Dolly Manuel: Sings No Kayatmo’t Agdarepdep

This record arrived on my doorstep as yet another random challenge from the universe screaming “Hello! I am a brightly colored thing and you must uncover my original context!” It comes from a country too far away for me to do primary research on the artist or label, so I’ll just have to rely on Dr. Internet when I say this is an LP of folk songs with vocals by Dolly Manuel, singing in Ilocano (language spoken by the nine million or so members of the ethnicity of the same name, living mostly in the northwest region of Luzon, Philippines). The date is 1974 or earlier, and the label is KB Records; I don’t know where they were based but they worked often with A&J Recording System and Audio Empire studio, and released records by Bobby Gutierrez, another young Ilocano singer who was a Luzon radio favorite in the mid-1970s.

No Cayatmo’t Agdarepdep
Pangliklikak
Panagkakabsat
Ni Ayat No Panunotem
Bagik Ti Manglaylayen
Ni Ayat No Kumarayo
Irarasuk
Naipabituen Kaniak
Ayat Awan Pinnilitan
Diak Mabalin Kenka
Lagip Ni Ayat
O Masetas
Nasudi A Babbai
Inton Agkasarak
Tiempo A Nalinak

LP audio & artwork

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