GE12006 Telok Kurau Kampong Melayu Yusoff with Lincoln's Orchestra c.1940s

"Telok Kurau Road connects Changi Road to Marine Parade Road (Singapore). Named after a fishing village called Telok Kurau on East Coast Road, the road has been a popular middle-class residential district since the 1960s."

"The word telok kurau is Malay for “mango fish bay” – telok means “bay” and kurau is “mango fish”. Before kampongs were phased out by the 1980s, a Malay village known as Telok Kurau used to be located on East Coast Road. In the pre-war days, it was common to see Indians in Telok Kurau. They reared cows, leading the animals about freely on public roads. The cows were led from one house to another and milked whenever someone wanted to buy milk."

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Additional trivia

It was with this record that I discovered that this song bearing the same name and serial of GE12006 was released on both this Columbia label as well as under the Pathe Cap Ayam label which I've seen uploaded to the National Archive Singapore site. Perhaps it was a common occurance?

"Jalan Telok Kurau menghubungkan Jalan Changi ke Jalan Kawad Marin (Singapura). Dinamakan sempena perkampungan nelayan bernama Telok Kurau di Jalan Pantai Timur, jalan itu menjadi daerah kediaman kelas pertengahan yang popular sejak 1960-an."

"Perkataan telok kurau ialah bahasa Melayu untuk "teluk ikan mangga" – telok bermaksud "teluk" dan kurau ialah "ikan mangga". Sebelum kampung-kampung dihapuskan secara berperingkat pada 1980-an, sebuah kampung Melayu dikenali sebagai Telok Kurau pernah terletak di Pantai Timur. Jalan raya.Pada zaman sebelum perang, sudah menjadi kebiasaan melihat orang India di Telok Kurau.Mereka menternak lembu, memimpin haiwan itu bebas di jalan raya.Lembu-lembu itu dibawa dari satu rumah ke rumah yang lain dan diperah apabila ada orang yang ingin membeli susu. "

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Trivia tambahan

Dengan rekod ini saya dapati bahawa lagu yang mempunyai nama dan siri yang sama GE12006 dikeluarkan pada kedua-dua label Columbia ini dan juga di bawah label Pathe Cap Ayam yang saya lihat dimuat naik ke tapak Arkib Negara Singapura. Mungkin ia adalah kejadian biasa?

Lincoln's Orchestra, led by David Lincoln was a Singapore / Malayan based Keronchong band that accompanied several notable Malayan singers of the time. They had several records under the Columbia label and often played at Happy World Cabaret in Singapore. A recount of Lincoln's Orchestra by Tony Danker can be found on page 136 of this article written by Assoc Prof Eugene Darianathan and Phan Ming Yen of the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University.

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Orkestra Lincoln, diketuai oleh David Lincoln ialah sebuah kumpulan Keronchong yang berpangkalan di Singapura / Malaya yang mengiringi beberapa penyanyi Malaya yang terkenal pada masa itu. Mereka mempunyai beberapa rekod di bawah label Columbia dan sering bermain di Happy World Cabaret di Singapura. Pengiraan semula Orkestra Lincoln oleh Tony Danker boleh didapati di halaman 136 artikel ini yang ditulis oleh Prof Madya Eugene Darianathan dan Phan Ming Yen dari Institut Pendidikan Kebangsaan, Universiti Teknologi Nanyang.

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This recording was digitised with a Audio Technica AT-LP120XBT-USB with an attached AT-VMN95SP stylus for 78rpm shellac phonographs. Digitisation was done through the turntables internal A/D converter and transferred to Adobe Audition on a PC computer via USB. Recording quality was set at 48000hz 32bit Mono. Hiss and noise removal was carried out. Some quality was lost during cleanup as phonograph was in poor playing condition

Kroncong (pronounced "kronchong"; Indonesian: Keroncong, Dutch: Krontjong) is the name of a ukulele-like instrument and an Indonesian musical style that typically makes use of the kroncong (the sound chrong-chrong-chrong comes from this instrument, so the music is called kroncong). A kroncong orchestra or ensemble traditionally consists of a flute, a violin, at least one, but usually a pair of kroncongs, a cello in pizzicato style, string bass in pizzicato style, and a vocalist. Kroncong originated as an adaptation of a Portuguese musical tradition, brought by sailors to Indonesian port cities in the 16th century. (Wikipedia)