Swing Dat Hammer Explained

Swing Dat Hammer
Type:	Album
Artist:	Harry Belafonte
Cover:	Swing_Dat_Hammer.jpg
Released:	1960
Recorded:	1960
Genre:	Vocal, folk
Length:	37:25
Label:	RCA Victor
Producer:	Bob Bollard
Prev Title:	Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall
Prev Year:	1960
Next Title:	Jump Up Calypso
Next Year:	1961

Swing Dat Hammer is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor (LPM/LSP-2194) in 1960. It is a collection of chain gang work songs. The last cut is a collection of workmen conversations.

At the Grammy Awards of 1961 Swing Dat Hammer won the Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording.

Track listing

1. "Look Over Yonder" – 2:51
2. "Bald Headed Woman" – 3:30
3. "Grizzly Bear" – 3:27
4. "Diamond Joe" (Belafonte) – 3:36
5. "Here Rattler Here" – 3:57
6. "Another Man Done Gone" (Vera Hall, Alan Lomax, John Lomax, Ruby Pickens Tartt) – 2:21
7. "Swing Dat Hammer " – 4:38
8. "Go Down Old Hannah" – 3:47
9. "Rocks and Gravel" – 4:10
10. "Talkin' an' Signifyin' " – 5:08

Personnel

• Harry Belafonte – vocals
• The Belafonte Folk Singers – vocals
• Millard Thomas – guitar
• Robert De Cormier – conductor

Production notes

• Produced by Bob Bollard
• Engineered by Bob Simpson