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Jack Lerole - Pennywhistle Classics of South Africa

  1. A Swingin Safari 3:33 Jack Lerole
  2. Phata Phata 3:37 Jack Lerole
  3. The Lion Sleeps Tonight 3:42 Jack Lerole
  4. Skokiaan 4:26 Jack Lerole
  5. Ace Blues 3:13 Jack Lerole
  6. Zambesi 2:43 Jack Lerole
  7. Special Star 4:37 Jack Lerole
  8. Meadowlands 3:56 Jack Lerole
  9. Chakuma 3:33 Jack Lerole
  10. Happy Trumpeter 3:20 Jack Lerole
  11. Penny Whistle 2:45 Jack Lerole
  12. Kwela Kong 2:52 Jack Lerole
  13. Tom Hark 2:32 Jack Lerole
  14. Maribi Party 4:01 Jack Lerole
  15. Basutoland 2:22 Jack Lerole
  16. Jika Spokes 3:21 Jack Lerole
  17. Thembi Thembi 4:20 Jack Lerole
  18. Meva 2:09 Jack Lerole
  19. Staff Nurse 4:10 Jack Lerole
  20. Shova Spokes 2:34 Jack Lerole

Kwela Acappella 1:57 The Pennywhistlers
Ace Blues 2:55 Spokes Mashiyane
In The Name Of Kwela 2:56 Mdudzi Magwaza
Uile Ngwan’a Batho 2:32 Miriam Makeba & The Skylarks
Special Star 5:53 Mango Groove
Bra Ntemi’s Kwela 4:13 African Jazz Pioneers
Kwela Celebration 4:45 The Pennywhistlers
Casanova Jump 2:37 Basement Boys
Kwela Africa 3:33 Kwela Tebza With Thembi And Friends
Staff Nurse 4:45 Theelani Ajb
Lemmy’s Kwela 3:28 Lemmy “Special” Mabaso
First Stop Dube 2:11 Abia Themba
Pennywhisle 3:19 Mango Groove
Salanjalo 2:29 West Nkosi
Little Lemmy 2:34 Little Lemmy And Big Joe
Ten Tens Tavern 3:25 Big Voice Jack
Something New In Africa 2:33 Solven Whistlers
Kwela Roots 5:12 Kwela Tebza

pw for both is icedog

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You tease! Where can we get or at least hear these recordings?

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no tease

click the picture

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I get that the RAR is encryted and needs a password, when I down load the files.

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Thanks s1m0n. :blush:

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Thanks very much for making this available. Interesting stuff…

Best wishes.

Steve

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awesome sweet! finally ill be able to play tunes no one else at the session knows :smiley:

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Many thanks!

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Thank you so much. Is this on a c whistle?

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The usual fifties-era kwela axe was a Hohner Bb whistle, now no longer made, which was sometimes called a ‘beebee’ for obvious reasons. Reproducing this sound is complicated by the fact that kwela musicians didn’t hold the whistle the way we think is standard; they held it on it’s side, farther into their mouths and pressed against one cheek. I think; search the chiffboard for ‘kwela’ or ‘dave woodhead’ and you’ll find a few threads discussing it. According to Woodhead this darkened the sound by about a semi-tone, meaning that a lot of recordings are closer to A than Bb.

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I downloaded one of the files and also a new version of WinZip to extract it, but I couldn’t get it to work. Any ideas? Anyone have it in a different format eg .zip?

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Use winrar, and enter the password ‘icedog’ at the prompt. I don’t think winzip can handle .rar files, although the opposite is possible - winrar can open zipped files.

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S1m0n,

thanks a lot for these great Kwela tunes, I very much appreciated !

Regards

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Thanks for these. (It has given me another opportunity to fight with the PC).

Downloaded free RAR frog which then was used to unloaded the files to MP3 files.
window media player (XP) don’t like them.
Maybe my player is too old, I know the feeling.

My phone likes some of them. Many thanks for these, I like the bounce to a few of these.

EDIT: my son (I bet he thinks I’m a computer duffer!) suggested I download a new player (Winamp) which I did and it likes! sounds good!
Dave..

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Very nice, indeed! Thanks very much, S1m0n!

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If you really want to be teased, have a look & listen to http://www.disa.ukzn.ac.za/samap/category/people/mashiyane-spokes, for example. 30-second clips of stuff I’ve never seen anywhere else. There’s some Jack Lerole and Lemmy Mabaso there, too.

PS - Does anyone have a complete version of Shisa Phata Phata?

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There are one minute clips of the trax from King Kwela on the Sterns’ website. The vinyl copy I have of this was called Spokes Mashiyane: King of Kwela, but it’s the same record.

PS - Does anyone have a complete version of Shisa Phata Phata?

There’s a .pdf transcription of it here. I grew up listening to Mirian Makeba’s song (which I didn’t know at the time had Spokes soloing in the breaks, as the piece below says) and it’s not at all like the Jack Lerole track, called only “Phata Phata” - track 2 of the first collection, so I’m going to assume that this is Shisa Phata Phata, in which case there’s 3:37 of it. Is that complete enough?

Shisa Phata Phata
June 19, 2008 – 3:44 pm

Its about time there was some practical, hands-on music around here, and to this end I’ve transcribed|arranged|made-up the short and sweet solo section from Spoke’s Mashiyane’s song called ‘Shisa Phata Phata’ (composed by a ‘R. Msomi’).

Phata Phata was a popular dance “down Jo’burg way” (or sometimes “down Gauteng way“) as Miriam Makeba reminds us in her famous song Pata Pata. Shisa (does anyone know what ‘Shisa’ means?) Phata Phata is a different tune to Miriam & Spokes Phata Phata (which can be found on the rather good Miram Makeba - Her Essential Recordings: The Empress of African Song album), but I strongly suspect that Miriam is singing in the original recording (New Sound GB.2975).

Shisa Phata Phata solo, played by Spokes.

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I have the transcription of Shisa Phata Phata from the Kwela Project site. Completely different from the Skylark’s Pata Pata and the somewhat subdued BVJ version on your first album. Although the BVJ version is name Phata Phata, it sounds the same as the Skylark’s Pata Pata. I’ve asked the SAMAP admin several times via email if it would be possible to get complete versions for selected tunes, but alas, no answer. Probably thinking “dumb American, bugger off”.

Anyway - many thanks for helping and some interest in the subject.

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So what is it exactly that you’re looking for? The full audio recording of the Skylarks + Makeba + Mashiyane version of Phata Phata? Or something else? I believe the Makeba track is sometimes credited as ‘Pata Pata’, which is I think how it was on a Gallo records sampler I grew up with, and in theory still own.