Dr. Oloh Sierra Leone Music

To all Sierra Leonean People. I don't know if this is still available I got this given to me as a going away present from my friend's cousin Donald. I went on holiday with a group of sierra leonean's living in England this is 1985 I'm talking about now, most i am still friends with to this day although people have moved around England or gone back home to Sierra Leone. Anyway i thought i would share this music for everybody to enjoy. I can still remember going in to the shop in Freetown with row's upon row's of tape machine's mixing music for people (I've still got my cassetts) Fantastic.....Watch • Sierra Leone 1985 86

[@safeaamara150]

Continue to rest well Legend, 2023 still listening from Mogadishu, Somalia 🇸🇴 🇸🇱

[@mohamedothman5184]

2024 we still listening

[@ibrahimbangura9518]

Down memory lane...in those days....

[@YouGoLearn]

Long live Dr. Oloh❤️

[@mohamedbangura6153]

Wow old song

[@adambah7961]

Na now d tin don begin,tel dem ,if don no bin know. 2022

[@raheempope6524]

2020 still listing all the way Algeria 🇩🇿 Oran

[@isatulbayoh3119]

Yes oooh mama Salone! Sweet, sweet Salone. No place like home. Bringing memories back, the days of Dr Ola are gone but not forgotten.

[@looping1318]

de France merci d'avoir partager ...la culture Africaine est super puissante forte et ...gigantesque merci a tous de continuer à apporter les temoignages 👍 il faut que le monde sache !! merci

[@gloriasesay462]

Thank you for sharing one of our indigenous music with us. No place like home. Thank God for Sierra Leone as we continue to pray for it's existence in faith, health & prosperity, even after a decade of war and now ebolah.

[@celiavinkers7124]

Now stadium can open up to let the youths listen to sounds of healing.Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@dinocamaradinocamara6501]

Continue to rest in peace legend

[@usifujalloh2026]

Thank you so much for putting this up here. The legacy leaves on..

[@ibrahimsesay9301]

Dr. Oloh was the maestro of Gumbay music.

[@africanstar651]

The soundtrack to my childhood

[@watalooboy50]

Thank you brethren for sharing this classic piece of music from the land that we love Sierra Leone. I'd appreciate you so much if you could upload another classic piece from Dr. Orloh titled " Power Way Norto You Yone" Thanks a bunch in advance.

[@MasiakaPekin]

Thank you!

[@musakamara6534]

Down memory lane oh me sweet salone...

[@kenbagnall4861]

Been looking for some Milo jazz for years, ever since John Peel played Sierra Leone Unite. Thank you for posting. Got Dr Oloh's name finally last week via Gideon Coe's BBC 6 Music show : )

[@olubunmithomas1147]

Thanks so much, this is what we need as this part of our culture is slowly dying off. this is Sierra Leonean music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-0

[@gibbykluxx3441]

Oooooh God love den music den yah sweet salone ar kin njoy den song yah na marade

[@derekadeen2000]

The father of music in Sierra Leone

[@MizzizBarrie4Eva]

Authentic!

[@ahmedkallay3978]

2019 still listening to hear song

[@bluebagski]

Hi Ahmed... It's still working... ; - )

[@TravelBirdyy]

Sweet Sierra Leone!

[@Dima11983]

Great music, they really know how to beat the drums

[@maxximed]

nice gift

[@maxximed]

tnx for sharing it

[@MrMrIhopethisworks]

Thank You!

[@derekadeen2000]

The father of music in Sierra Leone

[@bagdadrecords1650]

Nice vibes

[@daltongeorge6093]

Salone sweet

[@MongooseInc]

Can you upload the audio from the tape somewhere where we can download it?

[@prezellthomas6065]

Treaure, man - thanks! Anybody know where I can find the old boo-boo music, like ndovo totie?...please?

[@Charineorama]

Thanks very much for this. I have some cassettes of Dr Orloh's music but can't find any online - and would love to, to make a change from all the hard house music I normally listen to whilst running! Dr Orloh's gumbay music always lifts the spirits and I would love to know who I could download the tapes I have or get them online so all ideas or responses are welcome (polite ones only please!)

[@saloneonthemap1283]

message us, we may be able to help [e-mail]

[@doubleking7087]

I'm doing something new with our local sounds in particular goombay and Milo jazz
I called it Gumbe Fusion
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[@prezellthomas6065]

So, the third track on this, sounds like its called Songo. Does anyone understand the gist of it, care to maybe translate a little for me? Thanks!

[@nikiibu]

Tondo. A Mende song, but let's just say the lyrics here are gibberish. Dr Oloh didn't speak Mende so he muddled his way through the song as best as he could. "Tondo" was Mende slang for a pregnant woman (I don't know if it's still used). The original song is about a newly married man (or maybe correctly, a man who marries a new wife).

[@prezellthomas6065]

@@nikiibu Thanks so much, and even though I felt a little embarrassed and the hyper simulation not to mention the inaccurate cultural appropriation, at least now I have a good working context for the song. Tenki Tenki! 😊

[@prezellthomas6065]

@@nikiibu also, do you write Mende? Could we write a version of this o f that pays it the lyrics it deserves? Let me know , and I’ll find a way to IM you etc…

[@nikiibu]

@@prezellthomas6065 No worries. There's nothing to be embarrassed about Dr Oloh singing this song the way he did it; he heard a song he liked and tried reproducing it. Yes , he felt short but it happens to the best (and the worst) of us. So I don't think it's 'cultural appropriation' in this case, not in the strict sense of the term. Am I being a little indulgent?

[@nikiibu]

@@prezellthomas6065 Do you mean if I can transcribe the song? It's not impossible but I don't think I recall every line of the original lyrics.

[@philipjlu-johnson3793]

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[@gibbykluxx3441]

Oooooh God love den music den yah sweet salone ar kin njoy den song yah na marade

[@philipjlu-johnson3793]

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