Swing Dat Hammer

Swing Dat Hammer
Studio album by
Released1960
Recorded1960
GenreVocal, folk
Length37:25
LabelRCA Victor
ProducerBob Bollard
Harry Belafonte chronology
Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall
(1960)
Swing Dat Hammer
(1960)
Jump Up Calypso
(1961)
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Swing Dat Hammer is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor (LPM/LSP-2194) in 1960. It is a collection of chain gang work songs. The last cut is a collection of workmen conversations.

At the Grammy Awards of 1961 Swing Dat Hammer won the Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording.