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Over There! Sounds and Images from Black Europe
Over There! Sounds and Images from Black Europe
UPC: 5397102160202
Format: CD (3 disc)
Release Date: Oct 25, 2013
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Liner Note Authors: Jeffrey Greene; Howard Rye; Dr. Rainer E. Lotz.
A four-disc distillation of Bear Family's mammoth 44-CD set Black Europe -- a box set fated to only see the light of day in libraries -- Over There! Sounds and Images of Black Europe focuses on just four acts: Pete Hampton & Laura Bowman, the Savoy Quartet, Josia Ransome Kuti, and Josephine Baker. The latter remains an iconic star, subject to biopics and other hagiographies, while the rest are lost to history books, with releases like Over There! buttressing their reputation. Of the other three, only Kuti feels truly foreign, but even that is misleading, as the African native sings in his own language over music that is decidedly American, while the other three acts sing in English. At times, the period trappings can be difficult to navigate and Bear Family does nothing to dampen this discomfort, highlighting that the Pete Hampton & Laura Bowman songs are "Early Coon Songs" and replicating sheet music for tunes like "Moving Day in Jungle Town." Uneasy as this may be, it's nevertheless necessary as the entire intent of this set is to document a time just before Black music swept through the mainstream of Europe and elsewhere. Pete Hampton & Laura Bowman feel tied to the time, while the ragtime of Savoy Quartet is just lively enough to shake off the cobwebs of its era, but it's Josephine Baker, of course, who marvelously transcends time and sounds like the beginning of modern popular music. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
A four-disc distillation of Bear Family's mammoth 44-CD set Black Europe -- a box set fated to only see the light of day in libraries -- Over There! Sounds and Images of Black Europe focuses on just four acts: Pete Hampton & Laura Bowman, the Savoy Quartet, Josia Ransome Kuti, and Josephine Baker. The latter remains an iconic star, subject to biopics and other hagiographies, while the rest are lost to history books, with releases like Over There! buttressing their reputation. Of the other three, only Kuti feels truly foreign, but even that is misleading, as the African native sings in his own language over music that is decidedly American, while the other three acts sing in English. At times, the period trappings can be difficult to navigate and Bear Family does nothing to dampen this discomfort, highlighting that the Pete Hampton & Laura Bowman songs are "Early Coon Songs" and replicating sheet music for tunes like "Moving Day in Jungle Town." Uneasy as this may be, it's nevertheless necessary as the entire intent of this set is to document a time just before Black music swept through the mainstream of Europe and elsewhere. Pete Hampton & Laura Bowman feel tied to the time, while the ragtime of Savoy Quartet is just lively enough to shake off the cobwebs of its era, but it's Josephine Baker, of course, who marvelously transcends time and sounds like the beginning of modern popular music. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?
2 - When Sousa Comes to Coon-Town
3 - Hannah, Won't You Open That Door?
4 - Tell Me, Dusky Maiden
5 - Stay In Your Own Back Yard
6 - I'm Goin' to Live Anyhow Till I Die
7 - My Friend from My Home
8 - Since Rastus Whent to Gay Paree
9 - Massa's in the Cold Cold Ground
10 - Dat Mouth-Organ Coon
11 - Old Folks at Home
12 - Phrenologist Coon
13 - Oh Dem Golden Slippers
14 - Any Rags?
15 - I Can't Keep from Laughing
16 - Mammy's Only Child
17 - What You Goin' to Do When the Rent Comes 'Round?
18 - Ain't Yer Gwine to Say "How-Do"?
19 - Moving Day
20 - Cotton Field Episode
21 - Ev'ry Little Bit Helps
22 - Mister Your Room Rent's Due
23 - Down in Georgia on Camp Meeting Day
24 - If That Ain't Winning a Home
Disc 2:
1 - Over There! (The Great American War Song)
2 - Down Texas Way
3 - Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?
4 - Back Home in Tennessee
5 - Kipling Walk
6 - Oh! How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo
7 - Where The Black-Eyed Susans Grow
8 - He May Be Old, But He Got Young Ideas
9 - Indian Rag
10 - Hello! New York
11 - I Don't Want to Get Well
12 - Darktown Strutters' Ball
13 - Oh! Frenchy
14 - Everything Is Peahes Down in Georgia
15 - Tackin' 'Em Down
16 - Ev'rybody Shimmies Now
17 - K-K-K-Katy
18 - What Do You Mean By Loving Somebody Else?
