And Let Us Not Forget Louis Armstrong
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Album:I Love Jazz
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A great tune that we had around the house when I was just a little tiny deadboydeadboy. My dad had very eclectic tastes. This song has a very interesting history and if anyone has the original, I'd like to hear it. Bill?
Comments (12)
Ahhh yes... My parents listened to him many times when I was a child!
Sounds good. Got a good southern jazz bite!
Ah, yes...more Louis to the MOS, please.
Hey, DMDM, how old does it make you feel when some attractive youngster comments that "I remember my mom (or, worse yet, my grandparents) playing this around the cave....?
I have a few versions of this, including one by Hugh Masekela (who called it, more accurately, Isikhokiyana), and a live in Montreux take by the African Jazz Pioneers.
I'll try and track down the original
one can never forget good ol Louis
Mark, bother me? Hell no, I cannot hold their lack of experience against them. That would be unMOGlike.
Baudolino, in a subsequent post (http://mog.com/blog_post/view/189839#), found a wonderful 1954 South African version of this. One-upped, I spent then spent the requisite amount of time crouching in front of shelves to find my only version, by The African Dance Band of the Cold Storage Commission of Southern Rhodesia, leader: August Msarugwa, recorded in Bulawayo in 1950, reissued on cassette by some collector from his home around fifteen years ago.
Actually it sounds like the exact same recording as Baudolino's but with a different group name and date. Oops!
I love Louis and never forget him & I've neer heard this track, so thanks! My Grandfather (Dede) took a train all the way from upstate NY to New Orleans to hear him & other NO jazz musicians when he was a young man!
I suspect that copyright infringement wasn't a major concern to the proprietors of record labels, when the music was being made by illiterate black men who had no economic or voting rights. After all, Gallo in South Africa were notorious for never paying royalties, or providing artists with sales figures
It's still a problem in many places. Madagascar, for instance, has great music but anything recorded and released locally there gets bootlegged and the musicians and the record companies end up getting almost nothing. Illegal downloading where we live is creating a similar situation.
Oh, I have no problem with them. It's just that now instead of being cranky, I'm OLD and cranky. Which, after all, is the same thing?