Happy Heavenly Birthday to Harry Belafonte (1927-2023). I’ve only mentioned this about twenty times, but when I was a kid, we listened to his Carnegie Hall concerts, double LPs, so often that you could almost see through them.

And I’ve posted Belafonte concert clips before–he is utterly charming and quite possibly the handsomest man God ever created–but these clips from Beetlejuice still make me smile. Big time.

“The Banana Boat Song,” With, among others, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara (“Schitt’s Creek”) and Dick Cavett.

And Ryder dances to “Shake Señora/Jump in the Line” as a bonus.