FIRST TIME HEARING! Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo - "Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
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Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo - "Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
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This whole album Graceland is incredible. A work of art.
Cant wait to check out the others
It's a gem.
The live performance in South Africa was amazing.
It's wonderful. It sold 14 million copies and won the Grammy for Album of the Year.
It's a great album but I've always felt that the album before it, Hearts and Bones, was more emotionally honest. If that makes sense.
Paul Simon was at the lowest point of his life, both professionally and personally, when a friend invited him to come to South Africa in 1986. Apartheid was still in force and Simon got a huge amount of criticism for going. But oh my lord, what came out of that trip! He played with and befriended so many black South African musicians who would never have been heard of in the West. And they created this perfect gem of an album, Graceland. It gave visibility and acclaim to the South African artists and it re-launched Simon's career.
Bringing the rhythms and harmonies back and giving us even more insight into the music we share.
That is the rhythm of South Africa. Unmistakable rhythm and isicathamiya & mbube vocals.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo are 5 time Grammy award winners in their own right and the Graceland album with Paul Simon is a classic
wow 🙌💕🔥
Paul Simon recorded his whole "Graceland" album in South Africa with black South African musicians in 1986 when there was still "Apartheid" in South Africa. Other great songs from the album are the title track "Graceland", "Boy in the bubble", "Under African skies", "You can call me Al" and "Homeless"
Not the entire album. Some was recorded in the USA, with a zydeco band and with Los Lobos. Overdubs of Simon's vocals along with others like The Everly Brothers were recorded in NYC.
It caused some controversy because there were sanctions and embargoes against South Africa due to apartheid. So Paul Simon going to collaborate with artists in South Africa could have been a violation of U.S. foreign policy and possibly international law(?), but he argued that artists are the people who confront oppression and should be supported and celebrated. The album he created with/was inspired by South African musicians, Graceland, is extraordinary. "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" is my favorite song on it because it is so happy and the harmony, instrumentation, and rhythm are amazing.
You can call me Al is the only garbage song on there. The rest are dynamite
@@PeiPeisMom and You Can Call Me Al is still a lot of fun!
The video of this song is great. Ladysmith Black Mambazo look like what I think joy would look like. I can't explain it any better. They are just joy.
This song is so bittersweet. I used to watch the video with my handicapped older sister. I lost her to covid in 2021. I miss you Poochie.
I’m sorry for your loss.
@@txnana5459 Thank you. We all lost so much, and I know I'm not alone. This song means a lot to me. If you haven't seen the video of it you need to watch it. It is beautiful.
This collaboration started with Paul Simon's break up with Carrie Fisher. He didn't feel like making music anymore. Then he found an old casette tape a friend had given him with a demo from the South African band Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Simon was completely taken with the music, and felt this was what he needed in his life. So he moved down to South Africa for half a year. They didn't really plan any of the music. They just jammed together for 6 months, then Simon went back to the US with all the recordings and edited them into an album.
Then he went back to Africa to do an African tour with the band. Lots of songs from the Zimbabwe consert here on CZcams.
For instance: czcams.com/video/Hk7MCvCHNQA/video.html
That entire album is a banger.
His song "Under African Skies", the studio version, is one of my favourites. From the same album as this song.
For another artist who embraced African instruments and sounds, check out Peter Gabriel and his song "In Your Eyes" but make sure it's the live performance from the Secret World tour. It's amazing! The lyrics are fantastic too, a bit of double meaning to them.
I Hear that guy Jeff he's great, I just love this song it's such a happy song I can play this over and over and over, Paul Simon he's an excellent musician and singer, Ladysmith Blackman manbazo is a group registered in South Africa, I think the song is about a very super rich girl, who is so rich she can actually put diamonds on the soles of her shoes, I think she's being courted by a very poor man and I think she's trying to hide her wealth, either way I just love this song, this is such a happy song, I just love the dancing in such combined quarters, this is definitely my top five, I cannot get enough of this, puts me to happy mood every time I hear this, Paul still does a great job at this even all these years later, 🕺🕺🕺, there is a much earlier version of this but this one's a little better, you can tell they had a blast doing it,this is awesome absolutely awesome, thank you.
