Billy the Kid - Gwelo / T.V. Special
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BILLY THE KID
GWELO / T.V. SPECIAL


recorded 1962
issued 1962
Zonk
Gramophone Record Co. GRC
made in South Africa
published by Music Publishers of Africa (M.P.A.)
TV 282
matrix ABC 19606
matrix ABC 19607
78 rpm
mono
first issue
source: Flatinternational Archive

TRACK LISTING

 

1.1Gwelo

(J. Monaheng)

2.2T.V. Special

(J. Monaheng)

ARTISTS

 

BILLY THE KID
BILLY ZAMBI - sax
ENOCH THABETHE - electric guitar
STANFORD TSIU - acoustic rhythm guitar
JOHANNES 'CHOOKS' TSHUKUDU - bass
LOUIS MOLUBI - drums
DARKIE SLINGER - trombone

NOTES

 

Two instrumental jive tracks that sit somewhere between African Jazz and the ever-popular sax jive. Thanks to Rob Allingham for the group's personnel details.

Guitarist, Enoch Sipho Thabethe began his music career in Durban, recording for the SABC in 1950. He performed with many groups during the 1950s and 1960s, including John Ngcobo and his Dazzlers, Miriam Makeba and the Skylarks, The Sunbeams, the D.R.C. Choir and Tomas Ndaba’s Swing Stars (Yvonee Huskisson has this group name as Mdaba’s Swing Stars). Thabethe also formed his own group, the Ragtime Melodians of Lamontville with others including Robinson Bhengu. In 1958 Thabethe moved up to Johannesburg to work professionally as a session musician for Gramophone Record Company (GRC) and as a free-lance accompanist. (Huskisson)