Cockney Suite Back to list of works index
This
suite was published in 1924. It has
received several “complete” recordings, but latterly individual movements have
been recorded separately.
Cockney Suite –
complete
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
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Military
band |
2LO
Military Band, Godfrey |
9876, 9877, 9778, 9779, 9780-1 |
10”
78, 5 sides |
UK |
rec.Jan 1926 |
Aug
26 p.128 |
TM,
(TM CD) (both only 1171) |
|
|
Orchestra |
Homochord (Premier) Orchestra |
HH
8797-2, 8698-1 (sides 3-6 not known) |
10”
78, 6 sides |
UK |
rec.July 1926 |
Sept
26 p.171, Aug 28 p.102 |
TM,
(TM CD) (both
only D 991) |
|
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Orchestra |
Albert
W. Ketelbey’s Concert Orchestra, Ketèlbey |
WAX
4516, 4517, 4518, 4522, 4523 |
12”
78, 5 sides |
UK |
[Dec
29] rec.Jan 29 |
Dec
29 p.321 |
BL,
(TM CAS) |
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Re-issue |
-
Naxos 8.110869 |
CD |
UK |
2003 |
NX,
PD, TM |
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Re-issue |
-
This England C104 |
UK |
LMS Autumn 06 |
TM |
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Orchestra |
Palm
Court Theatre Orchestra. Godwin |
Chandos
FBCD 2002 |
CD |
UK |
1998 |
BL,
PD, TM |
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Re-issue |
-
Chandos CHAN 6676 |
|
CD |
UK |
2004 |
|
NX |
|
Orchestra |
BBC Concert Orchestra,
Yates |
Dutton Epoch |
|
not
yet issued |
UK |
rec.2021 |
|
|
Dempsey says the Homochord Orchestra was conducted by Bert Firman. D 993 contained Elegy
on two sides.
Ketèlbey’s
own recording has a single cut, omitting the reprise of the opening section in Elegy.
Godwin’s
recording uses a small orchestra with reduced wind, strings one to a part, and
also a piano in some movements.
- 1. A State
Procession (Buckingham
Palace)
Composer’s synopsis
One is to suppose that the King and Queen are going to open Parliament
and Pall Mall is crowded with onlookers. Pomp and pageantry, brilliant uniforms
and military bands all combine to make a brilliant spectacle, and this march is
what might be played by the regimental bands as they pass along the route.
One of the passing regimental bands is playing
Ketèlbey’s march Ypres 1914.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Military
band |
Band
of HM Coldstream Guards, Pope |
RCA
SF 5037 |
LP |
UK |
1958? |
Aug
59 p.105 |
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Re-issue |
-
RCA RD 27126 |
LP |
UK |
[?1958] |
Aug
59 p.105 |
BL |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Victor
LPM/LSP 1674 |
LP |
US |
1958 |
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Re-issue |
-
Eclipse ECS 2101 |
LP |
UK |
1972 |
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Re-issue |
-
London SW 99600 |
LP |
US |
1972 |
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Re-issue |
-
Axis AXIS 6071 |
LP |
Australia |
|
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Military
band |
Regimental
Band of Coldstream Guards, Marshall |
Bandleader
BNA 5119 |
CD |
UK |
[1997] |
Feb
97 p.126 |
BL,
PD, TM |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Bandleader BND 65119 |
CAS |
UK |
[1997] |
Feb
97 p.126 |
|
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Concert
band |
University
of Illinois Concert Band, Hindsley |
Columbia
XCSV-141990 |
LP |
US |
?
[1960s] |
|
WC |
|
Piano |
Steinway
Model K65/88 Note Pianola, Adam Ramet |
Private
recording |
Web |
UK |
2021 |
|
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Ketèlbey’s
own recording adds
a tenor saxophone, contributing towards the colour of a military band. He, Godwin and the Homochord
Orchestra all march at 128 steps to the minute, following the trilingual
instruction “Tempo di marche militaire (briskly)”. Marshall’s conducting score lacks the word
“briskly”, and consequently he follows his training as a professional marcher
and solemnly processes at 110 steps a minute.