Thanks so much Jeff your one in a million 🌹🙌
Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a very well known group from South Africa, not "Africa".
@@patsytyler2199 sorry damn autocorrect
Paul Simon is a famous singer/songwriter, and his first band was "Simon & Garfunkel" from the 60's and 70's with Art Garfunkel, the guy who came out at the end. But this song was after the group broke up and Paul Simon was a solo act. If you liked this song, Paul's album "Graceland" is all the same calypso/African beats. You will LOVE that album!
Paul Simon has won three Album of the Year Grammy Awards (the only person who has won more is now Taylor Swift).
I remember the first time I heard this. It came on the radio when I was ill in bed. Sometime in the late 80s. I was so smitten with it I demanded my partner go out and buy the single. LOL Later I bought the LP Graceland which the song is on and every song on it is a banger. There is a great video of the Graceland concert performed outdoors in South Africa. Well worth watching. If you're not familiar with African bands, that's something else worth getting into. :)
The style of South African music is called Mbqanga. Peace, love and bellbottoms from Canada.
THE SOUND SO ADDICTIVE 🌹🙌
MBAQANGA
The fretless bass (and its player) makes this song! Was so lucky to get to see Ladysmith Black Mambazo back in the day....
Another wonderful South African musician is Johnny Clegg. Johnny was a white boy who lived with Zulu people, learning their culture including their fantastic dancing. The music is great, the dancing is great. Look for a live performance to really appreciate how good he and his bandmates are. Sadly, Johnny died too young in 2019.
Also featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo is "Under African Skies." Big ❤ for Joseph Shabalala, founder and lead singer. Paul did a wonderful duet of it with Miriam Makeba in The African Concert of 1987. My mother was a big Paul Simon fan until she died at 96, and always sent me his newest album.
ouuu i will definitely add that to the list 🙌
@@stillmrdoge Realized that I was mistaken about "Under African Skies" and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The song I meant to mention is "Homeless". But do react to Paul and Miriam Makeba. Or anything from the "Graceland" album.
I was at that 1987 concert in Harare. Special times.
I agree the whole album, Graceland, is really well done. The harmonies are truly beautiful
Amazing i will be looking for more song in that album. what song would you want me to do next?
@@stillmrdoge "You Can Call Me Al" is my favorite.
I saw Paul during his Graceland tour with Ladysmith Black Mambazo. It was such a fun show. They had everyone dancing.
I attended the Paul Simon Graceland concert back in the 80's. Ladysmith Black Mambaso, Miriam McKeeba, and Hugh Masacala also performed. It was one of the most incredibly powerful concerts I have ever been to. The exposure to South African music was really profound. Ray Fieri, the South African guitarist on the stage with Paul was the arranger of most of the music.Ladysmith was the most entertaining groups I have ever seen on a stage. Their choreography and energy was so contagious.
Miriam MAKEBA, Hugh MASEKELA, and Ray PHIRI, pronounced Pieree.
Thanks for the correct spelling of their names. Their talent, however, was awe inspiring and uplifting. That concert will always be a memorable experience for me.
Juluka and Savuka are a couple of South African bands worth a listen ❤
Ladysmith Mombasa from Africa
The wonderful sound of a Zulu choir ❤
Friend, if you don't know Paul Simon.....check out Simon and Garfunkel... "Sound of Silence", "Bridge over Troubled Waters". And dozens more.....yes, it is all wayyyyyy before your time. But classics.
ayee i will add that one to the list 🙌🙌🌹🌹
The Graceland tour came to Berkeley in 1984(?) and I was fortunate to be in the Berkeley high school auditorium to see it! When people ask me what was my favorite concert, I immediately say Graceland. I've been to dozens and dozens of concerts, and this one really stands out. The South African musicians were outstanding and you could tell by the audiences reaction. The album went on to be album of the year, well deserved!
If you can find it, watch the video of the original concert in South Africa. I had the great fortune to see Ladysmith Black Mombazo live at a #Sunday night concert at West Virginia University, before they became well known. They were diamond miners in Africa who would sing together on their time off. They wore working clothes, and the dance grew out of their Dancing in gumboots, their working shoes.
