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The setting is in the year 1934, on the south outskirts of the city of Eldoret in the Western part of British East Africa (known today as Kenya).
In about the late 1920s, a cozy, not so small, night club spot, simply named 'The Club', opened for business on the southern outskirts of the city of Eldoret . It's main attraction was a highly polished, wooden dance floor. It also had a cafe' counter and dinning area where patrons could get meals, snacks, coffee, tea, or socialize over a cocktail or other mixed drink. Recorded dance music was played through two large, amplified, wooden cabinet housed speakers installed on opposite ends of the back wall.
By the early 1930s, The Club had that aura of being that special place of fellowship where it's patrons have been friends for years. The Cub had that same kind of social atmosphere that one would expect to find among longtime patrons of places such as well known roller skating rinks and bowling alleys in a small town...Everyone knew everyone.
When Aluna Tatazu Mongoose was going on age 18, she and Makori Jais Mongoose had been in love with each other for some time. On many evenings after work, "dat sweet Kikuyu mongoose boy" as Aluna called Makori, would ride his old ragged bicycle, with no tire on the front rim, from his mom and dad's rural, mud and thatch home to the wood and tin shack in the farm workers shanty town where Aluna still resided with her mom Saura Binturong, her dad Nangwaya Mongoose, and her younger siblings Ohon (m), Lusala (m) and Sadika (f).
On some Friday nights, Makori and Aluna would get a ride out to The Club with someone who had a car. In fact, it was at The Club, on a Friday night in August of 1934, while dancing to the song in the following link, that Makori proposed to Aluna, and Aluna accepted Makori's proposal.
Rudy Vallee - Confessin' (That I Love You) 1930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwYkFyl2xHk
Makori and Aluna are Moyo's Mom and Dad.
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Here's a cool thing to try:
Open another tab and pull up Inkbunny, then pull up this Youtube link below on on that tab.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBchpVvrLX4 This is the sound of a crowd at a pub.
Then open on more tab and pull up this posting on it, then scroll down to the music play list in the description.
https://inkbunny.net/submissionview.php?id=1373893 This is for the music selection.
Have the crowd video playing turned down kind of low a little.
Have any song off the playlist in the other opened tab playing turned up lively a little.
If you view the pic of the speaker cabinet in The Club, it feels like you are actually there and like the music is coming from the speaker on the wall (the lights down low pic gives the better effect).
Between songs would be when the DJ is changing records...Could be either the European pine martin or the cheetah, depending on who is running the DJ's stand that night.
These songs might seem really old, but this would be the music played during the time era of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Paul Whiteman Orchestra - Get Out And Get Under The Moon (1928)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt0e5VPs-CU
Jack Hylton And His Orchestra - Did You Mean It - 1936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhwnvUzy01c
Mrs. Jack Hylton & Her Band "Heaven" (1936) Crown 149 vocalist Jimmy Miller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e5oju2WWlE
Roy Fox and His Band - My Hat's On The Side Of My Head...
...It is the same version used in the movie, Murphey's War;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6zWAoyLAbE
Radio Melody Boys (Harry Hudson) - "With a Song in my Heart" (1930)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXHpOk2Tgg8
Cling To Me - The BBC Dance Orchestra directed by Henry Hall 1936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZRWTeVmpL0
You started me Dreaming, Henry Hall, 1936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vmEpA0MoA
Mrs Jack Hylton & Her Band Love, Just Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yWCCLXgeXI
The Blue Lyres (at the Dorchester Hotel, London) - My Silent Love - 1932
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul6-a1PAeyQ
Did you ever see a dream walking - Henry Hall and his BBC Dance Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIxLe9Xk9ec
1933, Toujours L'amour, Barnabas von Geczy Orch. Hi Def, 78RPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRbjNWmmJX8
Tonight Or Never - Harry Hudson's Riviera Dance Band - 1932
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSTJD0Fd99Q
You're Twice As Nice As That Girl In My Dreams - Nat Star & his Dance Orchestra - 1931
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7HqKsXbdWY
1935 Mantovani & his Tipica Orch. - Red Sails In The Sunset (George Barclay, vocal)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouwL-drebbU
Brian Lawrance "Stay As Sweet As You Are" (1934)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kborbL6Noiw
Everything I Have Is Yours - Harry Roy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOT6iz97CNg
Jay Wilbur - Just As Long As The World Goes Round and Around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxSonyDkeY4
Lew Stone & Al Bowlly - Someone To Care For (1933)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENZIdz1Ngfk
Maurice Winnick & Al Bowlly - Once In A While (1938)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hlZd4JAoag
Al Bowlly I'll String Along With You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzqjgmmkzxE
Jay Wilbur, On A Steamer Coming Over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvkukDV81yc
"O Mia Cara" (1931) TANGO - Jack Hylton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwZwwaPj0fE
Old Sailor - Jay Wilbur and his Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab661WrZ3Zc
