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BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: GUITAR BOY BY SIR VICTOR UWAIFU AND HIS MELODY MAESTROES (PHILLIPS, 1966) - EPISODE #86
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I miss Amoeba Records in Hollywood. When I was working a few blocks north of there, I’d visit a few times a week during my lunch break. They had a warehouse full of oddities of all mediums and genres, books, films and memorabilia. It was on one of these mid day excursions that I came across an album entitled: “The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Africa”. This was earmarked and marketed for people just like me. The music contained therein varied quite a bit from my idea of psych, but I love discovering new stuff so I couldn’t pass it by.
“Guitar Boy” was one of the tracks on this collection, by Nigerian national hero - the musician, writer, sculptor, and musical instrument inventor Sir Victor Uwaifo (1941-2021), who achieved the very first gold record there with “Jeromi” in 1965. The genre is called High Life, developed in Ghana, a former British Colony on the west coast of Africa. It’s style is immediately recognizable as Afro-Cuban, with it’s fusion of Afro beats with western melodies played by guitars plucked in staccato arpeggios.
Guitar Boy was banned for awhile because of it’s connection to a failed coup in April ’67, which was led by a Lt. Samuel Arthur (later executed), who marched prematurely into Broadcasting House Accra, announced the coup, and ordered the record to be played. Wow! You can’t make this shit up.
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BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: GUITAR BOY BY SIR VICTOR UWAIFU AND HIS MELODY MAESTROES (PHILLIPS, 1966) - EPISODE #86
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Manage episode 453240501 series 1847932
I miss Amoeba Records in Hollywood. When I was working a few blocks north of there, I’d visit a few times a week during my lunch break. They had a warehouse full of oddities of all mediums and genres, books, films and memorabilia. It was on one of these mid day excursions that I came across an album entitled: “The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Africa”. This was earmarked and marketed for people just like me. The music contained therein varied quite a bit from my idea of psych, but I love discovering new stuff so I couldn’t pass it by.
“Guitar Boy” was one of the tracks on this collection, by Nigerian national hero - the musician, writer, sculptor, and musical instrument inventor Sir Victor Uwaifo (1941-2021), who achieved the very first gold record there with “Jeromi” in 1965. The genre is called High Life, developed in Ghana, a former British Colony on the west coast of Africa. It’s style is immediately recognizable as Afro-Cuban, with it’s fusion of Afro beats with western melodies played by guitars plucked in staccato arpeggios.
Guitar Boy was banned for awhile because of it’s connection to a failed coup in April ’67, which was led by a Lt. Samuel Arthur (later executed), who marched prematurely into Broadcasting House Accra, announced the coup, and ordered the record to be played. Wow! You can’t make this shit up.
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1 HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "ALAN FREED'S BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS "- IN 2014, THE ROCK HALL OF FAME REMOVED FREED'S ASHES FROM DISPLAY- IT WAS THE FINAL INDIGNATION IN A LIFE DEVOTED TO THE MUSIC AND… 29:09
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1 "IT IS THE EVENING OF A LEGEND" - MARIANNE EVELYN GABRIEL FAITHFULL - DECEMBER 29, 1946 - JANUARY 30, 2025- IN HONOR OF AN ARTIST, A POET AND A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF REINVENTION- FEATURING HER… 17:10
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1 BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: SHE CAUGHT THE KATY, LEFT ME A MULE TO RIDE BY TAJ MAHAL (COLUMBIA, 1968) EPISODE #92 6:10
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1 HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "THE FIRE AND SOUL REVUE"- A MONSTERPIECE OF PODCAST THEATER FEATURING OUR TRIBUTE TO SAM AND DAVE, SPRINGSTEEN'S RETURN TO NEBRASKA AND THE INTERNAL YEARNINGS OF YOUR… 1:51:48
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1 BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: MARSHMALLOW SKIES BY RICK NELSON (DECCA, 1967). EPISODE #91 4:37
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1 HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS " THE HIGHWAY TO A COMPLETE UNKNOWN- THE FILMS OF JAMES MANGOLD"- THIS CINEMATIC CHAMELEON DELIVERED "COPLAND", "GIRL INTERRUPTED", "I WALK THE LINE" AND THE GREATEST REMAKE… 37:00
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1 BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: QUE SERA SERA BY SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE (EPIC, 1973) #87 7:36
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1 HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "FAMOUS LAST WORDS- OUR NEW YEAR EXTRAVAGANZA!!"- FEATURING THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK- REFLECTIONS, PERCEPTIONS & MUSICAL MEDICINE COMBINED WITH… 1:12:07
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1 BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY BY JULIE LONDON (LIBERTY, 1969) EPISODE #90 5:18
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1 HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS-"A PERSONAL CHRISTMAS DELIVERY"-XMAS CHEER FOR THE HIP AT HEART- A MEMORABLE MUSICAL MANGER OF MERRIMENT AND MELANCHOLY WITH AIMEE MANN, MICHAEL PENN, CHRISTY MOORE, MABEL… 35:13
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1 BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: SOME ENCHANTED EVENING BY EZIO PINZA (COLUMBIA, 1958). DEDICATED TO CHEMAYNE HALVERSON (1/6/1967-12/23/2020) 5:43
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1 HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS: "JOHNNY CARSON AND THE FANTASY OF AMERICA"- Narrated By Jason Zinoman-THE LATE NIGHT HOST LOOMS OVER OUR CULTURE TO THIS DAY- BUT THERE WAS A DARKNESS AT THE HEART OF HIS… 23:11
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1 HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "THE GRATEFUL LIVE- ONE BIG SOUL" -THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS, RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK, ATTEMPT TO NAVIGATE A CONFLICTED MAZE OF POST THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY EMOTIONS -A… 58:57
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