Here she is singing her most famous hit, "Pata Pata": – 41D: Again with the names.
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Miriam Makeba adapted Ms. Masuka's "Pata Pata" (originally titled "Ei-Yow"), turning it into her signature song.
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She followed it with "Pata Pata," in 1990, for the British label Mango, which reinvigorated her career.
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Others in these groups lounge around the pool in brightly printed batakari shirts and flowing pata pata dresses.
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An old woman in a faded pata pata dress, crouched and sweeping with a handle-less broom, uprights herself as we pass.
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At one point, she says that she wishes that the song "Pata Pata," about a dance, hadn't become such a signature tune; she would have preferred another song with more meaningful lyrics.
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It was released in the United States on Makeba's studio album of the same name. It was also released as a single and peaked at #12 on 25 November 1967 on the Billboard chart. The flip side song was Malayisha. This version's English language content includes a description of the origin of the dance: > Pata Pata is the name of a dance [sat si pata pata] We do down Johannesburg > way [sat si pata pata] And everybody starts to move [sat si pata pata] As > soon as Pata Pata starts to play - hoo [sat si pata pata] The original (1967) version of "Pata Pata" is included on Pata Pata (released 1972), The Best of the Early Years (Miriam Makeba), a collection of 24 tracks released in 2002 by Wrasse, and the 40-track compilation Her Essential Recordings: The Empress of African Song (2006 Manteca).
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There also exists Patapon, where "Pata" is one of the sounds made with a drum; "pata-pata-pata-pon" happens to be one of the first rhythms the game teaches the user.
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"Pata Pata" is an Afro-pop dance song popularized internationally by South African singer Miriam Makeba. "Pata Pata" is credited to Makeba and Jerry Ragovoy. Her most popular recording of "Pata Pata" was recorded and released in the United States in 1967. The song is considered by many to be Makeba's signature hit and it has since been recorded by many artists.
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Makeba's "Pata Pata" was not the only song inspired by the "Pata Pata" dance. Her "Pata Pata" melody was based on an instrumental "Phatha Phatha" by Shumi Ntutu and Isaac Nkosi, which was in turn based on "Noma Kumnyama" by Alson Mkhize. The popular 1956 "Ei Yow Phata Phata" by Dorothy Masuka was distinctly different from Makeba's, but in later years, Masuka made her own recording of the version made popular by Makeba. Masuka claimed that she herself had written it.
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Pata Pata (Aymara and Quechua) is a mountain in the Chunta mountain range in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Huancavelica Region, Castrovirreyna Province, Castrovirreyna District, and in the Huancavelica Province, Ascensión District. Pata Pata lies southwest of Pinqullu and Hatun Pata. The river Kachimayu originates southeast of the mountain.
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The words seem to refer to the current version of Jamaican Passa Passa. The lyrics to Makeba's song are few, but they're as follow, "Pata Pata is the name of the dance, we do down in Johannesburg way, and everybody starts to move as soon as Pata Pata starts to play. Every Friday and Saturday nights, its Pata Pata time, the dance keeps going all night long 'til the morning sun begins to shine". There are many similarities between the two, or just coincidence that has traveled the Atlantic for all to enjoy Grenada's Education Minister, Claris Charles, called for a ban of the dance in that country in 2006.
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When you hear the fife and drum, ture-lure-lu, pata-pata-pan, When you hear the fife and drum, dance and make the village hum.
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In 2010, they remixed the song, "Nah Neh Nah", by the Belgian group, Vaya Con Dios, which reached the top ten sales charts in 10 countries and received gold in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The track was also nominated for the VIVA TV COMET awards as "Best Party Track of the Year 2011" in Germany. Their release in July 2011 is a tribute to Africa, where Milk & Sugar performed for the first time in the mid 1990s (Coumba Gawlo – Pata Pata). "Hi-a Ma (Pata Pata)", which is the name of the song, features a part of the original recording from the 1967 hit "Pata Pata", sung by South African singer and Grammy Award winning artist, Miriam Makeba.
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Her performances in Africa were immensely popular: she was described as the highlight of FESTAC 77, a Pan- African arts festival in Nigeria in 1977, and during a Liberian performance of "Pata Pata", the stadium proved so loud that she was unable to complete the song. "Pata Pata", like her other songs, had been banned in South Africa. Another song she sang frequently in this period was "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", though she never recorded it. Makeba later stated that it was during this period that she accepted the label "Mama Africa".
