- "
Skokiaan" is a po****r tune
originally written by
Zimbabwean musician August Musarurwa in the "Tsaba-tsaba" big band-style that
succeeded Marabi.[citation...
-
addition to "Popcorn",
another well-known
track is
August Msarurgwa's "
Skokiaan",
which was
included on RE/Search's
compilation album Incredibly Strange...
- Song/
Skokiaan." As
Keith Harris and
Chuck Eddy
wrote in
Rolling Stone, "The music's real root, though, is
apparently the
Rhodesian number '
Skokiaan,' (first...
- with Fire" 1954 "Du Bist Mein Liebchen" / "The
Little Shoemaker" 1954 "
Skokiaan" / "On the Waterfront" 1955 "These Are the
Things We'll Share" / 1955 "Ready...
-
within the family,
starting with
August Musarurwa,
composer of the song
Skokiaan. He sang in his
school choir,
spending much of his time
playing his father's...
-
Harvey Pekar wrote that, "Nelson's alto work is
featured on Full Nelson,
Skokiaan, and
Leonard Bernstein's Cool. He
plays fluently and
melodically with a...
-
Louis Armstrong on
trumpet in Armstrong's po****r
Dixieland recording of "
Skokiaan." Omer
Simeon died of
throat cancer in New York City at the age of 57....
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Zimbabwean musician, best
known for
having composed the 1950s hit tune "
Skokiaan" (also
known as "Skokiyana", "Skokian").
August Musarurwa was born and...
-
African kwela style music,
containing versions of "Zambesi", "Wimoweh", "
Skokiaan", and "Afrikaan Beat", as well as the
title track. Many of the
tracks were...
- to draw
people into
local bars or "shebeens" (where
illicit drinks like
skokiaan were sold), and to get them dancing. "Shebeens"
resemble the
American speakeasies...
