Bimbambulla, Foxtrot ( - ) – Karkoff-Orchester, Derby 1929 (Germany) NOTE: In last years of the Roaring Twenties, the “novelty-foxtrot” Bimbambulla composed by Hans May became one of the biggest hits of a day. It’s text - belonging to tradition of the comic “jungle-songs” - describes in a caricaturized way how the Congo boys express their love to the Congo girls (…by saying “hoola-hoola”…) and recalls pre-war European colonial resentments, when for most of the Europeans, “the Blacks” were s
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