Another Black & White Minstrel Show

Another Black & White Minstrel Show

Now i wanted to start with this record as it is quite special to me personally,The majority of my collection comes from two tatty record cases that were found in a garage that had belonged to a relative of mine that had passed away,when i had visted her in the past when i was a child she had been going through the garage and showing off some of the stuff she had left in there and under a cover were two tattty record cases: A blue plastic one with cream stiching and a green leather one with a broken lid,i asked to see what was inside and she opened up the Blue one revealing that it was chock full of records.

This was the record that was randomly picked making it technically the first Record i had ever encountered (I had only seen Cassette tapes and CD's up until that point),while most of the other stuff in that garage was tossed away i claimed the boxes and used them as the start of my collection (Firstly by getting rid of an auful pub song compialation and adding some records that were more to my taste),I understand some people may be offended by this record ( i even considered recoloring the guy on the cover Purple when i was uploading this to the channel but later decided to post it as orignally presented as i'd also have to change the name which would be too much) but when i see this in the box it just gives me a glimmer of nostalgia so that's why it's on the channel.

The Purple & White Minstrels?

The Songs themselves are based off the live show from the BBC series which was populer in it's time,a lot of their music were compialations of existing music remixed together into new tracks,while most were comedy songs some had an altogether different tone (Try Listening to "More Stephen Foster Melodies" if you want an example of that),they had a good run on Televison before they relaunched in the Seventies without the Greasepaint Makeup although by then they were slowly being eclipsed by new Music styles with youngsters watching Top of the Pops and listening to Pop groups rather than the Minstrel type of music with the show eventually being canceled in 1978 3 years after Lenny Henry had made his televison debut on there and the highest audiance ratings for the show since it's launch being 18 Million Viewers,the show went on tour around the country for a number of years untill it finally ended with the last one being a Stage Performance on Barry Island in 1987.