Guabbi Guabbi
bob evon
I am new to this medium and apologize if I misuse it. I am interested in
finding the words and perhaps chords/tab to a song done by jim Kweshkin on
his relax your mind album back in the sixties. The song was ( I Think)
Guabbi Guabbi
Bob
Michael Black
I'm certain I heard Arlo Guthrie do Guabbi Guabbi in concert one time.
It might even be on one of his albums, though I haven't checked.
He has a web site, and maybe you can find something there (or ask
there). I don't have the URL handy, but the site is bound to show
up in a web search. "Arlonet" seems to come to mind as a name for
the site, so you might try a search with that.
Michael
Tom Tuerff
In article
<Pine.SGI.3.91.961031...@ban.libertel.montreal.qc.ca>,
Michael Black <blac...@libertel.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
"Guabi Guabi"is on Arlo's 1976 "Amigo" album. It's a nonsense song. It's
very funny. The whole album is worth having, and I dare say that even
though I haven't listened to it in years, I can still hum most of the
songs on it.
Go get it!
TT
gary or martina or other worden
Check Ramblin' Jack Elliot. He does it.
Oldfrat
You can find this song on Arlo Guthrie's "all Over The world" Cd. worth
the price!
bob evon <b...@sthaus.mv.com> wrote in article
<bob-301096...@pnh-1-30.mv.com>...
> I am new to this medium and apologize if I misuse it. I am interested in
> finding the words and perhaps chords/tab to a song done by jim Kweshkin
on
> his relax your mind album back in the sixties. The song was ( I Think)
> Guabbi Guabbi
>
>
> Bob
>
VWheeler
Check Ramblin' Jack Elliot. He does it.
On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, bob evon wrote:
SLHinton17
"Ramblin' Jack" Elliot rtecorded it on, I believe, a Folk Heritage album.
Sam Hinton
La Jolla, CA
Mr. Jack Regan
Arlo Guthrie's version of "Guabi Guabi" appeared on his album "Amigo",
IMO one of the best pop albums of the 70's. Here's how Guthrie has the
lyrics on the liner notes:
Guabi Guabi kuzwan le toum diome
Ize les gambi shooey entana
Guabi Guabi kuzwan le toum diome
Ize les gambi shooey entana
Ni izome tingy la ma bonza
Ize widgy le ba na na
Ni izome tingy la ma bonza
Ize widgy le ba na na
Hope that helps.
FM Fats
DZCrawford
Very worthwhile having. I've had it since 1976 and it's still one one my
favorites ...more song I bever get tired of. Now from the hints from
Heloise section of my brain -- in 1976 my group house (remember those
places where grad students all lived together -- almost like a gasp!
commune?) Anyway -- I made a tape of Arlo's Guabi Guabi. 30 minutes, one
song over and over. We played it every Saturday as we cleaned the house.
I still use it today, and the tempo is still the prefect get it done now
beat that it was then. My kids, 14, 7, and 4 love it. When they hear it,
they know it's time to dance with the mop. Beats the Barney the purple
dinasour's "Clean up" song. We are Revolutionary War Reenactors and the
kids sing it in the AM was we tidy camp for the public. The image of 20th
century kids wearing 18th century clothing, and singing Guabi Guabi. It
could be a movement -- but then. that is another Arlo song.
Donah Zack Crawford
Buttonbox Farm Folklife Center
ol...@ohsu.edu
Hello All
I didn't see the original post, but Happy Traum has a book with Tablature for
Guabi Guabi and the original was by someone called Simbada (I think) from a
record on Decca called Guitars of Africa. You ask how I know this, I've been
searching for this record for about 20 years. Anybody out there have it?
