The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #57791 Message #911435
Posted By: Rick Fielding
16-Mar-03 - 04:41 PM
Thread Name: Wimoweh: How To Orchestrate the Crowd?
Subject: RE: Wimoweh: How To Orchestrate the Crowd?
Sorry, no tech info, cuz I just saw this and I have to leave in one minute but
You ain't heard NUTHIN' til you've heard Yma Sumac sing Wimoweh. It may be the single most excrutiatingly awful music thing I've experienced, and CBC played it this morning.
In a Sing Out article in the early sixties, Pete Seeger, who unleashed the incorrect words of Wimoweh on the universe (and thought that Solomon Linda actually was gonna make the money ha ha!) was actually 'begging' people to not just sing "The Lion Sleeps Tonite" in imitation of the Tokens but to actually try and consider the South African situation.
Anyway, I think I know how the parts go......will be back.