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Harry Belafonte records Midnight Special in Webster Hall, New York City, USA, for RCA Records. Harmonica on this session is by upcoming Greenwich Village folkie Bob Dylan.
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Eve Mckenzie (friend) : Harry Belafonte came out of the army and stayed with Hank Pearson, my neighbour upstairs, and Bobby said that one day he would like to be as big as Harry Belafonte - that was his dream, his goal. You know, though, I never heard how he got the job to play with Harry Belafonte on that record, but boy did he complain about it later, about how he had to rehearse and rehearse and rehearse doing it the same over and over.
Harry Belafonte : It was supposed to be Sonny Terry, but he got grounded by a thunderstorm in Memphis and couldn't make the date. My guitarist Millard Thomas said, 'Well, there's this kid I see all the time down the village and he does that whole Sonny thing
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Harry Belafonte : It was supposed to be Sonny Terry, but he got grounded by a thunderstorm in Memphis and couldn't make the date. My guitarist Millard Thomas said, 'Well, there's this kid I see all the time down the village and he does that whole Sonny thing