Erik
(ol...@ohsu.edu)
In article <55dds8$3...@abyss.West.Sun.COM> ji...@West.Sun.COM (Jim Hori) writes:
>From: ji...@West.Sun.COM (Jim Hori)
>Subject: Re: Guabbi Guabbi
>Date: 1 Nov 1996 18:00:40 GMT
>In article <ttuerff-3110...@ip108.phx.primenet.com>,
>Tom Tuerff <ttu...@primenet.com> wrote:
>>In article
>><Pine.SGI.3.91.961031...@ban.libertel.montreal.qc.ca>,
>>Michael Black <blac...@libertel.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, bob evon wrote:
>>>
>>> > I am new to this medium and apologize if I misuse it. I am interested in
>>> > finding the words and perhaps chords/tab to a song done by jim Kweshkin on
>>> > his relax your mind album back in the sixties. The song was ( I Think)
>>> > Guabbi Guabbi
>>> >
>>> I'm certain I heard Arlo Guthrie do Guabbi Guabbi in concert one time.
>>> It might even be on one of his albums, though I haven't checked.
>>
>>"Guabi Guabi"is on Arlo's 1976 "Amigo" album. It's a nonsense song. It's
>And he probably learned it from Jack Elliot who recorded it in
>the late 50s, for Prestige, I believe.
>....
>jimh
Larry Dornhoff
>
>And he probably learned it from Jack Elliot who recorded it in
>the late 50s, for Prestige, I believe.
>
immense repertoire.
--
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1409 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801-2975 USA
dorn...@math.uiuc.edu; (217) 333-1574, (217) 356-3498
http://albert.math.uiuc.edu/larryhpg.htm
Daniel Herman
Didn't Taj Mahal also record this song?
Dan Herman
Katonah, NY
Richard Francis Lappin
In
<Pine.SGI.3.91.961031...@ban.libertel.montreal.qc.ca>
Michael Black <blac...@libertel.montreal.qc.ca> writes:
>
>On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, bob evon wrote:
>
>> I am new to this medium and apologize if I misuse it. I am
interested in
>> finding the words and perhaps chords/tab to a song done by jim
Kweshkin on
>> his relax your mind album back in the sixties. The song was ( I
Think)
>> Guabbi Guabbi
>>
>>
>>
>>
>I'm certain I heard Arlo Guthrie do Guabbi Guabbi in concert one time.
>It might even be on one of his albums, though I haven't checked.
>there). I don't have the URL handy, but the site is bound to show
>up in a web search. "Arlonet" seems to come to mind as a name for
>the site, so you might try a search with that.
>
> Michael
>
>
there are numerous great versions of this song. Taj Mahal does it on a
CD of children's music, and Ramblin Jack Elliot does an inspired
version as well.
Richard
Jerry Dallal
Larry Dornhoff (dorn...@math.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: Art Thieme has several amusing versions of "Guabi Guabi" in his
: immense repertoire.
If only he'd record a few more of them . . . or anything else for that
matter. Perhaps we should take up a collection and commission our own
album. It's a shame that someone of Art's stature isn't more widely
recorded.
MIKE REGENSTREIF
Jack recorded "Gaubi Guabi" on a 1964 LP called JACK ELLIOTT
(Vanguard). That LP has been combined with a live recording from that era and
released on a single CD as THE ESSENTIAL RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT (Vanguard).
Arlo Guthrie recorded it on AMIGO (originally on Warner Bros., now on
Rising Son).
Mike Regenstreif
"Folk Roots/Folk Branches" on CKUT in Montreal
mre...@vax2.concordia.ca
secret muse
Guabi Guabi,the game song,was written by George Sibanda,an Ndebele
guitarist who recorded for the Gallotone label (78rpm)in about 1950;
a discovery of Hugh Tracey,eminent saviour of trad. African music.For
a time he was funded,in part,by this commercial concern,acting as a
"talent scout" for potential "hit" material(as was the case here)in
exchange for the ability to document more traditional styles.
The record gained some prominence in Europe,being reissued in a series
of 10" discs on London(1950s);the series re-shuffled & augmented on
12"Gallotone lps(1960s-S. Africa)and in the early 1970s re-reissued
on Kaleidoscope(NYC)-all under the editorial imprimatur of Dr.Tracey.
Sibanda was (is???)a lovely guitarist and had many successes in his
early days;i've come across several of his 78s over the last 20 years.
