The story of the Banana Boat Song (Day-0) and the calypso craze it spearheaded when it became a huge hit for Harry Belafonte in the late 1950s. Cy Grant , who was the first black face to be regularly seen on British television, singing the news in calypso on the BBC
Tonight programme, shows how Day-O was not calypso at all, and was far removed from the songs being sung by genuine calypsonians, who had been migrating to Britain from Trinidad since the 40s. Producer Megan Jones