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Babatunde Olatunji — Jin-Go-Lo-Ba (Drums of Passion)
Album: Drums of Passion
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Released: 1959
Length: 3:10
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Easy 6. This is good working music, though I spent most of the time looking through the comments to see if I could spot what kind of soulless person would give this a 1.
Posted 13 years ago by vit    [ Reply ]
 audiophelia wrote:
Oh please follow this up with Santanaaaaaa....
 

Oh yes...please!
Posted 13 years ago by rjewyo    [ Reply ]
 maryte wrote:
What kind of trolls are giving Babatunde a "1"??
 
What's up with the name-calling?

Posted 13 years ago by dvwtwo    [ Reply ]
 Patrick wrote:
Sounds like "Jingo" from the first Santana album.
 
Bump. And Olatunji is credited on the album.


Posted 13 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
Ehhhh, no, I don't think so.
Posted 13 years ago by shutter    [ Reply ]
Awesome! I know I am all passioned up!{#Dancingbanana}
Posted 13 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
Oh please follow this up with Santanaaaaaa....
Posted 13 years ago by audiophelia    [ Reply ]
ArbiterOfGoodTaste wrote:
Same here. Know it from Santana's Moonflower album, but didn't know it was a cover.
Isn't it from "Abraxas"?
Posted 19 years ago by Beastie    [ Reply ]
What kind of trolls are giving Babatunde a "1"??
Posted 19 years ago by maryte    [ Reply ]
That was a really nice mix from 'Private Universe' into this track, well done DJ
Posted 19 years ago by Ender43    [ Reply ]
Danny_G wrote:
Lo-ba-ba !!
I think it's "yo va va", which (might) mean I go go....
Posted 19 years ago by Pyro    [ Reply ]
Patrick wrote:
Sounds like "Jingo" from the first Santana album.
THANK YOU! I was trying to figure out where I had heard that chorus before! So familiar, yet not in it's "regular place" in my musical memory....
Posted 19 years ago by Pyro    [ Reply ]
artmarcia wrote:
The perfect segue from Crowded House's Private Universe. Slides from one right into the other.
And again...perfect.
Posted 19 years ago by Pyro    [ Reply ]
artmarcia wrote:
The perfect segue from Crowded House's Private Universe. Slides from one right into the other.
I appreciate the irony
Posted 19 years ago by Manbird    [ Reply ]
The perfect segue from Crowded House's Private Universe. Slides from one right into the other.
Posted 19 years ago by artmarcia    [ Reply ]
Lo-ba-ba !!
Posted 19 years ago by Danny_G    [ Reply ]
Add me to the list of those who didn't realize Santana's Jingo was a cover. I gotta admit I like Santana's version better. This this version, I had to take the headphones off midway through because it repetition was driving me crazy. Of course this was followed by incessant noodling from the Grateful Dead. (I know, them are fightin' words around here, but I simply never liked the Dead. They are great at what they do; I just don't like what they do.) Guess it's just not my day for RP.
Posted 20 years ago by tg3k    [ Reply ]
damien wrote:
can someone help me insert this plate into my lip?
Junior, stop playing with the good china...
Posted 20 years ago by Gregorama    [ Reply ]
Oh, wow -- the next generation of Osibisa! \:D/
Posted 20 years ago by MoxyP    [ Reply ]
can someone help me insert this plate into my lip?
Posted 20 years ago by damien    [ Reply ]
CanuckBeaker wrote:
Wow! I had NO idea that Santana's was a cover. I was going to put a comment on here about how the opening (and all of it) sounded like Santana's 'Jingo'. What a dumb guy I am! Thanks for teaching me new things RP. (that includes my fellow posters)
Same here. Know it from Santana's Moonflower album, but didn't know it was a cover.
Posted 20 years ago by ArbiterOfGoodTaste    [ Reply ]
Sounds like from the soundtrack for a 30s Clark Gable adventure movie in Africa. Interesting.
Posted 20 years ago by spieler    [ Reply ]
Yeah! Now we are talking! What a great way to start the weekend!
Posted 20 years ago by Alanur    [ Reply ]
Wow! I haven't heard this since the 1960's!!! THANK YOU! More Olatunji, please.
Posted 20 years ago by Franlrc    [ Reply ]
lunar23 wrote:
...nobody knows the 70s Santana cover?
I do, and hew added a musical element to it that made it fun. Unfortunately, this isn't as much fun.
Posted 20 years ago by MsJudi    [ Reply ]
lunar23 wrote:
...nobody knows the 70s Santana cover?
actually, that's where i first heard of Babatunde - on a live recording of Santana performing this song with him as guest. most excellent/.
