Name: Ban the Bomb: Music of the Aldermaston Anti-Nuclear Marches
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ACMEMD363CD

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-06-24

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Cherry Red (ADA)

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5013929336339

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2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Various

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Folk

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Historic 2CD set featuring the music of the Aldermaston Anti-Nuclear Marches. From folk and jazz to protest songs against the bomb.

Britain in the late 1950s, a country boosted by a global economic boom, finally emerging from post-war austerity. Throughout the decade, however, Cold War tensions between the USA and the Soviet Union had escalated and Britain had entered the fray to become only the third nation to develop nuclear weapons. This led to the formation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), a group headed by Anglican priest John Collins and the philosopher Bertrand Russell. Attracting support from across a broad spectrum of the public, a march was organised from London to the atomic weapons plant near the village of Aldermaston in Berkshire, a peaceful protest involving people of all ages; united in their horror at finding themselves living in the shadow of the bomb and in their fear for the future of mankind.

So, from Trafalgar Square on Good Friday 1958, in dismal weather, they marched to a soundtrack of folk songs and jazz; the protest songs of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, Fred and Betty Dallas and John Brunner, complemented by the revivalist New Orleans style of Ken Colyer’s Omega Brass Band and standards popularised by such British jazz giants of the era as Chris Barber, Ottilie Patterson, Humphrey Lyttelton, Kenny Ball and Acker Bilk.

Jeff Nuttall, in Bomb Culture: “The Aldermaston March numbers were vast, by far the largest ever for political / humanitarian aims. Teenagers among them created a carnival of optimism. It was this wild public festival spirit that spread the CND symbol through the jazz clubs and secondary schools in an incredibly short time. Protest was associated with festivity. There was a new feeling of license granted by the obvious humanitarian attitude of the ravers themselves.”

BERTRAND RUSSELL 1 Interviewed at Ban the Bomb rally EWAN MACCOLL AND BETTY SEEGER 2 March With Us Today 3 Brother Won’t You Join In The Line? 4 The Crooked Cross 5 There’s Better Things For You JUDY COLLINS 6 The Crow On The Cradle SONGS AGAINST THE BOMB 7 Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and Jack Elliott – Brother Won’t You Join in the Line? 8 Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger – The Crooked Cross 9 Fred and Betty Dallas – Strontium 90 10 Fred and Betty Dallas – Hey Little Man 11 Fred Dallas – Doomsday Blues (sung in the film, March to Aldermaston) 12 Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger – The Ballad of the Five Fingers 13 Peggy Seeger – There are Better Things to Do 14 The London Youth Choir – The H-Bomb’s Thunder 15 The London Youth Choir – Song of Hiroshima 16 The London Youth Choir – Hoist the Window 17 Ron Fielder, Ray Edwards and members of the Robin Hood Singers – That Bomb Has Got to Go 18 Margaret McKeown – The Dove 19 The London Youth Choir – The Family of Man CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ BAND WITH OTTILIE PATTERSON 20 When The Saints Go Marching In CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ BAND 21 Sweet Georgia Brown 22 High Society CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ BAND WITH OTTILIE PATTERSON 23 Down By the Riverside 24 Just A Closer Walk with Thee GEORGE MELLY WITH MICK MULLIGAN’S BAND 25 Magnolia ACKER BILK AND HIS PARAMOUNT JAZZ BAND 26 Blaze Away 27 Under The Double Eagle 28 C.R.E. March 29 El Abanico

SHEILA HANCOCK AND SYDNEY CARTER 1 Coming Down From Aldermaston KEN COLYER’S JAZZMEN 2 Easter Parade 3 The Original Tuxedo Rag 4 Isle of Capri HUMPHREY LYTTELTON AND HIS BAND 5 Ice Cream 6 The Onions 7 Christopher Columbus THE ALBERTS 8 Morse Code Melody 9 Sleepy Valley KEN COLYER’S OMEGA BRASS BAND 10 Isle Of Capri 11 Panama Rag 12 Tiger Rag 13 Gettysburg March 14 Over In Gloryland 15 Just A Closer Walk With Thee KENNY BALL AND HIS JAZZMEN 16 Breezin’ Along with the Breeze 17 Riverboat Shuffle 18 1919 Rag GEORGE MELLY WITH MICK MULLIGAN AND HIS BAND 19 I’m A Ding Dong Daddy GEORGE MELLY WITH MICK MULLIGAN’S MAGNOLIA JAZZ BAND 20 There’ll be Some Changes Made 21 Mama Don’t Allow CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ BAND 22 Everybody Loves My Baby 23 Didn’t He Ramble OTTILIE PATTERSON WITH CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ BAND 24 St Louis Blues CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ AND BLUES BAND 25 Just a Little While to Stay Here

Ban the Bomb: Music of the Aldermaston Anti-Nuclear Marches

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