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Rasbelin
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Tampere (Tammerfors), Finland
Nov 1999
time: 07:16
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Recently one or more Apolytoners have found it fun to include vB Code strip automatically loading an MP3 file to the thread viewer's browser. First of all those responsible should face the rest of us and at least appologise, or at least stop wasting bandwith and server capacity. If this continues, soon there's no capacity left for normal ACS surfing when some childish idiots spread that MP3. Veeerry funny! Perhaps I'm overeacting by saying that the server capacity will soon be used up, but I suppose you still get the point; use your wits!
I decided to check out what that music trick was really about, so I downloaded it from this location seen in the browser statusbar when loading a page including that MP3 trick:
http://www.kenthecomputerguy.com/Personal/LabRat/Day-o/banana_boat_song.mp3 (copy and paste, if you want to download the file)
The URL should still work, so just feel free to load. I don't say you have the copyrights, but neither do I. 
I opened the file in WinAmp and checked the file's details in the ID3 tag:
Heureka! Harry Belafonte! The Banana Boat Song! 
I checked out MS Encarta 99 for more details on him and the song, because I was sure I had heard the song before:
Belafonte, Harry (1927- ), American folk singer, actor, producer, and activist for civil rights and humanitarian causes. Born Harold George Belafonte in the Harlem section of New York City, he moved as a child with his mother to Jamaica, her native country. After five years in Jamaica, Belafonte returned to Harlem. He studied acting in the late 1940s at the Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research and later received a Tony Award for his appearance in John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953). Belafonte first gained attention as a singer during an extended engagement at Broadway's Royal Roost nightclub, where he began specializing in the music of the West Indies. His first great success was the 1956 album Calypso, which included "Banana Boat Song," also known as "Day-O," his most famous recording. "Banana Boat Song," along with such songs as "Matilda" and "Brown Skin Girl," sparked a surge of interest in calypso music. Belafonte's carefree folk songs appealed to a broad cross section of the American public. He was one of the first pop music artists to achieve such wide appeal. His other albums include the popular Belafonte At Carnegie Hall (1959) and Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall (1960), which featured the song "There's a Hole in My Bucket," performed with the folk, jazz, and blues singer Odetta. Belafonte acted in several motion pictures, including Island in the Sun (1957), Uptown Saturday Night (1974), First Look (1984), and The Player (1992). He won an Emmy award for his 1960 television special Tonight with Belafonte, becoming the first black man to win the award.
I also searched for the words with AltaVista, and found a Swedish website dedicated to Belafonte's work. Here's a link to the lyrics: http://w1.871.telia.com/~u87125666/lyrics/dayo.htm.
Hopefully this cleared things up a bit. But my message still is that please don't do things like this on ACS Forums.
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27-11-2001 21:05
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