Various Artists - 22 Songs About Football (Global Groovers)

Well with world cup fever gripping people the world, seems appropriate that we get a few decent tunes to go along with it and moos over at Global Groovers has put together this deadly little compilation CD. I literally laughed my ass off when I found this compilation, then upon listening to it I laughed my ass off some more. In saying that however, IT WORKS REALLY WELL!! Mad funny at points but some great tunes on it to. Check it out! (He's Dutch by the way - moos - at least I think he's Dutch....) :-D

From the Global Groovers site:

"Speaking of football, or soccer, whatever you prefer, I decided to make a collector about it. It begins with a track from a cd full of 78's collected by John Peel's wife. Nice old song, in the middle we have two African songs, one Colombian and another oldie with the Marx Brothers. On no.13 we have a track sung by no one less than Pelé, with Sergio Mendes and on 20 a quite bad Dutch caranaval song by our own Johan Cruyff, you wont believe your ears. Most songs are Brazillian and about the famous Rio-club Flamengo or Pelé, get it & spread it..."

Tracklist:

01. Albert Whelan - Pass! shoot!! goal!!!
02. João Nogueira e Outros - Hino de flamengo
03. Gasolina - E o juíz apitou
04. João Nogueira - Samba rubro-negra
05. Bezerra da Silva - Flamengo e mangueira
06. Hélio Nascimento - Continuo a ser flamengo
07. Varias crianças - Falando sobre futbol
08. Luiz Wanderley - Rei pelé
09. Pepé Kallé - Roger mila
10. Johnny Bokelo - A.s. biliman
11. Los Teenagers - Pachanga del futbol
12. The Marx Brothers - Professor wagstaff presents the football game ( Groucho )
13. Sergio Mendes e Pelé - Meu mundo é uma bola
14. Wilson Simonal - Obrigado pelé
15. Jackson do Pandeiro - O rei pelé
16. Grupo Fundo de Quintal - Sou flamengo, cacique e mangueira
17. Tim Maia - Flamengo
18. Gilberto Gil e Germano Mathias - Samba rubro-negro
19. Lonnie Donegan - World cup willie
20. Johan Cruyff - Oei oei oei ( dat was me weer een loei )
21. Gringo da Parada - Mengoooo
22. Torcedores de flamengo – Mengoo

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Various Artists - Seven 7 Inches From Ghana (Global Groovers)

This is a compilation of highlife music from Ghana taken from the Global Groovers blog. I cannot reccomend this blog highly enough, it's a fantastic resource for anyone with an interest in world music, and the webmaster has taken the time to reupload a vast amount of his extensive collection despite the problems with file hosting services a couple of years ago.

There have been a number of compilations done on this website, including the Global Sampler volumes; however this is from the "Seven 7 Inches" series - there are a number of different ones from a variety of African nations. The Ghanaian highlife music seems to stand out a bit more compared to other kinds of highlife, however in my opinion the majority of music that falls into the afrobeats genre is worth investigating. :)

From the Global Groovers website:

"We had some from Kenya and from Colombia and Congo, today it is Ghana's turn to get a 'Seven 7" singles' compilation. I recently found some so here they are. ET Mensah's tracks are a bit noisy but the rest sounds fairly okay. Hope you like them, enjoy listening..."

Tracklist:

01.   Ramblers Dance Band - Oburoni woewu
02.   Ramblers Dance Band - Antie christie
03.   Dr. K. Gyasi's Noble Kings - Sama awo deme
04.   Dr. K. Gyasi's Noble Kings - Sei na'zo
05.   Ashanti Brothers - Me yonko awisia
06.   Ashanti Brothers - Kae owuo
07.   E.T. Mensah & his Tempos Band - Odo anigyina
08.   E.T. Mensah & his Tempos Band - Abele
09.   Yamoah's Band - Atemmuda
10.  Yamoah's Band - Oyefo
11.  Abongo Boys led by Sammy Kwampoh - Anka meye bi
12.  Abongo Boys led by Sammy Kwampoh - Menko ofie ho
13.  EK's no.1 Band - Efa woho ben ?
14.  EK's no.1 Band - Ma agyanka nesu nye wosu

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