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Crocodile Love

album by Juluka

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2022
Entity authorityQ5187386 ↗
Source-derived summary

Crocodile Love is the final studio album from Juluka, a South African band led by Johnny Clegg and Sipho Mchunu. It was first released in 1997. It was entitled Ya Vuka Inkunzi - The Bull has Risen in South Africa.

Track listing

Love Is Just A Dream (Tatazela)

Crocodile Love

Tholakele

My Big Lady (Studla Sami)

Isoka Lizo Kuthatha

Journey's End (Emalonjeni)

Umuzi Wami

Circle Of Light

Thandazani

Ubaba Akalele

Makhelwane

Crocodile Love (remix)

Crocodile Love (extended remix)

Laduma (South Africa World Cup Anthem)

The last three tracks did not appear on Ya Vuka Inkunzi.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Crocodile Love” as album by Juluka. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Crocodile, Love and album.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Crocodile, Love and album providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 27, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q5187386. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Crocodile Love” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.