"Something about the rhythm that reminds me of home." Maybe it's the call of the motherland. Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a South African group. Paul Simon helped them gain the international recognition they deserve. Checkout "Under African Skies" from the same album. He collaborates with Miriam Makeba, the grand lady of South African music.
I'll do that one soon and give you a shout-out 👏❤️ thank you so much for the feedback
@@stillmrdoge you bet. just to clarify. On the "Graceland' album cut the backup singer is the wonderful Linda Ronstadt. The one with Miriam Makeba is a live performance at czcams.com/video/85rr5SqrCZI/video.html. I think you would enjoy either one.
the bass in this song is incredible! the whole Graceland album, i think, is his best.
The album which has this song (Graceland) and Anita Baker's first solo album (Rapture) came out at the same time. They were constantly interchangeable in my car. So just mark me down as an old guy talking about music "back in the day".
This album helped me during a challenging time in my life. The sheer joy of music! Yes! 😽💋🎶
LOVE Ladysmith Black Mambazo ! I have Shaka Zulu from 1987, every song is great. Great reaction.
I saw them in Zimbabwe for the Graceland tour,still 1 of the best line-ups of African artists
Paul's partner in arguments was the other half of what made him famous. Simon and Garfunkel's song Sound of silence that Disturbed did an amazing cover of, boosted both of them into fame. The arguments between the two of them were Legendary in the 60's and 70's.
amazing I saw many recommending sound of silence so i might do that next💕
He only is the greatest song writer and performer of decades. He is 80 now and just produced a new album. He was on Stephen Colbert Late Night show a few days ago. You can get all his music on CZcams and Spotify. Don’t you know the song “Sound of Silence”?
I think i did a reaction to pentatonix cover of it i will check out the original 💕🙌
Paul Simons spent a year in Africa, and hooked up with Ladysmith!
The sounds you are hearing are African which was transported to the the Caribbean.
Ladysmith, interpret their music with dance, which is cultural.
Yeah i can definitely see that 🙌🙌
This was such a huge deal. A well-known American musician collaborating with LSBM, a South African group, at the height of apartheid was such a big statement. At the time there was a major protest among musicians to boycott South Africa, to refuse to perform at the venue Sun City. LSBM's worldwide popularity was a slap in the face to the South African policy of apartheid. It was so much more than great music. FYI, their name comes from Lady Smith, the mame of their township, and black mambazo, the type of cattle they raised there.
I went to see Paul Simon when he toured the Graceland album
It was brilliant. Im surprised you have not heard of Simon and Garfunkel.
I have two Ladysmith Black Mambazo albums. They do traditional-type African spiritual music. They are wonderful.
You want more like that? Check out Graceland, an album of world music that he created in 1985-86, and rebirthed his career, and became his biggest hit album, after already having a legendary career to that point. He is one of the greatest songwriters of all time, and a completely underrated musician and arranger, because he also wrote the music for most of his songs. His solo work in the 1970s following the split with Garfunkel is really worth pursuing, such as Me & Julio Down By the Schoolyard, Homeward Bound, Rock of Ages, 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, Still Crazy After All These Years, Kodachrome, Late in the Evening, so many great songs. The Simon and Garfunkel catalog is equally impressive and deep.
The collab was one of the best ever. Such a great song from a fabulous album ❤
The concert in Rhodesia is amazing.
This is such a lovely song. Thanks for this joyful live version! You should listen to the album version sometime too.
I will definitely do so 🙌
I almost feel like I'm getting old when I hear youngsters discovering the Musical Genus' of the last century.
Lmao 😭 I'm sorry
My father introduced us to Miriam Makeba,ex wife of Hugh Masakela. She had many best selling albums and world concerts even back in the 60's.
Oh wow
If you enjoyed the African rhythms and music watch the movie and/or listen to the soundtrack from the movie "The Power of One"
Ladysmith Black Mambazo was originally an African a capella Gospel group
oh wow
Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Paul Simon are amazing on Graceland. Sad what happened to the Joseph's brother back in the day.
From a documentary I watched on Apartheid in South Africa - The black people would get together in a hall and dance after curfew so they had to be quiet or get found out by the police and arrested. So they developed quiet dancing which you see on stage at his concert.
