Ed Emery’s

Revolutionary Radio Show:

Episode 5

Plenty of musical madness in the air this month. We’ve started a regular Rebetiko Session on Monday nights in the SOAS Bar. On 14-18 March we’re taking the SOAS Ceilidh Band on tour to Turkey – St Patrick’s Night in Istanbul – at the same time as one of our SOAS Ceilidh Band colleagues is organising a Paddy’s Night gig in Ramallah. And in September we might be doing a "Ceilidh beyond Borders" thing in Venice. Watch this space.

And meanwhile, on with the vinyl ! Cultural anthropologists, please note – "thickness of description" is this week’s watchword…

Playlist for Programme No. 5:

01. Judge Dread – Prince Buster – FABulous Greatest Hits – Melodisc MS1 – 1967

02. Gare au gorille – Georges Brassens – Georges Brassens 1 – Philips 77.847 IL – c.1956

03. Take me home – Rory McLeod – Footsteps and Heartbeats – Cooking Vinyl – Cook 018 – 1989

04. Mexicano Americano – Los Pinguinos del Norte – Chulas Fronteras – Arhoolie 3005 – 1976

05. Hapo Zamani – Miriam Makeba – Welela – Philips 838 208-1 – 1989

06. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy – Andrews Sisters – The Very Best of the Andrews Sisters – MCA Records MCL 1635 – 1981

07. Clever Trevor – Ian Dury – New Boots and Panties – Stiff Records 6.23 511 – 1977

08. Ford Strike Song – Ed Emery and members of the Ford (UK) Workers’ Combine – F(UK)WC 001 – 1979

09. Plane Wreck At Los Gatos Canyon (“The Deportees”) – Joan Baez and Bob Dylan – Rolling Thunder Revue [2] 1976

10. John Maclean March – The Laggan – Freedom come all ye – The poems and songs of Hamish Henderson – Cladagh Records CCA7 – 1977.

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LYRICS AND NOTES

09. Plane Wreck At Los Gatos Canyon (“The Deportees”) – Joan Baez and Bob Dylan – Rolling Thunder Revue [2] 1976

Woody Guthrie's classic protest against the mistreatment of Mexican farmworkers, written as a poem following the deaths of 28 laborers who were killed in a plane crash in January of 1948 and later set to music by Martin Hoffman. Guthrie's chorus including the names of his purported friends was an outcry against newspaper accounts that had in his view dehumanized the victims by referring to them only as "deportees."

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