One other possibility-write to the Int'l Library Of African Music at
Grahamstown,SA(Andrew Tracey)for more on his ,and his dad's remarkable
work.Their albums,obviously,fueled many-a-crafty folkie,besides doing
their intended work... pvc
--
"The blues...ain't no cause for jumpin'.You go to jumpin',THAT ain't the
blues-
The blues is just by itself..." _SON HOUSE
DZCrawford
Thank you so much for the good source documentation. It's much
appreciated.
Donah Zack Crawford
Folklife Center at Buttonbox Farm
Deborah Kapell
In message <327BA2...@concentric.net> - secret muse
<sec...@concentric.net>Sat, 02 Nov 1996 11:33:21 -0800 writes:
:>
:>Guabi Guabi,the game song,was written by George Sibanda,an Ndebele
:>guitarist who recorded for the Gallotone label (78rpm)in about 1950;
:>a discovery of Hugh Tracey,eminent saviour of trad. African music.
Tracey was one of several people who put together a musical revue of African
music called "Wait a Minim". That show hit New York City in 1966 and "Guabi
Guabi" was one of the songs from that show.
Bill Markwick
Re: Guabi, Guabi.
Here's my entry for that song from my Folk File (which you can get at via
Steve Spencer's great FolkBook Web page):
:Guabi, Guabi: a South African folk song tremendously popular with
folkies in the 60s and 70s, thanks to the recordings of {Elliott, Jack}
and {Kweskin, Jim}. It's a Zulu children's song with a wonderful
melody and addictive guitar {fingerpicking}, and was taken from the
singing and playing of guitarist Sibanda.
The song is about someone who teases his girlfriend by holding
something behind his back and saying, "Guess what I've got." It's an
interesting mix of Zulu and French expressions, and this English
transliteration and translation is from Andrew Tracy of the African
Music Society thanks to the guitar tutorials of {Traum, Happy}:
"Guabi, Guabi, guzwangle notamb yami,
(Hear, Guabi, Guabi, I have a girlfriend)
Ihlale nkamben', shu'ngyamtanda
(She lives at Nkamben, sure I love her)
Ngizamtenge la mabanzi, iziwichi le banana."
(I will buy her buns, sweets, and bananas.)
If you've never heard the song sung before, the above is miles away
from the actual sound of the African language. Such is the
transliteration and its shortcomings.
Good luck with pronouncing the transliteration if you don't have a
recording. As for the chords, it's straight C, F, and G. The
fingerpicking takes a little more...
Bill Markwick
--
- Bill Markwick, Toronto Freenet - BD...@torfree.net
Jon and/or Carol Gicker
I am interested in
>> finding the words and perhaps chords/tab to a song done by jim Kweshkin
>on
>> his relax your mind album back in the sixties. The song was ( I Think)
>> Guabbi Guabbi
>>
>>
>> Bob
>>
African music album of long, long ago. The album on which the song
appeared MAY have been "Songs of the Bantu", but may be from another
album instead. I keep thinking I heard that song from a
pretty-traditional recorded source thirty years ago or so, but ...
All the best,
Jon
Jonathan Gicker
gic...@nccn.net
Nevada City, California
Ad astre, per aspera
"To the stars, through hardship"
Paul J. Stamler
Jerry Dallal (gda...@world.std.com) wrote:
If you commission it I'll record it -- cheap. I've worked with Art
several times in the past, and he's one of the great artists of our times.
Peace.
Paul
Paul J. Stamler
SLHinton17 (slhin...@aol.com) wrote:
: "Ramblin' Jack" Elliot rtecorded it on, I believe, a Folk Heritage album.
Don't know about the Folk Heritage recording, but it was on his first
(and last) Vanguard recording, called simply "Jack Elliot". This is the
recording that most of the rest of the world learned it from.
By the way, the words aren't nonsense, or at least weren't originally;
the song was originally a South African popular song. As several
generations of Americans have passed them along, they get farther away
from the original words.
Peace.
Paul