JINGO (Jin-go-lo-ba) Carlos Santana - Naudo cover

“Jin-go-lo-ba“ (or “Jingo“) is a song by Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olatunji, featured on his first album Drums of Passion (1959). In Yoruba (Olatunji’s native language) it means, “Do not worry.“ The song was also covered by Santana, on their first album (1969), though Grasso noted this version was not as popular as the original. Spanish journalist Jose Miguel López stated that when Santana released “Jingo“ as a single, it was first credited to Carlos Santana. Only years later the credits were corrected. Other multiple editions of Santana’s Jingo single, viewable under a Google image search for it, list the composer as A. Copland, evidently confusing this song with Part V. of composer Aaron Copland’s “Statements for Orchestra,“ which is unrelated
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