UMQOKOZO

Created on 02/11/2004
Latest update on 02/11/2004

Artist: Miriam Makeba
Author: traditional
Label: Kapp
Year: 1962

Means peacock in the Xhosa language, clicking sounds and all. On her album The Many Voices Of Miriam Makeba. Trumpet solo by her ex husband Hugh Masekela.

Covers:

1964:

Serge Gainsbourg [as Pauvre Lola without credits]

1969:

Jacques Maillan & Bourvil [idem]

2002:

Tu Nokwe

Apart from Gainsbourg's French lyrics and some female giggling (by France Gall), all the rest was stolen. No proper credits whatsoever, not then and not in '68 when Pauvre Lola resurfaced on his Bonnie & Clyde album (with B.B. giggling for the occasion).

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