Talk:Choucoune (song)

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Harry Belafonte had this song with different lyrics, using "destiny" where Yellow Bird is sung. What is its name and where does it fit in? By the way the Yellow Bird article should not be about "the single by Arthur Lyman. It should be about the generic song. 66.187.64.82 (talk) 21:09, 10 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Harry Belafonte's version was titled "Never Love Me"; it was the B site of Mama Look at Boo-Boo. I think it came out just before the Norman Luboff Choir version but I'm not sure. - Quadibloc (talk) 15:14, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

The song "Choucounne" (sic) appears on side 2 of Columbia Record's "The Calypso Carnival" LP. (Which I own.) The notes on the back cover read: Choucounne This is another Haitian folk song, sung in the French patois. It is one of the romantic ballads of the Islands.

Complete list of songs for "The Calypso Carnival" LP: Side 1 Honey Man Victoria Market Small Island Better Woman Than You Union Street Ministre a Zaca Trinidad Blues

Side 2 Miss Emmalina Solas Market Chicken Gumbo and the Okra Water Shimmy Like A Lady Zombie Jamboree Choucounne —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.231.236.90 (talk) 03:03, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Eastern Airlines had a fleet of yellow painted planes called "Yellow Birds" and they aired television commercials in which they used the Yellow Bird song with different lyrics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.234.133 (talk) 03:13, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

From this web site [] and another Google result of a forum discussion, I've encountered the claim that the chorus part of Choucounne - the part that survived into Yellow Bird - can actually be traced back to a chanson from the Anjou region with the title "Non, non, non, je ne marierai pas". If this is the case, it would seem that crediting "Yellow Bird" as Trad/Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman as record label stickers have tended to do would, apparently, not constitute an appropriation of Haitian culture as thought, after all. - Quadibloc (talk) 15:14, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

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