Hear
Godwin at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ark3QHFEkA4
Hear
Pops at https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=O3-UjlkdSI0&list=RDAMVMO3-UjlkdSI0
Hear
Ramet at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0jGEJckqLA&list=PL1TBeOI62ft9AAgLrbVth2g2mWPUF1IqD&index=2
-2. The Cockney Lover (Lambeth Walk)
Composer’s synopsis
The Cockney whistle, “’Arf a pint of mild and
bitter”, has here been employed as the leading theme in a little Cockney
serenade. The suggestion (in the
accompaniment of the 2nd part) of “Little Brown Jug” indicates that the lovers
have retired to a public-house, and the chimes of Big Ben and other buildings
are intended to indicate that it is night and very near closing-time. The sweethearts leave the public-house and
the young fellow once more sings his melody softly to the girl.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Military
band |
Regimental
Band of Coldstream Guards, Marshall |
Bandleader
BNA 5119 |
CD |
UK |
[Feb
97] |
Feb
97 p.126 |
BL,
PD, TM |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Bandleader BND 65119 |
CAS |
UK |
[Feb
97] |
Feb
97 p.126 |
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The metronome marking
suggests this movement should only last about 1’ 45”. Ketèlbey was perhaps embarrassed at taking a
whole 12 inch side for such a brief time, that he
protracts it to 2’ 55”. The Homochord Orchestra, Marshall and Godwin take 2’ 30”, 2’
26” and 2’ 18” respectively. Godwin uses
a piano throughout, hear him at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c89hporVZw4
- 3. At the Palais de Danse (Anywhere)
Composer’s synopsis
A feature of the Jazz bands in any “Palais de Danse” is the way in which
the key of the music is suddenly changed. This waltz has been treated in this manner
(in the 2nd part), and other “Jazz” effects are introduced. The changes in orchestration music must be
emphatically marked.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
Albert
W. Ketelbey’s Concert Orchestra, Ketèlbey |
-
Pearl GEMM CD 9968 |
from
Columbia 9861 |
CD |
UK |
1992,
rec.1929 |
BL,
PD, TM |
|
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Re-issue
|
- Revivendo RVPC 004 |
|
CD |
Brazil |
|
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|
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Orchestra |
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leaper |
Marco Polo 8.223442 |
CD |
UK |
1992 |
Apr 94 p.48 |
BL,
NX, PD, TM |
|
|
|
Re-issue Slovak
Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leaper |
- Naxos 8.555175 |
|
CD |
|
2023 |
|
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Orchestra |
Romando and his
Gypsy Orchestra |
private recording |
|
web |
UK |
1995 |
|
|
Once again Ketèlbey adds a tenor saxophone, this time to add the colour of a
dance band, while Godwin’s piano is ever-present. The 2LO Band plays very crisply and
rhythmically.
Romando was recorded in St James Park, London on 1st July
1995, and can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvaZ9JvnCe4
Hear Godwin at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH91O4dLnmI
Hear Leaper at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPq4n6eW4ow
- 4. Elegy (Thoughts on passing the Cenotaph)
This movement has only been recorded as part of
the complete suite. However, it was
reworked under the title Remembrance, which has been recorded in its own
right.
Composer’s synopsis
This represents the serious thoughts which would occur to anyone on
passing the Cenotaph in Whitehall. The
2nd part, in the major key, suggests the feelings of affection and tender remembrance
which would prevail in the hears of sweethearts and wives, yet with a feeling
of gratification that their loved ones had died in a noble cause.
Ketèlbey’s original metronome marking is crotchet = about 80. In this recording he averages 58, the speed
he indicates in the revised version, Remembrance. To accomodate the movement on a single
12-inch side, he has to cut the reprise of the opening section. He also dispenses with the timpani part after
the initial section.
The 2LO Band makes a massive cut of 30 out of 77 bars. The average metronome is 57, but much rubato
is used.
Godwin adopts the same slow tempo as Ketèlbey. He uses a piano not only to play the harp
part, but to fill out the chords throughout, adding an obtrusive percussive
element to the otherwise smooth texture. Hear him at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hIljYhpO0k
- 5. Bank Holiday ('Appy 'Ampstead)
Composer’s synopsis
Hampstead Heath on a Bank Holiday is here represented
by a lively dance tune of a country-like character, then the mouth-organs are
heard as a preliminary introduction to a one-step tune to which ‘Arry and
‘Arriet dance. While it is proceeding, a
blatant cornet in the vicinity plays snatches of various other tunes,
roysterers bawl a few bars of “Tell me the old, old story”, another band plays
a bit of “Semiramide” Overture, shouts of the showman (with a rattle) and a
noisy steam-organ playing the old waltz “Over the Waves” are all heard while the
dance is still in progress. A return to
the opening dance-tune brings this Suite to a lively conclusion.
