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Thread #89891 Message #1701275
Posted By: Azizi
23-Mar-06 - 04:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: You know that it's Spring when...
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open mike, when I aearched online for some information about Solomon Linda's Mbube {The Lion Sleeps Tonight}, I found this informational tidbit:
"[Miriam Makeba's]The Click Song" (#1) had it's origin in the Xhosa language as "Gqongqotwane": Gqongqotwane is the dung-gathering beetle-- the miser of the insect world, known to the Xhosas as the Road Wizard. (Quoted from an early mid-60's LP by the Manhattan Brothers, issued in the US on Joy Records [#5004]). This is why "The Click Song" was also known in English as "The African Beetle Song".