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Thursday, July 27, 2023

Jain - Makeba (Official Video)


Jain - Makeba (Official Video)
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Heard this tune on the radio coming home from the show in Portland Wednesday evening. Saw the giant chimney (at the 2:28 mark) and wondered where it was. South Africa someplace. Trying to figure that out led me to this explanation of the name.


This is the story behind Makeba
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I dunno about the chimney. Wikipedia has a list of tall structures, but none of the chimneys seem to be anywhere near a big city, so it's probably just an illusion.

Map of Tall Chimneys in South Africa 


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xoxoxoBruce said...

I saw Miriam Makeba in Boston during the winter of ’63 or ’64 when she toured with Harry Bellefonte. She sang in a native language that included a large click (I think a tongue/throat sound) that would occur a couple of times in a line of lyrics. I was impressed that click was just another word in the song and didn’t seem to interrupt the cadence of her singing at all.

Something else from that night... they used hand held microphones instead of on a stand. A hair bigger than a softball, polished but not shiny metal with slots and a handle the size of a bike handlebar grip. Bellefonte was swinging the mike by the cord like it was a watch fob when it became detached and flew up into the lights rigging over the stage. Lucky it didn’t head out over the crowd.

August 11, 2023 at 6:29:00 PM PDT

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