18-04-2014

Angelique, Oh (1951)

Written by: Auguste de Pradines (Later on Belafonte LP: Irving Burgie and William Attaway)

O: Jazz Majestic Orchestra on Folkways.



A traditional Haitian lullaby about a girl who comes to live with a family to help with chores but can’t cook or clean well enough to stay . . . or at least that’s what it is on the surface. People in Haiti in the early 20th century understood the song as a thinly veiled rallying cry against the U.S. occupation.


Read here more about the song





1951 - Angelique, Oh - Jazz Majestic Orchestra
1952 - Angelique Oh - Blind Minstrel With Guitar, Young Boy With Cha-Chas
1953 - Angelique, O - Lolita Cuevas & Frantz Casseus
1957 - Angelique-O - Belafonte, Harry
1958 - Angelique-O - Lou Monte
1960 - Angelika - Margrit Imlau
1960 - Angelique-O - The Brothers Four




Angelika by Margrit Imlau is German.


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