A music-hall song by John
Crook with the title 'Appy 'Ampstead had been published in 1893.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
Albert
W. Ketelbey’s Concert Orchestra, Ketèlbey Re-issue |
-
Pearl GEMM CD 9968 |
from
Columbia 9862 |
CD |
UK |
1992,
rec.1929 |
BL,
PD, TM |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Living Era CD AJS 2004 |
|
CD |
UK |
2005 |
|
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|
Re-issue
|
- Revivendo RVPC 004 |
|
CD |
Brazil |
|
|
|
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Orchestra |
Albert
W. Ketelbey & his Concert Orchestra, Ketèlbey |
DR
4750 or 4761-1? |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Nov
40] |
Dec
40 p.154-5 |
WC
(TM CD) |
|
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Orchestra |
Louis
Voss and his Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1231 |
CP
1684 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[1948] |
||
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Re-issue |
-
Bosworth BOCD 162 |
CD |
UK |
1989 |
BL,
TM |
|||
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Re-issue |
-
Bosworth BPM 219 |
CD |
UK |
2001 |
TM |
|||
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Orchestra |
New
Symphony Orchestra of London, Robinson |
Decca
LK 4080 |
LP |
UK |
[June
54] |
July
54 p.73, Mar 55 p.464-465 |
BL
(TM CD) |
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Re-issue |
- Decca 6835 654 |
|
LP |
Netherlands |
1960 |
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Re-issue |
-
Ace of Clubs ACL 1044 |
LP |
UK |
[1961] |
BL |
|||
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Re-issue |
-
Eclipse ECS 2016 (+ECM) |
LP |
UK |
1969 |
Feb
70 p.1332 |
BL,
PD, TM |
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Re-issue |
-
Decca DDX 190039 |
|
LP |
Netherlands |
1969 |
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Re-issue |
-
Decca NUX 390044 |
|
LP |
Netherlands |
1969 |
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Re-issue |
- Decca 220014 |
|
LP |
France |
1969 |
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Re-issue |
- London
ECL 105 |
|
LP |
Brazil |
1977 |
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Re-issue |
- London LL
985 |
|
LP |
US |
? |
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Re-issue |
- London
LLC 5047 |
|
LP |
Brazil |
? |
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Re-issue |
- Richmond B 20083 |
|
LP |
US |
? |
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Re-issue |
-
Guild GLCD 5195 |
|
CD |
UK |
[July
12] |
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Orchestra |
Vienna
State Opera Orchestra, Aliberti |
Westminster
WP 6082 |
|
LP |
|
[1958]
rec.June 57 |
|
(TM
CD) |
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Re-issue |
-
Westminster WST 15005 |
|
LP |
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WC |
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Re-issue |
-
Sonotape SWB 7019 |
|
2-track
tape |
|
1957 |
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Re-issue |
-
Westminster SWB 7024 |
|
2-track
tape |
US |
1958 |
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|
Re-issue |
-
Westminster WGWS 18071 |
|
LP |
Australia |
1958 |
|
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|
Re-issue |
-
Westminster WSS 1 |
|
LP |
US |
1958 |
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|
Re-issue |
- Westminster WTP 132 |
|
4-track tape |
US |
1960 |
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|
Re-issue |
-
World Record Club TP 359 |
|
LP |
UK |
1963 |
|
BL,
PD |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Clave
18-1246 S |
|
LP |
Spain |
1971 |
|
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|
Re-issue |
-
Westminster WGS 8139 |
|
LP |
US |
1981 |
|
TM |
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|
Dial Discos/Doblon 102048 |
|
CAS |
Spain |
[1986] |
|
WC |
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|
Re-issue |
- Voix de son maître 2CO 59392502 |
|
LP |
France |
|
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
- World Record Club S 4743 |
|
LP |
Australia |
|
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|
Re-issue |
- Voix de son maître C 24592502 |
|
CAS |
France |
|
|
WC |
|
Military
band |
Band
of HM Coldstream Guards, Pope |
