The Magnificent Goldberg Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 This is "Tom Hark" by Elias & his Zig Zag Jive Flutes. It was #1 on the UK pop charts in 1957. And I think it must have been big in Jamaica, too. I can just hear this rhythm being pushed into a different shape in JA. And, in the early sixties, there were at least 2 Ska versions of it - one instrumental, one vocal. Here's the B side, "Ry ry" - rather similar. I think most people here thought of it as a novelty. But I thought it was WILD! MG Quote
rostasi Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 A classic in the very real sense! MG, do you know if Elias' brother "Big Voice Jack" is still alive? Rod Quote
mikeweil Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 IIRC my first African record was this: ... quickly followed by this (the double LP I have has a different cover): Quote
Head Man Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 (edited) King Sunny Ade - Ju-Ju Music I can't believe I first heard this in 1982. A lifetime ago! Edited March 22, 2010 by Head Man Quote
AllenLowe Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 My Little Zulu Babe - by Williams and Walker Quote
mikeweil Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 I bought that King Sunny Adé LP after sseing him on TV - he performed in German TV's famous "Rockplast" series - but was disappointed. The live performance was a blast, the LP a sterilized studio effort. I'm glad I was given a tape of the TV show many years later. Quote
GA Russell Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 I got two African albums in the summer of '71, although they may have both been recorded in England - Osibisa's self-titled first album and Demon Fuzz's self-titled first (and only?) album. Quote
Stefan Wood Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 Missa Luba, from my parents' lp colection. Quote
aparxa Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 Music in my native place has a lot of African influences ( well, it is in Africa), so many different records. Plus some other records from my parents' collection such as Johnny Clegg. One of my first vivid memories about African music is a concert of the Soweto Gospel Choir, about 20 years ago. Quote
AllenLowe Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 the theme song to the film "Out of Africa" (as sung by Mel Brooks): "Africa.... won't someone get me out of Africa?" Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted March 22, 2010 Author Report Posted March 22, 2010 Music in my native place has a lot of African influences ( well, it is in Africa), so many different records. Plus some other records from my parents' collection such as Johnny Clegg. One of my first vivid memories about African music is a concert of the Soweto Gospel Choir, about 20 years ago. Are you from Namibia? MG Quote
aparxa Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 La Réunion (French island 100 miles away from Mauritius, 500 from Madagascar), Reunion of two volcanoes and different cultures from Europe, Africa and Asia. Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted March 22, 2010 Author Report Posted March 22, 2010 La Réunion (French island 100 miles away from Mauritius, 500 from Madagascar), Reunion of two volcanoes and different cultures from Europe, Africa and Asia. That would have been my second guess - but the second vid ("basters") pointed at Nam. MG Quote
papsrus Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 La Réunion (French island 100 miles away from Mauritius, 500 from Madagascar), Reunion of two volcanoes and different cultures from Europe, Africa and Asia. Googled it. Looks beautiful. Quote
GA Russell Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 Missa Luba, from my parents' lp colection. I admit that I'm losing my mind, but I seem to recall hearing Missa Luba in 1967 as a leit motif of the movie If. Am I right? Quote
rostasi Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 Missa Luba, from my parents' lp colection. I admit that I'm losing my mind, but I seem to recall hearing Missa Luba in 1967 as a leit motif of the movie If. Am I right? Yes, actually '68...and it was used a couple of years before that in "The Singing Nun." Quote
medjuck Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 Great record! I feel (not really think) that I've heard it before with words. Is that possible? (It does remind me a bit of Wimowhe (sp?) or The Lion Sleeps Tonight-- which I guess, as done by the Weavers-- would be the first AFrican music I ever heard.) Quote
aparxa Posted March 22, 2010 Report Posted March 22, 2010 La Réunion (French island 100 miles away from Mauritius, 500 from Madagascar), Reunion of two volcanoes and different cultures from Europe, Africa and Asia. That would have been my second guess - but the second vid ("basters") pointed at Nam. MG Baster as Basse-Terre (Lowland), a locality in the South. La Réunion (French island 100 miles away from Mauritius, 500 from Madagascar), Reunion of two volcanoes and different cultures from Europe, Africa and Asia. Googled it. Looks beautiful. Definitely worth the trip for the moutains, active volcano and all these ocean activities stuff people like to do! Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted March 23, 2010 Author Report Posted March 23, 2010 La Réunion (French island 100 miles away from Mauritius, 500 from Madagascar), Reunion of two volcanoes and different cultures from Europe, Africa and Asia. That would have been my second guess - but the second vid ("basters") pointed at Nam. MG Baster as Basse-Terre (Lowland), a locality in the South. Ah, in 19th C Namibia, Basters were a society of the offspring between Europeans and Nama; a Khoisan people. The word, of course, is a corruption of bastards. MG Quote
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