I know it does say that Paul Winley was less than honest...somewhere.
K.
what ended up happening with this crackhead? did anyone ever get their records? was there any vindication?
btw- i read somewhere that manu dibango failed to register the copyright properly which is why there was such a slew of covers at one point...by the time mj incorporated that "mama see mamma sa" part i think he started to get serious about getting paid. i think mj ended up agreeing to pay him off after the fact.
this is what wikipedia says:
"Soul Makossa" [...] is often cited as one of the first disco records.[2] In 1972 David Mancuso found a copy in a Brooklyn West Indian record store and often played it at his Loft parties.[3] The response was so positive that the few copies of "Soul Makossa" in New York City were quickly bought up.[3] The song was subsequently played heavily by Frankie Crocker, who DJed at WBLS, then New York's most popular black radio station.[3] Since the original was then unfindable, at least 23 groups quickly released cover versions to capitalize on the demand for the record.[3] Atlantic eventually licensed the song from the French record label Fiesta.[3] Their release of it peaked at #35 on the Billboard chart in 1973; in 1999 Dave Marsh wrote that it was "the only African record by an African" to crack the top 40.[4] At one point there were nine different versions of the song in the Billboard chart.[5] It became "a massive hit" internationally as well.[5]
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btw- i read somewhere that manu dibango failed to register the copyright properly which is why there was such a slew of covers at one point...by the time mj incorporated that "mama see mamma sa" part i think he started to get serious about getting paid. i think mj ended up agreeing to pay him off after the fact.
this is what wikipedia says:
i beleive it is guido basso on ctl and it is truly awful.
that version rules...
Milan Kymlicka ?
http://www.rootdownrecords.jp/catalog/milan-kymlicka-im-coming-home.html