Babatunde Olatunji Jin-Go-Lo-Ba (Drums of Passion)

[Quimtime78]

MUSIC IS MY WEAPON..

[TheCoverHeaven]

Nice to listen to the original version!

[kendigjl]

"We are all Africans." - Richard Dawkins



[new10l3]

Santana would have made this when he was 10 years old. Must have been a child prodigy!

[TheDesim72]

@new10l3 he didn't make this song

[outer432]

yyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[flavorina]

I bought this Drums of Passion album when I graduated from high school in 1960. in Racine, Wisconsin USA-- Maria in Houston, Texas. I am not hispanic.

[flavorina]

If this music doesn't get yor hips swiveling, then you have no rhythm. Santana wrote "Jingo"? Mmmmm...too young for that to be true.

[djelmerfudd]

top tune :-)

[flavorina]

I bought "Drums of Passion" in 1961 or so. I'm 69 but 24 in my mind. My dad said in 1961 "why are you buying that jungle music?" When I left home in 1966 for Chicago from Wisconsin, he said "you're not taking Drums of Passion, are you?

[mrsaladean1]

love the sounds of his drums

[KiyaClub]

I played this song on Just Dance!

[chicagoSUGANO]

What an Enlightening Gift.

The  entire Planet should hear this, it's LOVE from the SOUL.

[yarekhunt]

Reminds me of Kramer jumping around his apartment on Seinfeld

[cusa141]

Spirituality at its best, back to the motherland, LOFT IT OUT!!!!!

macho2943

[Steamstock]

Awesome!

[asolis8]

this sounds so good. This is the best song santana has I never knew it was a cover. He did it justice.

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

I remember this tune being quite the "exotica" hit in the early 60s

[vpew]

Babatunde Olatunji has created some of the best music ever. He has brought a whole culture and spirituality and entire new teaching method of music to the Western world, and opened our minds and souls to this wonderful music!

Ife l'oju l'aiye!

[deliciousgful]

LOVE IT!

[thecathy5072]

I rember this from when I was young, yes

[warriorfan64]

OMG I REMEMBER THIS FROM JUST DANCE!!!=O =O =O

[funny2566]

@warriorfan64 me 2!!!

although it sounded way different!

Ppl said it was made by fatboy slim

[Bikendi100]

dis song reminds me i have a little african in my blood. bless

[Perstorp]

'Drums of passion' (1960, CD release 2002). Classics roots from Nigeria!

[yarekhunt]

UMOJAH!

[NedsMissingTeeth]

Ooooooooh! I wish this tune was longer.

[makalavena]

Drums!!

[kenyanese1]

nothing like the original



[Perstorp]

@kenyanese1 You just don't get it, man...this IS the original, from his 1960 LP 'Drums of passion'!

[kenyanese1]

@Perstorp  U don't get it. im saying this is the bomb.

[baysidebunny]

I saw Olatungi in Newark at the Mosk Theater. I had this album when I was in high school, and I graduated in 1960, you might like Mirian Makeba?

[MsRdoll]

Wow, i remember when i did an African dance to this song in 6th grade and i still remembered this song from then

[MouseGenome]

Thanks for sharing!!! The original is great!!! And I should admit Santana's arrangement is awesome.

[EricaShay8]

I love to dance to this on just dance on my wii!(:

[wswilliams2007]

Jingo was inspired by the railroad.

[monuorah]

This is amazing. Originals are usually the best :)

[tamabama69]

does anyone know if he made this song or santana or if its just an african djembe song

[yaoyuan12]

he made the song. santana covered it :)

[slackdave]

@tamabama69

and then Fatboy slim covered it..

[MsRdoll]

@Auntkekebaby me too, but in 6th grade lol !!

[chichipoya]

nice jam! i love this type of music!

[myselfnzyme]

looooooooooooool

[thehiprockermon]

I love it! Best jungle music there ever!

[slackdave]

I got here from Fat Boy Slim via Santana.

JINGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[NormanSykes]

amazing...a true legend

[astridsmile]

BELLISSIMA

[MechelleF]

i remember dancing to this

[samjam306]

bababababababababababababatund­e

[fabianidhesona]

amazing tune. is very differet from Santana' s version, though.

