Sold Date: November 16, 2024
Start Date: April 16, 2021
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ORIGINAL SKIFFLE 78 FROM THE MAN WHO STARTED IT ALL - KEN COLYER  WITH HIS SKIFFLE GROUP ON THE UK DECCA LABEL

I CAN'T SLEEP

b/w  THE GREY GOOSE

Skiffle is where jazz, blues, and folk meet and sits alongside rent house and juke. Ken Colyer was the man who started skiffle and regularly included it the repertoire of his jazz bands. During his years in the merchant navy, Ken learnt his jazz and practised it on both trumpet and guitar joined by other crew members on whatever instruments they could get their hands on - everything from guitars to kazoo, tin whistles to suitcases. 

From the 50's Crane River Jazz band to his final 80's All Stars, Ken played skiffle. Ask anyone in Britain to put a name to the music and they would say Lonnie Donegan, but it was Ken who taught Lonnie the music whilst he was a member of Ken's band. Under Lonnie and his imitators the music took Britain by storm and soon every schoolboy was either learning guitar, making a tea chest bass, or borrowing his mother's washboard, just so that he could play skiffle. Amongst those schoolboys were John Lennon and Bill Wyman. But Ken hated commercialism, and refused to modify his skiffle in the same way as he refused to modify his New Orleans jazz to suit the market. Thus he never became either rich, or even acknowledged in the way he should have been.

RECORD DETAILS:- 

THE KEN COLYER SKIFFLE GROUP 

UK DECCA JAZZ  FJ 10889     10" 78rpm  SHELLAC

SIDE 1:-  I CAN'T SLEEP 

SIDE 2:-  THE GREY GOOSE

Condition = E/E-

nice copy

TWO ORIGINAL BRITISH SKIFFLE SIDES FROM KEN COLYER'S GROUP

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