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Stan Freberg's version was the basis for the TV advert for the UK chocolate bar Trio in the mid-1980s. When he hears the lyric about the "deadly black taranch-la", the beatnik protests, "Don't sing about spiders, man! Like, I don't dig spiders".
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The Tarriers, or some subset of the three members of the group ( Erik Darling, Bob Carey and Alan Arkin) are sometimes credited as the writers of the song, perhaps because their version of the song, which mixed in another song, was an original creation. This version was re-recorded by Shirley Bassey in 1957, and became a hit in the United Kingdom. It outdid Belafonte's original on the pop charts, reaching number four. They recorded a version of that song that mixed in the chorus of another Jamaican folk song, "Hill and Gully Rider", and released it, spawning what became their biggest hit. Also in 1956, folk singer Bob Gibson, who had travelled to Jamaica and heard the song, taught his version of it to the folk band The Tarriers. In 1956, singer/songwriters Irving Burgie and William Attaway wrote a version of the lyrics that was recorded that same year by Harry Belafonte this is the version that is by far the best known to listeners today, as it reached number five on the Billboard charts in 1957 and later became Belafonte's signature song. It was also recorded by Louise Bennett in 1954.
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The first recorded version was done by Trinidadian singer Edric Connor and his band "Edric Connor and the Caribbeans" in 1952, on the album Songs From Jamaica the song was called "Day De Light". It was thought to be sung by Jamaican banana workers, with a repeated melody and refrain, but with many different sets of lyrics, some possibly improvised on the spot. Its popular version was adapted by Irving Burgie. The song was originally a Jamaican folk song.