In memoriam 2023
I have one more program looking back at the year 2023, then it’s full speed ahead into the future on Global A Go-Go. I’d be remiss, though, if I didn’t take a couple of hours to remember some of the great musicians from around the world who passed away last year.
Some of them received tributes on this show when they passed, like Baba Commandant, Stella Chiweshe and Ferus Mustafov. Others, like Shane MacGowan and Sara Tavares, I meant to recognize but just ran out of time to do so at year end. And others I didn’t hear about until I sat down to research the subject.
Every song on today’s show (Sunday January 7, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site) is performed by or otherwise directly associated with someone who died in 2023. All of these people made a lifetime’s worth of brilliant music that the rest of us can enjoy in perpetuity, so let’s enjoy the memory of their rich lives together this week.
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Show archive
Playlist
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Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a Go-Go”
from Global A Go-Go
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001
England UK
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The Clarendonians, “Rude Boy Gone To Jail”
from Rude Boy Gone To Jail - Single
Studio One - 1966
Jamaica
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Blas Duran y Sus Peluches, “Consejo a las Mujeres”
1985 Guitarra Records, distributed by Kithara Entertainment LLC - 1985
Dominican Republic
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Jane Birkin Et Serge Gainsbourg, “Je T'Aime… Moi Non Plus”
from Jane Birkin - Serge Gainsbourg
Fontana - 1969
England UK-France
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The Pogues, “Navigator (live in Sweden, 1985)”
from Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say … Pogue Mahone
Rhino - 2008
England UK, 1985
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The Pogues, “Streams Of Whiskey (demo)”
from Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say … Pogue Mahone
Rhino - 2008
England UK, 1983
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Plastic Bertrand, “Ça plane pour moi”
from Ça plane pour moi (Original 1977 Version) - Single
templar - 2011
Belgium, 1977
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Bijelo Dugme, “Lipe Cvatu, Sve Je Isto K'o I Lani”
from Kosovka Devojka
Music Star - 2004
Bosnia & Herzegovina, 1984
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Juca Chaves, “Take Me Back To Piauí”
from Take Me Back To Piauí / Vou Viver Num Arco-Íris - Single
Som Livre - 1970
Brazil
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Tarika Rakoto Frah, “The Rakoto Frah Two-Step”
from A World Out Of Time: Henry Kaiser & David Lindley In Madagascar
Shanachie - 1992
Madagascar-USA
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Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band, “Tilé (Soleil)”
from Live at Pioneer Works June 2, 2023
2023
Burkina Faso
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Third World, “Try Jah Love”
from Hits Anthology: Third World (Remastered)
Essential Media Group - 2007
Jamaica, 1982
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Benjamin Zephaniah & Eliza Carthy with Trans-Global Underground and Simon Emmerson, “Tam Lyn Retold”
from The Imagined Village
Real World Records - 2007
England UK