Catalogue       Group                                                 A side/B side                                                                               Year

Number

HL 7-52        a) John Kalume                        Namba                       

                    b) Chembe Majid                     Mabu Mbumbu

HL 7-53        Michel Dudu & Beavers             Vijana Wa Beavers/Picha Ya Dudu

HL 7-55        D Sentamu & V Nsubuga           Amaka Mazibu/Nalongo

HL 7-59        Mac Group                               Hi-Life Mambo/Liverpool

HL 7-60        a) Dudu Michel Dereba              Vijana Wa Kenya

                    b) Amanuel Silo

HL 7-61        Nyamwezi Jazz Band                Kumbuka Sikuku Ya Taifu/Tanzania Ni Yetu

HL 7-73        Atomic Jazz Band                     Sarafu Zetu/We Zaina

HL 7-80        Cuban Marimba Band               Shirikisho- Chechembo/Wetu Katutoka

HL 7-84       Western Jazz Band                    Afroshirazi Na Tanu/Pesa Nyingi Nimepoteza

HL 7-85       Western Jazz Band                    Karibu Bwana Harushi/Kipenzi Changu

HL 7-90       Akamba Mbeni                          Chama Cha Kanu/Maimandas

HL 7-91       Jamhuri Jazz Band                    Mpenzi Fikiri/Wananchi Msiwe Kupe

HL 7-94       Atomic Jazz Band                      Siku Ya Jumamosi/Twendeni Jamaa

HL 7-101     Rumonge Jazz                          Yuma/Yumine Ya Mulinga

HL 7-104     Njohole Jazz Band                    Tanzania Yenye Sifa/Salamu Twazitoa

HL 7-117    Morogoro Jazz Band                   Morogoro Yapendeza/Mobutu Baba Congo

HL 7-123    Morogoro Jazz Band                   Wema/Tabu Nyingi Sana

HL 7-130     Cuban Marimba Band                Kusema Si Kutenda/Uluguru

HL 7-131    Cuban Marimba Band                 Njoo Mpenzi Wangu/Kioo Kinadanganya

HL 7-132    Morogoro Jazz Band                   Kula Hoteli/Dunia

HL 7-148    Mecco Success                          Balimi/Sissy

HL 7-210     Black Star Musical Club             Pili Pili/Nilikupenda

HL 7-224    Juma Bhalo and Party                Lipi Muhubina/Zuhura

HL 7-240     Black Star Musical Club             Enyi Wana Adamu/Mnazi Mkinda

HL 7-251    Juma Bhalo and Party                Malimwengu/Usghilibiwe

HL 7-259    Black Star Musical Group            Amana/Ukuu

HL 7-261    Black Star Musical Club              Salamu/Ulimi

PK 7-9007  Western Jazz Band                     Nitafurahi Ukitumwa Tena/Tangu Umeondoka               1967

PK 7-9019   Western Jazz Band                    Tuliya Mama/Sasa Tucheza Cha Cha                             1967

PK 7-9033   Orch Rumonge Jazz                   President Kenyatta/Rehema                                         1968

PK 7-9038   National Service Band                Nalia Lia Mama/Salaam Baba Na Mama                        1968

PK 7-9046   Jamhuri Jazz Band                     Kiboko/Twamuomba Mola                                           1969

PK 7-9051   Jamhuri Jazz Band                     Mwenge/Marafiki Zangu                                              1969

PK 7-9052   Jamhuri Jazz Band                     Ahadi Yako/Maria Cha Cha                                          1969

PK 7-9058   Jamhuri Jazz Band                     Sabasaba/Dunia Imenisonga                                       1969

PK 7-9061   Jamhuri Jazz Band                     Bibi Mwenye Chongo/Ewe Wangu Mpenzi                     1970

PK 7-9069   Jamhuri Jazz Band                     Nafikiria Kurudi Shamba/Fikeni Jamhuri                       1970

PK 7-9070   Jamhuri Jazz Band                     Shingo ya Upanga/Kipande Cha Papa                           1970

PK 7-9072   Jamhuri Jazz Band                     Simba Mwituni/Wasiwasi Ondoa                                   1970

PK 7-9074   Nuta Jazz Band                         AE Sipendi Tenda/Ndugu Zangu Leo                             1970

