Day-o songwriter Burgie dies at 95

Irving Burgie, best known as the writer of the classic song Day-o, died Nov. 29 at 95, his son Andrew told CNN Monday. He’d been suffering from heart failure. “I thank God he lived this long,” Andrew Burgie said. He served in the Second World War, later attending The Juilliard School where he majored in voice. After adopting the stage name Lord Burgess, he and singer Harry Belafonte penned eight of the 11 songs on the 1956 album Calypso, the first record to sell more than one million copies in the U.S., according to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.