Manu Dibango ~ Soul Makossa 1972 Funky Purrfection Version
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- čas přidán 28. 03. 2019
- Influential disco DJ David Mancuso was born in 1944 and was then given up to a Catholic orphanage in Utica, New York. He moved to NYC in 1965 and shared his love of music with others in an illegal loft apartment by having invitation only parties of 100 patrons or so. In 1970 he formalized these parties and ran them from a DJ booth that looked like an old Wurlitzer jukebox. His innate talent for creating hot peaks of music and then ebbing to some downtempo tunes and then building the energy up again with all kinds of music he would dig up in the local record stores. He found "Soul Makossa" by Manu Dibango in a local West Indian record shop and the slinky and mesmerizing rhythms fit right into his style. The shop only had a few copies and as soon as the clubbers heard it, bought up the last copies and then everyone was in this mad rush to find the song. As a result, there was a flood of covers by Afrique, The Gaytones, The Mighty Tomcats, Babatunde Olatunji, the Nairobi Afro Band, Simon Kenyatta, the Ventures and All Directions. Atlantic Records got around to licensing "Soul Makossa" but it was too late as the ersatz copies of the song were readily available and the song peaked at #35 on the pop charts. Manu Dibango was born December 12, 1933 in Cameroon. He joined African Jazz band and after 1966 went solo and collaborated with many different artists until he recorded "Soul Makossa" in 1972. The utterly hypnotizing funky bass line joined with his energetic sax playing was underlined with the Makossa chant, (ma ma ko ma ma sa ma ma makossa) made this one a club favorite, but came two years too early to be rated on the Billboard Disco chart which began in November of 1974. Everyone was trying to co-opt the groove, and Michael Jackson did the best using a chant based on "Soul Makossa" for "Wanna Be Startin' Something". Rihanna also used the groove on her "Don't Stop The Music" in 2007, after asking Jackson to use the chant from "Wanna Be Startin' Something". In 2009 Dibango sued both of them for copyright infrigement and Jackson immediately retreated and settled with Dibango. He was less successful with Rihanna as he received no financial recompense but did get his name put on the song as a writer and now he gets royalties for the sale of the Rihanna song in France.
- Hudba
Omg my Mom had this 45 record in the 70's. We would push all the living room furniture to the edges of the room and my brothers and sister and Mom would all get down and boogie. What a blast!! This song is everything. Love it!!!!!
I also bought this 45 in the 80's and unfortunately I left it in the car in the back window and..... warped! My happiest time turned in to a say day.
elsamere*Yeah I know about pushing the furniture up against the wall and getting down.
Me too.i was always dancing to this song when they played it on the radio.an amazingly fantastic song.i heard it today,and right away I stared to dance and make my own dance moves.a classic for sure.when I lived in new York,forham Rd. In the bronx.lots of dancing,free style.always.💡😁⭐🤩👍
I remember those days too😁💡👍
Beautiful 😁
This was the jam back in da day. Nothing but pure soul.
I am white and so enjoyed sharing this song from my youth with a prodigy appre tice of mine! i call him my "GRANDSON" if i ever had kids he would have been my choice for a son or grandson. i really enjoy sharing old comedy and music i knew growing up with him, the look of surprise and fascination is worth it ! plus i am teaching him more about our cultural "SHARED" history. GOD BLESS EVERYONE!
Top 10 best break beat ever,over 40 years old and it still jams at every black BBQ! RIP My brother!
This came out about 1972, and it still rocks much better than so called music today!! Rest in piece brother, your music will continue into the 3000’s!!
Goodness glaciers the 4th millennium you're mentioning!??!?! Oh I hope this copy survives beyond the 2500s...Hopefully the human races keeps this alive for other species in outer space to enjoy.
I grew up in Hollis, Queens, this was the jam at the Parks in the Mid 70s. Thank you for bringing your piece of history to our world. RIP Brother..
GREAT TRIBUTE!! ... R.I.P Manu Dibango (1933-2020)
My fellow compatriot,may he Rest in Peace..
You can NEVER forget Soul Makossa, because it´s inmortal!!!!!!I was dancing jazzbalett to this song........RIP Manu Dibango!
Agreed! I won't & can't🎯
1973 Club Classic and EVERYONE got up to dance.
I remember back in 70's in Queens my mother used to give rent parties if any kids from that era in n.y.c ever remembers this was one of the main records being played on the stereo.
RIP Manu Dibango! Thank you for this ageless Soul Makossa we will never forget......
Back in my DAY when this song played EVERYONE tore the floor, street,whatever you were standing on was burnt from us dancing. Those were the days!!!!👍🏾👍🏾👌🏾👌🏾✊🏾✊🏾❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
From the Summer of '73 on, this played at every block party and family reunion I attended! I may have been only 3 or 4 when I first heard Soul Makossa, but I remember stopping whatever I was doing and dancing every time it played...and it played A LOT back in the day. Even nearly 50 years(!) later, I still need to get up and dance. So happy Mr Dibango was able to receive royalties/writing credit from Rihanna and MJ.
