Various Artists - Elke Boom het 'n Bas / Daar Kom Alibama
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LINER NOTES

 

ADDITIONAL NOTES

A discography for A. Hayworth and Mac Jackson in chronological order based on matrix numbers sourced from Alan Kelly's research on the history of the Gramophone Company:

A. Hayworth (In Kitchen Dutch), London, January 11, 1928
Yy12436-1      Elke Boom het 'n Bas (4189, X-5-42429)

Mac Jackson (In Kitchen Dutch), London, January 11, 1928
Yy12429-1      Daar kom Alibama (Plaas Dans) (4189, X-5-42430)
Yy12430-1      Hier is Ons Weer, Mars (4191, X-5-42434)
Yy12431-1      Daar Onder by de Dam, Mars (4192, X-5-42435)
Yy12432-1      As Hek Boland toe kom (4190, X-5-42431)
Yy12433-1      Miater Al Weer 'n pyn (4190, X-5-42432)
Yy12434-1      Hiervandaan Na Bloemfontein (4191, X-5-42433)
Yy12435-1      Maar de Klok Slaan Nun Uur (4192, X-5-42436)

Mac Jackson, London, January 1929
Yy15385-2      Lupel en die vet pot (4230, 30-1363)
Yy15388-1      Moore Fannie (4220, 30-616)
Yy15389-1      O Vader Jacob (O Father Jacob) (4230, 30-1364)
Yy15390-1      Hoe Lekker kook de Vleis (4224, 30-723)
Yy15391-1      Op Ceres will ik Blij (4223, 30-622)
Yy15392-1      Daar kom Benoni (4221, 30-618)

Mac Jackson, London, March 7, 1929
Yy16119-1      Ma soe en pa soe (4222, 30-621)
Yy16120-1      Die Rooi Rok (4222, 30-620)
Yy16121-1      Vrij Staat (Free State) (4223, 30-623)
 

VARIOUS ARTISTS
ELKE BOOM HET 'N BAS / DAAR KOM ALIBAMA


recorded 1928-01-11
issued 1928c
Zonophone
Gramophone Co. EMI
made in UK
4189
matrix Yy12436-1
matrix Yy12429-1
78 rpm
first issue
source: Chris Albertyn Collection

TRACK LISTING

 

1.1A. HAYWORTH
Elke Boom het 'n Bas

(uncredited)

2.2MAC JACKSON
Daar Kom Alibama (Plaas Dans)

(uncredited)

ARTISTS

 

A. HAYWORTH - vocal
MAC JACKSON - vocal

NOTES

 

The UK based Gramophone Company Limited (home to labels like His Master's Voice and Zonophone) was one of the first companies to issue South African music and had sent a recording engineer George Walter Dillnutt there with a mobile unit in March and April of 1912. The unit recorded material in Johannesburg and Cape Town that was subsequently issued on 78 rpm shellac discs and marketed in South Africa as the 4000 series on the company's Zonophone Twin label. The company would continue making recordings in the 1920s and 30s at its head office in London. The label pictured above shows the third design used in the 4000 series.

It appears that A. Hayworth only cut one recording issued in the Zonophone catalogue while Mac Jackson made at least fifteen. These were all taken in London in 1928 and 1929. Mac Jackson's Daar Kom Alibama does appear to be the first known recording of the famous South African song that documents the arrival of the Confederate ship, Alabama, in Cape Town harbor, in 1863, during the US Civil war. Ralph Trewhela mentions this particular track in his book Song Safari, though his dates for the recording are inconclusive.

Many thanks to Chris Albertyn for allowing me to photograph his collection. Also I am indebted to Alan Kelly for his tireless research on the discography of the Gramophone Company.