Skokiaan is a cheap home brew African laborers drink. Kind of like African moonshine. No wonder this is a happy song. Really brings back 1954. I made my first train ride then, from L.A. to Dayton Ohio, on the Anacin, Toledo and the Sana Flush. Some one was playing this song on the train and the whole Dome Car was rockin'. Superhartline
If happiness were a song, this would be it. I would jump up and down (dance) to this song when I was 2yo. We need more songs like this, to make the world a happier place for everyone.
No problem kiddo. It's common knowledge to anyone familiar with Southern African music. Not just the guys at Wikipedia, lol ... knowledge is way older than Wikipedia kiddo.
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jchristian3 2 months ago
Skokiaan is a cheap home brew African laborers drink. Kind of like African moonshine. No wonder this is a happy song. Really brings back 1954. I made my first train ride then, from L.A. to Dayton Ohio, on the Anacin, Toledo and the Sana Flush. Some one was playing this song on the train and the whole Dome Car was rockin'. Superhartline
SuperHartline 3 months ago
Skokiaan, stokian, stogie, Paul Schofield, Skokeegan, Okee from Muscogee
allenehrl 4 months ago in playlist four lads
Now 1954 comes flooding back to me .........graham melb aus
23zowie23 6 months ago
You forgot to tell that "The Four Lads" was also the background of Frankie Laine, I think more than with Johnny Ray.
The version of Louis Armstrong (no sing version) is also a very good one.
Greats fromp Brussels
Achel41 9 months ago
good
55102 10 months ago
My mother's favorite, thanks for posting it!
MarChiville 1 year ago
LOL..they were good drunk by Skokiaan...( pineapple grog ???)
sanantonio007 1 year ago
This happy tune is still vivid in my memory. Thanks for the upload.
felixbautista 1 year ago
If happiness were a song, this would be it. I would jump up and down (dance) to this song when I was 2yo. We need more songs like this, to make the world a happier place for everyone.
azz02f 2 years ago 2
1:15 sounds quite a bit like Frank Gorshin.
What a great song, this is!
Jyvonne 2 years ago 2
@Jyvonne frank gorshing the same riddler of Batman
55102 9 months ago
is supper om dit weer te kunnen zien 10 plus
wabbi17 2 years ago
I have this on a 78 RPM record I bought in the early 50s...........
Labaron26 2 years ago 5
the song was written and originally performed by August Musarurwa and the African Dance Band of the Cold Storage Commission of Southern Rhodesia
Zvabaz 2 years ago 2
no way?! you're like a walkin' talkin' wikipedia!! thanks a lot zvabdouche..
btgream 2 years ago
No problem kiddo. It's common knowledge to anyone familiar with Southern African music. Not just the guys at Wikipedia, lol ... knowledge is way older than Wikipedia kiddo.
Zvabaz 2 years ago 3
Ralph Marterie had the bigger hit but The Four Lads also made the Top Ten bestsellig records with their version.
The Bulawayo Band released their instrumental version on LONDON Records. I think it was the original version. It has a great sound. Unique!
renew2day 2 years ago
this song is about africa, but it sounds like a polka
renofirvine 3 years ago