RCA
SF 5037 |
|
LP |
UK |
[?1958] |
Aug
59 p.105 |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
RCA RD 27126 |
|
LP |
UK |
[?1958] |
Aug
59 p.105 |
BL |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Victor
LP/LPS 1674 |
|
LP |
US |
1958 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- RCA BPS
138 |
|
2-track
tape |
US |
1958 |
|
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|
Re-issue |
-
Eclipse ECS 2101 |
|
LP |
UK |
1972 |
July
72 p.253 |
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Re-issue |
-
London SW 99600 |
|
LP |
US |
1972 |
|
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|
Re-issue |
-
Axis AXIS 6071 |
|
LP |
Australia |
|
|
|
|
Orchestra |
New
Symphony Orchestra of London, Sharples |
Decca
SKL 4077 |
|
LP |
UK |
[1959] |
Feb
60 p.434 |
BL,
PD, (TM CAS) |
|
|
Re-issue |
- London LL 3141 |
|
LP |
US |
[1959] |
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|
Re-issue |
- London PS 186 |
|
LP |
US |
[1959] |
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|
Re-issue |
- London CM. 9041 |
|
LP |
Canada |
[1959] |
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|
Re-issue |
- Axis 6326 |
|
LP |
Australia |
[1959] |
|
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|
Re-issue |
-
Decca LXT 4329 |
|
LP |
Spain |
[1960] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Decca SKC 4077 |
|
CAS |
Spain |
[1969] |
|
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Decca SPA 187 |
|
LP |
UK |
1971 |
July
72 p.253 |
BL,
PD |
|
|
Re-issue |
- London SPA 4036 |
|
LP |
Canada |
1971 |
|
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|
Re-issue |
- Decca SPL 3046 |
|
LP |
South
Africa |
1977 |
|
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|
Re-issue |
- Decca 65 94 156, |
|
LP |
Spain |
1981 |
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Re-issue |
- Decca LPD 253 Y |
|
LP |
Belgium |
? |
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Re-issue |
- Westminster WGS 8139 |
|
LP |
Brazil |
? |
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Re-issue |
-
Decca 841203 |
|
CAS |
Spain |
1982 |
|
WC |
|
Re-issue |
-
Decca 452987-2 DWO |
|
CD |
UK |
1997 |
Nov
97 p.48, Oct 12 p.109 |
BL,
PD, TM |
|
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Re-issue |
-
Evergreen Melodies C 62 |
|
CD |
UK |
[1999] |
PD,
TM |
||
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Re-issue |
-
Decca 473 720-2 |
|
CD |
UK |
2003 |
June
03 p.50 |
PD,
(TM CD) |
|
Re-issue |
-
Vocalion CDLF 8143 |
|
CD |
UK |
[2011] |
LMS Aut
11 p42 |
PD |
|
|
Orchestra |
Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra, Rogers |
Decca
PFS 4170 |
|
LP |
UK |
1969 |
Nov
69 p.833 |
BL,
TM |
|
|
Re-issue |
- London SPC 21036 |
|
LP |
US |
1969 |
|
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Re-issue |
- Decca
SLZ.8386, |
|
LP |
NZ |
1969 |
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Re-issue |
- London
LLN-7164, |
|
LP |
Brazil |
1969 |
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Re-issue |
- Orlador 54452 |
|
LP |
Spain |
1975 |
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|
Re-issue |
-
Decca DGS 16 |
|
LP |
US |
1980 |
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Re-issue |
-
Decca 6594064 |
|
LP |
Spain |
1981 |
|
WC |
|
Re-issue |
- Decca 444 786-2LPF |
CD |
UK |
1996 |
Aug
96 p.60 |
BL,
PD, TM |
||
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Re-issue |
- MG Direct Marketing D 115620 |
|
CD |
US |
1996 |
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Re-issue |
- Decca 466 8562 |
|
CD |
UK |
1999 |
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Re-issue |
-
Decca 4520572 |
LP |
UK |
BL |
||||
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Military
Band |
Band of the Life Guards, Richards |
DJM Records DJM 22062 |
|
LP |
UK |
1977 |
July
77 p.226 |
|
|
Orchestra |
London
Promenade Orchestra, Faris |
Philips
6514 152 |
LP |
UK |
1982 |
Apr
82 p.1423 |
BL,
TM |
|
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|
Re-issue |
- Philips 7337152 |
|
CAS |
|
1982 |
Apr
82 p.1423 |
WC |
|
Re-issue |
- Philips 400 0112 |
CD |
UK |
1983 |
Apr 83 p.1152 |
BL,
PD, TM |
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Re-issue |
- Musical
Heritage Society MHS 11165F |
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CD |
