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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP: December 2013
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP. Monday, December 16, 2013. POP YEH YEH Volume 1 CD in "SPIN's Best Box Sets and Expanded Editions of 2013" list! Wow i'm really amazed at this. POP YEH YEH has hit the big time! Various Artists, Pop Yeh Yeh: Psychedelic Rock from Singapore and Malaysia 1964-1970. Was featured in SPIN MAGAZINE's list of BEST BOX SETS and EXPANDED EDITIONS of 2013! READ THE SPIN ARTICLE HERE. Posted by DJ Carlito. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). And amazing help from Boingboing. Garage hangover - the...
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP: September 2014
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP. Tuesday, September 9, 2014. Guest blogger Ghaz writes on Celebrating Malaysia's Independence (Merdeka) through music! The above photo came from a yearbook that Adnan Othman had saved from his school days - possibly from 1957! How's life in Richmond? I think of you when Richmond or Virginia is mentioned in any current US TV series shown on our Malaysian television channels. My country has just celebrated its National Day on 31 August, which is about 3 days ago. Http:/ www.yo...
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP: December 2014
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP. Friday, December 26, 2014. Congrats to Dato' A Rahman Hassan and Datin Fadhilah Mansor. Photo from http:/ mediahiburan.karangkraf.com. Articles from Kosmo.com.my translated by guest blogger Ghaz! Posted by DJ Carlito. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The first POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP TO SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA took place in the Summer of 2010! And amazing help from Boingboing. So please start by viewing the blog posts made from June to August of 2010. View my complete profile.
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP: July 2014
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP. Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Returning to Malaysia and Singapore. Hello Friends and Pop Yeh Yeh fans! I'm excited to announce that I'm leaving tomorrow to return to Singapore and Malaysia for nearly three weeks to continue my research on Malay Pop music of the 60s and early 70s! While I'm there, I hope to find lots of good information about the golden era of Malay pop to share with all of you. Each day I will post updates here about the people I meet and places I visit. Meanwhile, A...
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP: "Malay cover versions" - by GHAZ, KL
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP. Monday, May 25, 2015. Malay cover versions" - by GHAZ, KL. Our favorite guest blogger, Ghaz, continues with more colorful stories and history about Malaysian and Singaporean music - and specifically Malay music from those countries - during the 60s, 70s, and all the years before and after! We hope you enjoy this. Fascinating article below from Ghaz in Kuala Lumpur where he discusses the phenomenon of "Malay cover versions" . THE MALAY COVER VERSION OF INTERNATIONAL SONGS. After...
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP: Article "RETRO MANIA" in MANJA magazine - "The leading Malay entertainment and lifestyle magazine in Singapore"
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP. Thursday, April 16, 2015. Article "RETRO MANIA" in MANJA magazine - "The leading Malay entertainment and lifestyle magazine in Singapore". A couple of months ago a reporter for MANJA Magazine in Singapore asked me to reply to a few questions about my research on Pop Yeh Yeh in Malaysia and Singapore in the 1960s - - I was really honored to be included in an article like this. I hadn't realized until I actually got a copy of the magazine (thanks Hamlau! Posted by DJ Carlito.
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP: March 2015
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. THE A-GO-GO CRAZE IN MALAY MUSIC IN THE 1960s. Guest Blogger Ghaz writes:. THE A-GO-GO CRAZE IN MALAY MUSIC IN THE 1960s. The craze towards a-go-go began when the Pop Yeh Yeh. By local TV stations. The opening and closing credit of “Hollywood A-Go-Go”. Https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Ahmad Daud and The Swallows – “Si Manis Tujoh Belas” (Sweet Seventeen) from the film “Sayang Si Buta” (Love of The Blind) (1965). Https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Among the gr...
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP: THE A-GO-GO CRAZE IN MALAY MUSIC IN THE 1960s
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. THE A-GO-GO CRAZE IN MALAY MUSIC IN THE 1960s. Guest Blogger Ghaz writes:. THE A-GO-GO CRAZE IN MALAY MUSIC IN THE 1960s. The craze towards a-go-go began when the Pop Yeh Yeh. By local TV stations. The opening and closing credit of “Hollywood A-Go-Go”. Https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Ahmad Daud and The Swallows – “Si Manis Tujoh Belas” (Sweet Seventeen) from the film “Sayang Si Buta” (Love of The Blind) (1965). Https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Among the gr...
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP: October 2014
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP. Monday, October 20, 2014. WHERE IS THE LIGHT? By Guest Blogger Ghaz :. Being blind is indeed hard. In older days, a blind person was perceived by his own family and community as a fully handicapped individual with limited capabilities to survive on his own, and therefore, could not go far. The disadvantage of being blind was reflected in many of Malay films during its golden era in late 1940s up 1960s. Poverty] (1952), Ibu. Mother] (1953), Siapa Salah. Http:/ www.youtube...
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP: Pop Yeh Yeh in Eastern Malaysia
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POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP. Tuesday, January 13, 2015. Pop Yeh Yeh in Eastern Malaysia. Today, I am happy to share some very interesting information (beginning below the map image) sent to us by our favorite guest blogger, Ghaz, about a question that has always interested me. What about Eastern. Weren't there bands from other parts of Malaysia besides Western Penninsular Malaysia? Is Malaysia's easternmost state, one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. It is located on the northern portio...
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