Harry Belafonte
Great new find - and I have to say I feel like I am cheating a bit here because I got the song off a mix by the site Aquarium Drunkard, that a friend sent to me.
http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/
I could write about 70 percent of the music on this one mix. Totally excellent random finds from obscure bands - a lot of which you can tell was taken direct from vinyl. I strongly reccomend checking it out.
Anyway, I think song is perfect for the moment in a movie when someone begins to make plans to do something decisively good that will resolve the storyline. Maybe at the 80 minute mark, after the crisis already hit and you’re kind of looking at your watch thinking ‘how much longer till this thing wraps itself up and I can leave and get dinner? What can i get for cheap in times square before I get on the subway home?’ - well, that’s just me when I go to a 6 p.m. screening and my stomach starts rumbling at 7:20. If this was a good movie, you wouldn’t be thinking that.
Regardless, it’s a wonderful song. “Give Us Our Land” is the title.
