maxwell fears is having an affair with his wife, Sylvia. The song, written by Eddie Miller and Jimmy Campbell, explores the delicate nuances of love and showcases Arnold’s emotive vocals. The film is about race relations and interracial romance set in the fictitious island of Santa Marta. This is the first compilation to include all of Belafonte's chart records, and features sides which have never previously appeared on CD.a b Independent's Role Gives Zanuck Lift: Darryl Zanuck Gets Big Lift From Role as Independent, Schallert, Edwin. Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. Island In The Sun" was the title song for a controversial 1957 film about race relations and interracial romance. Lyrics © Kanjian Music, BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Downtown Music Publishing, Reservoir Media Management, Inc. If you are looking for a very specific version/pressing/variant please check with us first and we can send pictures.

With lyrics in Swedish by Margot Borgström, as Sol, öar, vind och hav, the song was also recorded by Schytts on the 1979 album Nya änglalåtar [28] and their version charted for 10 weeks at Svensktoppen between 13 April-24 August 1980, and also managed to top the chart. During one spring in the 1950s the complex relationships of four couples, of black, white and mixed race, play out against the pronounced social inequality dividing the ruling British elite and the slave-descended native population of a small (fictitious) West Indian island. Dorothy Dandridge as Margot Seaton, a beautiful West Indian, who is pursued by Denis Archer, the governor's aide-de-camp. Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Downtown Music Publishing, Kanjian Music, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. The song has also been covered by many artists, including The Merrymen, [17] José Carreras, The Paragons, [18] and The Righteous Brothers. This was Dorothy Dandridge's "comeback" movie, as she hadn't made a film since 1954's Carmen Jones, in which she played the lead. Insecure in his marriage, Maxwell magnifies a case of mistaken identity into the obsession that his wife is having an affair with Hilary Carson ( Michael Rennie), an attractive and single former war hero.

The song was one of two songs (the other song being "Lead Man Holler") written by Harry Belafonte and Irving Burgie for the 1957 film Island in the Sun, a film on racial tension and interracial romance. Like his much admired forerunner in the cause of black freedom, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte was the possessor of a beautiful, husky, and utterly distinctive voice of great flexibility, which brought him fame as “The King of Calypso” and as a phenomenally successful star of the commercial folk scene of the late 50s and early 60s. It was going to be the second of three films he was going to produce, the first being The Sun Also Rises and the third The Secret Crimes of Josef Stalin. It delves into the universal theme of love and how even the smallest gesture of affection can have a profound impact on our lives.Island in the Sun" is a song written by Harry Belafonte and Irving Burgie (Lord Burgess), and performed by Harry Belafonte for the 1957 film Island in the Sun and on his 1957 album Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean. The song serves as the title song sung at the start of the film, which ends with Belafonte walking off to the humming of the song. He also liked the fact the book had "a novel and attractive background" which would suit filming in color and CinemaScope, and that the novel tackled miscegenation. Joan Fontaine as Mavis Norman, an elite white woman who lacks direction in her life, and is drawn towards the magnetism of David Boyeur.