High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Beat Street: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Beat Street, Vol. 2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack are soundtrack albums for the 1984 drama film of the same name. It was released in 1984 by Atlantic Records. Both albums were produced by Harry Belafonte, a calypso artist best-known for his 1956 hit Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), and a profilic freestyle music producer and remixer Arthur Baker, who collaborated with music artists like Freeez, Afrika Bambaataa, New Order.