(daylight come and me wanna go home) Work all night, gonna drink of rum. Day-O The Banana Boat Song Beetlejuice/Soundtrack Version Lyrics by Harry Belafonte from the Beetlejuice Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album. This Beetlejuice scene is stuff of legend Strange and unforgettable, the Day-O (Banana Boat Song) shrimp possession dance scene (lead by Delia Deetz).
But Burton was a fan and asked Cavett to play Bernard, the weary art agent to O’Hara’s terrible sculptor Delia. Day-o, day-o (daylight come and me wanna go home) me say day, me day, me say day. Listen to Day-O the Banana Boat Song (From Beetlejuice) Originally Performed By Harry Belafonte Karaoke Version - Single by Urock Karaoke on Apple.
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In fact, when Cavett has guest-starred on movie and television shows - including The Simpsons, Cheers, and Forrest Gump - he’s usually playing himself. Though the television personality was in just a single scene of Tim Burton’s 1988 supernatural comedy, it turned out to be the most memorable one in the film: the dinner party at which Delia (Catherine O’Hara) and her guests are possessed by ghosts and perform a song-and-dance routine to Harry Belafonte’s “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song).” In honor of Beetlejuice‘s 30th anniversary on March 30, Cavett spoke with Yahoo Entertainment about shooting the “Day-O” scene, his surprising special-effects contribution, and the one thing he wishes he’d done differently.Ĭavett told Yahoo that he was surprised when Tim Burton offered him a role in Beetlejuice, seeing as he wasn’t an actor (though he did have experience as both a magician and stand-up comic). Dick Cavett is best known for the witty, penetrating interviews he conducted for three decades on The Dick Cavett Show - but to Beetlejuice fans, he’ll always be Delia Deetz’s agent.