SA JAZZ-ROCK DISCOGRAPHY

1959 - 1979

    Albums

  • The Vikings, Live at the Club Pepsi,
    RCA Victor 31,323, 1959

    album

    Tracks

    Side One

    1. Rock around the clock
    2. Royal garden blues
    3. Blue Paul
    4. Send Thomas kwela
    5. Now is the time
    6. Lonesome road
    7. Intermission riff

    Side Two

    1. Vivacation
    2. Kwaai Kris kwela
    3. Not going to mersey square
    4. Medley: Jenny Jenny - Hound dog
    5. Caravan
    6. Kansas City
    7. Jumping with symphony Sid


  • The Vikings, The Vikings with Roger Smith,
    RCA Victor 31,546, 1961

    album

    Tracks

    Side One

    1. Hoots mon
    2. Made you
    3. The webb
    4. Red sails in the sunset
    5. Swing sharp
    6. Drip drop

    Side Two

    1. Peter Gunn
    2. Travellin' man
    3. Bull rock
    4. The wayward wind
    5. Swanee river
    6. My prayer


    The Band:

    Paul Ditchfield/ Harold Miller/ Chris Smit/ Peter Michael/ Tony Shaw/ Jimmy Kennedy/ Al Bentley/ Roger Smith vocals on second album

  • Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Deuntjies vir dansdag, Unika, UNL 1907, 1969


    album

    Tracks
    Side One

    1. Ou Kalahari
    2. Bummelied
    3. Die Heidelied
    4. Groen Koringlande
    5. Vat jou goed en trek/ January, February
    6. Siemamba

    Side Two

    1. Groen en goud (Bats)
    2. My hartjie my liefie
    3. Ou kraal liedjie
    4. Alibama
    5. Weltevrede stasie (Bats)
    6. Sarie Marais

    The Band:

    Henry Harris/ John Linderman/ Ron Schiff/ Unknown bass player


  • Sounds Of Brass, Live! Live! Live, Continental, SZB 8269, 1969

    album

    Tracks
    Side One

    1. Na na hey hey kiss him goodbye
    2. Special delivery
    3. Viva Bobby Joe
    4. South Carolina
    5. Turn on a dream
    6. I who have nothing
    7. Aquarius/ Let the sun shine in

    Side Two

    1. Nothing but a heartache
    2. Soul deep
    3. Bringing on the good times
    4. Golden slumbers/ Carry that weight
    5. Tracy
    6. Day after day


    The Band:

    Peter Hubner/ Lofty Schultz/ Denny Loren/ Paddy Powell/ Manny Francisco/ Nippy Cripwell/ Neville Whitmill


  • Music Corporation, Are you ready?, Date, DAS 2103, 1971

    album

    Tracks
    Side One

    1. Are you ready?
    2. Don't ever stop
    3. Melody fair
    4. Get it

    Side Two

    1. Drive my car
    2. In the hollow of your hand
    3. Running down the highway
    4. Pots and pans


    The Band:

    Lofty Schultz/ Paddy Powell/ Manny Francisco/ Nippy Cripwell/ Allan Goldswain/ Eric Norgate/ Sean Bergin


  • Compilation Album, Music Of Our Time, CBS, MOOT 1, 1971

    MOOT

    Tracks

    Side One

    1. Livin' in heart (Chase)
    2. In and out of love (Rascals)
    3. Nightmare no 5 (Al Kooper)
    4. Lowdown (Chigaco)
    5. If not for you (Bob Dylan)
    6. Celebration (Argent)
    7. Wrong end of the rainbow (Tom Rush)
    8. Devil lady (Dreams)
    9. Blackpatch (Laura Nyro)

    Side Two

    1. Things yet to come (Sweathog)
    2. Se a cabo (Santana)
    3. Famous blue raincoat (Leonard Cohen)
    4. Jumpin' Jack flash (Johnny Winter)
    5. Get it (Music Corporation)
    6. Move over (Janis Joplin)
    7. C'mon (Poco)
    8. Give it everything you got (Edgar Winter)
    9. Take me in your arms (Blood, Sweat and Tears)


  • Hammak, Live!, Cameo, CAM 1039, 1971

    album

    Tracks
    Side One

    1. When you dance I can really love
    2. Theme from an imaginary western
    3. Don't let it bring you down

    Side Two

    1. Empty pages
    2. Fire and rain
    3. Jam


    The Band:

    Keith Lentin/ Mandy Cohen/ Anton Fig/ Mike Faure/ André de Villiers/ Henry Barenblatt/ Nicholas Pike/ Midge Pike

