#Ladysmith Black Mambazo

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Muppet Fact #1316

"African Alphabet" which was originally performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo on Sesame Street, was later performed by a worm parody version of the a capella group called Wormsmith Black Mambazo.

Sources:

Sesame Street. Episode 2360. November 20, 1987.

Sesame Street. Episode 3448. January 31, 1996.

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Bon Soir 💙🎸🤗🕺🆕️

Jeremy Loops & Ladysmith Black Mambazo 🎶 Coming Home

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Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo

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Honestly it was so generous of Ladysmith Black Mambazo to bring in upcoming american musician Paul Simon on their Graceland album

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The Paul Simon's Graceland Monster Truck Jam

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Sure your last breakup was bad but unless your last breakup caused someone to write one of the greatest albums of the 80s and cement the global careers of Ladysmith Black Mambazo you are not on Carrie Fisher's level.

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Shosholoza – Ndluvu Youth Choir

Rise – Ndlovu Youth Choir This list would not be complete with what has been described by some as South Africa’s second national anthem. It somehow has become to South Africa Rugby what ‘Swing Low Sweet Chariot’ is to English Rugby. But ironically it does not have South African origins. The song originated from the Ndebele men in what was then Rhodesia. These men would come and work on the gold…

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Mbube (Wimoweh)

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Tuesday Tunes 216: Shoes

    I said last week that I would be running a second set of songs about clothes, but with a twist. This week sees the big reveal! When I was compiling that one I realised that many of the songs I knew were about shoes, so many in fact that I felt they deserved a post all to themselves. So, this week the theme is shoes. I wonder how many of them you will know? I’m treading a fairly familiar…

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LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO February 22, 2024

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Unomathemba

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Frustration.

I was on You Tube and bumped into a really nice Jazz Playlist. One song sounded OK on my computer earbuds, so I wondered if I could find the tune online to listen to on my big system. That is where it became frustrating.

First thing is there was a video of a record spinning and a phono cartridge in the groove, but that is not where the music came from. There was dirt in the video and it did not make a noise. I also noted the TT was not high end and the phono pickup was not square to the disk. Just an empty video to fool people. He pulled this off a stream somewhere. I wish it was a real LP as I would buy it if I could identify the artist. But no track list, no artist noted and tellingly no credit to them. The song was a really nice Jazz arrangement of Elton John with a piano and very little else.

It appeared that this playlist was pirated and the guy just put it out cuz he liked it. He did not like it enough to see the artists paid for the work. I went searching through the comments and up and down the indexes looking for the singer's name at least. No joy. I got to the point where I forgot what song it was, just an Elton John tune. Searching for female singers doing Elton John Covers just kept popping up Diana Krall. I know what she sounds like, twern't her. It is now lost forever in the entropy. Damn!

After dinner I fired up my system and played Apple Music Jazz hoping to get lucky. No joy there. So as the fine Gewurztraminer took me to a nice place I debated playing Diana Krall. I have several LPs of hers. All good ones. But then no I played "Graceland" side one to hear Ladysmith Black Mambazo, then jumped to White Rabbit from George Benson. You know that album is old, simple plain consumer grade LP from the 1980s and sounds fine. I mean FINE. It is a CTI recording and it really stands up.

Cool thing is the song White Rabbit from Jefferson Airplane and Grace Slick was about a psychedelic trip thing. It used the melody from Ravel's Bolero and Rodrigo's Aranjuez by way of Miles Davis which has a weird story of its own. So the George Benson tune is more Bolero than Acid Trip, but hey its good music. There is a lot of good music out in the 'verse.

I got sleepy and shut her down. Maybe I will get lucky later.

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[Mean Girls Musical Film Adaptation (2024) rant] Probably nobody cares about this except me, but the film version of Stupid With Love is *not* sung by a Cady Heron who truly loves Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

The Broadway cast recording for Mean Girls (2018) is fantastic, and I love the South African Mbaqanga-inspired composition. It's clever, it's funny, and it's in keeping with Cady's character and interests at that point in the story.

2024's version is...lacklustre and boring in comparison. Yes, there's some acapella stuff going on, which does give Ladysmith vibes, but the whole character of the number is off.

Anyway, my whole response is just...