贝拉方提（Harry Belafonte)于1927年3月1日出生在纽约，他是位把牙买加的卡里普索节奏带到美国主流社会的有非洲血统的美国艺术家，后来，他凭借自己的声望致力于反对种族歧视和社会不平等的斗争。他在牙买加和纽约黑人区长大，二战退役后，在纽约的剧场开始自己的演艺生涯。他丝绒般的嗓音为他赢得了录音合约。40年代后期和50年代，他成为纽约受欢迎的表演者和电视明星。1953年，他拍了第一部电影。他的唱片《香蕉船》，曾引起人们对卡里普索歌曲的狂热，这也是他本人的第一张百万销量的唱片。他是第一个在美国电视中出名的黑人艺术家，1959年他的节目“今晚和贝拉方提在一起”赢得艾美奖，六七十年代他是电视上频繁被邀请的嘉宾。除了大量成功的演唱会和录音外，他还是著名的人权运动的倡导者，他还获得美国和平队和联合国儿童基金会的奖励。他出演的著名电影还包括《卡门。乔那斯》（1954），这是部音乐剧版的歌剧《卡门》。
    唱片"Calypso From Jamaica"，收录了贝拉方提最受欢迎的卡里普索歌曲。贝拉方提打破了音乐素材中单调的传统框框,使这些音乐或者意味深长,或者令人激动不已。他曾在卡内基音乐厅举办过这类歌曲的演唱会。这里分享的资料源APE文件来自网络，现用LAME压缩成192K/SMP3 VBR文件。全部歌词见这里----http://www.akh.se/harbel/cd12505.htm


曲目:

1 Day O 3:26 
2 Jamaica Farewell 3:02 
3 Matilda 3:36 
4 Come Back Liza 3:08 
5 Mama Look A Boo Boo 5:13 
6 Man Smart 4:10 
7 Kingston Market 3:20 
8 Jump Down, Spin Around 1:59 
9 Island In The Sun 3:27 
10 Brown Skin Girl 2:45 
11 The Jack-Ass Song 2:55 
12 I Do Adore Her 2:50 
13 Hosanna 2:38 
14 Man Piaba 3:34 
15 All My Trials 3:53 
16 Will His Love Be Like His Rum? 2:34 
17 Dolly Dawn 3:17 
18 Coconut Woman







MAN SMART歌词:

I say let us put man and a woman together
To find out which one is smarter
Some say man but I say no
The woman got the man de day should know

And not me but the people they say
That de man are leading de women astray
But I say, that the women of today
Smarter than the man in every way
That’s right de woman is uh smarter
That’s right de woman is uh smarter
That’s right de woman is uh smarter, that’s right, that’s right

Ever since the world began
Woman was always teaching man
And I you listen to my bid attentively
I goin’ tell you how she smarter than me

Samson was the strongest man long ago
No one could a beat him, as we all know
Until he clash with Deliah on top of the bed
She told them all the strength was in the hair of his head

You meet a girl at a pretty dance
Thinking that you would stand a chance
Take her home, thinking she’s alone
Open de door you find her husband home

I was treating a girl independently
She was making baby for me
When de baby born and I went to see
Eyes was blue it was not by me

Garden of Eden was very nice
Adam never work in Paradise
Eve meet snake, Paradise gone
She make Adam work from that day on

Methusaleh spent all his life in tears
Lived without a woman for 900 years
One day he decided to have some fun
The poor man never lived to see 900 and one---------------------------------------------------
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