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Various Artists: Putumayo Presents - World Hits

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Label: Crimson Records
Released: 2007.08.28
Time:
 43:39
Category: World Music
Producer(s):
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.putumayo.com
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Purchase date: 2008.05.27
Price in €: 0,00



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[1] (You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back [Peter Tosh] - 5:16
[2] E'mma [Toure Kunda] - 4:03
[3] 7 Seconds [Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry] - 5:05
[4] Watermelon Man [Mongo Santamaria] - 2:29
[5] Oye Como Va [Tito Puente] - 4:17
[6] The Harder They Come [Jimmy Cliff] - 3:40
[7] Lambada [Kaoma] - 3:27
[8] Pata Pata [Miriam Makeba] - 3:52
[9] Scatterlings of Africa [Johnny Clegg & Savuka] - 3:51
[10] Soul Makossa [Manu Dibango] - 4:11
[11] Bamboleo [Gipsy Kings] - 3:23

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Peter Tosh
Toure Kunda
Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry
Mongo Santamaria
Tito Puente
Jimmy Cliff
Kaoma
Miriam Makeba
Johnny Clegg & Savuka
Manu Dibango
Gipsy Kings

Dan Storper - Executive Producer, Song Selection
Lane Gibson - Mastering
Nicola Heindl - Illustrations, Cover Art
Jacob Edgar - Liner Notes
Jorge Maldonado - Translation
Julien Massardier - Translation

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2007 CD Putumayo Records

Though most world music exists largely under the radar, every once in a while a song comes along that achieves international success. World Hits brings together chart toppers from around the globe. Santana's 1969 version of Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va" turned the rock world upside down, as their version soared up the charts. Cuban musician Mongo Santamaria big crossover hit came in 1963, with his version of the Herbie Hancock composition "Watermelon Man." Another crossover hit comes from the French group Gipsy Kings, whose "Bamboleo" connected the dots between salsa, flamenco and pop. "Lambada" swept first across Europe and then throughout the rest of the world. The hit version of the "forbidden dance" was performed by the French group Kaoma. Manu Dibango's funky "Soul Makossa" became a surprise Top 40 hit in 1973. World music superstar Youssou N'Dour and soul singer Neneh Cherry provide the instantly-recognizable "7 Seconds," while Johnny Clegg and Savuka contributes "Scatterlings of Africa". Miriam Makeba delivers the classic "Pata Pata", an international hit in 1967 that became the first African song to reach the Top 20 on the Billboard pop charts. Rolling Stones' front man Mick Jagger met the enigmatic Peter Tosh in Kingston, Jamaica in 1978. Jagger joins Tosh on a cover of the Temptations hit "(You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back." The movie The Harder They Come and it's title song became a cult classic in 1975 and made Jimmy Cliff a household name. A portion of Putumayo's proceeds from the sale of this album will be donated to World Learning in support of their efforts to foster global citizenship through international experiential education and community-driven development programs.



For most fans of what eventually became to be known as world music, developing a taste for the incredibly diverse - to say nothing of complex, thrilling, organic, sophisticated and/or seductive - styles from around the globe occurred gradually, but the vast majority can recall a few tunes that achieved mainstream or college radio airplay, acting as important catalysts, pointing the way toward future explorations. For boomers, it might have been Miriam Makeba's "Pata Pata," a joyous blast of Jo'burg jive, heard here in another but no less enchanting version. Or perhaps it was Manu Dibango's "Soul Makossa," an urbane b-side from a then-unknown Cameroonian bandleader that became an international dance floor sensation. Younger aficionados could cite the Gipsy Kings' "Bamboleo," a flamenco-laced perpetual motion machine that filled nightclubs from Paris to Pittsburgh, or maybe the Senegalese band Touré Kunda's insanely catchy, reggae-inflected "E'mma." Some may even cop to having been momentarily charmed by Kaoma's flagrantly tacky, neo-Brazilian "Lambada" and its appended craze of vertical simulated copulation, often performed by women in short skirts and no underwear. Then there were the western superstar/international icon duets, such as Mick Jagger and Peter Tosh's "Don’t Look Back" or Neneh Cherry and Youssou N'Dour's still-compelling "7 Seconds." All of these and many more appear on this evocative multiple-time-capsule of a disc, bringing back half-forgotten memories in poignant sensory swoops.

Christina Roden - Amazon.com



Die größten Worldmusic-Erfolge zum ersten Mal auf einer Scheibe versammelt! Seit den Sechzigern drangen immer wieder Hits aus fernen Ländern in die heimischen Charts, von Miriam Makeba über Mongo Santamaria bis Manu Dibango. Den “Hits von Welt” aus vier Dekaden widmet Putumayo nun einen unterhaltsamen und spannenden Streifzug mit altbekannten und weniger offensichtlichen Chartsstürmern und Ohrwürmern. Peter Tosh als Bush Doctor tut sich mit Mick Jagger zusammen, ebenfalls aus der Reggaefraktion steuert Jimmy Cliff seinen Filmhit “The Harder They Come” bei. Südafrika ist mit zwei Generationen durch Miriam Makeba und Johnny Clegg dabei, Manu Dibango bringt seinem Makossa den Soul bei und Neneh Cherry duettiert mit Youssou N’Dour in der Ballade “7 Seconds”. Youssous Landsmänner von Touré Kunda erinnern an ihre Frühphase und sind als Strippenzieher auch bei Kaomas “Lambada” an Bord. Globales Latin-Fever zaubern Mongo Santamaria und Santana, während die Gipsy Kings noch mal aus voller Kehle ihrem “Bamboleo” frönen.

Amazon.de



It probably helps to define the word "hit" before determining whether this 11-song compilation lives up to its title. If it means that a record must have placed in the Billboard Top Ten in America, then the title is a fib -- not all of these recordings even made the Top 100. And if World Hits is meant to imply that its contents are sung in languages other than English, that too would disqualify this collection: the two reggae tracks, for example, Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come" and Peter Tosh's "(You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back," which features a guest vocal from Mick Jagger, hail from Jamaica and are sung in English. (Cliff, incidentally, did chart three times in the U.S., but this song, from the soundtrack of the same-named film, wasn't one of them.) "7 Seconds," from Senegal's Youssou N'Dour with Britain's Neneh Cherry, is in English, and the incidental vocal asides in Mongo Santamaria's "Watermelon Man" are too. When South Africa's Miriam Makeba released her "Pata Pata" in 1967 she took a mid-song break from singing in the Xhosa language to explain the song's meaning in English, but the version featured here is a later remake (admittedly, no English in sight). And not all of these artists even come from outside of the U.S.: Santana, its leader's Mexican heritage notwithstanding, hailed from California.

But if World Hits means that there is a certain degree of familiarity to these recordings within the U.S., which has been historically unkind to music from non-English-speaking countries, then all 11 qualify. True, listeners may want to forget Kaoma's "Lambada," whatever planet it came from, and those who frequent certain ethnic restaurants might be happy to never be exposed again to the overplayed Gipsy Kings (non-charting) hit "Bamboleo" in this lifetime. But as an introduction to the very existence of music with roots outside of the continental United States and the U.K., this brief overview is a fun listen, and ultimately worthy. There's only one question: why did the compilers skip over two legitimate foreign-language hits that reached number one in Billboard in 1963: the Japanese Kyu Sakamoto's "Sukiyaki" and the Belgian-born, French-vocalizing the Singing Nun (aka Soeur Sourire)'s "Dominique"? OK, maybe we know why, but just thought we'd ask.

Jeff Tamarkin - All Music Guide
 

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