A Rendezvous With A Dream - Tommy Kinsman's Fischer's Restaurant Dance Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FtS7KZlMR0
A Rendezvous With A Dream (1936) - Buddy Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpeqYFvpm2Y
Roaring 20s: Ben Pollack's Orch. - Sweetheart We Need Each Other, 1929
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5B80qW4u0Q
Fred Rich's La Palina Broadcasters - "Sweetheart We Need Each Other" (1929)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLG_f6V-SRA
"One Heavenly Night" 1930 Leo Reisman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrna8ZlWK24
"After A Million Dreams" (1930) John Boles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8eWVzWDfW0
"You For Me" (1930) High Hatters, Sung by Frank Luther
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY3_thoRFPQ
Al Bowlly & The Waldorfians - Got A Date With An Angel (1931)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSp3TSsnX7Q
1931 Jack Hylton - Got A Date With An Angel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8IMyKat4JM
Joe Loss And His Orchestra Please Be Kind 1938
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqNodc1qSxk
Al Bowlly - Close Your Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qzjmaAzQV8
Together (1928) Waltz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT64AngpPCc
Metropole Dance Band - Together We Two - 1928
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToffrS9sM1c
Happy Go Lucky Lane (1928)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmwtMe-FaDM
Harry Parsons' Jazz - Play Me Here - Paris, c. 1930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Rf3yUhx5g
Herman Darewski and his Famous Melody Band - I Remember You From Somewhere - 1930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMbahWmbXcM
Billy Cotton and his Band - I'm So Used To You Now - 1931
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEw6FuibcHQ
Billy Cotton and his Band - Now That I Have You - 1931
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3et3oFUUkA
Billy Cotton and his Band - Now You're In My Arms - 1931
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTBUHy_XJFQ
The High Hatters - I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All (1929)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGTppMcANdM
Leo Reisman plays Cole Porter - You Do Something To Me, 1929
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9uRlNw0XIQ
Leo Reisman and his Orchestra "Yours is my heart alone" 1931
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO0wXV8jPkM
Little Dutch Mill, Billy Cotton, 1934
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5amwWd5pl0
BILLY COTTON-DOREEN STEPHENS - A Little French Cafe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meoE3AKc-BE
Wherever You Are, Roy Fox And His Band, 1932
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBq7sy9wyO4
'Leven-Thirty Saturday Night, 1930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXRlhfStSbQ
Lucky Me, Lovable You, Bidgood's Broadcasters. 1930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da7kukvzLbE
Jay Wilbur Orchestra, Um Tcha-Um Tcha-Da,Da,Da
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_HkFuqORO4
"Ukulele Moon" 1930 Fred Rich & His Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COvZngHT5fc
Woody Herman & His Orchestra "At The Woodchopper's Ball" (April 12, 1939
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXyNXRPf4Wc
***These were two of those songs where there was some clapping and thumping the cafe' floor with the wooden chairs...Those were U.S. tunes "from across the pond", by Ferdinand LaMothe (Jelly Roll Morton), that were even then old songs;
***Jelly Roll Morton - Dr. Jazz-1926
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vio-TjMi5_s
***Jelly Roll Morton -1929- Burnin' the Iceberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwmCf8Uj9oc
With All My Heart - The BBC Dance Orchestra dir by Henry Hall - 1936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f22I4Zt8XTk
Henry Hall - Dream A While
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFGlHN6ZmTo
Henry Hall: Love Is The Sweetest Thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCUtk8Kz7nw
Leo Reisman - PETRUSHKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1n3lTPlX58
Swingin' London: Henry Hall - In the Chapel In the Moonlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIcuCJJjbTA
Fred_Rich_It_all_depends_on_you.wmv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDUY1HGqJyw
Ray Noble - Midnight, the stars and you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP9Uubvm91I
The Glory of Love - The BBC Dance Orchestra directed by Henry Hall -1936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbgLyr_yFOg
Love in Bloom, Henry Hall, 1934
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tpcIZ1PwMg
Lets Fall In Love - Lew Sherwood - Eddy Duchin Orch - 1934
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHJTWyKAE2w
Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - I Only Have Eyes for You (1934)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfVDS6tUg2Q
"From Me To You" Eddie Duchin and His Orchestra 1933
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZviLoclLQ0I
Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - September Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c9butx8JuQ
Frank Sinatra - Night And Day 1943 Version - Cole Porter Songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U43_f1LSKxs
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Of course there were those occasions when one of The Club's DJs, a European pine martin, would play a really rambunctious song, during which everyone had fun making lots of noise and getting the place hoppin' by clapping paws, stomping feet and thumping the wooden cafe' chairs on the wooden dinning area floor, all to the rhythm with the music.
