An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba

An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba
Studio album by Miriam Makeba and Harry Belafonte
Released 1965
Recorded RCA Victor Studio A, New York City
Genre World music
Label RCA LSP3420
Producer Andy Wiswell
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Harry Belafonte chronology
Ballads, Blues and Boasters
(1964)		 An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba
(1965)		 An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri
(1966)
Miriam Makeba chronology
Miriam Makeba
(1960)		 An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba
(1965)		 Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba
(1975)

An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba is a Grammy Award-winning 1965 album by Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba. It was the second outcome of the long lasting collaboration between Belafonte and Makeba, the first being the appearance of Makeba in the song "Just One More Dance" on Belafonte's 1960 album, Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall.

Despite the title, just two of the tracks in this album are actually duets, while all the others are sung either by Belafonte or Makeba alone.

In the mid 1960s, Belafonte was very active in supporting emerging African artists as well as making African music known worldwide, and this album is an example of this activity. It includes classical African songs like Malaika (with the English title My Angel) as well as songs in African languages such as Zulu, Sotho and Swahili.

Tracks

  1. "Train Song" (Mbombela)– 3:08 (Harry + Miriam)
  2. "'In the Land of the Zulus" (Kwazulu) – 2:30 (sung by Miriam Makeba)
  3. "Hush, Hush" (Thula Thula) – 3:03 (sung by Harry Belafonte)
  4. "To Those We Love" (Nongqongqo)– 2:15 (sung by Miriam Makeba)
  5. "Give Us Our Land" – 2:27 (sung by Harry Belafonte)
  6. "Ndodemnyama Verwoerd!" – 2:05 (sung by Miriam Makeba)
  7. "Gone Are My Children" – 2:47 (sung by Harry Belafonte)
  8. "Hurry, Mama, Hurry!" – 3:25 (sung by Miriam Makeba)
  9. "My Angel" – 3:12 (Harry + Miriam)
  10. "Cannon" – 2:47 (sung by Miriam Makeba)
  11. "Lullaby" – 2:46 (sung by Harry Belafonte)
  12. "Show Me the Way, My Brother" – 3:10 (sung by Harry Belafonte)

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External links

Harry Belafonte
Studio albums
Mark Twain and Other Folk Favorites (1954)  • Belafonte (1956)  • Calypso (1956)  • An Evening with Belafonte (1957)  • Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean (1957)  • To Wish You a Merry Christmas (1958)  • Belafonte Sings the Blues (1958)  • Love Is a Gentle Thing (1959)  • My Lord What a Mornin' (1959)  • Swing Dat Hammer (1960)  • Jump Up Calypso (1961)  • Midnight Special (1962)  • The Many Moods of Belafonte (1962)  • Streets I Have Walked (1963)  • Ballads, Blues and Boasters (1964)  • In My Quiet Room (1966)  • Calypso in Brass (1966)  • Belafonte on Campus (1967)  • Belafonte Sings of Love (1968)  • Homeward Bound (1970)  • Belafonte by Request (1970)  • The Warm Touch (1971)  • Calypso Carnival (1971)  • Play Me (1973)  • Turn the World Around (1977)  • Loving You Is Where I Belong (1981)  • Paradise in Gazankulu (1988)
Live albums
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (1959)  • Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall (1960)  • Belafonte at The Greek Theatre (1964)  • En Gränslös Kväll På Operan (1966)  • Belafonte...Live! (1972)  • Belafonte Concert in Japan (1974)  • Belafonte '89 (1989)  • An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends (1997)
Compilations
Very Best of Harry Belafonte (2001)  • The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music (2001)  • The Essential Harry Belafonte (2005)
Collaborations
Porgy and Bess (1959)  • An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba (1965)  • An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri (1966)  • Harry & Lena: For the Love of Life (1970)  • "We Are the World" (1985)
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