Who is Art Garfunkel? Simon and Garfunkel were the biggest pop duo in the 60s. Listen to Bridge Over Troubled Water, Sound of Silence and The Boxer.
ouu ill add those! thanks so much for the feedback 💕💕🙌🙌
Hugh Masakela was original trumpet, father of Aftican jazz.
These are African beats.
He spent time over absorbing the rhythms and culture and this album is the result.
Art Garfunkel was Paul Simons co-writer and the other half of "Simon and Garfunkel" who had a plethora of hits throughout the 60s - 70s
Their most famous album is "Bridge over troubled waters".
Give it a listen dude. It's another masterpiece and a big memory of my childhood.
🖖🏽❤🇬🇧
Art wasn't his co-writer. Paul wrote all their songs. But yes, "Bridge" is a masterpiece!
Simon and Garfunkel. 60-70s mega stars. With hits like Bridge over Troubled Water.
This is the South African township beat. Probably precedes calypso which also has roots in African music.
That album was fire.
Paul Simon was always intrigued by different musical traditions and trying to find de them. He realized that he couldn’t do a South African sound without using South African musicians.
Glad your back!
Thanks so much for the love 🙌🙌
I think the LBM dancers are actually dancing a prayer. Watch the movements, telling a story I believe. I feel the love between them all! This is what music should be love, joy and uplifting.
Interesting Doge says song reminds him of Elvis Blue Suede Shoes. Crazy that the albums name is Graceland.
🤣
I saw when he performed this on SNL when Graceland first came out. This looks more recent and a lot less hair ago. Still as superb as when l heard it the first time. When those staccato horns come in... straight to my soul, or soles?
Dude! Please Ladysmith…. Homeless
Maybe not on channel
, but I love it
Graceland is an amazing album
The Boxer is a MUST.
This album is still magical.
Beautiful album
Which song would you like to hear next?
You should check out a well-known South African song which was a hit around the world, a classic, named, 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'.
This is bomb... I forgot about this.
Really exquisite
You should listen to, You can call me Al!
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yah what he said 😍
LOVE LOVE LOVE this ! 💕 Check out the version of this song with Paul Simon And Art Garfunkel….just as good..or…maybe even better 🤗
Thanks for sharing 👍✨
Those "old" guys more really well because they've moved like that every day for years!
Amazing, I need to get moving too 😭
your getting Calypso and jazz as they are both based in African Rhythm and beats. Paul took a lot of heat when this came out for "steeling" African culture.
Remember, they were forced labor to mine diamonds. Brutal.
I think I saw a movie like that
Paul Simon you dont know look him up, bet u have heard his music.😊
Art Garfunkel
Yah that guy
He only one half of the duo 'Simon and Garfunkel'.
Go back and listen to Simon & Garfunkel. Great music!
Whats the song name?
huge controversy around recording in South Africa, using black musicians in the studio. The African National Congress did not want the talent featured to the world while the country was still under apartied rule. Simon is not political, saw no correlation between the ANCs political goals and the art form, so he did it anyway
This performance seems a bit 'clinical' .. in a TV studio?? Saw this live (Albert Hall) and it was so alive.
This is not the best version, but this song is great.
Dude, you should listen to a band called Juluka.
maybe because Ladysmith is in kwazulu-natal RSA...?surrounded by the sons of King t'chaka.
Where do you think the Calypso rhythm originates ?!!
czcams.com/video/9HKNAhAxMAk/video.htmlsi=R9qjTdMJ38_4y45S
This one is from the same album, with Brazilian band Olodum
It shocks me that a person of African heritage (as I am too) could possibly react to this video. Paul Simon broke an international embargo on performing in South Africa in order to produce this album. It was an embargo against the apartheid, racial segration policies of the all-white regime governing the country.
He was at the time praised for using black South African musicians.
Cultural boycotts only hurt the artists of the country, who are usually among those calling for change and liberation. You think the South African performers objected to becoming world famous and better able to advocate for their people around the world? Most of us in places like the US would never have heard of them if not for Paul Simon.
@@Historian212 As I was in S Africa at the time, I may assure you that most of those who were leading the campaign against Apartheid, whether black, coloured, Asian, or white, opposed this tour.
It's sounds african.
They booed him off in Africa and rightly so.
I'm stunned that you seem to know nothing about your own musical heritage 🤔