Can’t stop – mad afternoon – but just got long enough to say you should check this out.
@junior-wells – this is right up your street mate!
Marvellous treasury of historical SA 78s
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Gosh and a golly
Great music and really well put together. Thanks for the post. There is far too little of this type of South African music available. I blame Gallo, the record company that had a virtual monopoly of recordings in South Africa up to the 1970s or so. There used to be a guy called Rob Allingham who worked in Gallo’s archive department and he was responsible for putting out some excellent archive recordings, such as ‘From Marabi To Disco’ and the two ‘Township Swing Jazz’ volumes. But there was not much, and since he died a few years ago there has been nothing coming from Gallo covering the pre-1970s period. The years from the mid-1980s (coinciding with Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ and Malcolm McLaren’s ‘Duck Rock’) has been well covered, with Earthworks leading the charge. But some of the best music was recorded way before then. I would be delighted to get names for any compilations that cover early South African recordings.
Thanks Foxy. Chris is a friend of mine and one half of Matsuli music. Got a big basement full of African records at his place in Durban. . I am planning on going through it in due course.
That was a lovely soundtrack to an hour of database mangling.