Streets I Have Walked

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Streets I Have Walked
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Studio album by
Released1963
Recorded1963
Genre Vocal, folk
Label RCA Victor
Producer Bob Bollard
Harry Belafonte chronology
The Many Moods of Belafonte
(1962)
Streets I Have Walked
(1963)
Belafonte at The Greek Theatre
(1964)
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Streets I Have Walked is an album by Harry Belafonte, released in 1963. [3] The album contains songs from around the world as well as gospel songs. It reached #30 on the Billboard Albums 200, making it his last studio album to reach the top 40.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Sit Down" – 2:29
  2. "Erev Shel Shoshanim" (Moshe Dor, Yosef Hadar) – 3:11
  3. "Waltzing Matilda" (Traditional) – 3:14
  4. "My Old Paint" (Traditional) – 3:27
  5. "Mangwene Mpulele" (Traditional) – 3:30
  6. "This Land Is Your Land" (Woody Guthrie) – 3:02
  7. "Tunga" (John P. Gonsalves) – 3:13
  8. "Sakura" (Traditional Japanese. English lyrics by Marilyn Keith and Alan Bergman) – 3:57
  9. "Amen" (Jester Hairston) – 3:05
  10. "The Borning Day" (Fred Hellerman, Fran Minkoff) – 3:31
  11. "This Wicked Race" – 3:05
  12. "Come Away Melinda" (Hellerman, Minkoff) – 2:28

Personnel

Production notes:

Chart positions

YearChartPosition
1963The Billboard 20030

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Watson, Jimmy (27 July 1963). "Harry Belafonte: Streets I Have Walked" (PDF). New Record Mirror . No. 124. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  3. Allmusic entry for Streets I Have Walked Retrieved October 2009.