Old German foxtrot: Bimbambulla Karkoff Orchester, 1929

Bimbambulla, Foxtrot KarkoffOrchester, Derby 1929 (Germany) NOTE: In last years of the Roaring Twenties, the noveltyfoxtrot Bimbambulla composed by Hans May became one of the biggest hits of a day. Its text belonging to tradition of the comic junglesongs describes in a caricaturized way how the Congo boys express their love to the Congo girls (by saying hoolahoola) and recalls prewar European colonial resentments, when for most of the Europeans, the Blacks were s br, br,