LOST SONGBOOKS - Returning Hugh Tracy's recordings to Kenya (Part 1 - CHEMIROCHA) http://www.youtube.com/watch...
very strange. Chemi Rocha = Jimmy Rogers - Greg GuitarBuster
In the village of Kapkatet, Kenya in the early 1950’s, members of the Kipsigi tribe somehow came across a few 78 records of Jimmie Rodgers’ Blue Yodels. Convinced that such strange sounds could not come from a human, the voice was attributed to a centaur-like spirit they called Chemirocha. This half-man half-antelope is honored in fertility rites where young Kipsigi maidens dance seductively to the Jimmie Rodgers records, begging him to join them in a leaping dance in hopes that Chemirocha will jump completely out of his clothes. - Greg GuitarBuster