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aint_no_life_nowhere

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Sat Oct 19, 2013, 06:06 PM Oct 2013

Adapted from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto

and the chorus Caro Nome is this comedy/novelty song from 1966 about a Mexican banana farmer's daughter with operatic ambitions entitled "Juanita Banana".

Originally recorded in English by the group the Peels, it was adapted into French, Spanish, Italian and other languages. The French Afro-Caribbean comedian/singer Henri Salvador did a visually funny version as Juanita Banana. It's a novelty song that went round the world.

Henri Salvador's interpretation in French:



The original in English by the Peels:



In Italian by Quartetto Cetra:



In Spanish by Luis Aguile:


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