Gente, hoje sou feliz pa’caramba. O sorte que eu tenho, não é molhe não.
Olhe o que achei, um pedaço de ouro que te vai fazer doido. Abaixe rapido.

Look what I found today. On my never ending search for records I went to
a town I don’t visit frequently and got real lucky. The score is so nice I
hardly know where to start. I found some samba albums on the OKeh label,
a branch of CBS, of which the first post. Three albums on the
Romanian ‘Electrecord’ label, some Discos Fuentes from Colombia, some great
LP’s on Syliphone, Eddy’Son, just super and you can share that luck with me.
Tell me what to post next, and most wanted goes first.
There’s also some Choc Stars, Fuji with a female singer called Salawa Abeni,
Docteur Nico, Jonah Moyo and Pamelo Mounk’a. Coupé Cloué or Lisandro Meza.

Now about this album, when I saw Zuzuca between those LP’s I had a shiver
going down my spine. An album like this doesn’t show up every day and I realised
immediately, we’ve got something special here. OKeh stands for topnotch samba
and I didn’t need more then one listen to know I struck gold. This is one of
the best samba LP’s I have ever heard. No less then 14 tracks, one
even better than the other. The pile of OKeh’s counts one other Zuzuca
and 4 samba collectors, plain fantastic !

Vamos a Sambar a noite inteira !

tracks;

1 Sou batuqueiro sim
2 Eu nasci na Roça
3 O trem
4 Meu drama
5 Você pode partir
6 Folia de reis
7 A dança do Cafuné
8 Areia, areia
9 Tristeza de um sambista
10 Foi no carnaval
11 Sofro demais
12 Soturno
13 Bôko môko
14 Pagode do compadre

If you like Romanian ‘Lautari’, this one is for you.
This album was released in 1984, the recordings must be
much older though, she passed away in 1963, not even 50 years old.
I do not understand Romanian but this music is beautiful,
even without knowing what it means she sings, I enjoy Maria Tanase’s
warm voice. For your relaxed sunday afternoon.

tracks;

1 Lume, lume
2 Trei focuri ard pe lume
3 Un tigan avea o casa
4 Bade, din dragostea noastra
5 Valeleu
6 Hai maica, la iarmaroc
7 Pe deal pe la cornatel
8 Zise muma catre mine
9 Nici acela nu-i fecior
10 Nu vine mindru, nu vine
11 Trenule, masina mica
12 Doina din dolj
13 Cite mute, cite slute
14 Am avut trei mindrulite

This 33 year old album has an almost invisible cover, it wobbles and
whirls and wanders about ’cause the hole is not in the middle. Still,
even while sometimes false, a good listen worth. Sweet
highlife by the Oriental Brothers.

tracks;

1 Murtala Mohammed
2 Nkwa pt. 1
3 Nwoke ezu-ike
4 Ndidi

The past three days have been quite good if I see that the GG had
some 5300 pageloads, over 2600 visitors and 315 downloads. Let’s see
how Youlou Mabiala does. Youlou enjoys great popularity and
has a beautiful voice. I have read Youlou suffered from some kind of stroke
while performing on stage in Congo last year. His left side was paralised
en could not speak. Meanwhile he’s been doing a little better, let’s wish
him all the best. Enjoy listening to Franco’s son in law.

tracks;

1 Mwana bitendi
2 Libaku ya monoko
3 Ilumbe
4 Fafy

From Puerto Rico we have an album by the great ‘Ramito’.
His full name is Morales Ramos and he was one of the last to bring
a simple string-based Jibaro sound. His love for Puerto Rico, his ‘patria’,
( motherland ) is a favourite theme on practically all his albums.

tracks;

1 El plato del dia
2 Soy el canario
3 Sospiros y dolamas
4 Amor y patria
5 El dia en que yo muera
6 El cantar de Puerto Rico
7 A Luis Muñoz Marin
8 Guerra contra los Pidiones
9 Ya amanecio
10 Campeando por su respeto

Yesterday, when I was ripping this here album, I found out it was
released under a different name too. It is the same one as this_one .
The photo on ‘Grands Succes’ is from much later then 1977 if I’m not
mistaking, so this one should be older logically. Anyway, it’s an
outstanding LP so I don’t mind posting it again, enjoy it once more.

tracks;

1 Matata ya muasi na mobali ekoki kosila te 1&2
2 Radio Trottoir 1&2
3 Oko rgretter ngai mama 1&2
4 Mace 1&2
5 Bandeko na ya mibali basundoli ngai 1&2
6 Moleka 1&2

Another Tribute album in juju style today. Chief Commander Ebenezer
brings it to the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Ebenezer flirts with
western influences on this LP and calls it ‘Miliki Sound’.
Extremely nice talking drums, sweeet juju.

tracks;

1 Tribute to the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo
2 Enia ti mo feran ju
– Wa sun laiya mi
– Abanije eku ofo
– Ara yin le nda loro
– Oke kan ga joke
– Jesu ni mo fehinti

Over one year ago, in july 2008, I already posted ‘Me_Poma’. It was the
Stern’s European release of this album. I bought it back in 1984 and played
it eversince. About 6 months ago I found this original. It sounds a bit
rougher then the one I knew and it contains one track less. From this copy we
learn it was written and arranged by ‘Nana Kwame Ampadu I’. I always loved
Me Poma so another posting seems absolutely justified, enjoy.

tracks;

1 Me poma
2 Nnonko
3 Yeme bereo
4 Gye mani

Here’s a piece of Yoruba Juju History, a Sunny Adé from 1976.
To my humble opinion one of the better albums. Unfortunately
it has some pops and crakcle, I guess it is worth at least a
couple of spins though. Get it and spread it ..

Hier is een plaatje met wat Yoruba Juju historie met Sunny
Adé uit 1976. Ik denk zelf één van zijn betere albums. Hij
heeft wel wat plopjes en kraakjes maar is het toch waard om
op z’n minst enkele keren te draaien naar mijn mening.
Pak hem, luister en geef door aan je vrienden ..

tracks;

1 Late General Murtala Muhammed
– Afemi afemi
– Asa nke
2 Ominu Nkomi
– Ika to to simu
– Odofin bello
– Mo beru agba

This Volume 3 of yet another series of albums on the african label, was
released in 1985 but the recordings on it are much older. It is a
mixture of numbers, some solo and some sung together. Both Rochereau
and Sam Manguana sound very young and fresh. Beautiful music.

tracks;

1 Kasoule
2 Marie Jea
3 Humanité
4 Sophie Elodie
5 Binelita
6 Samambi
7 Mwasi abongi na libala
8 Easra
9 Amour fou
10 Mwana ya vangu
11 Adieu la belle
12 Tarcisse