Nun laying down McCook's "Music Is My Occupation"
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:40 pm
This is an excerpt from the full article: 'DC Soundclash: Alpha Boys’ School and Sister Ignatius', - the latest blog on the Alpha Boys School MySpace page:
http://www.myspace.com/alphaboysschool
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"Sister Ignatius had a record collection of several hundred 45s and 78s, mostly consisting of Jamaican productions and invariably featuring a smattering of former Alpha grads on the recordings. But she could surprise too, as with an LP of Malcolm X speeches, a record she particularly prized. And then there was the dances she ran on Fridays and Saturdays, using a soundsystem she had essentially acquired from "Mutt and Jeff," a printer and a binder at Alpha who were also soundsytem operators in the late '50s and early '60s.
One can not easily appropriate an image of a nun laying down McCook's "Music Is My Occupation"' and following it up with Buster's "Burke's Law," but there were scribbles on a 45 sleeve to suggest she had done just that."
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– Liner notes to the Trojan CD: Alpha Boys' School: Music In Education
(Trojan 2006) - reproduced in the blog by kind permission of the author: Mark Williams - Big Up!
Respect
Baldy
http://www.myspace.com/alphaboysschool
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Quote:
"Sister Ignatius had a record collection of several hundred 45s and 78s, mostly consisting of Jamaican productions and invariably featuring a smattering of former Alpha grads on the recordings. But she could surprise too, as with an LP of Malcolm X speeches, a record she particularly prized. And then there was the dances she ran on Fridays and Saturdays, using a soundsystem she had essentially acquired from "Mutt and Jeff," a printer and a binder at Alpha who were also soundsytem operators in the late '50s and early '60s.
One can not easily appropriate an image of a nun laying down McCook's "Music Is My Occupation"' and following it up with Buster's "Burke's Law," but there were scribbles on a 45 sleeve to suggest she had done just that."
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– Liner notes to the Trojan CD: Alpha Boys' School: Music In Education
(Trojan 2006) - reproduced in the blog by kind permission of the author: Mark Williams - Big Up!
Respect
Baldy