Re: [microsound] nobody knows lion king and geeez'n'gosh? :)

[dbuchwald <dagmar.buchwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

"Nobody knows de troubles I see" or "I have seen" is an African American
spiritual/gospel stemming back from the era of slavery.  An
interpretation of that spiritual by Mahalia Jackson was one of the first
recordings I heard in childhood (in Germany, in an atheist household).
So not knowing "The Lion King" but knowing the spiritual all the better,
I became curious and checked in Allmusic.com and they came up with 226
recordings of that song.

So I'd reckon geeez'n'gosh are citing/quoting that gospel song.
But I am not sure.

Dagmar

Boban Ristevski wrote:

> Hello,
> have you heard carefully the beginning of Geeez'n'Gosh
> album 'Nobody Knows'?
> It's one about 37-sec track called 'Nobody Knows...',
> the lyrics are probably taken from the Bible, but can
> also remind you of the Lion King cartoon. It's from
> the part when Zazu, the little bird, sings:
>      Nobody knows
>      The trouble I've seen;
>      Nobody knows
>      My sorrow....
>
> Zazu is sad 'cause Scar, the vicious uncle, is now the
> king.
> Here you can even see that scene if interested:
> http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~jland/tlk0222.jpg
> or read some part of the screen here:
> http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~joshual/tlk.html
>
> It says there that the Zazu-voice is Rowan Atkinson,
> Mr. Bean.  :)
> It's interesting when you see all of this in the
> context of this Geeez'n'Gosh album, that sounds really
> amazing.
>
> Pray!  :)
>
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