Posted 20 years ago by Platypus    [ Reply ]
...nobody knows the 70s Santana cover?
Posted 20 years ago by lunar23    [ Reply ]
ChicoCyclist wrote:
"Jin-go-lo-ba" tranlates to "Press mute now."
what he said, yes, please, make it stop!
Posted 20 years ago by Red_Dragon    [ Reply ]
"Jin-go-lo-ba" tranlates to "Press mute now."
Posted 20 years ago by ChicoCyclist    [ Reply ]
Feel the rhythm! Get the powers of these drums! Get the drive from the singing! Hey, I am in trance :meditate.gif: :sunny.gif:
Posted 20 years ago by rklein    [ Reply ]
Perfect transition from Private Universe!
Posted 20 years ago by wxdawg    [ Reply ]
Please, no more...
Posted 20 years ago by mackman    [ Reply ]
onni wrote:
Please, stop playing this African crap.
Yes please make the bad men stop. This is more repetitive than the worst techno.
Posted 21 years ago by redwizard    [ Reply ]
Hmmm.... This is pushing my eclectic limits...
Posted 21 years ago by BigCalm    [ Reply ]
Sounds like "Jingo" from the first Santana album.
Posted 21 years ago by Patrick    [ Reply ]
I've long enjoyed this artist, at least in part because of his wonderful name. Once you know how to pronounce it, it's a glorious mouthful, a strong and stirring song all in itself. Babatunde Olatunji !!! Was rockin out to his stuff (which I'd found in a lending collection at the public library) in Junior High, 1963, with an Hawaiian Restaurant artificial grass skirt worn like a Masai lion mane headdress.
Posted 21 years ago by philarktos    [ Reply ]
I don't have any idea what the words say, but I agree with the sound evocations others have heard, evocations of other bands. I like to imagine that this song is singing the praises of ginkgo biloba, which so few people can spell or pronounce but which has helped some people feel better (yes, I have read the recent research to the contrary). It also sounds like some Native American music I was listening to in a documentary on PBS.
Posted 21 years ago by rKokon    [ Reply ]
jpbergjr wrote:
are you racist? It is not crap, and even if it was, so what it came from africa. Is it any betterr in Helsinki?
You really ought not to infer so much from what people write. He was implying that it was crap and that it came from Africa. If he'd have said all African Music was crap it may have been different. I thought he was mistaken. I thought it was OK African music.
Posted 21 years ago by stubbsz    [ Reply ]
jpbergjr wrote:
are you racist? It is not crap, and even if it was, so what it came from africa. Is it any betterr in Helsinki?
Well if it was from Helsinki he might have said Helsinki crap :D . Don't think it was racist, just musical taste expressed emphatically. Personally, I wouldn't call it crap, but I do find it lacking. For what it is it is fine - just not spectacular.
Posted 21 years ago by justlistening    [ Reply ]
I think I need some Jin-Go-Biloba
Posted 22 years ago by tbase    [ Reply ]
Wonderful tribal beat, energetic, with an almost mystic charge to the chant. I could listen to this several times a day, no matter what our friends in Helsinki think.
Posted 22 years ago by Euphemism    [ Reply ]
This one alwys gets my attention...even from across the room.
Posted 22 years ago by BC_Night_Heron    [ Reply ]
Funny... has me actually singing out loud... with no clue what I\'m saying :p
Posted 22 years ago by bobringer    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by Lee: Cool. This song is on Santana's first album as "Jingo" with a writing credit to Olatunji. Until today I had never heard the original. RP does it again!
Lee, I KNEW this sounded familiar! Thanks for the info. This is the first time I have heard the original as well. Good stuff
Posted 22 years ago by Leslie    [ Reply ]
Now that\'s what I call jungle! :D Fun, every once in a while. But I quess like with dance/techno you have to be in the right ambience to (maybe) appreciate it.
Posted 22 years ago by Johray63    [ Reply ]
Cool. This song is on Santana\'s first album as \"Jingo\" with a writing credit to Olatunji. Until today I had never heard the original. RP does it again!
Posted 22 years ago by Lee    [ Reply ]
please stop playing things like this
Posted 22 years ago by madman    [ Reply ]
An interesting track, I hadn\'t heard this before. I recognized Babatunde from his work with Mickey Hart\'s Planet Drum, worth checking out if you enjoy world beat. :)
Posted 22 years ago by Cy    [ Reply ]