Great point Geri. This is such an underrated and historic 1-hit wonder classic. It can be argued that this is very early influence from everything from Hip/Hop-Rap to House Dance Music, R&B/Funk and many other forms of modern pop music. I think MJ sampling this to Want to Be Starting Something about a decade after its first release gave its first set of exposure to then young music fans such as myself. And then more recently here in the 2000's Rihanna exposing this to Millennial era born music fans as well. Still great listening this 45-plus years after it's debut in 1973.
Hi Geri, I'm certainly with you on this one...grew up around Maryland & Washington DC back in the day, and the first time I heard this in '72 I was 5...and it was always played on the radio and I HAD to DANCE whenever I heard it...my Ma loved it too and went out and bought it...she also loved Issac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield (which some people thought was 'strange' for a white lady, as if really good music even has a 'color') so I heard their records growing up as well...you keep on DANCING!...and I will, too!
I was 9 years old when I first heard Soul Makoosa, and loved it ever since❤️❤️
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It don’t get no better than this
Nope. this is IT! Wanna dance?
This was the party jam. I remember this was all people wanted to dance to. Love it still. Thank you.
I ran to the neighborhood record store in 73 and bought the 45. One of the best jams ever!
Me too!
The Record Factory on the SW corner of 8th Ave and Irving. Couldn't hardly wait to get it home to spin it!
@@kidmack3556 Word! I feel you! Happy Kwanzaa!
Memories when the corner store that sold records existed. I did the same thing! Once I heard a song I really loved playing on the radio. I would run to the record store around the corner and purchase it
@@divaonedivine I think they were 59 cents.
I might have done the SAME thing!!!❤❤❤
The song that truly started the disco era.
Still listening in 2022. Fifty years later!
R .I.P. Manu.. loved this song since it came out ..matter of fact it was my only vinyl I saved..and recently went to a 70's party and styled it around my neck with a chain.and they even then played it at the party.
MANU DIBANGO PASSED AWAY TODAY FROM CORONAVIRUS
SOUL MAKOSSA WAS A CLUB STAPLE IN 1973. WONDERFUL MIX
So 😥
Still is, that is in any place that has class!! They don’t music like this anymore 😢😢
RIP!
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omg, just now recognized that - R.I.P. - I'm so glad to saw him live in Aug. 2018 in Vienna at the Afrika Days
Power 99 FM, Philly, PA... They would play this during Rush Hour, and Saturday Night... Golden Boy, where are you???
This was the the riff I first learnt when I first picked up the Sax in 1979
You were dead if you didn't get up and dance to this jam!
Coney island bump dance to this yes on every block. Playing and dancing even if you couldn't. You got up and grove to this every day. Ever night non stop bklyn. Rides. All dancing godbless this. Hit old school rocks.
😎 just smiles ..
It's
A
Groove !!!
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This was the theme song for a dance show in Mississippi called Black Gold back in the late 70’s early 80’s.
Who’s dancing? 💃🏽🕺🏽 Yessss!!!
I AM!!!!!!!!
Movin to the SMOOTH SOUND! IT POUNDING!
Tunga Tunga u goosa tunga yea! Sounds good to me! But not know what it means. Anybody know any of the language?
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1973 Seattle, WA The Golden Horseshoe, jukebox still 3plays on a quarter, while we loved the Philly Sounds this was a rootsy blast of freshness that called our primal spirits to the communal floor of dance. This was my first feel of true tribal on the dance floor and it was a complete and total release of the burdens of the work week or anything that fettered you, it was license to work it out, let it go and join the movement of bodies that surrounded you. It comes and goes out of dance floor consciousness, even as Michael Jackson quoted it in GOT TO BE STARTIN' SOMETHING and Rihanna quoted(how it was sung) MJ in her PLEASE DONT STOP THE MUSIC, though far and away the original still holds sway in itself to make it rain from humidity of body sweat in the room. Thank you DJDCV2!
YES...
PURE FUNK MUSIC !!!
The beat is insane!!!!HOT 🔥 CLASSIC....! This jam used to get every one up to dance, what friggin' memories...Fun times, Happy times...
Hit NYC likes a category 10 storm... Amazing' remix Papacat, Love it so much that it gets inside me and makes me want to dance like crazy !! 🎵🎶💃💃 Thank you..! 👍
RIP, Manu Dibango and thank you for your nmusic that will NEVER end........
R.I.P. MANU DIBANGO. 12-12- 1933 - 3-24-2020
What a groovy disco remix? Quite a Purrfection!!
MJ was inspired by the beginning of this song to make “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin.’” Then Rihanna used that for “Don’t Stop The Music.” How far this song has gone.
haaaaaayyyyyy Soul Makossa.............👍😎 1.9K 5 14 22........AWESOMENESS..........
