I must be getting old, 'cause suddenly now I care when I really haven't previously.
Mum's dad was Tommy Roering, real name Thorstein, but everyone called him Tommy. He was a mathematician, school principal and so on, but was best-known for the many "classic" songs he wrote in Afrikaans. Interesting I guess 'cause mum's entire family was Norwegian and Tommy and Irma (his wife, my grandma) spoke English and a little Norwegian at home. He became a household name in South Africa back in the '50s for his song, "Fanagalo" (Zulu for "do it like this"). Every man and his dog has recorded it since, and AFAIK Tommy wrote at least a dozen songs that were "hits", his total output's being perhaps 50 or 100 pieces.
I'm not tech-savvy when it comes to networks / internet and so on, so my pathetic searching ability has yielded only a page full of versions of that one song, but obviously what I'm after is his entire "discography". Being a songwriter, I'll assume that he didn't record many or most of the toons himself, so who knows which artists would've recorded the best versions of each of them. So many questions and so-few answers, I'm afraid. I've just finally reached the point where I feel I owe it to him to seek his material out, if for no other reason than out of respect, and for the life of me I can't even find a list of the songs he wrote, let alone many recordings.
Any network / IT geniuses out there have any idea how I should go about this? I'm like a fish out of water with this stuff.
Thank you, beloved Kemperites!