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  1. Anoma Oreko

    Audio icon CR0754-KWA4547.mp3
    Artist(s): Buddy Squire (Leader) | Composer: The Hot Shots (Performer)Composer not specified | 1958-00-00 | Band music, Buddy Squire, Drum, Ghana, Hot Shots, Popular music, Saxophone, Stick, Twi, West African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0753

  2. Apo wakulila nswangala wabalume

    Audio icon AC0453-C3H8.mp3
    Artist(s): Luunda women at Lake Nwenu | Composer: Luunda women (Performer) | 1949/07/20 | axes, Clapping, goblet Drum, Kambwali, Kawambwa, Lake Mwexa, Lake Nwenu, Luunda, Luunda, Northern Rhodesia, slit Drum, West African, Zambia, ILAM | Folk music. Weddng song. Further details refer to ILAM field card (C3H)

  3. Asere Eoba Wa

    Audio icon CR0745-WA1700-KWA4311.mp3
    Composer: African Music Research Party (Performer)Composer not specified | 1958-00-00 | African Music Research Party, Guitar, Ibo, Igbo, Indigenous music, Nigeria, Vocal, West African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0745

  4. Aye

    Audio icon CR0733-WA719-KWA4537.mp3
    Artist(s): JH Hempstead (Leader)The Gold Coast Police Band (Performer) | Composer: The Gold Coast Police Band (Performer) | 1958-00-00 | Bead rattle, Big band music style, Brass instruments, dance, Drum, Ga, Gold Coast Police Band, Guitar, Hempstead,J.H., High Life, Instrumental, Maracas, Popular music, Rhythm sticks, Rumba, Sierra Leone, West African, ILAM | High life dance music, performed on various instruments

  5. Baby you too Tampalay

    Audio icon CR0759-WA2645-KWA4402.mp3
    Composer: Calendar and his Maringar Band (Performer)Composer not specified | 1954-00-00 | Calendar, Calypso music, Creole, Drum, Guitar, Maringar Band, Popular music, Saxophone, Stick, Vocal, West African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0759

  6. Befrakuma Tofoyige

    Audio icon CR0699-WA141-KWA86.mp3
    Composer: The Denu Singers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Dance song, Denu Singers, Ewe, Ghana, Indigenous music, Rattle, Shaker, Togo, Vocal, West African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0699

  7. Bondo Devil Go Woke

    Audio icon CR0748-WA2642-DKWA4396.mp3
    Composer: Calendar and his Maringar Band (Performer)Composer not specified | 1958-00-00 | Calendar, Calypso music, Creole, Guitar, Maringar, Maringar Band, Popular music, Vocal, West African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0748

  8. Bonse bakende

    Audio icon AC0487-C3X8.mp3
    Artist(s): Lenje men and women | Composer: Tesina Ndende (Performer) | 1949/08/05 | Lenje, Lenje, Nkana Mine, Northern Rhodesia, slit Drum, Tesina Ndende, West African, Wusakili Compound, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Folk music. Burial song. Further detail refer to ILAM field card (C3X)

  9. Bus Conducto

    Audio icon CR0739-WA634-KWA4067.mp3
    Composer: Mensah, E.T. (Performer)Tempos Band (Performer)Composer not specified | 1958-00-00 | Band music, Drum, Fanti, Ghana, Guitar, Mensah,E.T., Popular music, Saxophone, Tempos Band, Vocal, West African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0739

  10. By Oh By Oh

    Audio icon CR0750-WA2505-DKWA1299.mp3
    Composer: Calendar and his Maringar Band (Performer)Composer not specified | 1958-00-00 | Calendar, Calypso music, Creole, Guitar, Maringar, Maringar Band, Popular music, Vocal, West African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0750

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