Monday, December 13, 2021

Kamahl [Aust] - Discography

KAMAHL DISCOGRAPHY


Kamahl is the name which, for over four decades, has identified the music and unique voice of a man who is one of the most sensational recording stars in Australian history. This is his inspiring and heart-warming story.

When he arrived in Adelaide from Malaysia as a Tamil Hindu schoolboy in 1953, after a tormented childhood under Japanese occupation, he was a black in an alien white country. A lone teenager speaking poor English, totally unfamiliar with Western music and his only skills were those on the sports fields.

Shyly, he learned to sing, from pop to the classics, inspired by other great black artists such as Nat King Cole, Paul Robeson and William Warfield, all of whom he met. He survived by agility and luck, outwitting the Immigration Department and the “White Australia Policy”, which wanted him deported. Kamahl was protected mainly with the loyalty of his mentor and friend, Rupert Murdoch.

He always swam against the tide, acquiring along the way a reputation for toughness and arrogance which was a shield against the feelings of racial inferiority which have haunted him throughout his life. He cheerfully took career gambles as few others have done, audaciously hiring the London Palladium to star himself, twice playing Carnegie Hall in New York, and arriving as an unknown in Europe with a hit about an elephant that made him a star there.

The story of his life, which took him from a child in the cow paddocks of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to being a performer able to count among his friends some of the great and mighty, is one of the most extraordinary adventures in show business… from being bombed in Malaysia to a sometimes turbulent, but enduring marriage in Australia, to making and losing a fortune, and making it again. His philanthropy along the way is legend, and for it he was made a Member of the Order of Australia.

But, above all, Kamahl is still entertaining … and still packing them in.


1969 - Dreams of Love



1970 - Peace On Earth



1970 - Sounds of Kamahl



1971 - Kamahl



1972 - Kamahl In London



1973 - All I Have to Offer You



1973 - Friends



1973 - I Think of You



1974 - Kamahl At the Opera House



1975 - Chanson D'Amour



1975 - Christmas With Kamahl



1975 - Encore



1975 - If I Give My Heart To You



1975 - Let It Be Me



1975 - The Elephant Songs




1977 - Love Is a Beautiful Song



1977 - Lovin' Kind



1978 - Around the World



1978 - Portrait of My Love



1979 - She Believes In Me



1979 - Smile



1980 - Treat Her Like a Lady



1982 - Always on My Mind



1982 - Kamahl II



1982 - Somebody Loves You



1984 - This Love We Share



1993 - Anything for Love



2001 - Everlasting Love Songs



2007 - I Believe In You and Me



2013 - How Great Thou Art



2017 - Merry Christmas


8 comments:

Frank said...

Hello,

I think there is a track missing on your album "Kamahl - Smile.
I believe there is a track called Sailing missing.
I am looking for that file, can you help me, please.

Regards,
Frank

Ozzieguy said...

Hello Frank
Thank you, I will check that out.

Frank said...

Was i right about that file ?
Will you let me now something

Frank.

Ozzieguy said...

Hello Frank,
Yes it is a song on that album but mine has been scratched and therefore could not share it sorry.

Frank said...

Ok. Thanks.

Eliane said...

Thanks for sharing! Fantastic voice. Please check the tracks of the album "Always on my mind".

Ozzieguy said...

Why Eliane?

Eliane said...

Several tracks do not match the music.