I checked it out on Wiki. Jamaican Farewell was recorded in 1955. It was written a few years earlier, I believe. Fadhili would've been 17 years old? he was born in 1938. So its certainly possible but - I suggest - unlikely that he was the original composer.
Musically, the song is alarmingly simple yet amazingly, hauntingly beautiful. Frustrated musical lovers like me, should remember that wonderful music is often very simple.
@missile53 True, harry belafonte & Makeba "stole" Fadhili Williams,Original Malaika, could Belafonte have also have possibly pinched this tune from Fadhili as well ??
true good old times, good old discipline time, true music times but all in all life has to go on
TENEGER1000 1 month ago
To-my-later-father-i-miss.--u-all-ways-in-my-mind
MyCarroline 5 months ago
mnasinya sana
nabonwe 6 months ago
Hey man, this dancers are too modern 4 this music, tupilia ao mbali kabisa...
dayega1 6 months ago
nostalgic PERIOD.
vony367 8 months ago
@missile53 Thanks ..good looking out.
wachaushenzi 1 year ago
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I checked it out on Wiki. Jamaican Farewell was recorded in 1955. It was written a few years earlier, I believe. Fadhili would've been 17 years old? he was born in 1938. So its certainly possible but - I suggest - unlikely that he was the original composer.
Musically, the song is alarmingly simple yet amazingly, hauntingly beautiful. Frustrated musical lovers like me, should remember that wonderful music is often very simple.
missile53 1 year ago
@missile53 True, harry belafonte & Makeba "stole" Fadhili Williams,Original Malaika, could Belafonte have also have possibly pinched this tune from Fadhili as well ??
wachaushenzi 1 year ago
Fadhili Williams seems to have been a keen traveller. Napenda sana nyimbo zake...
vilifu 1 year ago
beautiful song. good job here guys.
ritaroggs 2 years ago