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| Composer of: "Erev Shel Shoshanim" | |
| Bass on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "A Roving", "Chimney Smoke" Member of DeCormier Singers |
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Al Haig |
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| Piano on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes", "The Night Has A 1000 Eyes" | |
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Jester
Hairston |
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| Composer of "Amen", "Mary's Boy Child" | |
| Composer of "Lean On Me" | |
| Trombone on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "Baby Darlin'", "Hello Everybody" "Man Smart #3", "Matilda #2", "Scarlet Ribbons #1", "Troubles", "Waterboy" | |
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Al Hall |
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| Bass on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "Brown Skin Girl", "Come back Liza", "Dolly Dawn", "I Do Adore Her", "Jamaica Farewell", "Melda Massi", | |
| Composer of: "Custer's Last Stand" | |
| Guitar on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "Baby Darlin'", "Hello Everybody", "Man Smart #3", "Matilda #2", "Scarlet Ribbons #1", "Troubles", "Waterboy" | |
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| Vocalist and keyboard. Appeared with Harry Belafonte on the 1995 European Tour where she sang "Skin to Skin" and "A Hole In The Bucket" partly in the German language. Also on the album "An Evening With Belafonte And Friends" | |
| Drums on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "In That Great Gettin' Up Mornin', "Jump Down, Spin Around", "Noah", "Sylvie" | |
| Member of The Norman Luboff Choir 1955, performs on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "In That Great Gettin' Up Mornin', "Jump Down, Spin Around", "Noah", "Sylvie", "Take My Mother Home" | |
| Composer of: "And I Love You So" | |
| Member of The Norman Luboff Choir. | |
| Congas, Flute & Vocals on Hugh Masekela's album BTS62, | |
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Otto Harbach |
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| Composer of "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes", | |
| Vocal chorus on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "Angelique-O", "Cocoanut Woman", "Cordelia Brown", "Don't Ever Love Me", "Haiti Cherie", "Island in the Sun", "Mama Look A Bo Bo", "Scratch, Scratch", | |
| Composer of: "Love, Love Alone" | |
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info is from a concert program around 1960: Librarian and copyist of all Harry Belafonte's enterprises, films, recordings, TV and concerts. Attended Cornell University where he majored in Agriculture. At Cornell he played the piano in various dance bands and since then music has been his chief interest. He was accompanist at all of Belafonte's rehearsals and recording sessions. His musical training was the Schillinger Method. His father was a conductor and arranger for radio and recordings, and his wife, the former Judy Lang was a singer. Performs on the 1957 recording of "Fifteen", "Hava Nageela #2", "How Green Was My Valley", "I'm Going Away", "Judy Drownded", "Lead Man Holler", "The Lord is My Shepherd", "Love Love Alone", "Lucy's Door", "When The Saints Go Marching In" |
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| Member of the Johnny Mann Singers of today. | |
| Vocals on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "Delia", "The Drummer And The Cook #1", "The Fox", | |
| Member of the DeCormier Singers. | |
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| Tour company manager for Harry Belafonte around 1960. | |
| Vocals. Appears on Harry Belafonte's album "Turn the World Around" | |
| Composer of: "Little Bernadette" | |
| Sings "Try To Remember" with Belafonte on EMI 252723 | |
| Vocalist (Bass). Member of The Belafonte Folk Singers , the DeCormier Singers and The Seafarers Chorus . The only solo album I have found is "The Bob Harter Songbag" - Liberty LST7330 from February 1964. | |
| Percussion on Miriam Makeba's "Eyes On Tomorrow". | |
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Alex Hassilev |
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| Member of The Limeliters 1959-2006, vocal, guitar, and banjo. | |
| Composer of "Gomen Nasai" | |
| Former member of The Brothers Four | |
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| Drums. Appeared with Harry Belafonte on the 1998 European Tour. | |
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Lee
Hays |
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| Member of the Almanac Singers and later the
Weavers. He co-authored "If I Had a Hammer" and "Wasn’t That a Time", which
became the title of the Weaver’s biographical film (see movies). He died in 1981
during the editing of this film. His biography, "Lonesome Traveler" (Doris
Willens, Norton Publishing) was published in 1987, and takes its name from one
of his songs. Composer of: "Talkin' and Signifyin'", "Times Are Gettin' Hard" |
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| Vocal chorus on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "Angelique-O", "Cocoanut Woman", "Cordelia Brown", "Don't Ever Love Me", "Haiti Cherie", "Island in the Sun", "Mama Look A Bo Bo", "Scratch, Scratch", | |
| Bass on Gordon Lightfoot's albums RS6392, | |
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Dennis Haysbert |
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| Performs in the movie "Grambling's White Tiger" | |
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Lennie Hayton |
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| Musical director on Harry Belafonte's album LSP2019 | |
