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Rockabilly? In Senegal? If there’s one thing I’ve learned: Anything is possible.

In the 1970s, Rockabilly had a revival in the United States with acts such as Sha Na Na, the film American Graffiti, the television show Happy Days. During the same time, there was also a revival of Teddy Boys in the United Kingdom. But how did Rockabilly make it all the way over to Senegal?

What little information I have been able to find on King Joe Dann says he was from Senegal. But that picture on the cover was obviously taken in Paris – unless Augustin-Alexandre Dumont did more than one version of Le Génie de la Liberté. The only clue is under the song title on the record label, it says: “CHANTE EN OUALOF” – which translated into English says “Song in Wolof“. Wolof is a language of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania, and the native language of the Wolof people.

If you have any further information, please leave it in the comment section below.

Catalog number 2C006-15.975 on Pathé of France, released 1977.

Appears in this : https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/5472513-Various-LUnit%C3%A9-Africaine, credited to M’Baye Abdoul, as it is for writing on ur release, we can track this release too : https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/10526195-Joe-Dun-Fou-Je-Suis on french Roy Label ( maybe part of Pathé i don’t know ), looking at the picture Joe Dun is the young king joe dann. Seems most likely expatriate or Senegalese living in france, so i don’t think rockabilly came directly to senegal in this, more like “Rockabilly and Senegal met in France”. Thanks for the shares as always

Comment by Monkey D. Sound December 12, 2021 @ 6:41 am