A bunch of great African LPs came in the shop this week, so you know I had to take half of them home with me. Sir Shina Peters, Super 5 International, Sonora Gentil, Tony Grey and the Black Kings etc.
Many of the LPs are end-to-end listeners, top quality duelling guitar and grooving polyrhythms but the highlight of the whole pile is this two minute drum break in the middle of an eighteen minute medley. It appears on Sweet Talks‘ ‘Spiritual Ghana’ LP and its everything that is good in percussion. All at once.
The credits list the hitters as J.Y. Thorty (Drums), Yaw Samuel (Conga), Max Cozy (Percussion) and Pope Flynn (Percussion). I salute them.
I often look around the internet for a list of all the records released on my favourite spoken-word label, Caedmon. There isn’t a good list yet. Discogs will get there eventually but at the moment it only lists a handful.
So yesterday I sat down to compile this list. Its mainly compiled from the inner-sleeve catalogues that Caedmon printed and my own collection. They stopped printing the catalogues at some point so its hard to find listings for releases after the 1300s. I also included a few releases that I could verify from Ebay listings.
So far I’m only dealing with the TC series. The main series. The Theatre Recording Society (TRS) and Shakespeare Recording Society (SRS) series will have to wait until I’m next in manic-list-making mood. I’ve also emitted the UK releases for the time being as I’m not sure how they fit in.
I just wanted a list I can look at and I couldn’t wait for discogs to catch up.
Any help filling in gaps is much appreciated, just stick them in the comments section.
Tomorrow is the final of the BBC’s The One and Only. It’s Pop Idol for tribute acts. A really long episode of Stars In Their Eyes.
It’s pretty lame as you’d imagine but for one thing… They have a ginger white dude blacked-up as Lionel Richie (!!!) and he’s great.
Watch this dude talking, normally, as him, and then watch him singing as Lionel.
OMG!?!
I think I like him better than Lionel. If he performed original songs (still with the prosthetic nose of course) I think he could be the biggest star in the world or something. He’d be like a reverse Michael Jackson but a little bit Al Jolson.
Anyways if you don’t want to watch the show ever (fair enough) you can find all Moni Tivony’s (what a name!) performances on the BBC youtube channel.
