Catalogue Group A side/B side Language Year
Number
SWAGGA The Symekhersons Msintese/Viongozi Wa Africa Swahili 1975
7-002
SWAGGA The Symekhersons Kimbelembele/Vinywaji Vyetu Swahili
7-004
SWAGGA The Symekhersons Our Happiness/Farewell Kiss English 1975
7-006
SWAGGA The Symekhersons A: Rev Joseph K Symekher A: Swahili 1975
7-007 B: Jehova Akhulinde B: Luhya
SWAGGA 9 The Symekhersons Welcome To Africa/Tabu Ya Wizi
SWAGGA 10 Symekher. Bag A: Tulinyakua Uhuru Swahili
& Cordage Choir B: Asante Baba Taifa
SWAGGA 7-002 appeared on Ebay in March 2009 and had me scratching my head. The Symekhersons cut a record for CMS that I always thought dated from the 1960s yet here they are with a record released in 1975 on a label that features an identical map of Africa to those records released on the Africa label. SWAGGA 9 turned up on Ebay in March 2012 and is presumably a reissue of a song originally recorded for CMS. Many thanks to Pauly Becquart in Tanzania for sending in details of SWAGGA 7-004 in November 2012, which seems to confirm this was a label owned by or exclusively devoted to the Symekhersons.
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