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Welela is a Miriam Makeba album mixed at Condulmer Recording Studios in Venice, Italy by Allan Goldberg of Phonocomp in the end of 1989, except for "Pata Pata" which was mixed at Psycho Studio in Milan, February 1990.
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If the player inputs an unknown sequence or enters them off the main rhythm, the tribe will become confused and stop whatever they are doing. However, repeatedly entering a proper sequence in sync with the rhythm will lead the tribe into a "Fever" increasing their attack and defensive bonuses. The tribe will stop doing anything after performing the last entered command if the player does not enter any more commands. For example, some commands are square, square, square, circle (Pata, Pata, Pata, Pon.), which has them march forward and circle, circle, square, circle (Pon, Pon, Pata, Pon.), which makes them attack.
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These included "Pata Pata", which would be released many years later, and a version of the traditional Xhosa song "Qongqothwane", which she had first performed with the Skylarks. Though "Pata Pata"—described by Musician magazine as a "groundbreaking Afropop gem"—became her most famous song, Makeba described it as "one of my most insignificant songs". While in England, she married Sonny Pillay, a South African ballad singer of Indian descent; they divorced within a few months. Makeba then moved to New York, making her US music debut on 1 November 1959 on The Steve Allen Show in Los Angeles for a television audience of 60 million.
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In 1988, a duet version with Chayanne was made. It was included in the album Chayanne. In 1990 Makeba re-recorded the song for her own album Welela. Makeba also released a renovated version of the song, entitled "Pata Pata 2000", in her 2000 album Homeland.
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Makeba's 1967 version was successful on the Billboard Hot 100, and peaked at No. 12. On the night she died, Miriam Makeba performed "Pata Pata" just before she collapsed on stage. In 2009, Honda used the song in a television commercial for their 2010 Accord Crosstour.
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The concert had been organised to support the writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a criminal organisation active in the Campania region. She suffered a heart attack after singing her hit song "Pata Pata", and was taken to the Pineta Grande clinic, where doctors were unable to revive her.
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The song's title "Pata Pata" means "touch touch" in the Xhosa language, in which the song was originally written and sung. "Pata Pata" was also the name of a style of dance that was popular in the shebeens of Johannesburg's Townships in the mid-1950s. The dancer crouched before his partner and patted her body to the rhythm of the music as he rose up and she spun around, making hip circles. In another version of the dance, > The male dancers stand in a row with their arms extended out to the front, > palms to the floor, while the women pat each in turn in a manner resembling > security search body-frisking, after which the men do the same to the women.
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Coumba Gawlo Seck is a Senegalese singer-songwriter and composer who was born in February 1972 in Tivaouane. She is the second best selling Senegalese singer in Senegal after Youssou N'Dour. Her greatest success was a version of "Pata Pata", a platinum single which was number one for two weeks in Belgium and sold 50,000 copies one day in France in 1998.
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Makeba's "Pata Pata" was originally sung, recorded, and released in South Africa by Makeba's girl group The Skylarks in 1959. Some sources indicate she had first recorded the song with The Skylarks in 1956. In 1967, after establishing a successful singing career in the US, Makeba re- recorded the song with Jerry Ragovoy producing, and with an added spoken part in English. Ragovoy was then billed as the co-writer of the words and music.
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Her attempt to return to South Africa that year for her mother's funeral was prevented by the country's government. Makeba's career flourished in the United States, and she released several albums and songs, her most popular being "Pata Pata" (1967). Along with Belafonte she received a Grammy Award for her 1965 album An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba. She testified against the South African government at the United Nations and became involved in the civil rights movement.
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South African singer Lira has frequently been compared with Makeba, particularly for her performance of "Pata Pata" during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Football World Cup. A year later, Kidjo dedicated her concert in New York to Makeba, as a musician who had "paved the way for her success". In an obituary, scholar Lara Allen referred to Makeba as "arguably South Africa's most famous musical export". In 2016 the French singer Jain released "Makeba", a tribute.
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Pata Pata is a 1967 album by Miriam Makeba. The album charted at number 74 in the US albums chart.Sylvia Lovina Chidi - The Greatest Black Achievers in History 2014 -- 1291909338 Page 129 "The Many Voices of Miriam Makeba (1960) (LP Kapp KL1274) Miriam Makeba (1960) (LP RCA LSP2267) The World of Miriam Makeba ... Pata (1967) (LP Reprise RS6274) #74" Most of the recordings were new, though Sivuca's "Maria Fulo" was included again, from the previous album All About Miriam.
