This is one of my favorite love songs sung by a South African singer: \u201cDarling it\u2019s wonderful, to be in love with you.\u201d<\/p>\n
1. Virginia Lee \u2013 Darling it\u2019s wonderful<\/a><\/p>\n I heard this song in Salisbury in the late 60\u2032s and I could only remember the first part. It was so wonderful to find it on the internet last week. It is such a lovely love song. Thank you to whoever posted it.<\/p>\n 2. Min Shaw \u2013 Ek is baie lief vir jou<\/a><\/p>\n I first heard Min sing at the Bulawayo Trade Fair. She was dancing around on the stage, with a long pony tail that was swirling around as she moved. She gave me a signed postcard, which I showed off at the work. Many years later we met her in Johannesburg. She is a very nice person.<\/p>\n 3. Dickie Loader and the Blue Jeans \u2013 Sea of heartbreak<\/a><\/p>\n When I heard this song on the radio in Bulawayo, I longed to be in Durban. To hear the waves crashing in the beginning of the song was so exciting. Many years later in Canada I heard this song by Canadian and American singers. I guess a lot of the South African singers covered American hits.<\/p>\n 4. Jeremy Taylor \u2013 Ag Pleez Deddy<\/a><\/p>\n This version has all the verses that I heard as a kid in Bulawayo. Some of those words we don\u2019t use anymore. It is like when I came to Canada, I was used to the term \u2018Cowboys and Indians\u2019 but we are not allowed to say that anymore. They are \u2018First Nation.\u2019<\/p>\n 5. Gene Rockwell \u2013 Heart<\/a><\/p>\n This was a hit song when I was a teenager in Bulawayo. Many years later I listened to him singing at Gold Reef City (I think). He sang \u2018Some broken hearts never mend.\u2019 When he came to the line: \u2018But in the middle of loves embrace\u2019 he laughed and sang: \u2018I saw my wif\u2019e’s face!\u2019<\/p>\n 6. Jody Wayne \u2013 Patches<\/a><\/p>\n I heard him singing at a shopping centre somewhere on the Rand, and promoting his records.<\/p>\n 7. Barbara Ray \u2013 I need you<\/a> (honest I do)<\/p>\n I saw her film in a cinema singing \u2018I don\u2019t wanna play house\u2019 but I never saw her in person.<\/p>\n 8. Bles Bridges \u2013 You<\/a><\/p>\n He was very popular. I saw him in a movie where the funny guy was fighting over the rose. He used to sing \u2018Room full of roses\u2019 and give a rose to certain women. In the movie a guy dresses up as a woman and wants a rose.<\/p>\n 9. G\u00e9 Korsten \u2013 Liefling<\/a><\/p>\n He was very popular.<\/p>\n 10. Four Jacks and a Jill \u2013 Jimmy come lately<\/a><\/p>\n I heard them in the large city hall in Bulawayo in the late 60\u2032s. Many years later we met them in Germiston. She is a very nice lady.<\/p>\n 11. Billy Forrest \u2013 Blue Train<\/a><\/p>\n When I was 18, Ruth Jennings played me a record of him singing \u2018Burning Bridges behind me.\u2019 I see he has aged a lot since the 60\u2032s. I guess we all have.<\/p>\n 12. Bobby Angel \u2013 Living on love<\/a><\/p>\n I remember seeing him on TV singing: \u2018The fighting side of me.\u2019<\/p>\n 13. Gert Potgieter \u2013 Yellow Bird<\/a><\/p>\n The first time I heard this song was by this gentleman, then I later heard he died in a car accident.<\/p>\n 14. Lance James \u2013 He stopped loving her today<\/a><\/p>\n I heard Lance sing: \u2018Tennessee Waltz\u2019 at a showground in Middelburg. I sent him a tape once of some of my songs, and he said he liked them. That was nice of him.<\/p>\n 15. Des and Dawn Lindberg \u2013 16 Rietfonteins<\/a><\/p>\n I was in Matopos doing survey work when I heard him on the radio singing : \u2018Rambling Boy.\u2019 Many years later I saw him at Damelin College where his son was doing school.<\/p>\n 16. Heidi<\/a><\/p>\n This was a hit TV show back in the 70\u2032s. Evrybody stopped what they were doing to watch it. It was like it captured the hearts of the people.<\/p>\n 17. Al Debbo \u2013 Love came to stay<\/a><\/p>\n We have a movie where he acts as a funny man. He is hilarious. The guy playing the piano accordian is Nico Carstens. He was to South Africa as what Walter Ostanek is to polka music in Canada.<\/p>\n 18. Charles Jacobie \u2013 Mocking Bird Song<\/a><\/p>\n I loved his singing when I heard him in Rhodesia. I remember reading about him in the Personality Magazine about how his wife made all his fancy western clothes.