Catalogue       Group                                                       A side/B side                                                        Year

Number

EU 7-102      A: Daudi Kabaka & Party                A: Hard Work (Kazi Ngumu)

                   B: Nashil & Peter Tsotse                 B: Bush Baby Twist (Kinda Wamba Twist)

                       with the Rainbow Boys

EU 107         D Kabaka and E Talian                   Bachelor Boy Twist/Safari Tanganyika

EU 7-109      Nashil Pichen & Peter Tsotsi            Tamaa Mbaya/Nakumbuka Adija

EU 127         Daudi Kabaka & Fadhili                   Harambee/Bibi Moupe

EU 7-128      Charles Sonko & His Party              Alima Wangu/Kadogo Wangu

EU 130         Fadhili William                               Malaika/Hakuna Mwingine                         1963

                   & the Black Shadows

EU 131        Fahili William                                 Wee Jane/Tucheze Twist

                  & the Black Shadows

EU 7-133     Frida Sonko with Fadhili & Nashil      Love Me Baby/Step Out, Lady

EU 147        Nashil Pichen & Peter Tsotsi             Sukuti Tribal Twist/My Cheating Wife

EU 149        Peter Nashil and Michael                  Mimi Watchman/Rudi Mamu

EU 7-160    Moses Katazza & Charles Sonko        Pelusi/Omwana Atubuze

EU 7-161     Johnny Storm & Fadhili William        Can't Believe It/Golden Ringlets                1965

EU 186        Peter Tsotsi & Nashil Pichen             My Queen/Pesa Chakula

EU 189        Masagaza, Sonko                            A: Tuzimbe Enjumba

                  and Equator Boys                            B: Lady, Don't Go! (Mukyala Togenda)

EU 193        Frida Sonko with the Equator Boys   Aloja Omukkwano/?                                  1965

EU 195        Daudi Kabaka & George Agade        Western Shilo/Helule Helule                       1966

7 EU 199    Fred Masagazi & the Equator Boys    Ndi Wuwo/Osenidda Okkola

7 EU 241    Fred Masagazi                                 Kola Zizo/Okukula Kwetta

                 with King Jazz d'Equateur

EU 252       Fred Masagazi and the Equator Boys Tekinnuma/Walana Mukulu, Sosi Muto       1966

7 EU 272    Gabriel Omolo                                 Dhako Ok En Mususumba/Nyiego Hatari     1967

                 & Equator Sound Band

EU 277       Orch Melo Success                           Prierre Du Matin/Kulo Osenge

7 EU 290    Peter Tsotsi, Nashil Pitchen               Pole Musa/Mpenzi Ni Merudi

                 & Equator Sound Band

EU 353       Nashil Pichen & Peter Tsotsi              Nafa Na Maraba/Hata Ujirembeshe

7 EU 1001  Fadhili William, Mona Miller               Malaika/Njoo, Honey Njoo

                 & Equator Sound Boys

EU 1002      Benson Simbeye,                            Kivilila/You Went Away                             1966

                  Blue Mtweve &

                  The Equator Sound Boys

BB 7-24       Nashil Pichen & Peter Tsotse            Usiniringie Na Suti/Nairobi Twisti

BB 7-32      Peter Muleli and J.A. Sore                Vijana Wengine/We Sala Wangu

RA 7-3        Peter Tsotse & Nashil Pichen            A: Mulofa Moja (Poor Fellow)

                                                                       B: We Mwatuma (Aah Mwatuma)

RA 7-6        Joseph Gitau & Fadhili William          Nitwa Kugeithia/Haicia Bendera

RA 7-12      The Jordan Boys                              A: Safari ya Chomogondai (North-West Journey)

                                                                       B: Vipusa wa Kisasa (Modern Girls)

RA 13         Fadhili William & the Black Shadows  Think First/Taxi Driver

RA 7-23      George Ramogi and John Tuda         Onguo and Obondi/Ogembo

Equator International

7 EU 321     Equator Sound Band                       Wach Awacha Japuoni/Nyiwa Makawuono   1969

7 EU 345    Kabaselleh & Equator Sound Band    Nyanam/Lek                                             1969

7 EU 372    Robinson Mwangi & Michael Njenga   Wacoka Kenya/Kwanyu Ndigacoka             1970

EU 395       Harun Akwyanga                             Mwana Ariranga/Kanyonyi Kamavaha         1970

JW 721-22

In the late 1950s English expat Charles Worrod bought the assets of East African Records and by 1960 had launched Equator Sound Studio and with it the label. Its roster included many legendary figures of Kenyan music including Fadhili William, Daudi Kabaka, Peter Tsotsi and Nashil Pichen, as well as top Ugandan singer Fred Masagazi.

The label is best known as providing the original version of Malaika by Fadhili William, later an international hit for Miriam Makeba and recorded by countless others, although controversy still surrounds the actual authorship of the song.

Equator also hit big by adapting the Twist craze for the African market and through Kabaka’s song Harambee, which was played every hour after the news on Voice of Kenya radio for years.

The label folded in 1974 when Worrod left the country as a result of laws that barred him from running a business unless he became a Kenyan citizen.