Music from the Hills (Music)
With John Uhlemann
Sun Sep 19th 2010 4.00pm–6.00pm
R=listener request. N=music new at the station. L=local music. Your purchases using the Buy it! links
Time zone: central
4:00pm | Fejat Sedić brass ens. “Kacabačko Kolo” from Fejat Sejdić / Kola (RTB 1976)Buy it! |
4:03pm | Dave Zupkovich Orchestra “Kokonješte kolo” from 45 rpm disc (Balkan) —This south Chicago Band was a favorite in the 1940-50sBuy it! |
4:09pm | Banat Tamburitza Orchestra “Malo Kolo” from The Banat Tamburitza Orchestra (Festival Records www.Festival-Records.net) —This group was one of the first to form in the US from immigrant musicians. They were born in a Serbian village in what is now Romania, but came to the US and founded this group in 1912 in Elizabeth, New JerseyBuy it! |
4:12pm | Banat Tamburitza Orchestra “Veliko Kolo” from The Banat Tamburitza Orchestra (Festival Records www.Festival-Records.net) —The name means "The Great Kolo" because it was done only by the better dancers. Like Elgar's "Enigma Variations", there is a basic structure, but no one ever actually danced it - only one's personal interpretation of it, all done in a shoulder hold.Buy it! |
4:15pm | Johnny Krizančić's Marjon Tamburitzans “Moravac” from Kolo Party (Marjon International Music) —This was recorded in Hermitage,PA, in the 1960's. The band members included Lou Markulin, himself a famous tamburašiBuy it! |
4:22pm | KUD Branko Radičević, Ruma “Madjarac” from Dances of Srem ((Dennis Boxell, prod)) —this is played on a tambura samicaBuy it! |
4:23pm | KUD Branko Radičević, Ruma “Šantavi Madjarac” from Dances of Srem ((Dennis Boxell, prod)) —this is the full ens.Buy it! |
4:26pm | Otrov “Šokačko Kolo” from Baština Hrvatskog Sela (private 2004)Buy it! |
4:34pm | Otrov “Splet Slavonskih Kola” from Na Gaži ((private))Buy it! |
4:41pm | Krunoslav Kico Slabinac “Hej, Bećari” (RTB) —from an LP. this is Slavonian style singing and playingBuy it! |
4:50pm | Skitnice “Mađarac” from Sviraj svirče drmeša ((private) 2001)Buy it! |
4:51pm | Vizin “Malo Kolo” from Panonska Zona (Sonex (cassette))Buy it! |
4:54pm | Vizin “Po dvoje” from Panonska Zona (Sonex (cassette)) —this group hails from southern Hungary, from the Slavic population around the town of PécsBuy it! |
5:01pm | Vujicsics Ensemble, with Marta Sebestyen “Jozo” from Podravina (R-e-DISC) —again, from the Slavic population of Southern HungaryBuy it! |
5:07pm | Vujicsics “Alaj volim” from Samo Sviraj (R-e-DISC 1997) —another suite of songs from the Slavic population of HungaryBuy it! |
5:11pm | Sondorgo “Oj stari starče...” from Oj, Stari (Teleferic) —these are the sonsBuy it! |
5:17pm | Sondorgo “Banatsko Kolo” from Oj, Stari... (Teleferic) —this, again, is the tune for MađaracBuy it! |
5:20pm | Sondorgo “Jova” from Oj, Javore (Teleferic) —this is very close to the Serbian stye of tambura music heard in Pittsburgh, Chicago and St. Louis 60/70 years agoBuy it! |
5:24pm | Janika Balaž with Zvonko Bogdan “Somborski Bećarac/Jeftaničevo Kolo” from Zvuci Tamburice (LP) (RTS) —a Hungarian/Rom tambura player from the Vojvodina area of SerbiaBuy it! |
5:32pm | George Skrbina Tamburitza orchestra “Hopshy Kolo” from Happy Tamburitza Melodies (London (LP)) —this is the same tune as Radikalko, and looks like a rather jumpy version of ŠetnjaBuy it! |
5:34pm | George Skrbina Tamburitza orchestra “Omer Reše” from Happy Tamburitza Melodies (London (LP))Buy it! |
5:37pm | Popovich Brothers “Ćep ćep” from Popovich Brothers of South Chicago ((private)) —this is the classic group of Chicago / they played together for 50 yearsBuy it! |
5:39pm | Popovich Brothers “A Salaju” from Popovich Brothers of South Chicago ((private)) —they finish with a fast koloBuy it! |
5:42pm | Steve Vesolich with the Duquesne University Tamburitzans “Osman Aga” from Kolo (Du-Tam (LP)) —songs about the times of the Ottoman Empire were common in the early repertoire - this is one of thoseBuy it! |
5:50pm | Johnny Krizancic Marjon Tamburitza orchestra “Malo Kolo” from Kolo Party (Marjon International Music)Buy it! |
5:53pm | Jedinstvo Tamburica Orchestra “Pod Padaj Lišče/Sitno Kolo” from Jedinstvo Tamburica ((self)) —this group is from ArizonaBuy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.