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Irving Louis Burgie composed 34 songs for Harry Belafonte, including eight of the songs on Belafonte's 1956 album Calypso, including "Day-O"' and "Jamaica Farewell", which was the first album of any kind to sell one million copies. And Burgie wrote eight of the twelve tracks on Belafonte's 1961 album Jump Up Calypso. Burgie also wrote the lyrics of the National Anthem of Barbados. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007.