An all-time classic of South African music, the definitive remastered edition of Miriam Makeba\u2019s \u2018Pata Pata\u2019, her first album recorded for Reprise in 1966. The album marked a significant international breakthrough for Makeba. Moving to the US after the anti-apartheid film \u2018Come Back, Africa\u2019 gained international attention and staying there in exile, she quickly built her career in New York during the \u201860s, mentored by Harry Belafonte. Signing with Reprise after a period with RCA, she returned to one of her older songs: \u201cI wrote \u2018Pata Pata\u2019 back in 1956, back in South Africa,\u201d remembered Makeba in her autobiography. \u201cIt was a fun little song and I was thinking of a dance that we do at home (\u201cpata\u201d means \u2018touch\u201d in Zulu and Xhosa).\u201d Originally a hit in South Africa with her early vocal harmony group the Skylarks, the new recording, produced by Jerry Ragovoy, brought a lighter uptempo R\u2019nB arrangement, adding some English lyrics. \u201cIt was my first truly big seller. All of a sudden, people who never knew I had been in America since 1959 were asking me to be on their television shows and play at their concert halls during 1967. In the discotheques, they invented a new dance called the \u2018Pata Pata\u2019 where couples dance apart and then reach out and touch each other. I went to Argentina for a concert and, across South America, they are singing my song.\u201d The track peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at no. 12 and the album. Other songs on the album included a version of the traditional Xhosa classic, \u2018Click Song Number One\u2019 (\u2018Qongqothwane\u2019), the atmospheric \u2018West Wind\u2019, later famously covered by her friend Nina Simone, and a version of Tilahun Gessesse\u2019s \u2018Yetentu Tizaleny\u2019 which Makeba learned on a trip to Addis to perform for Haile Selassie at the Organisation Of African Unity. Mastered by The Carvery from the original reel to reel tapes, \u2018Pata Pata\u2019 is released in its mono and stereo versions for the first time. Physical formats feature brand new sleeve notes alongside rare photos from the time of recording and session details. The album is released on 6th September on 2LP<\/p>\n
Tracklist:<\/p>\n
A1 Pata Pata (Mono Version)
\nA2 Ha Po Zamani (Mono Version)
\nA3 What Is Love (Mono Version)
\nA4 Maria Fulo (Mono Version)
\nA5 Yetentu Tizaleny (Mono Version)
\nA6 Click Song Number One (Mono Version)<\/p>\n
B1 Ring Bell, Ring Bell (Mono Version)
\nB2 Jol\u2019Inkomo (Mono Version)
\nB3 West Wind (Mono Version)
\nB4 Saduva (Mono Version)
\nB5 A Piece Of Ground (Mono Version)<\/p>\n
C1 Pata Pata (Stereo Version)
\nC2 Ha Po Zamani (Stereo Version)
\nC3 What Is Love (Stereo Version)
\nC4 Maria Fulo (Stereo Version)
\nC5 Yetentu Tizaleny (Stereo Version)
\nC6 Click Song Number One (Stereo Version)<\/p>\n
D1 Ring Bell, Ring Bell (Stereo Version)
\nD2 Jol\u2019Inkomo (Stereo Version)
\nD3 West Wind (Stereo Version)
\nD4 Saduva (Stereo Version)
\nD5 A Piece Of Ground (Stereo Version)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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