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LINER NOTESMAS QUE NADA Ô aria araia..... oba, oba, oba..... Ô ô — ô — ô aria araia, oba, oba, oba..... Mas, que nada Sai da minha frente eu quero passar É samba esta animado, pois eu quero é samba Éste samba que é mistu de maracatu É samba de preto velho, samba de preto du Mas, que nada 0 samba como éste tão legal Voçe não vai que eu chegue no final ASK THE SUN Lonely, lonely, it can be so lonely Waiting, hoping, longing to touch And love, and be loved in return Who are we, who needs love Ask the rising sun Lonely, lonely, it's a lonely feeling Waiting, hating the time we lose away Cast aside and then for the time Who are we, who needs love Ask the rising sun Oh, the sun sees every tender leaf That drifts to earth and trambles Oh, the sun sees every stricken bird That tries to fly and flounders And the sun is not the distant thunder Goother coats and rubbers Oh, who take my hand of you who are so lovely You yearning to look with longing to touch And love and be loved in return Who are we, who needs love After the rising sun RING BELL, RING BELL If I could be a shimmering star I'd shine now shine now how I would shine Someone I love has promised to be Mine now, mine now, someone is mine So ring bell, ring bell Tell the world that all is well Ring bell, ring bell Love is here and all is well If I could be a beautiful song I'd sing now sing now oh how I would sing Warm is the sunlight in his eyes It's spring now, spring now suddenly spring Yes, yeah, yeah, just another day But today everything is going my way All is well, all is well, all is well, all is well A PIECE OF GROUND When the white man first came here From over the seas He looked and he said "This is Gods own country" He was mighty well pleased with this land That he found and hes said "I will make it my own piece of ground" When many's the battle he still had to fight And many's the black men who lived all around And many's the family who died in the night All of them wanting their own piece of ground Then one fine day in 1883 Gold was discovered in great quantity Now the country was rich And was richer than planned And each digger wanted his own piece of ground Oh, yes, the white diggers were few And the gold was so deep Black men was called cause his labor was cheap With tool and shovel it's all underground Six pennies a day to tender the ground Oh, now the country is so rich And it seems strange to me That the black men whose labor has helped it to be Cannot enjoy the fruits that are bound He's up-rooted and kicked from his own piece of ground Oh, yes, some people say "Now don't you worry We'll get you a nice piece of reserve territory" But I'll give my life that ten million can be found On a miserable 13 percent of the ground Oh, yes, some people say "Now don't you worry You can always find jobs in the white man's city" "But don't stay too long and don't stay too deep For you're bound to disturb the white men in his sleep White men don't sleep long And don't sleep too deep For your life and possessions How long will you keep "Cause I've heard a rumor that's running around For the black men's demanding His own piece of ground, his own piece of ground His own piece of ground, his own piece of ground PATA PATA Saguqugasathi baganantsi pata pata Saguqugasathi beganantsi pata pata Saguqugasathi beganantsi pata pata Saguqugasathi baganantsi pata pata Hiyo mama hiyo ma nantsi pata pata Hiyo mama hiyo ma nantsi pata pata Hiyo mama hiyo ma nantsi pata pata Hiyo mama hiyo ma nantsi pata pata "Pata Pata" is the name of a dance We do down Johannesburg way And ev'rybody starts to move As soon as Pata Pata begins to play Ev'ry Friday and Saturday nights It's Pata Pata time The music keeps going all night long Till the morning sun begins to shine MANUFACTURED BY VICTOR RECORD COMPANY LTD., JAPAN BY AGREEMENT WITH COSDEL INC. (SJET-8082) — 4 — |
MIRIAM MAKEBA
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NOTESMiriam Makeba in Tokyo is one of the rarest of her albums. Recorded in Japan on August 28th, 1968 this live album comes in the wake of her classic Pata Pata disc, which also marked the height of her US career. In Tokyo is Makeba’s second live release after In Concert! was recorded and issued the previous year in 1967. An earlier live recording of Makeba at Bern’s Salonger in Stockholm was made in 1966 and broadcast on Swedish Television in 1967 but was not issued until 2003. The DVD of the Swedish concert is simply stunning and I highly recommend it! Makeba’s Japan tour came at a turbulent time for the singer and anti-apartheid activist. Four months earlier, in April of 1968, she had married Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic civil rights leader and president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The marriage came with much media scrutiny including a full color spread in Ebony magazine. The FBI considered Carmichael to be a dangerous radical and extended its investigations to include Makeba. Soon recording contracts were dropped and performances canceled and by early 1969 the couple had left the US for Guinea. After her 1970 album Keep Me in Mind Makeba had no major-label releases in the US until the 1988 Sangoma. In Tokyo offers many gems, most notably the first live recordings of Pata Pata and Malayisha. A Manhattan Brothers classic, Malayisha, had been issued as a single by Makeba but was not included on any of her albums at that time. The studio version eventually found a place on the CD reissue of Pata Pata. For me a notable track on the album is Makeba’s version of Jeremy Taylor’s A Piece of Ground taken from the musical Wait a Minim. Makeba first recorded this song on her album The Magnificent Miriam Makeba in 1966 and an alternative version is featured on the classic Pata Pata album as well as In Concert! The song sung live also gave Makeba the opportunity to subtly bring up race relations in South Africa and it is interesting to compare her almost identical intros to the song on both live albums. The lineup on the Tokyo album includes Sivuca (on accordion and guitar), Leopoldo Fleming (on percussion)—both featured regularly on the majority of Makeba’s Reprise releases—and Jimmy Phillips on bass. Interesting detail... notice the dresses Makeba and her backing vocalist are wearing? The same dress is also featured as a wall hanging in the cover image of Letta Mbulu's second album Free Soul which was similarly released in 1968. I had read somewhere that Mbulu had performed as backing vocalist with Makeba on some occasions, though I now cannot find this reference and so cannot confirm. It is difficult to tell but I wonder if the vocalist in the shadows of the cover could be Mbulu? Listen to the album on Electric Jive. |
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