Solomon Linda received ten shllings when he sold his song "Mbube" (EEM-boom-beh, Zulu for Lion) to record producer Eric Gallo in 1939.(General News)

From: Sing Out! | Date: September 22, 2003 | Copyright information

Solomon Linda received ten shillings when he sold his song "Mbube" (EEM-boom-beh, Zulu for Lion) to record producer Eric Gallo in 1939. According to Pete Seeger's autobiography, Where Have All the Flowers Gone (Sing Out! Publications, 1993), ten years later, Alan Lomax visited Pete Seeger with a box of South African 78s that Decca records had headed for the trash. Among those records was the recording Linda had made for Gallo. Inspired by the rich unaccompanied harmonies, Pete tran...

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