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The fourth and title track, the techno-infused "Arrasando" ("Razing"), was considered "tailor-made for peak-hour club play". The fifth track is the soothing "No Hay Que Llorar" ("There's no Need to Cry"), while "Tumba la Casa" follows the high-energy style of previous songs. The album also recorded a version of Miriam Makeba's hit "Pata Pata", while the closing track, "Rosalinda", the theme song of Thalía's soap opera of the same name, being the most traditionally Mexican song on the set.
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The album includes a cover of "Pata Pata" by Miriam Makeba. Renaissance mixes classical arrangements with African pop music. In the album's weaving elements of pop music into classical music, the quartet dabble in styles such as marabi, kwela, African folk music, as well as an array of indigenous African songs. The Beat felt the album provides an "original interpretation of South African song," an opinion echoed by Jazz Times who felt the numerous South African folk songs on Renaissance are arranged as worldbeat fusions.
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In Ghana in the 1950s, Teddy Osei (saxophone), Sol Amarfio (drums), Mamon Shareef, and Farhan Freere (flute) played in a highlife band called The Star Gazers. They left to form The Comets, with Osei's brother Mac Tontoh on trumpet, and scored a hit in West Africa with their 1958 song "(I feel) Pata Pata." In 1962, Osei moved to London to study music on a scholarship from the Ghanaian government. In 1964 he formed Cat's Paw, an early "world music" band that combined highlife, rock, and soul.
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Willie, bring your little drum, Robin take your flute and come! When we hear the music bright we will sing Noel this night, When we hear the fife and drum, Christmas should be frolicsome. Thus the men of olden days for the King of Kings to praise, When they heard the fife and drum, ture-lure-lu, pata-pata-pan, When they hear the fife and drum, sure, our children won't be dumb. God and man are now become more at one than fife and drum.
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There, Škoļina performed several songs (including "Pata Pata", originally recorded by Miriam Makeba) with Isabelle Kessel and Liza-Marie Viebrock. The head of the jury (songwriter, TV personality and lead singer of Modern Talking Dieter Bohlen) said, "Today I see smaller breasts, but hear a bigger voice". One of Škoļina's performance was a duet with Marcel Porfumo of "You're Beautiful", co-written and recorded by James Blunt. The jury again noted her singing as well as her looks, and it was considered among her best performances.
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The album includes ten tracks, mostly covers of songs previously recorded by several performers. The lead track and first single "Tu Pirata Soy Yo" ("I Am Your Pirate") is a ballad written by Honorio Herrero, who also wrote Chayanne's previous hit "Fiesta en América". "Pata Pata" is a cover version of the signature song of Miriam Makeba, who is featured on this new version. "Este Ritmo Se Baila Así" is also a cover version of the 1987 song "Sye Bwa" by the Francophone zouk band Kassav'.
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Classic CD magazine felt that the album shows the quartet developing further in the direction of "crossover international pop." While the classical and pop- crossover elements are a continuation of their approach from Zebra Crossing, producer Grahame Beggs helps the band introduce new textures to the album. Quartet member Reuben Khemse described the themes of the album as reawakening and the dawn of a new era. He said: While the album includes South African standards such as "Imbube" and Miriam Makeba's "Pata Pata," it also includes an original composition, "Writing on the Wall".
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Chris Batchelor is a British jazz trumpeter and composer. He gained his first professional experience with Dudu Pukwana's Zila aged 17, at the suggestion of Harry Beckett. He subsequently became a founder member, composer and soloist with Loose Tubes, contributing many pieces to the repertoire of the band from 1984-1990. He was also very active at this time as a member of legendary world music trailblazers 3 Mustaphas 3, as well as enjoying a varied diet of gigs with Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Congolese soukous band Taxi Pata Pata and Ashley Slater's Microgroove.
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The third single, the title track "Arrasando", only went to peak at number 25 on the US Latin Pop Airplay chart but again, it was another number one single in Mexico. A version in English, called "It's My Party", was also released. "Menta Y Canela" was released as the fourth single in countries like Mexico and Brazil, while "Pata Pata" was released only in Argentina. The album's fifth single "Reencarnación" fared a little better, peaking at number 30 on the Hot Latin Tracks and number 17 on the Latin Pop Airplay.