  • Impi , Impi, CBS, ASF 1638, 1971

    album

    Tracks
    Side One

    1. Son of a Zulu man
    2. No one seems to notice
    3. Catch my love
    4. Rifleman
    5. Seven kinds of hell

    Side Two

    1. Deep River
    2. Herd Boy
    3. Picaninnes
    4. Nada
    5. Sun

    The Band:

    Paul Ditchfield/ Eddie Eckstein/ Barry Jarman/ Peter Clifford/ Neville Whitmill/ Eric Brook/ Peter Hubner


  • Assagai, Assagai, Vertigo, VEL 1004, 1971

    album

    Tracks

    Side One

    1. Telephone girl
    2. Akasa
    3. Hey Jude
    4. Cocoa

    Side Two

    1. Irin ajolawa
    2. Ayieo
    3. Beka
    4. I'll wait for you


  • Assagai, Assagai, Repertoire, 1971

    album

    Tracks (no details)

    The Band:

    Louis Mmoholo/ Dudu Pukwana/ Mongezi Feza/ Bizo Muggikana/ Fred Coker/ Charles Cuonogbo

  • Pacific Express, Black Fire, EMI, EMCJ(L) 11528, 1976

    album

    Tracks

    Side One

    1. Brother
    2. Feelings
    3. Sky ride 11
    4. Heaven

    Side Two

    1. Black fire
    2. You're everything
    3. Love your baby right
    4. Wind song


    The Band:

    Robbie Jansen/ Issy Ariefdien/ Basil"Manenberg" Coetzee/ Chris Schilder/ Jack Momplé/ Paul Abrahams/ Zane Adams

  • Samson , African Trilogy And Other Curios,
    WB Records, WBC 9005, 1978

    album

    Tracks

    Side One

    1. Sangoma
    2. African trilogy
    3. Foot -up/ Foot down

    Side Two

    1. La la da, la la do
    2. Afrodisia
    3. O my friend
    4. It's alright
    5. Laughing all over again


    The Band:

    Cedric Samson/ Renée Veldsman/ Neville Paulsen/ Lofty Schultz/ Various

  • Harambee, Giving A Little Away, WB Records,
    WBC 9008, 1978

    Harambee - Giving A Little Away

    Tracks

    Side One

    1. Prayer to the young moon
    2. Overture
    3. Roland the headless Thompson gunner
    4. Walk tall
    5. Midnight in the jungle/ O Fortuna

    Side Two

    1. Orangoutang
    2. Elegy
    3. Giving a little away
    4. O Fortuna
    5. Nkosi Sikelele Afrika

    The Band:

    Ken E Henson/ Ramsay Mackay/ Colin Pratley/ George Wolfaardt/ John Oakley-Smith/ Gabriel Mzaibako/ Various vocalists

  • Dollar Brand, Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro, The Sun, Gallo, SRK 786145, 1979

    album

    Tracks
    Side One

    1. Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro

    Side Two

    1. Kamalie

    The Band:

    Abdullah Ibrahim/ Harold Land/ Basil Coetzee/ Blue Mitchell/ Buster Cooper/ Lionel Beukess/ Doug Sides/ Gilbert Mathews/ Basil Moses/ Kamalie and his Apaches

    Seven Singles

  • The Vikings, Skokiaan rock/ Hamba kahle rock, RCA Victor 71.300, 1961

  • Sounds of Brass, Na na hey hey kiss him goodbye/ Turn on a dream, Continental, PD 9628, 1969

  • Music Corporation, Don't ever stop/ Get it , Date, DA 62, 1971

  • Impi, Deep River/ Herd boy, CBS, SSC 1110, 1971

  • Impi, Nada/ Picaninis, CBS, SSC 1139, 1971

  • This Side Up, Rifleman (Impi)/ Catch my love (Impi), ICS 806, 1971

  • The Collection, Kentucky Hill/ Catch my love (Impi), ICS 824, 1971

  • Assagai, Telephone girl/ I'll wait for you, Vertigo, TOS 785, 1971

  • Samson, La la da la la/ I'm laughing again, Warner Bros Records, 1972

  • Koko, Man to man/ Dust to dust (Lofty Schultz), Butterfly, BT 169, 1978

    The Band: Cedric Samson/ Nippy Cripwell/ Jethrow Butow/ Zane Cronjé

  • Zayn Adams and Pacific Express, The greatest love of all/ Without you, Gull, GUL 1013, 1979

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Tertius Louw, October 2001


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