January 5, 2024

In memoriam 2023

I have one more program looking back at the year 2023, then it's full speed ahead into the future on Global A Go-Go.  I'd be remiss, though, if I didn't take a couple of hours to remember some of the great musicians from around the world who passed away last year.
 
Some of them received tributes on this show when they passed, like Baba Commandant, Stella Chiweshe and Ferus Mustafov.  Others, like Shane MacGowan and Sara Tavares, I meant to recognize but just ran out of time to do so at year end.  And others I didn't hear about until I sat down to research the subject.

Every song on today's show (Sunday January 7, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site) is performed by or otherwise directly associated with someone who died in 2023.  All of these people made a lifetime's worth of brilliant music that the rest of us can enjoy in perpetuity, so let's enjoy the memory of their rich lives together this week.

 
 
Artist | Country | Song | Recording | Label | Year
 
Oliver Lake | USA | Separation | Matador Of 1st & 1st | Passin' Thru | 1997
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros | England UK | Global A Go-Go | Global A Go-Go | Hellcat | 2001
 
Lord Creator | Trinidad & Tobago | Big Bamboo | Jamaica Time | Studio One | 1966
The Clarendonians | Jamaica | Rude Boy Gone To Jail | Rude Boy Gone To Jail - Single | Studio One | 1966
Blas Durán Y Los Peluches | Dominican Republic | Consejo A Las Mujeres | El Consejo A Las Mujeres | Marisol | 1985
David Byrne | USA | The Call Of The Wild | Rei Momo | Luaka Bop | 1989
 
Jane Birkin Et Serge Gainsbourg | England UK-France | Je T'Aime… Moi Non Plus | Jane Birkin - Serge Gainsbourg | Fontana | 1969
The Pogues | England UK | Navigator | Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say … Pogue Mahone | Rhino | 2008-1985
The Pogues | England UK | Streams Of Whiskey | Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say … Pogue Mahone | Rhino | 2008-1983
Plastic Bertrand | Belgium | Ça Plane Pour Moi | Ça Plane Pour Moi - Single | RKM | 1977
 
MFÖ | Turkey | Mazeretim Var Asabiyim Ben | M.V.A.B. | S Müzik | 1995
Erkin Koray | Turkey | Hadi Hadi Ordan | Meçhul: Singles & Rarities | Sublime Frequencies | 2023-1977
Bijelo Dugme | Bosnia & Herzegovina | Lipe Cvatu, Sve Je Isto K'o I Lani | Kosovka Devojka | Diskoton | 1984
Rita Lee | Brazil | A Hard Day's Night | Bossa'n Beatles | Abril | 2001
Juca Chaves | Brazil | Take Me Back To Piauí | Take Me Back To Piauí - Single | RGE | 1970
 
Sara Tavares | Portugal | Balancê | Balancê | World Connection | 2005
Tarika Rakoto Frah | Madagascar-USA | The Rakoto Frah Two-Step | A World Out Of Time: Henry Kaiser & David Lindley In Madagascar | Shanachie | 1992
Malombo Jazz Makers | South Africa | Sefuralong | Down Lucky's Way | Continental | 1969
 
Peter King | Nigeria | Shango | Shango | Strut | 2002-1976
Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band | Burkina Faso | Tilé (Soleil) | Live at Pioneer Works June 2, 2023 | | 2023
Les Géants | RD Congo | Naji | Formule 1 | Syllart | 1993
 
Third World | Jamaica | Try Jah Love | You've Got The Power | Columbia | 1982
Benjamin Zephaniah & Eliza Carthy with Trans-Global Underground and Simon Emmerson | England UK | Tam Lyn Retold | The Imagined Village | Real World | 2007

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