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Hatun Pata (Quechua hatun big (in Bolivia always jatun), pata elevated place; above, at the top; edge; bank (of a river), shore,Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) "big elevated place", also spelled Jatun Pata) is a mountain in the Chunta mountain range in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Huancavelica Region, Huancavelica Province, Ascensión District. Hatun Pata lies northwest of Pinqullu and northeast of Pata Pata. The river Kachimayu originates south of the mountain.
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Passa Passa has drawn many professional and amateur dancers into the media spotlight as the event is typically videotaped for mass DVD distribution. Many of the popular Jamaican dancers, such as the late Bogle and Ding Dong, have made appearances on these videos. The spread of dancehall popularity, particularly in Japan and Europe, attracts many international dancehall fans along with the hundreds of Jamaicans who attend weekly. The song Pata Pata by Miriam Makeba has been popular in Jamaica on the local radio stations, JBC or RJR, and was sun along to by children.
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Yamboo was founded in 1999, consisting of Silvie Prvu and Gisele. The first single "Fiesta de la noche (The Sailor Dance)" became a hit entered the Top German Top 20 chart, also charting in Austria and Switzerland. This was followed "Come with Me (Bailamos)" also in 1999 and "Torero (Aya baila)" in 2000 followed by a series of other hits like a cover of the Russian song "Kalinka" and a cover of the Afro-pop dance song "Pata Pata" made famous by Miriam Makeba. The hit "Sing Hallelujah" featured Dr. Alban.
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Temi Dollface on "The Juice" in 2014 Temi DollFace (born August 2) is a Nigerian electro-pop-soul singer, who grew up in England. Her music is described as "a brand of music that is jazzy, energetic and theatrical". She is best known for her 2013 single "Pata Pata", which received four AFRIMA nominations at the All Africa Music Awards for "Best Video", "Revelation Of The African Continent", "Best African Pop Song" and "Most Promising African Artiste On The Continent". In 2016 TemiDollFace released the single "Beep Beep", ahead of an album release.
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Arrasando (English: Razing) is the sixth studio album by Mexican singer Thalía, released on 25 April 2000, by EMI Latin. She collaborated with producers like Emilio Estefan, Roberto Blades and Lawrence Dermer. In many interviews during the album launch, Thalía said that this album was different from her previous ones, because it shows her turn to the Dance/techno element, describing it as a rhythm-fusion between many types of music. Thalía co-wrote eight songs on the album, in addition, it includes two covers: the South African hit "Pata Pata" and Gloria Estefan's "Lucky Girl".
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"Imbube" features interlocking violins which explore the track's "various nuances," while "Songs My Mother Taught Me" is an atmospheric work written in 1880 by Antonín Dvořák. The quartet's rendition of Makeba's popular "Pata Pata" reflects what the quartet's violinist Makhosini described as their owing a "debt of gratitude to the pioneers of South African popular music." They spoke of their appreciation towards Miriam Makeba, Letta Mbulu, Hugh Masekela, Caiphus Semenya and "others whose music had to be smuggled into South Africa while they lived in exile during the apartheid era." South African musician Vusi Mahlasela performs guest vocals on "Weeping," a protest song written by Dan Heymann, a young white soldier in the South African Army who was horrified with the apartheid system.
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Oprah Winfrey and Angelique Kidjo were honored for their humanitarian work at the ceremony. She sang "Pata Pata", "Afirika" and "Djin Djin" as a duet with Alicia Keys. On March 8, 2013, International Women's Day, Kidjo performed along with Fatoumata Diawara at the Royal Festival Hall in London for the Women of the World Festival organized by the Southbank Centre. On September 13, 2013, Kidjo sang at the legendary Rock in Rio Festival with the rock band Living Color. On May 14, 2014, Kidjo sang at the famous Brazilian music award show "Prêmio da Música Brasileira" at the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro.Regina Rito, "Dueto de Péricles com a cantora Angelique Kidjo levanta o público no Municipal", O Dia, May 16, 2014.
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Count Ossie later formed a group called The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari and recorded a few singles, including a cover of Miriam Makeba's "Pata Pata" in 1967. Several Jamaican artists also used Ossie's group as percussionists for their own ska and reggae recordings, such as a couple of King Stitt singles, including "Be a Man" (Studio One) circa 1969. Count Ossie issued two outstanding albums at the end of his lifetime and inspired several later Rastafarian drumming groups, including Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus, who recorded with Bob Marley. Count Ossie's masterpiece is the Grounation three-LP set (1973), which includes songs such as "So Long", and "Grounation" (the latter title with over 30 minutes running time) and an updated version of "Oh Carolina".