<\/p>\n 19. Mickie Most \u2013 Johnny B. Goode<\/a><\/p>\n This song made a big impression on me when I was a teenager.\u00a0 My brother told me that when they performed at the Bulawayo city hall, the kids went crazy over him. Some years later we met him on the street in Margate. He went back to England and managed many of the famous British pop singers.<\/p>\n 20. Nick Taylor \u2013 Stille Rivierstroom<\/a><\/p>\n When I was in Gwelo, the young people were raving about him.<\/p>\n 21. South African Singer \u2013 Carike Keuzenkamp \u2013 Trekliedjie<\/a><\/p>\n I remember seeing her on TV singing the Heidi song.<\/p>\n 22. John Hitchcock \u2013 singer, piano player and preacher<\/a><\/p>\n John was originally from South Africa, but back in the 70\u2032s John invited me to sing at his church in Fort Victoria. He later made a few LP records in South Africa. Since then he moved to the United States.<\/p>\n 23. Yan Venter \u2013 singer and preacher<\/a><\/p>\n Jan (Yan in America) was originally from South Africa, but I met Yan in Fort Victoria and have one of his LP records in my possession. Dr. Yan<\/a> now concentrates on preaching in America and around the world. A few years back, he invited me to come and sing at his meetings in the Bronx, New York.\u00a0 It was a nice experience. Thanks Yan.<\/p>\n 24. Don Foster – When you’re in love<\/a><\/p>\n I have decided to put myself down as a South African singer because I lived there for about eighteen years altogether, and wrote about a hundred songs there. This one I wrote while working as a security guard at Dorbyl steel factory in Germiston. It was on a weekend. It was a lovely warm day as I did a patrol around the grounds, I was longing to be with my wife and kids. Just like the song says, the sun was shining and there was a clear blue sky. The birds were singing, and so on.<\/p>\n Don Foster \u2013 It was the rapture<\/a><\/p>\n In 1976 we visited the USA, and in 1977 I had a dream one night, then the next morning I wrote the song. In America someone gave us a Chev Malibu, so that is why that car name was in the dream and the song. We were living at Elandshof in Germiston when I had the dream.<\/p>\n 25. Pierre Van Staden<\/a><\/p>\n Many years ago I heard this man sing in a coffee bar in Cape Town, and he wrote one of the best songs I have ever heard.<\/p>\n 26. Jason Zeeman – All things new<\/a><\/p>\n My friend Jason Zeeman has shared this song with me on Facebook, and he had 10 songs available for sale on itunes.<\/a><\/p>\n 27. Cezanne Zeeman – Country song<\/a><\/p>\n Here is Jason’s wife doing this one. \u00a0Well done. They are currently on a world tour.<\/p>\n 28. Cathy Viljoen – Someday my ship will sail<\/a><\/p>\n I heard her sing this number in Germiston in the mid eighties.<\/p>\n 29. Tommy Archibald – Journey<\/a><\/p>\n Tommy got saved in South Africa, and lived there a while.<\/p>\n 30.\u00a0Pete Shout and the Bedrock Band<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Pete is originally from Rhodesia, now living in Cape Town.<\/span><\/p>\n 31.\u00a0<\/span>Dan Shout – Saxophone<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Dan is also from Rhodesia, now also in Cape Town.<\/span><\/p>\n 32. Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Swing low sweet chariot<\/a><\/p>\n 33.\u00a0Ben E. Madison – Groen koring lande<\/a><\/p>\n 34. Rooies – Hou my vas en stoot my stadig<\/a><\/p>\n 35. Ken Mullan \u2013 Silver haired Daddy of mine<\/a><\/p>\n I remember hearing this gentleman sing at Wemmer Pan once back in the 80’s, and I was very impressed. He was so good looking, and had such a nice personality. Thanks Ken.<\/p>\n There are so many South African singers, that I have just listed some of the ones that I am familiar with. Among the black people there are hundreds of groups, of many different languages.<\/p>\n I also have a Gospel web site<\/span>. If you want to check it out, go to: \u00a0http:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is one of my favorite love songs sung by a South African singer: \u201cDarling it\u2019s wonderful, to be in love with you.\u201d 1. Virginia Lee \u2013 Darling it\u2019s wonderful I heard this song in Salisbury in the late 60\u2032s … Continue reading