Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)

"Jump In The Line (Shake, Senora)"
Song by Harry Belafonte from the album Jump Up Calypso
Released 1961 (U.S.)
Genre Calypso
Music sample
"Jump in the Line"

"Jump In the Line" is a song composed by Trinidadian calypsonian Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts) and won the 1946 Trinidad Carnival Road March. It was recorded by Harry Belafonte in 1961 (credited to his pseudonym Raymond Bell on the disc label). It was released on the album Jump Up Calypso, and was later featured in the films, Beetlejuice and The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning. It was also recorded by Lord Fly and[1] Joseph Spence in 1958.[2]

In 1998, the song was covered by American ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies for the soundtrack to the movie BASEketball.

The song was sampled by Pitbull as Shake SeƱora off the 2011 album Planet Pit.

References

  1. ^ "'The King of Calypso' Meet Lord Fly". mentomusic.com. http://www.mentomusic.com/fly.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-12. 
  2. ^ "Joseph Spence: The Complete Folkways Recordings". smithsonianglobalsound.org. http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/containerdetail.aspx?itemid=615. Retrieved 2008-08-12.