Name: London Is The Place For Me 5 and 6
Brand: Various

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

HJRCD61

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-11-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0827670411420

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

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Various

Genre GB

Rest of World

Label GB

Honest Jons

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Back in stock and repackaged. As then, calypso carries the swing. There are four more Lord Kitchener songs- in consideration of his wife leaving him for a GI, cricket umpires, a fling onboard an ocean-liner and West Indian poultry- besides a hot mambo cash-in, cross-bred under his supervision, and an uproarious, teasing Ghanaian tribute to him in Fanti by London visitors The Quavers. 

Other calypsos range compellingly from the devaluation of the pound through jiu jitsu, big rubbery instruments, football fans, heavyweight champ Joe Louis and the sexual allure of English women police. The Mighty Terror contributes the woe-be-gotten, cautionary tale of his beloved Patricia’s change of heart: ‘I cannot believe, not for one moment / She gone with Millicent... / You may think I am jocular / But this really happened in Manchester / I felt so ashamed, my friends laughed at me / I had to take a train for London city.’ 

Ambrose Campbell is back, with six more shots of prodigal, limber, melancholic, visionary West African highlife. Also the Rolling Stones’ favourite Ginger Johnson, with a percussive La n scorcher; and Mona Baptiste, with some wonderful, soulful exotica. Jamaican mento makes its first entry in the series, with a brace by Tony Johnson: a drily wi y drinking-song, and a love-letter to Marilyn Monroe. Also finally getting some dues, the path-breaking La n-African-jazz experiments of Ghanaian drummer and percussionist Buddy Pipp, with spine-tingling playing by the great Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott.

CD 1: Buddy Pipp’s Highlifers - Cuban Nightingale / George Browne - Calypso Mambo / Lord Beginner - The Dollar And The Pound / Lord Invader - Goodwood Park / Shake Keane - Trumpet Highlife / West African Rhythm Brothers - Ominira / Caribbean Swing Band - Jordhu / Buddy Pipp’s Highlifers - Ghana Special / Lord Kitchener - Cricket Umpires / Lord Kitchener - Kitch’s Mambo Calypso / West African Rhythm Brothers - Jekafo Ju Agbawo / Mighty Terror - Patricia Gone With Millicent / Lord Kitchener - My Wife Went Away With Yankee / The Quavers - Kitch / Mona Baptiste - Tabu / Lord Kitchener - Jamaica Turkey / Mighty Terror - Women Police In England / Tejan-Sie With The West African Rhythm Brothers - King Jimmy Foo Foo / West African Swing Stars - My Sorrow / Dizzy Reece - The Escape 

CD 2: Mighty Terror - Life In Britain / Lord Kitchener - Romance On The Queen Mary / King Timothy - Jiu Jitsu Calypso / Buddy Pipp’s Highlifers - Sway / Fitzroy Coleman Quintet - Uncle Joe / Lord Beginner - The Joe Louis Calypso / Tony Johnson - Marilyn Monroe Calypso / Lili Verona - Big Instrument / Ginger Johnson - Mambo Contempo / King Timothy - Football Calypso / West African Rhythm Brothers - Asikoloto / Rupert Nurse’s Calypso Band - Song Of Joy / Buddy Pipp’s Highlifers - Posi ve Ac on / Tony Johnson - Me Donkey Want Water / Eric Hayden - Belly Lick / Rupert Nurse’s Calypso Band - Calypso Rhythm Dance / Buddy Pipp’s Highlifers - Prospero / Mighty Terror - The Queen Is In / West African Rhythm Brothers - Nigeria Odowoyin 

London Is The Place For Me 5 and 6

Music GB