The following three video soundtracks played on three opened tabs while viewing the pic of the speaker gives a feel of what that is like;
Eric Borchard - Bugle call rag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr9CrIqcq4Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-BQtrpXbyA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFTcS18hSn0
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You may have noticed the "Electro-Armature Speaker" nomenclature on the Magnavox emblem. Electro-Armature Speakers were common in the 1920s (during the time era The Club purchased their two cabinet speakers).
Instead of the permanent magnet with a moving copper coil design of today's speakers that was developed and patented by RCA-Radiola in 1925, electro-armature speakers have a component behind the sound cone that looks in appearance very much like a big electric motor, which is not a motor, but contains a vibrating armature to generate the sound...Those were a vast improvement over the older 'horn speaker' design.
Electro-armature speaker systems also contained several gas tubes and vacuum tubes along with various other electrical components like what the old radios back in the day use to have.
That was also back in the day and time when wiring was typically insulated with resin impregnated paper. Some of which was jacketed in a woven cotton sleeve, which was sometimes tar impregnated (rag wire). Such wiring was commonly used in the manufacture of appliances, including cabinet speakers and radios...some of it also containing asbestos.
After The Club closes for the night, the music equipment is also shut down for the night. The cabinet speakers upon being shut off, make a short hum-n-skip sound;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-vv1aL-JHU
...followed by a brief, falling, tone oscillation;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNPQTAofMmg
...which were common tube sounds of music and communication equipment powering down back in those days.
In the drawings, the electrical feed cable to the speaker, fastened to one of the wooden wall planks, is depicted as heavy gauge, rag wire without the tar impregnation.
Music from the present day and time...Oh, even say like one of those Furry rave music videos could be substituted, depicting that The Club is still around for future generations of anthro-animals to enjoy since it opened it's doors for business in the late 1920s about 90 years ago (the way it would sound in the 21st Century...No fancy light shows in that old place though. Now days, any animals wanting that would have to travel to a big city like Nairobi to find a dance club with all that modern high tech stuff).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCvGyaWuDMM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZYoTUtyFLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW_mRJVk7lE
New recordings Edgar and Monica Badger (owners of The Club) ordered from a record outlet in Nairobi after the end of World War II...They had to be versions licensed for commercial use in order to legally play them for customers at The Club;
1945 HITS ARCHIVE: (Did You Ever Get) That Feeling In The Moonlight - Perry Como
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvvHPaNGz9w
1945 HITS ARCHIVE: I'm Gonna Love That Gal (Like She's Never Been Loved Before) - Perry Como
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bfax4TV8-Q
1945 HITS ARCHIVE: You Belong To My Heart - Charlie Spivak (Jimmy Saunders, vocal)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1clG6AAZwA
1945 HITS ARCHIVE: There I've Said It Again - Vaughn Monroe (his original #1 version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Um92VEf66A
1945 Vintage - Jack Payne with his Orchestra (6 British song releases)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lHleuTzH8U
Within the next few years to follow, Edgar and Monica Badger would be adding to The Club's music collection, recordings of African indigenous jazz dance songs...After all, since the twenty some years at that time The Club had been in business, they did have as many indigenous species patrons as those who were of British species...It was something Edgar and Monica's three sons and two daughters had suggested.
These were some of the songs for the indigenous species animals to mention a few;
Skokiaan (Chikokiyana) - Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-orzKx8o4
Nabanzi Yo Gertrude / Omoni Te (Tino Baroza) - African Jazz ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw1a_tZywUM
KAREKWANGU by the Bulawayo Sweet Rhythm Band 1953
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhEBzhBLdHc
Trio Beros - Mambo La Roffia 78 RPM Esengo;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOeD4uB0-uw
Some Mambo tunes were added in the 1950s;
Alfredito - Round World Mambo # 2 78 rpm!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f58XmaIqRog
Tito Puente Vibe Mambo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrqLAj1OTzE
Alfredito - Mambo-For Dancers Only (Rainbow 229)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXOY882BZ4U