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v/a - london is the place for me 1 and 2 - honest jons records - cd

Genre: World - Misc

1. Lord Kitchener - The Underground Train
2. Lord Beginner - Housewives
3. The Lion - Some Girl Something
4. Lord Kitchener - Saxophone Number 2
5. Lord Beginner - Fed-A-Ray
6. Timothy - Bulldog Don't Bite Me
7. The Lion - Spanish Calypso
8. Lord Kitchener - If You're Not White You're Black
9. Lord Kitchener - Sweet Jamaica
10. Lord Kitchener - London Is The Place For Me
11. Young Tiger - I Was There (At The Coronation)
12. Lord Beginner - Mix Up Matrimony
13. Lord Kitchener - My Landlady
14. Lord Kitchener - Kitch's Bebop Calypso
15. Lord Beginner - Victory Test Match
16. Lord Kitchener - Birth Of ghana
17. Lord Invader - Aguiti
18. Lord Beginnner - Jamaica Hurricane
19. Lord Kitchener - Kitch In The Jungle
20. Mighty Terror - No Carnival In Britain
21. Young Tiger - Calypso Be
22. Ambrose Campbell - Yolanda
23. Mona Baptiste - Calypso Blues
24. West African Rhythm Brothers - Adura
25. Lord Kitchener - My Wife's Nightie
26. West African Rhythm Brothers - Ominira
27. West African Rhythm Brothers - Eroya
28. Lord Beginner - General Election
29. The Lion - Kalenda March
30. Tunji Oyelana - Omonike
31. Shake Keane And His Highlifers - Baionga
32. King Timothy - Gerrard Street
33. West African Swing Stars - E.T. Mensah's Rolling Ball
34. Ambrose Campbell - Ashiko Rhythm
35. West African Swing Stars - Omo Africa
36. Gwigwi Mrwebi - Nyusamkhaya
37. Russ Henderson - West Indian Drums
38. Lord Beginner - Nobody Wants To Grow Old
39. Rans Boi's Ghana Highlife Band - Gbonimawo
40. West African Rhythm Brothers - Sing The Blues

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.