Swing Dat Hammer

Infobox Album |
Name = Swing Dat Hammer
Type = Album
Artist = Harry Belafonte


Released = 1960
Recorded = 1960
Genre = Vocal, folk
Length = 37:25
Label = RCA Victor
Producer = Bob Bollard
Reviews =
* Allmusic rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:wpfpxqe5ldae link]
Last album = "Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall"
(1960)
This album = ""'Swing Dat Hammer"
(1960)
Next album = "Jump Up Calypso"
(1961)

"Swing Dat Hammer" is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor (LPM-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

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