South African Music Archive Project
Humorous
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- Artist(s): Unaccompanied | Composer: R.T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) | 1952/01/15 | Henga, Humorous, Mbuluwundi,Reuben Tancard, Mufelera, Northern African, Northern Rhodesia, Song, Tumbuka, Zambia, ILAM | No accompainment. Further details refer to ILAM field card (F1F5)
- Artist(s): Tumbuka - Henga men (Performer) | Composer: Reuben Tancard Mbuluwundi (Performer)Reuben Tancard Mbuluwundi (Composer) | 1952/01/15 | Drinking song, East African, Henga, Henga, Humorous, Indigenous music, Livingstone, Malawi, Mbuluwundi,Reuben Tancard, Nyasaland, Song, Southern African, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F1F 5
- Composer: Mseleku (Performer)The Amanzimtoti Zulu Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1900-01-00 | Amanzimtoti Zulu Choir, Epic Euro-African, Folk song, Humorous, Mseleku,W.M., Piano, Song, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, Zulu, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0641
- Artist(s): Moshi Ufunguo's party | Composer: Moshi Ufunguo (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Humorous, Malimba xylophone, Moshi Ufunguo, Nguja, Rattle, Song, Swahili, Tabora, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number CR1402.
- Artist(s): His party | Composer: Moshi Ufunguo (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Humorous, Indigenous music, malimba, Moshi Ufunguo, Nguja, Rattle, Swahili, Tabora, Tanganyika, Xylophone, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number CR1401
- Composer: Moshi Ufunguo (Composer/Performer) | 1950/07/17 | Basket rattle, Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Humorous, malimba, Marimba, Moshi Ufunguo, Nguja, Rattle, Song, Swahili, Xylophone, ILAM | Humorous song. Further details refer ILAM field card (D4B6)
- Composer: Manyoni Wanyamande (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/10/11 | Folk music, Humorous, Indigenous music, Karanga, Manyoni Wanyamande, Mbira, Njari, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Humorous song with Njari mbira. Translated English title - "Charminuka follows others." Further details refer ILAM field card number: C6M-8
- Composer: Manyoni Wanyamande (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949/10/11 | Folk music, Humorous, Indigenous music, Karanga, Manyoni Wanyamande, Mbira, Njari, Song, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Humorous song with Njari mbira. Translated English title - "Charminuka follows others." Further details refer ILAM field card number: C6M-8
- Artist(s): Kipsigis girls | Composer: Chemutoi Ketienya (Performer and Composer) | 1950/09/15 | East African, Humorous, Kenya, Kericho, Ketienya,Chemutoi, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Lyre, Song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. D6L22a.
- Artist(s): Chemutoi Ketienya with Kipsigis girls | 1950/09/15 | Chepkongo bowl lyre, East African, Humorous, Indigenous music, Kenya, Ketienya, Chemutoi, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Song, ILAM | A humorous song with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre. The mysterious singer and dancer, Chemirocha has been turned into a local god Pan with the feet of an antelope, half beast, half man. He is urged by the girls to do the leaping dance familiar to all Kipsigis so energetically that he will jump clear out of his clothes. The name Chemirocha is based upon the guitarist Jimmy Rodgers.Details from ILAM field card number: D6L 22
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