"British" Lounge

[Peter Hipwell]

These groups seem to be fairly dead, dead, dead, dead, dead.

But just in case this is a case of massive lurkdom in the void, I'd
like to ask the possibly non-existant audience about their experiences
with "British" Lounge. I'm not talking here about British artists, I'm
talking about exotica, lounge, space age, easy, cheesy, whatever you
want to call whatever it -- that has the theme of Britain, or versions
of songs that are very specifically British.

I can only think of one complete album, and that's Phil Moore's album
"An American In England", released on MGM in the late 50s. This has
some catchy and cute little numbers on it that document Mr. Moore's
feelings of pootling round the country to gain inspiration (there are
detailed liner notes), plus some more laid back and mystical pieces
that detail Stonehenge, Land's End, etc. Many of these pieces are
supplemented with on the spot recordings of birdsong, sea, traffic and
so on. It's quite a nice little number, in all.

Otherwise: I can think of Edmundo Ros' version of "Yes! We Have No
Bananas" and Kuet Edelhagen's version of "Lambeth Walk", which I
suppose would qualify as Cockney Pride kind-of numbers; there's Sid
Philips's swing-jazz version of "Loch Lomond" and Alan Moorhouse's
version of "Amazing Grace", which are the only penetrations into north
of the border territory that I've found...

Anyone got any more? There must be a whole slew of songs about
London. Surely? And war time sing-alongs done in exotic styles?

I want titles like "Bowler Hat Bolero", "Stiff Upper Lip", "Bagpipe
Boogie", "Celtico Tico", you get the picture, huh?

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Nature's Ig

[Haydn Ruffley]

\I possess a Blinding tune called Swinging London contact me if you want
a chat about it