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London Is The Place For Me: Trinidadian Calypso In London, 1950-1956
by: Lord Kitchener And Friends

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724354034329
Label: Honest Jon
Manufacturer: Honest Jon
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Honest Jon
Release Date: March 13, 2003
Studio: Honest Jon
Sales Rank: 41012

Disc 1:
  1. London Is The Place For Me
  2. I Was There (At The Coronation)
  3. Mix Up Matrimony
  4. My Landlady
  5. Kitch's Bebop Calypso
  6. Victory Test Match
  7. Birth Of Ghana
  8. Aguiti
  9. Jamaica Hurricane
  10. Kitch in The Jungle
  11. No Carnival In Britain
  12. The Underground Train
  13. Housewives
  14. Some Girl Something
  15. Saxophone No. 2
  16. Fed-A-Ray
  17. Bulldog Don't Bite Me
  18. Spanish Calypso
  19. If You're Not White You're Black
  20. Sweet Jamaica
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
London Is the Place for Me is a remarkable collection of the varied and irrepressible music that London's calypsonians were producing in the first half of the 1950s. Lord Kitchener himself sings on nine of the 20 tracks while Lord Beginner has five and the rest are shared between Lord Invader, Mighty Terror, Young Tiger, the Lion and someone who bucked the trend by simply calling himself Timothy. Apart from the different voices what impresses most is the variety in both words and music. The best-known of these songs is surely Lord Beginner's "Victory Test Match" (...cricket, lovely cricket, at Lord's where you find it...) but the others cover subjects ranging from landladies and the Underground to independence in Africa, the colour problem, a hurricane in Jamaica and, very topically, the Coronation. The record also exhibits extraordinary musical skill. Such fine Caribbean jazz musicians as saxophonist Bertie King, trumpeter Cyril Blake and clarinettist Freddie Grant have ample opportunities to shine and on some tracks the music seems to foreshadow the Brazilian bossa nova's meeting with jazz a few years later or the joyous sound of the African Jazz Pioneers. Jazzmen with West Indian origins continue to flourish these days but this sort of wide-ranging approach to lyrics and their content seems to have died out. So this release is a timely reminder that (as Bob Dylan also demonstrated subsequently) there is more to life than romance and sex and can be much more to lyrics than the "love" and lust that preoccupies most commercial music. --Graham Colombé
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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Uplifting!
My husband and I really love this album. The songs are easy to listen to and are very uplifting. If you have an open mind about music then give it a try - you're sure to love it!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Truly magnificent!!
This is an excellent compilation of calypso from Britain's post-war West Indian emigres. I bought this album purely out of curiousity, not knowing what to expect. I can report that this is a wonderful and varied collection of songs. Many of the songs capture the innocence and optimism of the new immigrant communities. For example, Lord Kitchener's 'London is the place for me' is cheerful and up-tempo, and an excellent choice for the opening track. A lot of humour, sophistication and intelligence emanates from this album. It opens up one's eyes to an important period of history, and some of the songs deal with the downside of British life like racism and unfriendliness: 'If you're not white you're black'; 'My landlady', and 'Mix up matrimony'. ... Read More:


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Can't stand still
Totally different from everything else you hear today.
It is physically impossible not to move when you hear this record! Songs about almost everything other than what most songs are about-cricket, saxophones, tube trains, bulldogs, landladies, hurricanes.
Sounds just like it was recorded in someone's front room, with the backing singers in the kitchen!
Proof there was life before Bob Marley!
You will like it!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Just buy it - for its history and its music. Superb
I had recently bought the Kings of Calypso
compilation essentially to get Lord Invader's Bed Bug. As someone who had only perhaps heard somewhat watered down Harry Belafonte-esque calypso previously I wasn't expecting a great deal. How wrong I was. I was struck both by the vitality of music and the insight and relevance of the lyrics to the days in which they were composed. So when this came out I got it and again wasn't disappointed. From Kitch's opening title track to others such as I Was There (At The Coronation) and If You're Not White You're Black, this is a great album tracking the feelings and emotions of newly-arrived Trinidadians in grey, austere fifties Britain through the medium of often really uplifting music. Great lyrics, ... Read More:

 



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