The 'Day-O' songwriter was 95
Songwriter Irving Burgie attends 'Beetlejuice' Broadway opening night at Winter Garden Theatre on April 25, 2019 in New York City.Harry BelafonteAt the Barbados Independence Day Parade on Saturday , Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley announced Burgie died Friday.
“Day-O,” written in 1952, has been ubiquitous, appearing in everything from the film and Broadway musicalto an E-Trade commercial. “Day-O” was also the wake-up call for the astronauts on two Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s. When a superstar list of music royalty gathered to film the “We Are the World” video in 1985, most burst into a playful version of “Day-O” in between takes.According to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Burgie’s songs have sold over 100 million records throughout the world.
His “Jamaica Farewell” has been recorded by Belafonte, Jimmy Buffett, Carly Simon and others. Others who have sung his songs include Mantovani, Miriam Makeba and Julio Iglesias. Burgie’s classic Caribbean standards include such familiar hits as “Island in The Sun,” “Angelina,” and he was co-writer of “Mary’s Boy Child.” He also wrote the 1963 off-Broadway musicalHe served in an all-black U.S. Army battalion in World War II and used GI Bill funds to pay for music studies.
After announcing his death, Mottley asked for a moment of silence for the Brooklyn-born Burgie, who wrote the lyrics to the national anthem of Barbados -- his mother’s homeland. “We write our names on history’s page/With expectations great/Strict guardians of our heritage/Firm craftsmen of our fate,” go some of the lines of the anthem.
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