PK 7- 9077  Jamhuri Jazz Band                     Ulisema Sina Pesa/Ooh Masikini                                  1970

PK 7-9086   Jamhuri Jazz Band                     Kisura/Usinichukie Bure

PK 7-9090   Jamhuri Jazz Band                     Kibodi/Fadhili Iwapi                                                    1971

PK 7-9091   Jamhuri Jazz Band                     Magdalena/Pesa Sina Mfukoni                                     1971

PK 7-9092   Jamhuri Jazz Band                     Susana/Sophia Amerika                                             1971

PK 7-9094   Nuta Jazz Band                          Katerine/Mbona Hivyo Dada                                        1971

PK 7-9096   Jamhuri Jazz Band                     Kwa Mapenzi/Ewe Mwana Usipayuke

PK 7-9097   Western Jazz Band                    Weka Akiba/Tulime Mashamba                                     1971

PK 7-9122   Orch la Cloche                           Lowoza Kunze/Kimunga Mu Lukumi                             1972

PK 7-9125   Nuta Jazz Band                         Regina/Msondo No 4

PK 7-9173   Nuta Jazz Band                         Dada Mwajuma/Dunia Ya Leo Mbaya                            1973

PK 7-9193   Nuta Jazz Band                         Niliuka Siamini/Ester Nakuita

PK 7-9195   Nuta Jazz Band                         ?/Instrumental No 5

PK 9200      Jamhuri Jazz Band                    Taifa Cup/Ewa Hadija                                                  1974

PK 7-9224   Orch Queens                             Luo Union FC/WR Duyu

PK 7-005    Orch Jamhuri Jazz Band             Rose/Mariam

PK 7-006    Orch Kumba Kumba National      Kulala Bila Shuka/Sakina

PK 7-007    Nuta Jazz Band                          Viva Frelimo Pts 1 & 2

Locally produced carol

7ASP 7        St Martin's Singers                    Njooni Kwa Shangwe/Wachangaji Makondeni

AS 728-9

Probable imports from 1976-77

6109-144             Black Blood                       Amanda/Muko Wapi

6109-133             Black Blood & Thembi        Kirio Kirio/Yayaya Yayaya

Overseas pressings of Kenyan releases

UND 714 AAC-27  Dr NO Mengo & Orch Tausi Jazz 73   Sabina ya neli/Joseph Onyango Jadudi

(Ghana pressing)

SAN 7-9000         Kajulu Boys Band                            Oyugi Kaska/Odhiambo Jack                         1974

(Ghana pressing)

APL 7-618            Gabriel Omolo & Apollo Komesha 71  Lunch Time/Tutakula Vya Ajabu

(Philips WA)

Any ideas about this? Its catalogue number doesn’t seem to fit

3Y6539?              Thu Zaina                         Lokoko/Denise

The record label was a division of Philips, the Dutch-based electronics giant , and was originally set up in 1950. Twelve years later, in 1962, Philips and Deutsche Grammophon, owners of the Polydor label, set up a joint venture, Phonogram. Both Philips and Polydor issued records in Africa during the 1960s, then in 1972 Phonogram merged with Polydor to form a new company, Polygram. At this point, the Philips label all but disappeared in East Africa, leading me to believe that the Black Blood releases from the mid 1970s may have been imports.

The majority of the releases are Tanzanian bands singing in Kiswahili, though the label also licensed tracks from elsewhere in Africa. HL 7-79, for example, is by a band who feature on the Dakar Sound Vol 2 compilation CD, of Senegalese music, though the titles appear to suggest the band was in fact from Anglophone West Africa.

Two other notable exceptions to the predominantly Swahili flavour of Philips releases are HL 7-52 and HL 7-90, which are in Giriyama and Kikamba respectively, although the label credits says they were produced by Assanands of Mombasa, who produced their own records of Tanzanian bands in the 1960s on the Mzuri label, which also carried an HL prefix.

That the Jamhuri Jazz Band is so well represented here is because the information has come from the Wanyika Groups discography compiled by John Beadle with Doug Paterson and Peter Toll for Toshiya Endo’s website, which you can find here

http://biochem.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~endo/EAWanyika.html

How PK 7-006 fits in with the 9000 series is hard to tell. Intriguingly, the writing credit is for I.S. Juma, who may well be Issy Juma of Les Wanyika fame.