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The Magnificent Miriam Makeba
''The Magnificent Miriam Makeba'' is a 1966 album by Miriam Makeba (LP Mercury 134016). It was her first album after moving from RCA Victor to Mercury.Max Mojapelo, Sello Galane -''Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South Africa'' 1920299289 2008 Track listing #Mr. Man #Imagine Me #La Bushe (Congo Bushe) #Where Are You Going #Charlie (Oh Mama) #West Wind #A Piece Of Ground #That's How It Goes (Ntsizwa) #My Love Is Young #Oh, Tell Me My Mother (Wa Thint'a Madoda) #I'm In Love With Spring #Akana Nkomo References {{DEFAULTSORT:Magnificent Miriam Makeba 1966 albums Miriam Makeba albums Mercury Records albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Makeba
Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including African popular music, Afropop, jazz, and world music, she was an advocate against apartheid and white-minority government in South Africa. Born in Johannesburg to Swazi people, Swazi and Xhosa people, Xhosa parents, Makeba was forced to find employment as a child after the death of her father. She had a brief and allegedly abusive first marriage at the age of 17, gave birth to her only child in 1950, and survived breast cancer. Her vocal talent had been recognized when she was a child, and she began singing professionally in the 1950s, with the Cuban Brothers, the Manhattan Brothers, and an all-woman group, the Skylarks (South African vocal group), the Skylarks, performing a mixture of jazz, traditional African melodies, and Western popular music. In 1959, Makeba had a brief r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Music
Given the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions. African music includes the genres amapiano, Jùjú, Fuji, Afrobeat, Highlife, Makossa, Kizomba, and others. The music and dance of the African diaspora, formed to varying degrees on African musical traditions, include American music like Dixieland jazz, blues, jazz, and many Caribbean genres, such as calypso (see kaiso) and soca. Latin American music genres such as cumbia, conga, rumba, son cubano, salsa music, bomba, samba and zouk were founded on the music of enslaved Africans, and have in turn influenced African popular music. Like the music of Asia, India and the Middle East, it is a highly rhythmic music. The complex rhythmic patterns often involving one rhythm played against another to create a polyrhythm. The most common polyrhythm plays three beats on top of two, like a triplet played against straight notes. Sub-Saharan African m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercury Records
Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. In the United States, it is operated through Republic Records; in the United Kingdom and Japan (as Mercury Tokyo in the latter country), it is distributed by EMI Records. Since the separation of Island Records, Motown, Mercury Records, and Def Jam Recordings combining the Island Def Jam Music Group, Mercury Records has been placed under Island Records, although its back catalogue is still owned by the Island Def Jam Music Group (now Island Records). Background Mercury Records was started in Chicago in 1945 and over several decades, saw great success. The success of Mercury has been attributed to the use of alternative marketing techniques to promote records. The conventional method of record promotion used by major labels such as RCA Victor, Decca Records, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Magic Of Makeba
''The Magic of Makeba'' is the seventh album by Miriam Makeba released in 1965 by RCA Victor. The album saw Makeba branching out into new material arranged by conductor Sid Bass, but it gained mixed reception and was her final album for RCA Victor.The Gramophone - Volume 44 - Page 449 1966 "Miriam Makeba, always a voice worth hearing, branches out in all directions on "The Magic of Makeba", RCA Victor © RD7808, with songs like Erev Shel Shoshanim, Autumn Song and When I've passed on. Not folk, perhaps, but I am glad to .." Track listing #"When I've Passed On" 4:00 #"Sunrise, Sunset" 2:40 #"Autumn Song" 2:35 #"You Are in Love" 3:33 #"Seven Good Years" 3:09 #"Sleep Tight" 3:31 #"Ask The Rising Sun" 2:54 #"Oxgam" 2:00 #"Where Does It Lead" 2:36 #"Muntu (Lullaby)" 4:10 #" Erev Shel Shoshanim" 2:18 #"Oh So Alone" 3:50 Personnel *Sid Bass Sid Richardson Bass (born April 9, 1942) is an American billionaire investor and philanthropist. Early life Sid Richardson Bass was born on Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All About Miriam
''All About Miriam'' is the 1966 ninth studio album of Miriam Makeba (LP Mercury 134029)Billboard - Nov 19, 1966 ALL ABOUT MIRIAM Miriam Makeba. Mercury MG 21095 (M); "... Not only does she excel in an almost-patented "Click Song," but also in songs like 'Mas Que Nada' and a heart-warming 'Mommy, Mommy, What Is Heaven Like? Arrangements for the album were by Luchi DeJesus and Sivuca (as Severino Dias De Olivera). Sivuca also played guitar. Harold Dodson played bass, and drummer was Leopoldo Flemming. Track listing #"The Ballad of the Sad Young Men" ( Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) 3:00 #"Yetentu Tizaleny" 2:34 #"Maria Fulô" baião ( Severino Dias de Oliveira) 2:53 #"I Think I Ought To" ( Buddy Bernier) 2:11 #"Click Song (Number 1)" (Miriam Makeba) 2:16 #"To Love and Lose" (William Salter) 3:33 #"Four-Letter Words" ( Margo Guryan) 2:16 #"U Shaka" 2:47 #"Mas Que Nada" samba ( Jorge Ben Jor) 2:52 #"Mommy, Mommy What Is Heaven Like?" 2:46 #"Jol'inkomo" 2:59 #"The Sound of a Drum" ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Albums
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. ** A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia. * January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. * January 15 – 1966 Nigeria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Makeba Albums
Miriam ( he, מִרְיָם ''Mīryām'', lit. 'Rebellion') is described in the Hebrew Bible as the daughter of Amram and Jochebed, and the older sister of Moses and Aaron. She was a prophetess and first appears in the Book of Exodus. The Torah refers to her as "Miriam the Prophetess" and the Talmud names her as one of the seven major female prophets of Israel. Scripture describes her alongside of Moses and Aaron as delivering the Jews from exile in Egypt: "For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam". According to the Midrash, just as Moses led the men out of Egypt and taught them Torah, so too Miriam led the women and taught them Torah. Biblical narrative Miriam was the daughter of Amram and Jochebed; she was the sister of Aaron and Moses, the leader of the Israelites in ancient Egypt. The narrative of Moses' infancy in the Torah describes an unnamed sister of Moses observing him bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
