14291

    Street and Gangland Rhythms Beats And Improvisations By Six Boys In Trouble (1959)

    Smithsonian Folkways
    • Street and Gangland Rhythms – Ole
    • 1. Two Bongo Drum Sets and Sticks
    • 2. Bongo Drums and Sticks
    • 3. One Boy Playing Three Sets of Bongo Drums with His Hand and One Drum Stick
    • 4. Rhythm Ensemble with Voices
    • 5. Zum, Zum
    • 6. Ole
    • 7. Bo Diddlie
    • 8. Gugamuga
    • 9. Riding Hood Boogy Man
    • 10. Sister Suki
    • 11. Why Can't I Get It Too
    • 12. Cha Cha Cha
    • 13. The Fox
    • 14. Gang Fight
    • 15. Shoe Shine
    • 16. Shoe Shine Shakedown
    • 17. Dumb Boy
    • 18. Money Honey
    • 19. I Want Some Food

    Street percussion, drumming, songs and chants recorded in New York in 1959 by a group of street kids. Kind of like a prototype Haryou Percussion Group ('Welcome to the Party'). Wicked!

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