Catalogue Group A side/B side Year
Number
AY 7-004 Westerners Sweet Band Leo Odera/Odoyo Sammy
AY 7-007 Kajulu Boys Band Walter Bonde/Margaret Achieng
AY 7-008 Orch Tel-Tel Angira (One To Nine)/Adhiambo Ikawo Chunya
AY 7-010 Orch Tel Tel Agola Pinyni Pogowa/Japuonj Tom Miniga
AY 7-011 Ecko Jazz Band Joshwa Adede/Kijende Mandalogi
AY 7-013 Orch Tel Tel Jenny Nyota Wangu/Onyango Obel
AY 7-014 Orch Tel Tel William T Osino/Willy Achieng'
AY 7-017 Rapedhi Boys Band Dan Otieno/Wuoth Ma Sultan Hamud
AY 7-019 Prof Ezekiel Opollo Yawuot Risaf/Odeny Tonny
with Migori Success
AY 7-021 New Happy Jazz Band Nyithi Riat/Abisalom Njiri
SUNSET
AY 7-013 is in the Voice of America collection, AY 7-014 in the British Library’s National Sound Archive.
The label says the singles were produced by Orange Records of Nairobi, the same company behind the Hi-Hit label.
Orchestra Tel Tel, who don’t appear to have recorded for anyone else, were essentially a Luo band, although Jenny Nyota Wangu is sung in Kiswahili.
October 2011: AY 7-007 was located in the Ethnographical Museum, Berlin. It is by a Luo band that also recorded for Atudo, Chiew Rakuthe, Hi-Hit, Philips and Sango. See Bands Index for an up-to-date list of the band’s various labels. In March 2017 AY 7-019 turned up on Ebay and is by another Luo band.