I think another story to be told is the reverse pollinization of African and Asian musicians with music from the Americas. Yes, if you go back long enough, blues music and Latin music eventually ties to African rhythms from the slaves imported from mostly West Africa. But in the 1940s, 50s and 60s lots of music from Cuba, Jamaica, and the American south went back to Africa as LPs in the luggage of traveling Africans. Way before even the Nonesuch series, Fidel Castro was fomenting revolution in the area, getting out the word with Cuban music which appealed to the masses.
Listen for Duke Ellington in this big band music in E.T. Mensah from Ghana http://www.sternsmusic.com/disk_info.php?id=RETRO24CD
Listen for Cuban rhythms from ORCHESTRE PAILLOTE from Guinea http://www.sternsmusic.com/disk_info.php?id=SLP01 a
And early American jazz from Bembeya Jazz http://www.sternsmusic.com/disk_info.php?id=slp04
Even the Malian guitar great Ali Farka Toure had tons of LPs in the house from classic American bluesmen.
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Snopes.com, a website dedicated to ripping the veil from common misconceptions and fake urban legends. Anyway, Yma Sumac is demonstrably South American, and most likely really Peruvian. Her real name is Augusta Castillo and she got her start performing with the Inka Taky Trio (along with her husband Moisés Vivanco on guitar and her sister—whose name I forget—on harmony vocals) in Buenos Aires. They released some 78 RPM discs in Argentina in the 40s before Capitol Records discovered her and whisked her off to the States.
All that business about her being Incan royalty or whatever is, of course, balderdash. I’d bet money on her actually being from Lima.
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I'm adding Aktuala (Italy), Dionysis Savopoulos (Greece), Clivage (France), Pan-Ra (Hungary/France) and Ossian (Poland).
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Haven't heard Pan-Ra, but those others fit into glove.
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Paul Winter Consort should be mentioned. Just remembering that I saw them in concert circa 1977!!
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Patrick Moraz - The Story of I - 1976
Brazillian percussion
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Close but no cigar. Carmen Maranda made faux "South American" songs like 1941's South American Way, which was also recorded by the Andrew Sisters. Both versions were quite popular and campy, but it was not world music.
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How about Dean Martin. Volare, Thats Amore... ?
Also, there was a very popular crew in the 50s called "Los Indios Tabajares" who sold an impressive number of records.
And Mongo Santamaria
Astrud Gilberto... ?
Herb Alpert
Miles Davis.... Hugh Masakela?
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Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
Posting this for the interesting vocals performance, not for the music the guitarist has brought in (which is good too), but I have no idea what they're saying. Couldn't find a more suitable thread than this for it.
https://youtu.be/F3VYORQhhWY
I always thought this was a bit of a real breakthrough.
https://youtu.be/LqMEUSyeWGY
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Danger demos, jazz and warts stored here in vast amounts
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Donovan was a pioneer of World/pop.
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This fairly old (1977) album by Randy Armstrong and Ken LaRoche, not mentioned much here at PE if at all, is considered one of the classics of World Music and I can see that. But during the years I heard and enjoyed it (early 80s), I was simply thinking of it as a "mainly acoustic guitar + various flutes instrumental album", and even today I'd probably rather put it into the New Age / Western Folk bin than World. I'm highlighting it here because it's an excellent album. Really great tunes. A classic in melody writing and acoustic guitar. And good flutes. Unless I'm forgetting something since it's been years, this is simply great folky New Age, has little or no synths or keyboards, and its World Music'ness may just be mainly Native American flavor in only a few tunes, plus sitar only one track (and acoustic guitar played in a sitar-like way / sounds). I guess it's time I listened to the entirety of this again after many years. Highly recommended.
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