Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - Don Carlos

Hattie McDaniel, Aunt Tempy in Song of the South, was the first black woman to be nominated and win an Academy Award. She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind. Today we celebrate the day of her birth with a song from Song of the South, one of her last movies.

The song is Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and it is performed by reggae legend DON CARLOS and can be found on the album REGGAE FOR KIDS: MOVIE CLASSICS. Carlos kicked off his music career singing for the reggae group Black Uhuru in 1973. While the group did very well for themselves, it was Carlos' live show in dance clubs that brought in the crowds, leading Carlos to record a dozen solo albums. Black Uhuru didn't last but Carlos still tours the world to this very day.

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Don Carlos 2001