Various Artists: London Is The Place For Me 4
Fourth compilation of 1950s Calypso and African music in London
- A1 Ginger Folorunso Johnson: Egyptian Bint Al Cha Cha
- A2 Young Tiger: African Dream
- A3 Dorothy Masuka: Zoo Lake
- A4 Lord Kitchener: Rock N Roll Calypso
- A5 Cab Kaye: Don’t You Go Away
- B1 Shake Keane: Mambo Indio
- B2 Lord Kitchener: Alphonso In Town
- B3 Eric Hayden: Give Her The No. 1
- B4 Enoch & Christy Mensah: Dakuku Dum
- B5 Dorothy Masuka: Khauleza
- C1 Lord Kitchener: Is Trouble
- C2 Victor Coker: Ilu Oyinbo Dara
- C3 Young Growler: V For Victory
- C4 The African Messengers: Highlife Piccadilly
- C5 Cab Kaye: Everything Is Go
- D1 Young Tiger: Chicken & Rice
- D2 Nat Atkins: Darling Don’t Say No
- D3 Lord Kitchener: Piccadilly Folk
- D4 Ginger Folorunso Johnson: African Jazz Cha Cha
This is the fourth volume in our series celebrating the music of black London, staying for now with the first waves of modern immigration from Africa and the West Indies. After devoting a third installment to the accomplishments of the late Nigerian genius Ambrose Campbell, Honest Jon's resumes an open-house policy, suited to musicians whose lives and artistic ambitions carried them all over the world: calypso and kwela are back, and highlife and bebop, with a little rock n roll, a 'mambo indio', a shango hymn, and a cha cha cha for bellydancing jazzbos. A lake in a Johannesburg zoo pops up next to a Chinese on the Harrow Road. Astronauts and prostitutes mingle with landlords and Test cricketers, sex with streetfighting and doing a runner. The music is presented alongside very rare artist photographs by Val Wilmer, and detailed notes.
Various Artists: London Is the Place for Me 4
Fourth compilation of 1950s Calypso and African music in London
This is the fourth volume in our series celebrating the music of black London, staying for now with the first waves of modern immigration from Africa and the West Indies. After devoting a third installment to the accomplishments of the late Nigerian genius Ambrose Campbell, Honest Jon's resumes an open-house policy, suited to musicians whose lives and artistic ambitions carried them all over the world: calypso and kwela are back, and highlife and bebop, with a little rock n roll, a 'mambo indio', a shango hymn, and a cha cha cha for bellydancing jazzbos. A lake in a Johannesburg zoo pops up next to a Chinese on the Harrow Road. Astronauts and prostitutes mingle with landlords and Test cricketers, sex with streetfighting and doing a runner. The music is presented alongside very rare artist photographs by Val Wilmer, and detailed notes.