- Title: IVORY COAST: AMERICAN RHYTHM AND BLUES SINGER ARRIVES TO TUMULTUOUS WELCOME.
- Date: 1st April 1968
- Summary: AIRCRAFT TAXIING AT AIRPORT; WOMEN FORWARD WITH FLOWERS; PARTY DOWN STEPS; BROWN DOWN STEPS AND PRESENTED WITH FLOWERS; BROWN ACROSS TARMAC; CROWDS; CAR AWAY FORM AIRPORT. Initials JSU/V/AS/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 16th April 1968 13:00
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- Location: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
- Country: Ivory Coast
- Reuters ID: LVA23JXS8NDDABT5465RC0385LPV
- Story Text: AMERICAN RHYTHM AND BLUES SINGER JAMES BROWN, ARRIVED IN ABIDJAN WITH HIS 35 STRONG BACKING GROUP, TO A TUMULTUOUS WELCOME ON SATURDAY (30 MARCH).
BROWN, BETTER KNOWN TO HIS THOUSANDS OF FANS AS MR. DYNAMITE, WAS FLOWN IN BY THE IVORY COAST GOVERNMENT AT AN ESTIMATED COST OF GBP27,500 STERLING FOR A TWO-NIGHT ENGAGEMENT. HE AND HIS GROUP WERE TO PERFORM ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY (31 MARCH) AT A TELEVISION GALA.
ABOUT 200 EXCITED FANS TURNED OUT AT ABIDJAN'S AIRPORT TO MAKE SURE THEIR IDOL GOT A NOISY BUT WARM RECEPTION.
ON A MORE OFFICIAL LEVEL, M. BEN SOUMAHORO, HEAD OF THE IVORY COAST'S TELEVISION NEWS, WAS ALSO THERE TO WELCOME THE VISITING SINGER WHO WAS PRESENTED WITH BOUQUETS OF FLOWERS BY TWO TELEVISION ANNOUNCERS.
AND WITH THE END OF THE OFFICIAL PART OF THE WELCOME BROWN CROSSED THE TARMAC EXCHANGING GREETING WITH THE CROWD BEFORE LEAVING THE AIRPORT TO PREPARE FOR HIS FIRST PERFORMANCE.
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