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| Member of The Belafonte Folk Singers (baritone). A veteran of some 500 concerts covering most of the United States and Canada, for Columbia Concerts and NCAC Civic Concerts, his numerous television credits include: the Max Liebman Spectaculars and the "Martha Raye Show". Tom has an equally extensive list of summer stock credits, including two seasons at Jones Beach in New York and leading roles in the Milwaukee Operetta Company. New York opera lovers have seen Tom at the City Center in "Simon Boccanegra", "Falstaff", "Cosi Fan Tutte", "Rigoletto", "Carmen", "Faust", "La Traviate", "La Boheme" and the American Premiere of "Don Pedro". | |
| Trombone on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "Acorn In The Meadow", "Hold'em Joe", "I'm Just A Country Boy", "Pretty As A Rainbow" | |
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| Appeared with Belafonte on the 1969 tour at O'Keefe Center. | |
| Guitar on Mitchell Trio's album RS6258, | |
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Fred
Hellerman |
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| One member of the Weavers, later a solo
performer (guitar, vocal) and composer of (mainly
together with Fran Minkoff): "The
Borning Day", "Chickens",
"Come Away Melinda", "The
First Day Of Forever", "The
Honey Wind Blows", "I Know
Where I'm Going", "In
The Beginning", "Long
About Now", "Our
Time For Loving", "Portrait
Of A Sunday Afternoon", "Quiet
Room", "Sailor Man". Also
with Odetta on VSD2057. Guitar on Chad Mitchell Trio's albums KS3281, Under the name Fred Brooks composer of: "Fare Thee Well", "Delia", "Darlin' Cora", "Green Grow The Lilacs", "I'm Just A Country Boy", "I Never Will Marry", "Pretty As A Rainbow", "Walking On The Green Grass", "The Way That I Feel", "Who's Gonna Be Your Man", |
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| Swedish musician and arranger. Appears with Sivuca on the album RS5162. | |
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| Member of The Belafonte Folk Singers (tenor). Robert, a graduate of the University of Akron, Ohio, was a singing member of that city's local radio station WADC, starring in his own show, "Bob Henson Sings". New Yorkers have heard him on the airwaves in recital programs over WNYC and WLIB. He has toured with the De Paur Infantry Chorus and the De Paur Opera Gala in Japan, Hawaii and the Far East, and he has appeared at the New York City Center and on Broadway in "Too Late the Phalarope". Among his TV credits are, the "Nat King Cole Show", the Bell Telephone Hour, Ed Sullivan Shows, "The Steve Allen Show", "Salute To The American Theatre", and "Green Pastures". Robert was an assistant musical director of The Belafonte Folk Singers around 1960. Also on "The Long Road To Freedom". | |
| Performed with Belafonte 1969 at the O'Keefe Center | |
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| A Swedish group that recorded "Island In The Sun" a long time ago. | |
| Member of The Belafonte Folk Singers in 1967. | |
| Violin on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "A Roving", "Chimney Smoke", "Man Piaba", "Mo Mary", | |
| Violin on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "Acorn In The Meadow", "Hold'em Joe", "I'm Just A Country Boy", "Pretty As A Rainbow" | |
| Member of The Norman Luboff Choir. | |
| Performs on the album "The Long Road To Freedom" | |
| Composer of: "A Roving", | |
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| Piano on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "Cu Cu Ru Cu Cu Paloma #1", "The Drummer And The Cook", "Eden Was Just Like This", "Hava Nageela #1", "Jamaica Farewell", "Mary's Boy Child", "Merci Bon Dieu", "Once Was", "When The Saints Go Marching In" | |
| Bass on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "Day-O #1", "Hosanna", "Jack-Ass Song", "Suzanne #2", "Star-O", "Unchained Melody", "Will His Love Be Like His Rum" | |
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Dan Hoadely |
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| Member of Gregorian | |
| Member of The Seafarers Chorus | |
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Dick
Holler |
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| Composer of: "Abraham, Martin And John", | |
| Vocals on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "Hosanna", "Jack-Ass Song", "Will His Love Be Like His Rum" | |
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Jake Holmes |
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| Vocals on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "Paradise In Gazankulu", composer of "Amandla", "Capetown", "Did You Know", "Genuine Imitation Life", "Global Carnival", "Her Song", "I Don't Need Her", "I Told You", "Kwela", "Martin Luther King", "Monday To Monday", "Move It", "Paradise In Gazankulu", "The Paris Song", "Sisiwami", "Skin To Skin", "So Close", "We Are The Wave", "We Make Love", | |
| Member of The Belafonte Folk Singers. Also on the album Nina Simone sings the blues, RCA LSP3789. | |
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Lena Horne |
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| Vocalist. Appeared with Belafonte on the albums "Porgy And Bess" and PRS295. | |
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Robert Horton |
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| Appears with Harry Belafonte in the movie "Bright Road". | |
| Trombone on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "The Drummer And The Cook #2", "Hava Nageela #1", "Jamaica Farewell", "Once Was", | |
| Cello on Miriam Makeba's album "Reflections" | |
| Performed with Belafonte 1969 at the O'Keefe Center | |
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| Musical conductor
and arranger. Appeared on Harry Belafonte's 1960 tour and on the album
LSP2388.
His talents range from piano and organ to string bass, tuba and other instruments. Conductor on Miriam Makeba's KL1274 |
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Rhetta Hughes |
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| Vocalist, appeared with Harry Belafonte on the 1976 European Tour. | |
| In the motion picture Carmen Jones, Harry Belafonte's voice was replaced by LeVern Hutcherson during the songs. | |
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Updated:
18-jun-2024 |
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