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The album dealt with the political plight of black South Africans under apartheid, including several songs critical of the South African government, such as "Ndodemnyama we Verwoerd" ("Watch our Verwoerd", a reference to Hendrik Verwoerd, one of the architects of apartheid). It sold widely and raised Makeba's profile in the US; Belafonte and Makeba's concert tour following its release was often sold out, and the album has been described as the best they made together. Makeba's use of lyrics in Swahili, Xhosa, and Sotho led to her being seen as a representation of an "authentic" Africa by American audiences. In 1967, more than ten years after she first recorded the song, the single "Pata Pata" was released in the US on an album of the same title, and became a worldwide hit.
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Aaron Jack Lerole of Black Mambazo added groaning male vocals to the female harmonies, later being replaced by Simon 'Mahlathini' Nkabinde, who has become perhaps the most influential and well-known South African "groaner" of the twentieth century. Marks Mankwane and Joseph Makwela's mbaqanga innovations evolved into the more danceable mgqashiyo sound when the two joined forces with Mahlathini and the new female group Mahotella Queens, in Mankwane's backing group Makhona Tsohle Band (also featuring Makwela along with saxophonist-turned-producer West Nkosi, rhythm guitarist Vivian Ngubane, and drummer Lucky Monama). The Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens/Makhona Tsohle outfit recorded as a studio unit for Gallo Record Company, to great national success, pioneering mgqashiyo music all over the country to equal success. In 1967 Miriam Makeba released US hit "Pata Pata".
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Dollface was signed to Sony Records in the UK for five years. In September 2003, Dollface was invited by Mary J Blige to support her at the "Sisters with Soul" concert at the Expo Centre Lagos. She has since supported the likes of Chris Brown, Rahsaan Patterson, Femi Kuti, Keziah Jones, and others, and was invited by Coca-Cola to appear on their Nairobi music TV show Coke Studio, along with King Sunny Ade and M.I Abaga. In 2013 she released the single "Pata Pata" which featured in series one of the Ndanitv soap opera Gidi Up. The song earned her four AFRIMA nominations at the December 2014 All Africa Music Awards for "Best Video", "Revelation Of The African Continent", "Best African Pop Song" and "Most Promising African Artiste On The Continent".
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Punjabi films with a strong storyline and an equally strong direction were Shareek (directed by Navaniat Singh, starring Jimmy Shergill and Mahie Gill), Qissa Panjab (directed by Jatinder Mauhar that weaved in seven different stories into one), Judge Singh LLB (directed by Atharv Baluja as the first Punjabi courtroom drama), Gippy Grewal's Faraar (directed by Baljit Singh Deo brought in double role with suspense) was the highest budget film with in the history of Punjabi cinema. Other flop films were Dildariyaan, Hero Naam Yaad Rakhi, Mitti Na Pharol Jogiya, Oh Yaara Ainvayi Ainvayi Lut Gaya, Munde Kamaal De. While films raking up controversy or inviting a ban were The Mastermind Jinda Sukha and Pata Pata Singhan Da Vairi and Nanak Shah Fakir (Temporarily that faced a ban in some parts of the country). In 2016, As many as 41 movies were released.
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The film score was composed by Mark Isham, with "Never Gonna Break My Faith" written by Bryan Adams and performed by Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige, and the Boys Choir of Harlem, which was played during the closing credits. Also, a newly recorded version of "Louie Louie" was performed in character by Demi Moore for the film. Songs heard throughout the film consist of a music compilation from the 1960s, including "The Tracks of My Tears" by Smokey Robinson, "I Was Made to Love Her" by Stevie Wonder, "Ain't That Peculiar" by Marvin Gaye, an original acoustic version of "The Sound of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel, "Anji" covered by Jason Huxley, "Come See About Me" by The Supremes, "There's a Kind of Hush" by Herman's Hermits, "Black Is Black" by Los Bravos, "Season of the Witch" and "Hurdy Gurdy Man" by Donovan, "Wives and Lovers" by Jack Jones, "Magic Moments" by Perry Como, "Pata Pata" by Miriam Makeba and "Initials" from the musical Hair. The soundtrack album Bobby features The Supremes, Shorty Long, Hugh Masekela, The Moody Blues and Los Bravos.
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