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lord kitchener and friends - london is the place for me - honest jons records - vinyl

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Genre: World - Misc

1. Lord Kitchener - London Is The Place For Me
2. Young Tiger - I Was There (At The Coronation)
3. Lord Beginner - Mix Up Matrimony
4. Lord Kitchener - My Landlady
5. Lord Kitchener - Kitch's Bebop Calypso
6. Lord Beginner - Victory Test Match
7. Lord Kitchener - Birth Of Ghana
8. Lord Invader - Aguiti
9. Lord Beginner - Jamaica Hurricane
10. Lord Kitchener - Kitch in The Jungle
11. Mighty Terror - No Carnival In Britain
12. Lord Kitchener - The Underground Train
13. Lord Beginner - Housewives
14. The Lion - Some Girl Something
15. Lord Kitchener - Saxophone Number 2
16. Lord Beginner - Fed-A-Ray
17. Timothy - Bulldog Don't Bite Me
18. The Lion - Spanish Calypso
19. Lord Kitchener - If You're Not White You're Black
20. Lord Kitchener - Sweet Jamaica

'When the Empire Windrush, an old troop-carrier, arrived at Tilbury on June 21,1948, and kicked off modern Caribbean immigration to Britain, it also supplied calypso with its best-known image -- on Pathe 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 develpoment 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 were fabulously rich in raw material. In many ways Trinidadian calypso prefigured the rise of the Jamaican recording industry, by which it was eclipsed as the fifties ended. During that decade, certainly it was the enthralling soundtrack of Black Britain. Selected from original 78rpm recordings from the 50's by Richard Noblett and Honest Jon's co-owner Mark Ainley, compiler of the swathe of highly successful Studio One compilations for Soul Jazz records and the essential 'Darker Than Blue' compilation on Blood and Fire/PK. The sleeve artwork and insert contain a selection of fabulous photographs from the archives of the era, facsimilies of the original 78 record labels and extensive historical information.' Check!!