LONDON IS THE PLACE FOR ME 1 AND 2 by V/A
CD Version
| SKU | 70170 |
| Artist | V/A |
| Title | LONDON IS THE PLACE FOR ME 1 AND 2 |
| Label | HONEST JONS RECORDS |
| Catalog # | HJRCD 2R |
| Tag | |
| Release | W 19 - 2013 |
| Format | CD - UK2CD |
| € 19,50 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- Lord Kitchener - The Underground Train
- Lord Beginner - Housewives
- The Lion - Some Girl Something
- Lord Kitchener - Saxophone Number 2
- Lord Beginner - Fed-A-Ray
- Timothy - Bulldog Don't Bite Me
- The Lion - Spanish Calypso
- Lord Kitchener - If You're Not White You're Black
- Lord Kitchener - Sweet Jamaica
- Lord Kitchener - London Is The Place For Me
- Young Tiger - I Was There (At The Coronation)
- Lord Beginner - Mix Up Matrimony
- Lord Kitchener - My Landlady
- Lord Kitchener - Kitch's Bebop Calypso
- Lord Beginner - Victory Test Match
- Lord Kitchener - Birth Of ghana
- Lord Invader - Aguiti
- Lord Beginnner - Jamaica Hurricane
- Lord Kitchener - Kitch In The Jungle
- Mighty Terror - No Carnival In Britain
- Young Tiger - Calypso Be
- Ambrose Campbell - Yolanda
- Mona Baptiste - Calypso Blues
- West African Rhythm Brothers - Adura
- Lord Kitchener - My Wife's Nightie
- West African Rhythm Brothers - Ominira
- West African Rhythm Brothers - Eroya
- Lord Beginner - General Election
- The Lion - Kalenda March
- Tunji Oyelana - Omonike
- Shake Keane And His Highlifers - Baionga
- King Timothy - Gerrard Street
- West African Swing Stars - E.T. Mensah's Rolling Ball
- Ambrose Campbell - Ashiko Rhythm
- West African Swing Stars - Omo Africa
- Gwigwi Mrwebi - Nyusamkhaya
- Russ Henderson - West Indian Drums
- Lord Beginner - Nobody Wants To Grow Old
- Rans Boi's Ghana Highlife Band - Gbonimawo
- West African Rhythm Brothers - Sing The Blues
Description
Doublepack CD comprising vinyl volume 3 and 4 in this great series!Honest Jon's assembles volumes 1 & 2 in their highly-acclaimed London Is the Place for Me series on one 2CD set. Volume 1 was the second album on the Honest Jon's label, originally released in 2002. When the Empire Windrush, an old troop-carrier, arrived at Tilbury on June 21, 1948, and inaugurated modern Caribbean immigration to Britain, it also supplied calypso with its best-known image -- on Pathé newsreel, Lord Kitchener singing his new composition "London Is the Place for Me."
Kitch had boarded with Lord Beginner at Kingston docks, Jamaica, on Empire Day, May 24. In London they joined a milieu of fine band musicians familiar with Caribbean musical forms and already represented on numerous recordings crucial to the development of British swing and jazz music. Travelling with their own core audience, the Trinidadian calypsonians brought with them the vocal music of Carnival. Traditionally, this ranges from social satire to sexual double-entendre, from voodoo to the most pressing issues of the day, from sporting events to competitive insult. The experiences of Britain's growing Caribbean population was to be fabulously rich in raw material. Volume 2 remains mostlyfocused on the '50s, with classic calypsos running alongside the African jazz of Ambrose Campbell -- the father of modern Nigerian music -- and some blistering high-life. Amongst the contributions from the '60s, there is some South African kwela (featuring Chris McGregor), and a jazz-dance percussion workout from the Trinidadians who put the Notting Hill Carnival on London streets.
