You said "local" pop music. At the time, at least the city stations (and I was 13 searching stations on a little slider) largely played imports from US and Europe (and the Caribbean). I do recall "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the "The Good The Bad and The Ugly" theme and "Je t'aime." I'm sure they played All Along the Watchtower and Ob La Di Ob La Da and Twentieth Century Fox, too. A 14 year old friend was very proud of his copy of the first Doors' album and the downtown record stores had all the current Western hits. I don't know any Kenyan popular music, I'm afraid, tho' for West African popular music, or sort-of popular, I listened much later to Sona Jobarteh and Boubacar Traore; I listen but don't know much about them. I gather that Gospel music is very popular in Kenya nowadays, but that is western -- in style as well as lyrics -- music brought back to Africa and then re-Kenyan-ized. Popular Kenyan culture had and I think still has little to do with blues or jazz or rap; in fact, American blacks (I recall a woman USAID official, and I was invited to the Sr Prom by a pretty American black classmate whose father was another US mission official) were just part of the "white" expat world. Our gardener used to sing what I gather were contemporary popular Kikuyu (his tribe; we had Luo and Marigoli servants, too) songs while working, at least I recall hearing modern words like "Toyota" in them, but they were very, very different from Western pop music; rhythmic chant. Perhaps they were all ad lib.
>From what I observed as a boy, when black Africans get together, at least the non-Westernized, they quite spontaneously dance, the way the Irish of both sexes spontaneously sing in pubs after a few beers. And there is a huge difference in rhythms and dance styles or types; the Maasai moran have a unique style, very powerful. https://youtu.be/37BatjDzK5I?t=48 That's "popular" too, in a different sense, "of the people." Aside: I recall seeing (~1973) a young moran who had studied at Oxford, discovered he preferred his boma and herd, and returned to the traditional ways. The Maasai in particular have managed to preserve their pastoral culture surprisingly well in the face of population and even more cultural pressures; which bespeaks the depth of its value. And the moran still kill lions with spears. On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 2:12 PM Paul Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > My friend reminded me of this great Bobbie Gentry and Donovan duet of > "There is a Mountain": https://youtu.be/8uGnEc0DhY4 > > Last time I got "There is a Mountain" as an earwig, I ended up listening > to The Allman Brothers for a couple weeks. My dad told me he must have seen > them 20 or more times, living in Atlanta in the 70s. > > This time, it me to the Long Beach Dub Allstars version, which is OK, but > either way, it's been King Tubby and dub rarities all day. > > This Mighty Sparrow song is great. Can you link to any of the local pop > music you mentioned? > > Paul in AR > > On Saturday, October 31, 2020 at 10:31:32 PM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: >> >> I disagree with much that Grant asserts, but I agree with much else; at >> any rate, we're both of us in the same ancient cohort (I think he's 1 year >> older than I), and his music inserts often resonate. The lastest (Ode to >> Billy Joe) made me think of other music favorites of our distant era. >> >> One of my first (a year earlier: Sgt Pepper LP and Hey Jude/I Am The >> Walrus 45, not to mention, gawd 'elp us, The Ventures) popular music >> memories was this one (link below) that I picked up from the local radio >> top 10, age 13; and I picked it up in those pre-universal-connectivity days >> because for Christmas my mother had sweetly bought me the crystal radio kit >> (yes, you could still get them) that I had asked for. I built it and tuned >> it to the local pops station, and heard this, over and over and over and >> over again. One song of many*, but the one that has stuck in my mind. >> >> Hardly racist, but perhaps sexist; to atone for the sexism, I append >> another favorite from the era. >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyoMl-7QJSg >> <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mighty+sparro+good+morning+mr+walker&t=osx&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DnyoMl-7QJSg> >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOUqQt3Kg0 >> <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=respect+aretha+franklin+original&t=osx&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D6FOUqQt3Kg0> >> >> Bike content: *I* think that calypso goes perfectly with Just Ride. >> Also, I was already customizing my late '60s Raleigh Sport with drop bar, >> rat trap pedals, and top-tube "four on the floor" shifter with big black >> knob. >> >> * The local pops culture was local but not entirely isolated from global >> pop culture. For next birthday, #14, my very conservative (but hardly >> unenlightened) father very indulgently went out to a local record (= vinyl >> disc) store and bought me the latest "Let It Bleed" R Stones album. >> >> Patrick "and then there's reggae" Moore >> >> -- >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/02a27094-d40d-4e55-a3fa-6358dae3614bo%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/02a27094-d40d-4e55-a3fa-6358dae3614bo%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgu3ConBF6fYsV0kY9rkFbRCk1gn98YDrrUnYWzwLGGFzA%40mail.gmail.com.