Germany |
1986 |
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Re-issue |
- Philips MCCE
7084 |
|
CAS |
Mexico |
1991 |
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Re-issue |
- Philips 4380752 |
|
CD |
France
|
1992 |
|
WC |
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Re-issue |
- Philips 4380754 |
|
CAS |
|
1992 |
|
WC |
|
Re-issue |
- Philips 4626572 |
CD |
UK |
1999 |
BL |
|||
|
Re-issue |
-
Decca/Universal 473720-2 |
CD |
UK |
2003 |
June
03 p.50 |
BL,
WC, PD |
||
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|
Re-issue cond. Myers “Jour férié” |
-
Mon Patrimoine Musical |
|
mp3 |
France |
2019 |
|
|
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Orchestra |
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leaper |
Marco Polo 8.223442 |
CD |
UK |
1992 |
Apr 94 p.48 |
BL,
NX, PD, TM |
|
|
|
Re-issue Slovak
Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leaper |
- Naxos 8.555175 |
|
CD |
|
2023 |
|
|
|
Hip-hop |
The Goats “Drive-by bumper
cars”. |
Ruffhouse 5302 |
|
LP |
US |
1992 |
|
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Re-issue |
- Ruffhouse CSK 5023 |
|
CD |
US |
1992 |
|
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Re-issue |
- Ruffhouse COL 472 6802 |
|
CD |
Europe |
1992 |
|
BL |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Columbia 188297 |
|
LP |
Brazil |
1993 |
|
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Organ
(Wurlitzer) |
Walt
Strony (Berkely Community Theatre) |
North
California Theatre Organ Soc. |
|
CD |
US |
1993 |
|
WC |
|
Organ (Möller) |
Piet
van Egmond (BBC, London) |
Festivo
FECD 140 |
|
CD |
UK |
1995,
rec.1960? |
|
|
|
Orchestra |
Romando and His
Gypsy Orchestra |
private recording |
|
web |
|
1995 |
|
|
|
Military
band |
Regimental
Band of Coldstream Guards Marshall |
Bandleader
BNA 5119 |
CD |
UK |
[Feb
97] |
Feb
97 p.126 |
BL,
PD, TM |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Bandleader BND 65119 |
|
CAS |
UK |
[Feb
97] |
Feb
97 p.126 |
|
|
Orchestra |
Pelly
Concert Orchestra, Barnard |
private
recording |
CD |
UK |
[2005] |
TM |
||
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Piano |
Guy
Rowland |
private recording |
DVD |
UK |
rec.
26.11.2009 |
PD, TM |
||
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Orchestra |
Scarborough Spa Orchestra, Laidlaw |
? |
|
CD |
UK |
2017? |
LMS
Spring 18 |
|
Decca 473720-2 wrongly names
the conductor as Stanford Robinson
There
is a wide difference of tone quality produced by the various cornets playing
“half open”, and by the trombones playing smears.
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Conductor/Artists |
Notes |
Link |
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Faris |
2'46". No vocal effects. |
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The Goats |
Hip-hop text spoken over
repeated orchestral background (Faris version?) |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9nu_eqlKQ |
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Godwin |
2'31". Chamber
orchestra with clean texture. Raucous piccolo, vulgar trombone. With singing, shouting and women roystering. |
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Ketèlbey (1929) |
Lasts 2'37". With all
vocal effects. |
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Ketèlbey (1940) |
Lasts 2'21". With showman,
but no singing. |
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Leaper |
2'33". No vocal
effects |
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Marshall |
Leisurely 3'04". With
singing and shouting. |
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Robinson |
2'30". No vocal effects. |
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Rogers |
2'19". With mouth-organ effect, but no vocal ones. |
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Romando |
Recorded in St James Park, London on 1st July 1995 |
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Sharples |
Very fast, just
2'08". Sudden pianissimo in the
brass phrase “’Arf a pint of mild and bitter”,
probably thinking of the alternative
words “Steady boys, here comes a copper.”
Final
chord cut short |
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Voss |
Final chord cut short. |
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webpage updated 8 May 2023