RARE JAMAICAN 78 MENTO REGGAE LORD LEBBY ON KALYPSO

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Apr 12, 2009 Sold Date

Apr 2, 2009 Start Date

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PLEASE VISIT OUT STORE AT MAIN AND GERRARD AND IN THE BASEMENT AT qUEEN JUST EAST OF CARLAW FOR MORE RARE VINYL.

LORD LEBBY AND THE JAMAICAN CALYPSONIANS ON KALYPSO 78RPM
TRACK
LISTING SIDE 1: SWEET JAMAICA
SIDE 2: MAMA WANT NO RICE AND PEAS
CONDITION Cover/LABEL (FOR SINGLES):MINT-
Disc: VG++
REMARKS

"Sweet Jamaica" may be based on a 1948 recording by Lord Kitchener. It's a tale of the difficulties of immigrating to London, which, at one point, Lebby refers to as "Babylon". This may be the first such recorded use of this term in such context. Between this and the theme of Etheopia, the case can be made that Lord Lebby and the Jamaican Calypsonians are Jamaica's original cultural

recording artists. They recorded Garveyite themes more than ten years before Burning Spear, and showed a nascent rasta sensibility fifteen years before rastafari became synonymous with reggae music. Mama No Want No Rice No Peas is a cover of the old jazz standard, first recorded in the 1930s by Count Bassie and many others. It's a faithful cover, but done with rural mento instrumentation and is quite nice.

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