[ramses1401]

¿¿Qué significa "Jin-Go-Lo-Ba"??

[Booboo85]

Jin-Go-Lo-Ba (Tambores de Pasion)

[ramses1401]

Gracias

[alkh3myst]

I wish more people knew who REALLY wrote "Jingo".

[ojideagu]

@alkh3myst I'm getting sick of educating morons who think Santana wrote this and that it's a Latin beat. The fucking words are Nigerian not Spanish!

[alkh3myst]

@ojideagu If you don't teach, nobody will learn.

[EDDIE90510]

@alkh3myst you're an idiot. They're two different songs, two different types of music. Santana credited him

[alkh3myst]

@EDDIE90510 I'm aware of that. But so many people don't seem to know this. I've been told many times that Santana wrote Jingo. So my point stands. Do you call everybody you disagree with an idiot?

[EDDIE90510]

@alkh3myst i apologize. I like clapton and santanas version better.

[alkh3myst]

@EDDIE90510 No problem. BTW, percussion legend Candido Camero did a version also.

[vincentjacque]

@alkh3myst We know Olatunji really wrote "Jingo". But sorry, Santana's version is much more entrancing IMHO.

[njidechu]

@njidechu

[EpicConcerts]

@alkh3myst

I hate this kind of people who like to sound arrogant!!

Every Santana cover credit the author!!

[dodi132]

SO GREAT!!!!

[nya1000]

huh i said where u

[puertorican1883]

this song is amazing! This is better than fatboy slims version

[eyby20]

I actually have this on vinyl!!! I love it! Check out my version of Europa!!

[queenmother123]

yes this is the original

[wswilliams2007]

I first heard Jin-Go-La-Ba during fraternity hell week. The album cover said the song was about the rhythm and sounds of trains going over track joints. After graduation, I worked for the railroad, and during field trips in the test car, I would play this for the boys. They liked it.

[apexalpha]

Santana did in fact credit Babtunde with his creation. Santana's debut album 1969(Santana)

"Waiting" (Santana Band) - 4:07

"Evil Ways" (J. Zack) - 4:00

"Shades of Time" (Santana Band) - 3:13

"Savor" (Santana Band) - 2:47

"Jingo" (Babatunde Olatunji) - 2:43

[NJtoTX]

Santana had to give Olatunji the writing credit, but Baba was offended that Santana, as a former student, never acknowledged his teaching the way Mickey Hart and others did, that Santana never mentioned him in connection with the song, and that he became inaccessible for benefits and refused to collaborate with him.

[wmbrown6]

Very first pressings of both the "Santana" album and the 45 RPM edit of "Jingo" actually credited Aaron Copland (!!!!!) as writer. Perhaps Columbia thought Santana was doing a jazzed-up, rockified version of the fifth movement of Copland's 1933-35 composition "Statements for Orchestra"? In any case, the second pressings of both LP and 45 correctly credited Olatunji.

B.T.W., the writing credit of "Evil Ways" - originally attributed on first pressings to Jimmy Zack - was also in error.

[pierebean]

For French speaker:

It does sound kinda like the French Nursery rhyme (Comptine) 'Trois ptit Chats,Chapeau d'paille...marabout, bout de ficelle, selle de cheval....'

I'm sure this african song was the original. Can someone confirm that?

[Samahelll]

nan t k1 sal con, sa resembl padutou a 3pti cha mé alor pa du tou!!!

[mickeym1111111111]

sadly santana never gave credit to this master for his creation of jingo

[apexalpha]

Santana did in fact credit Babtunde with his creation. Santana's debut album 1969(Santana)

"Waiting" (Santana Band) - 4:07

"Evil Ways" (J. Zack) - 4:00

"Shades of Time" (Santana Band) - 3:13

"Savor" (Santana Band) - 2:47

"Jingo" (Babatunde Olatunji) - 2:43

[wmbrown6]

Not at first. Initially, classical music composer Aaron Copland was credited as writer (which explains why Santana's recording was titled "Jingo"). I have a promo of the original 45 release (Columbia 4-45010) which even listed Copland's publisher, Boosey & Hawkes, as the publisher of record, as opposed to Blackwood Music which published Olatunji's song. I presume Copland was as offended by the false credit as Olatunji was, albeit for different reasons . . .