You Told Your Mama Not to Worry explained

You Told Your Mama Not to Worry
Type:studio
Artist:Hugh Masekela
Cover:You Told Your Mama Not to Worry - album cover.jpg
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Released:9 November 1977
Studio:Ambassador Records (Kumasi, Ghana)
Genre:Jazz
Label:Casablanca NBLP-7079
Producer:Hugh Masekela, Stanley Todd
Prev Title:Melody Maker
Prev Year:1976
Next Title:Herb Alpert / Hugh Masekela
Next Year:1978

You Told Your Mama Not to Worry is the twentieth studio album by South African musician Hugh Masekela.[1] It was recorded in Kumasi, Ghana, and released on 9 November 1977 via Casablanca Records label.[2] [3]

Background

The album includes the song "Soweto Blues" performed by Miriam Makeba. The song is about the Soweto uprising against apartheid that occurred in 1976. The songs "You Told Your Mama Not to Worry" and "Mami Wata" were re-released on CD in 1998 on Verve Records as additional part of his previous album The Boy's Doin' It.

Reception

A reviewer for Dusty Groove wrote: "Pure 70s genius from Hugh Masekela – a record that's quite different than his earlier Afro-soul styled albums, but somehow even better! The format here is much more straightly soulful – with larger arrangements and a strong vocal groove on a number of tracks – but Masekela's trumpet is still blasting firmly over the top of the tunes, infusing them with a soaring sense of soul that's really great! Rhythms change up nicely from the early days – getting complicated at times, and matching the seriousness of the message on the best tracks – and titles include 'Black Beauty', 'Makonko', 'You Told Your Mama Not To Worry', 'Hangover', 'Soweto Blues', and 'The Mandingo Man'."[4]

A reviewer for Napster wrote: "Hugh Masekela's 1975 crossover album incorporated American pop and proto-Disco[sic] into his sound. You can also hear Funk influencing the angular, stuttering grooves and the heavily effected horns on the tracks. An excellent document of the ongoing cultural exchange between African and American popular music at the time, it's fun, danceable music as well."[5]

Personnel

Notes on sleeve

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hugh Masekela - Biography. Amoeba Music. amoeba.com. 13 July 2017.
  2. Web site: Hugh Masekela: You Told Your Mama Not to Worry. Discogs. 18 August 1977 . discogs.com. 19 May 2016.
  3. Web site: DISCOGRAPHY: 1970-1979. dougpayne.com. 19 May 2016.
  4. Web site: Hugh Masekela: You Told Your Mama Not To Worry . . 12 July 2018.
  5. Web site: You Told Your Mama Not To Worry Hugh Masekela . . 12 July 2018.