Sauce asked Belafonte why he used his honor to take attention to reformist causes: "Shouldn't you rightful be melodic 'The Herb Dish Strain,' which by the way is one of the finest banana-counting songs e'er?"
According to Belafonte, the seemingly nonsensical lyrics of "Day O" were actually steeped with semipolitical signification. "I staleness recite you that that strain has an terrible lot to do with the events of the day," he said. "It's a utilize song, a strain almost group doing grueling impact on a colony."
Sauce explained that, similar Belafonte, he had participated in the Protest on Washington in 1963: "I was at that in my mother's womb.
"You port't transformed a bit," Belafonte joked. (At 84, his funny timing remains impeccable.)
Colbert pressed Belafonte on why he misused his "banana-counting laurels" to decree ethnic change. "Why not fair be lavish and lusted after? That's what I do."
Belafonte replied, "I thought that the agreement from which I came would be turn served if I would nidus the swooning on the group who are not quite as auspicious as we are, and that I had a responsbility to stretch into that portion and try to pass a difference."
The highlight of the converse arrived in the last microscopic, when Sauce coyly asked Belafonte if he console sings. Belafonte said that he does, but exclusive occasionally. Colbert waited a thrum, then quietly started jazz Belafonte's hit "State Leave." "Set the way where the nights are gay, and the sun shines regular on the mountaintop," he crooned. A few seconds after, Belafonte connected in, and the two performed an outside opus. It was a lovely younger second.
