Radio May Podcasting

[petronia]

102.3FM Radio Centre-Ville Chinese-language music show: Yin Yue Da Tong (Tu 10:30-11:30PM)

Episode 15: May 4 - Faye Wong, Sarah McLachlan, Tsuji Ayano, The Pancakes, mento (traditional Jamaican pop)
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Tracklisting:

Tsuji Ayano – Blue [3:36]
The Pancakes – fing fing 下 [2:40]
Harry Belafonte – Jamaica Farewell [3:08]
Unknown / Louise Bennett – Unknown Live [~6:00]
Harry Belafonte – Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) (RJD2 Remix) [1:20]
The Pancakes – 不知不覺 [2:34]
Tsuji Ayano – Kaze ni naru [4:09]

Me and Obama's mom, man. I must've played the Calypso LP a gazillion times in elementary school. This was my favorite song on it. While researching this episode I learnt that "calypso" is the wrong name for this music, which somehow fails to surprise me.

Dr. Louise Bennett (folklorist, poet, musician, radio personality, activist and all-round national treasure of Jamaica) passed away in Toronto a few years back. In case you wonder why she kept cracking Canadian jokes through the live recording. XD; I don't actually know what this song is called! It rocks, though... Am I going to end up ordering shiz from Honest Jon's.

In other news Tsuji Ayano videos have RETURNED TO YTUBE HURRAH:

It's MAGICAL GIRL MONTH whereby we turn mean bikers from the path of violence via the powers of twee and song~~~ ^_^v ^_^v ^_^v

Where is this "all-ukelele Studio Ghibli tribute album" may I ask. Did it hit #1 on the Oricon.

Comments

Had a boyish smile and a hard-core hostility

[koganbot]

Belafonte came up on lj last year as part of a conversation about the groundbreaking early rock critic Paul Nelson, who'd begun as a folk-music critic. Nelson or his co-editor had called him Belaphony in response to Belafonte's album of chain gang songs. By coincidence, Chuck Eddy heard the album last summer (he thought it was pretty terrible). Paul Nelson would later champion Bob Dylan when Dylan supposedly sold out by going electric and playing rock 'n' roll. What's interesting about that is that Dylan loved Belafonte, said this about him in Chronicles:

He was dramatic and intense on the screen, had a boyish smile and a hard-core hostility... Everything about him was gigantic. The folk purists had a problem with him, but Harry - who could have kicked the shit out of all of them - couldn't be bothered, said that all folksingers were interpreters, said it in a public way as if someone had summoned him to set the record straight.

Link to stuff about Nelson and crew and their attitude towards Belafonte:

http://newvulgate.blogspot.com/2009/07/issue-4-july-29-2009.html

And the lj convo last July:

http://koganbot.livejournal.com/156299.html

Re: Had a boyish smile and a hard-core hostility

[koganbot]

By coincidence, Chuck Eddy heard the album last summer (he thought it was pretty terrible). Paul Nelson would later champion Bob Dylan when Dylan supposedly sold out by going electric and playing rock 'n' roll.

The "later champion" means "after calling Belafonte a phony in the late '50s/early '60s," not "after Chuck heard the album last summer."

Re: Had a boyish smile and a hard-core hostility

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I've never heard anything by Harry Belafonte beyond Calypso. (Which, as per anything massively familiar from childhood, I'm incapable of passing aesthetic judgment on.) I like that description of him, though - it's why I posted the video, dude just had that intensity that jumped off the screen.

Re: Had a boyish smile and a hard-core hostility

[koganbot]

Belafonte was also a civil rights activist. Iirc, he played a role in organizing the famous march on Washington in 1963 (the one at which Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech).