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Marvellous Boy: Calypso From West Africa

Various Artists

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Cat No: HJRCD38

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Release Date:  13 April 2009

Label:  Honest Jon's Records

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  4047179217026

Genres:  World Music  

Release Date:  13 April 2009

Label:  Honest Jon's Records

Packaging Type:  Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  4047179217019

Genres:  World Music  

  • Description

    Another impressive compilation from Honest Jons! A great partner to 'London Is The Place For Me' series. Marvellous Boy is the West African counterpart of the 1950s Soho scene of our series London Is The Place For Me. Calypso, highlife and jazz, brimming over with lust for life, topicality, and extravagant creativity.

    This title follows the course of West African calypso recordings, from Sierra Leone in the late 1940s, through Ghana and Nigeria over the next fifteen years or so. Though by the mid-1960s the records were ebbing away, the creole roots of the music run back more than two centuries before these inaugural 78s of Ebenezer Calendar and Famous Scrubbs, to eighteenth-century Britain and beyond, and deep into the diasporic settlement of this region.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Famous Scrubbs - Poor Freetown Boy
      • 2. Bobby Benson And His Combo - Taxi Driver (I Don't Care)
      • 3. Chris Ajilo And His Cubanos - Ariwo
      • 4. Roy Chicago - Olubunmi
      • 5. Mayor's Dance Band - Bere Bote
      • 6. Steven Amechi And His Empire Rhythm Skies - Nylon Dress
      • 7. Ebenezer Calender And His Maringer Band - Fire Fire Fire
      • 8. Famous Scrubbbs - Scrubbs Na Marvellous Boy
      • 9. Godwin Omabuwa And His Sound Makers - Dick Tiger's Victory
      • 10. Rolling Stone And His Traditional Aces - Igha Suo Gamwen
      • 11. E.T. Mensah And His Tempos Band - The Tree And The Monkey
      • 12. Bobby Benson And His Jam Session Orchestra - Calypso Minor One
      • 13. Ebenezer Calender And His Maringer Band - Cost Of Living Nar Freetown
      • 14. Ebenezer Calender And His Maringer Band - Me Nar Poor Old Man Nor Do Me So
      • 15. Bobby Benson And His Combo - Gentleman Bobby
      • 16. Victor Olaiya - Yabomisa Sawale
      • 17. The Rhythm Aces - Mami
      • 18. Ebenezer Calender And His Maringer Band - Arria Baby

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Famous Scrubbs - Poor Freetown Boy
      • 2. Bobby Benson And His Combo - Taxi Driver (I Don't Care)
      • 3. Chris Ajilo And His Cubanos - Ariwo
      • 4. Roy Chicago - Olubunmi
      • 5. Mayor's Dance Band - Bere Bote

      Side 2

      • 1. Steven Amechi And His Empire Rhythm Skies - Nylon Dress
      • 2. Ebenezer Calender And His Maringer Band - Fire Fire Fire
      • 3. Famous Scrubbbs - Scrubbs Na Marvellous Boy
      • 4. Godwin Omabuwa And His Sound Makers - Dick Tiger's Victory
      • 5. Rolling Stone And His Traditional Aces - Igha Suo Gamwen

      Disc 2

      Side 1

      • 1. E T Mensah And His Tempos Band - The Tree And The Monkey
      • 2. Bobby Benson And His Jam Session Orchestra - Calypso Minor One
      • 3. Ebenezer Calender And His Maringer Band - Cost Of Living Nar Freetown
      • 4. Ebenezer Calender And His Maringer Band - Me Nar Poor Old Man Nor Do Me So

      Side 2

      • 1. Bobby Benson And His Combo - Gentleman Bobby
      • 2. Victor Olaiya - Yabomisa Sawale
      • 3. The Rhythm Aces - Mami
      • 4. Ebenezer Calender And His Maringer Band - Arria Baby