QUE CLASICO AFRICANO DE LOS 73¡¡¡¡.WONDERFUL.I LIKE IT.
No record in the disco age set the place on fire like Makossa. Places went berserk the second that bass it 🕺🕺😎
Church of What's Happening Now! RIP Ralphie May.
Rest in peace 😢♥️
Que buena música..... Desde Lima Perú... 🇵🇪
Wanna dance when I hear this Soul Makossa.....
I was 9 living in the Bronx at 460E182nd St. I thought this song came out in 1976 when I was 13 anyway it was a African dance song that was mostly played in dance competition
Anita Solís de Costa Rica para todos ustedes con todo mi corazón ❤️
R.I.P Manu ... thanks for this beautiful piece of work... loveeee. Ittyt
RIP to an Originator 🙏🏿🙏🏿🖖🏾
Didn’t know it was released in 72! We definitely uprocked and breakdanced to this in early 80’s
This groove is so solid and 🔥 you can't help but to move!!!
Manu Dibango the best ❤️❤️
That is good and funky!!!!😁😁😁😁😁
Nice mix of African percussion and bass tracks!
The sax ain't bad, either. Fancy fingerwork.
My late mother had this song on her one of her 8 track soul tapes
R.I.Power Our Brotha Manu Dibango!!!✊
OMG 😮 thank you 🙏 this brought me back... way back. Awesome 😎
I still have this vinyl
SÚPEEEER TEMA MUSICAL!!!!
.EXCELENTE TRACK!!!🎸🎤🎵🎶💞👏
Really so very amazing song and music thanks my dear for sharing
Playing music thinking of my momma(rip🙌😞) ......#classic
RIP MANU DIBANGO
MJ used that Makossa line very well in “ Gotta be starting something “.
Para todos ustedes con todo mi corazón ❤️ Anita Solís
Manu Dibango has passed away, but his music will always live........Thank you for Soul Makossa........
Song is 51 years old. It's standing the test of time. Check out the base line. Soul baby!!!!!!
Timeless afrofunk
This was the jam back in the day & apparently it still is!! RIHP Manu Dibango.
Saludos a todos los amantes de la música.
RIP
Still so good in 2022 :) Thx :)
Awesome remix
That Bass Line!!!
J'adore ce morceau :D
AWESOME!
Great Great, Damn, so Great!! Words cannot explain just how so.
What a great bio!
A forever groovy hit !!!
This sounds like some straight up James Brown, Maceo Parker funk!! Funky!!
7:50 the slickest break of the song
Fukin lovely Mister
Cat, you never cease to amaze me with your skills!! Every time you remix, you raise your game to another level!!
Good stuff DJ!
One day loca will dance to THIS!!!
I remember it (the original) from '73
I had the '45 rpm single.
Same year as the final Vietnam cease fire, the Watergate hearings, and "The Exorcist" at year's end...
BAILALOOOO OJITOSSSS!!!
Tenho esse compacto da época..muito bom..
BIG MAN DJDiscoCat. Yo G! boy.... did you kick ass on this. Thank you for your creativity!
I definitely can see this danced to once more in the 2020s, since this song is now 50 years old, it's amazing that even 50 years after it's release in 1972, it still gets you dancing and grooving' whether swaying side to side while sitting, or standing up and breakdancing, that bass guitar, electric guitar, cowbell, and even the drums is what makes this song even more special, not just the lyrics. If I ever do hear this played in some 70's party, whether in a club or on a cruise ship, I definitely would love to see how people dance to this one.
If you like, pitch it up just enough to hear it in a different key than expected, say in VirtualDJ. You'd be surprised at how it sounds.
In all humility🙏 I STILL THROWDOWN💯
Great mix.
This was the Jam! 🎶 💃🏾
Great mix of a great song I love. Keep the hits comin`
I remember begging my Parents to buy this record and they did
All time great classic,love it
RIP .
PUUUURRRRRfection!!
Love this Channel
Me, too!!!
muy buenas producciones...sigan asi...¡¡¡¡¡
You're listening to DJ Timmy T and WBLS 107*5 in Stereo in NYC 🎧
Can’t help but doing da boogie and funky strut with my flares and platties for this one!
Green Grooves Lol ...right on!!!
I know the feeling
James Brown use that same sound with his own music Make It Funky the way it sound.
EARGASIM!!!!!
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I think i'm your biggest fan LOL! you do these classics like back in the days of the disco era. any possibility you will be doing Genius of Love? :-) Keep on doing this brother, bang up job, Kudos!
RIP!
Ah this is where Michael Jackson got those words for 'Wanna be startin' somethin' '
Yeah he settled out of court with Manu Dibango for using that line.
@@Flowers4848 He should have paid him before it hit the vinyl! After all, didn't he have it out with Sony for not paying him what he knew he deserved.
@@cynthiadickerson5403 agreed
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Anita Solís de Costa Rica Pura Vida ❤️