All About Miriam

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All About Miriam
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Released1966
Genre World music, African music
Label Mercury
Miriam Makeba chronology
The Magnificent Miriam Makeba
(1966)
All About Miriam
(1966)
Pata Pata
(1967)
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All About Miriam is the 1966 ninth studio album of Miriam Makeba (LP Mercury 134029) [2] [3] Arrangements for the album were by Luchi DeJesus and Sivuca (as Severino Dias De Olivera). Sivuca also played guitar. Harold Dodson played bass, and drummer was Leopoldo Flemming.

Track listing

  1. "The Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) 3:00
  2. "Yetentu Tizaleny" 2:34
  3. "Maria Fulô" baião (Severino Dias de Oliveira) 2:53
  4. "I Think I Ought To" (Buddy Bernier) 2:11
  5. "Click Song (Number 1)" (Miriam Makeba) 2:16
  6. "To Love and Lose" (William Salter) 3:33
  7. "Four-Letter Words" (Margo Guryan) 2:16
  8. "U Shaka" 2:47
  9. "Mas Que Nada" samba (Jorge Ben Jor) 2:52
  10. "Mommy, Mommy What Is Heaven Like?" 2:46
  11. "Jol'inkomo" 2:59
  12. "The Sound of a Drum" (William Salter) 3:00

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Max Mojapelo, Sello Galane -Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South Africa 1920299289 2008
  3. Billboard - Nov 19, 1966 ALL ABOUT MIRIAM Miriam Makeba. Mercury MG 21095 (M); "... Not only does she excel in an almost-patented "Click Song," but also in songs like 'Mas Que Nada' and a heart-warming 'Mommy, Mommy, What Is Heaven Like?'"