Keep Me In Mind

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Album Info

Release Date: 2021-06-04

Label: Strut

Recorded in London and New York
(P) 1970 (C) 2020
Manufactured in Poland
Assembled in Czech Republic
Total duration 29:20
16 page CD booklet with liner notes dated 2021-02

Booklet page 14 re: track 1: "The song was written by her daughter, Bongi, and the Lumumba of the title is first and foremost Bongi's son, Miriam's grandson, who had been born in April 1968 on the very night of Martin Luther King's death. As the lyrics assert, Bongi's son had been named for Patrice Lumumba (...)".

Hype sticker:
Keep Me In Mind
Miriam Makeba
Definitive edition of classic 1970 album
Features 'Lumumba' and versions of Buffalo Springfield's 'For What It's Worth' and Van Morrison's 'Brand New Day'
Featuring new liner notes by Francis Gooding (The Wire).
Remastered by The Carvery from the original tapes
Strut