William Dart looks at two releases exploring the huge impact that black musicians have had on the British music scene, from the many 1960s artists you'll find on a new set titled Gotta Get a Good Thing Goin' to Angeline Morrison's remarkable new The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience.
Angeline Morrison Photo: Angeline Morrison ex www.angelinemorrisonmusic.com
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ARTIST: Geoff Love & His Orchestra
TITLE: Coronation St
ALBUM: Gotta Get a Good Thing Goin': Black Music in Britain in the Sixties
COMPOSER: Spear
LABEL: Cherry Red
ARTIST: Top Grant
TITLE: Coronation St
ALBUM: Gotta Get a Good Thing Goin': Black Music in Britain in the Sixties
COMPOSER: Grant
LABEL: Cherry Red
ARTIST: The Soul Brothers
TITLE: Gotta Get a Good Thing Goin'
ALBUM: Gotta Get a Good Thing Goin': Black Music in Britain in the Sixties
COMPOSER: Oliver, Wilson
LABEL: Cherry Red
ARTIST: The Chants
TITLE: A Man without a Face
ALBUM: Gotta Get a Good Thing Goin': Black Music in Britain in the Sixties
COMPOSER: Amoo
LABEL: Cherry Red
ARTIST: Laurel and Girlie Aitken
TITLE: Scandal in a Brixton Market
ALBUM: Gotta Get a Good Thing Goin': Black Music in Britain in the Sixties
COMPOSER: Aitkin
LABEL: Cherry Red
ARTIST: Ambrose Campbell
TITLE: Hey Jude
ALBUM: Gotta Get a Good Thing Goin': Black Music in Britain in the Sixties
COMPOSER: Lennon, McCartney
LABEL: Cherry Red
ARTIST: Cab Kaye with His Music from Ghana
TITLE: Everything is Go
ALBUM: Gotta Get a Good Thing Goin': Black Music in Britain in the Sixties
COMPOSER: Quaye, Davis
LABEL: Cherry Red
ARTIST: Cleo Laine
TITLE: Don't You Pass Me By
ALBUM: Gotta Get a Good Thing Goin': Black Music in Britain in the Sixties
COMPOSER: Pomus, Shuman
LABEL: Cherry Red
ARTIST: Angeline Morrison
TITLE: The Brown Girl
ALBUM: The Brown Girls and Other Folk Songs
COMPOSER: Trad
LABEL: Angeline Morrison
ARTIST: Angeline Morrison
TITLE: The Flames They Do Grow High
ALBUM: The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience
COMPOSER: Morrison
LABEL: Topic
ARTIST: Angeline Morrison
TITLE: The Beauriful Spotted Black Boy
ALBUM: The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience
COMPOSER: Morrison
LABEL: Topic
ARTIST: Angeline Morrison
TITLE: Slave No More
ALBUM: The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience
COMPOSER: Morrison
LABEL: Topic
