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Listen to 78 RPM recordings in all their quadraphonic splendor

Creole

Creole

We attend the destination wedding of African and European languages: Creole! We’re off to Haiti and Jamaica for the musical expression of these blended tongues. Then a gripping radio drama based on fact: Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Orson Welles.

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Hour One has 2 20-second pauses (with music) at 21:56 and 37:10 for local station ID:

Here is Hour One divided into 3 segments to facilitate local station ID:

1 - Haiti - Josephine Baker with Jazz du Poste Parisien – 1932

2 - Tolingana (Congo) - Adikwa Na Bana Loningisa Rumba - 1952

Grand Kalle and L’African Jazz

Grand Kalle and L’African Jazz

3 - Titi (Congo) - Grand Kalle and L'African Jazz – 1953

Issa El Saieh

Issa El Saieh

4 - Carolina Cao (Congo/Haitian Folklore) - Joseph Trouillot with Issa El Saieh and his Orchestra - 1947

5 - Papa Pierre - Daniel Alfred and Antoine Duverger with the Super-Moderne Jazz Guignard - 1940s

Joseph Trouillot

Joseph Trouillot

6 - Vacances (Meringue composed by Ludovic Lamothe) - Orquesta Internacional – 1928

Ludovic Lamothe, “The Black Chopin”

Ludovic Lamothe, “The Black Chopin”

7 - Mo Pas Lemme Cas - Danny Barker with Nick and His Creole Serenaders – 1947

8 - Choucounne (Haitian Merengu) - Katherine Dunham and Ensemble - 1945

Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham

9 - Plontonnade - Joseph Trouillot with Issa El Saieh and his Orchestra – 1947

10 - Baba (Based on original Haitian music) - Willie (the Lion) Smith with the Sidney Bechet Orchestra – 1940

11 - Arroyo Eh Oua, Eh Oua (eye-oh-wah) - Germaine Thomas, Renée Mirault, Andrée Contant, Ermite Lamothe, Ti Marcel –

12 - Panama' M Tombe - Joseph Trouillot with Issa El Saieh and his Orchestra – 1948

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13 - Suro Onipa (Akan for Be Careful of People) - E. K. Nyame's Band - 1950s

14 - Big Boy and Teacher (Jamaican) - E. Bedasse with Chin's Calypso Sextet – 1950

15 - Pradeial T'ief (Jamaican Creole) - Lord Tanomo with Charlie Binger's Six

16 - Salee Dame - Danny Barker with Nick and his Creole Serenaders – 1947

17 - Mutiny on the Bounty - The Campbell Playhouse – 1939

18 - Basilica - Joseph Trouillot with Issa El Saieh and his Orchestra - 1947

19 - After Hours in Haiti - Reuben Mitchell Ensemble – 1951

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