19 - Hindustan
20 - Everybody Wants a Key to My Cellar
21 - I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now
22 - Swanee
23 - At the Moving Picture Ball
24 - Venetian Moon
25 - Sweet Kisses
Disc 3:
1 - Isun ka wà tó kun fun eje
2 - Igbàla
3 - Obángíjì
4 - Mo sa di Jesu
5 - Odun Jubilee
6 - Jesu nsehìn bò
7 - Olugbala la f'ori fun
8 - E je ka júmò gbàgbó
9 - Esù sare tete, Jesu dé
10 - Egbé Awon Angeli
11 - Ofin mewa ati Idahùn
12 - K' Olorun da oba si
13 - Bi E o le E le
14 - Who?
15 - That Certain Feeling
16 - Dinah
17 - Sleepy Time Gal
18 - I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight
19 - Bam Bam Bamy Shore
20 - I Want to Yodel
21 - Only, Only One for Me
22 - Feelin' Kind o' Blue
23 - Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue?
24 - Always
25 - I Love My Baby
26 - I've Found a New Baby
27 - Skeedle-Um
1 - Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?
2 - When Sousa Comes to Coon-Town
3 - Hannah, Won't You Open That Door?
4 - Tell Me, Dusky Maiden
5 - Stay In Your Own Back Yard
6 - I'm Goin' to Live Anyhow Till I Die
7 - My Friend from My Home
8 - Since Rastus Whent to Gay Paree
9 - Massa's in the Cold Cold Ground
10 - Dat Mouth-Organ Coon
11 - Old Folks at Home
12 - Phrenologist Coon
13 - Oh Dem Golden Slippers
14 - Any Rags?
15 - I Can't Keep from Laughing
16 - Mammy's Only Child
17 - What You Goin' to Do When the Rent Comes 'Round?
18 - Ain't Yer Gwine to Say "How-Do"?
19 - Moving Day
20 - Cotton Field Episode
21 - Ev'ry Little Bit Helps
22 - Mister Your Room Rent's Due
23 - Down in Georgia on Camp Meeting Day
24 - If That Ain't Winning a Home
Disc 2:
1 - Over There! (The Great American War Song)
2 - Down Texas Way
3 - Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?
4 - Back Home in Tennessee
5 - Kipling Walk
6 - Oh! How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo
7 - Where The Black-Eyed Susans Grow
8 - He May Be Old, But He Got Young Ideas
9 - Indian Rag
10 - Hello! New York
11 - I Don't Want to Get Well
12 - Darktown Strutters' Ball
13 - Oh! Frenchy
14 - Everything Is Peahes Down in Georgia
15 - Tackin' 'Em Down
16 - Ev'rybody Shimmies Now
17 - K-K-K-Katy
18 - What Do You Mean By Loving Somebody Else?
19 - Hindustan
20 - Everybody Wants a Key to My Cellar
21 - I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now
22 - Swanee
23 - At the Moving Picture Ball
24 - Venetian Moon
25 - Sweet Kisses
Disc 3:
1 - Isun ka wà tó kun fun eje
2 - Igbàla
3 - Obángíjì
4 - Mo sa di Jesu
5 - Odun Jubilee
6 - Jesu nsehìn bò
7 - Olugbala la f'ori fun
8 - E je ka júmò gbàgbó
9 - Esù sare tete, Jesu dé
10 - Egbé Awon Angeli
11 - Ofin mewa ati Idahùn
12 - K' Olorun da oba si
13 - Bi E o le E le
14 - Who?
15 - That Certain Feeling
16 - Dinah
17 - Sleepy Time Gal
18 - I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight
19 - Bam Bam Bamy Shore
20 - I Want to Yodel
21 - Only, Only One for Me
22 - Feelin' Kind o' Blue
23 - Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue?
24 - Always
25 - I Love My Baby
26 - I've Found a New Baby
27 - Skeedle-Um