GUYANA – LATEST NEWS – 02 June 2016 – Kaieteur News
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- Anyone found to be corrupt, should be charged – Jagdeo
- Hi-tech equipment being used to locate bodies of missing fishermen
- Cops apprehend suspect who robbed former British soldier
- Forensic audit reveals…No position at OLPF was ever advertised
- to rid Guyana of ‘BaiShanLin syndrome’-Natural Resources Minister
- Prison COI recommends no more overcrowding at prisons
- Dried tomato project soon to begin in Paramakatoi
- Scrap Metal Unit officials neglected their responsibilities — Audit Report finds
- Scrap Metal Unit audit…Inspectors, others paid over $43M to do little
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Songwriter Irving Burgie’s helped Harry Belafonte and others – By Les Slater
Songwriter Irving Burgie’s huge footprints – By Les Slater
Irving Bergie
Caribbean Life – May 31, 2016
There’s no doubt that his outstanding performance skills, as well as other natural gifts, propelled Harry Belafonte to the high-flying success he enjoyed as an entertainer decades ago. Equally is there no question about the immense credit to which singer-songwriter Irving Burgie is entitled for the major contribution he made toward Belafonte’s path to super-stardom.
Burgie wrote more than 30 songs that Belafonte performed. Their collaboration got going, back in the 1950s, with the sort of bang most folks only dream about. Of the 11 tracks on the iconic 1956 RCA Belafonte album, Calypso, Burgie wrote eight of them. Songs like “Day-O,” “Jamaica Farewell” and “Come Back Liza” performed by Belafonte on the album would be anchored as mainstays in the Belafonte repertoire for the remainder of his singing career. And Calypso would proceed to make history as the first album of any kind to sell a million copies. More of Burgie’s songs followed in later Belafonte releases. Continue reading →
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