{"product_id":"ban-the-bomb-music-of-the-aldermaston-anti-nuclear-marches","title":"Ban the Bomb: Music of the Aldermaston Anti-Nuclear Marches","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistoric 2CD set featuring the music of the Aldermaston Anti-Nuclear Marches. From folk and jazz to protest songs against the bomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBritain in the late 1950s, a country boosted by a global economic boom, finally emerging from post-war austerity. Throughout the decade, however, Cold War tensions between the USA and the Soviet Union had escalated and Britain had entered the fray to become only the third nation to develop nuclear weapons. This led to the formation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), a group headed by Anglican priest John Collins and the philosopher Bertrand Russell. Attracting support from across a broad spectrum of the public, a march was organised from London to the atomic weapons plant near the village of Aldermaston in Berkshire, a peaceful protest involving people of all ages; united in their horror at finding themselves living in the shadow of the bomb and in their fear for the future of mankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, from Trafalgar Square on Good Friday 1958, in dismal weather, they marched to a soundtrack of folk songs and jazz; the protest songs of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, Fred and Betty Dallas and John Brunner, complemented by the revivalist New Orleans style of Ken Colyer’s Omega Brass Band and standards popularised by such British jazz giants of the era as Chris Barber, Ottilie Patterson, Humphrey Lyttelton, Kenny Ball and Acker Bilk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeff Nuttall, in Bomb Culture: “The Aldermaston March numbers were vast, by far the largest ever for political \/ humanitarian aims. Teenagers among them created a carnival of optimism. It was this wild public festival spirit that spread the CND symbol through the jazz clubs and secondary schools in an incredibly short time. Protest was associated with festivity. There was a new feeling of license granted by the obvious humanitarian attitude of the ravers themselves.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack Listing:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDISC ONE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBERTRAND RUSSELL\u003cbr\u003e1 Interviewed at Ban the Bomb rally\u003cbr\u003eEWAN MACCOLL AND BETTY SEEGER\u003cbr\u003e2 March With Us Today\u003cbr\u003e3 Brother Won’t You Join In The Line?\u003cbr\u003e4 The Crooked Cross\u003cbr\u003e5 There’s Better Things For You\u003cbr\u003eJUDY COLLINS\u003cbr\u003e6 The Crow On The Cradle\u003cbr\u003eSONGS AGAINST THE BOMB\u003cbr\u003e7 Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and Jack Elliott – Brother Won’t You Join in the Line?\u003cbr\u003e8 Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger – The Crooked Cross\u003cbr\u003e9 Fred and Betty Dallas – Strontium 90\u003cbr\u003e10 Fred and Betty Dallas – Hey Little Man\u003cbr\u003e11 Fred Dallas – Doomsday Blues (sung in the film, March to Aldermaston)\u003cbr\u003e12 Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger – The Ballad of the Five Fingers\u003cbr\u003e13 Peggy Seeger – There are Better Things to Do\u003cbr\u003e14 The London Youth Choir – The H-Bomb’s Thunder\u003cbr\u003e15 The London Youth Choir – Song of Hiroshima\u003cbr\u003e16 The London Youth Choir – Hoist the Window\u003cbr\u003e17 Ron Fielder, Ray Edwards and members of the Robin Hood Singers – That Bomb Has Got to Go\u003cbr\u003e18 Margaret McKeown – The Dove\u003cbr\u003e19 The London Youth Choir – The Family of Man CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ BAND WITH OTTILIE PATTERSON\u003cbr\u003e20 When The Saints Go Marching In\u003cbr\u003eCHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ BAND\u003cbr\u003e21 Sweet Georgia Brown\u003cbr\u003e22 High Society\u003cbr\u003eCHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ BAND WITH OTTILIE PATTERSON\u003cbr\u003e23 Down By the Riverside\u003cbr\u003e24 Just A Closer Walk with Thee\u003cbr\u003eGEORGE MELLY WITH MICK MULLIGAN’S BAND\u003cbr\u003e25 Magnolia\u003cbr\u003eACKER BILK AND HIS PARAMOUNT JAZZ BAND\u003cbr\u003e26 Blaze Away\u003cbr\u003e27 Under The Double Eagle\u003cbr\u003e28 C.R.E. March\u003cbr\u003e29 El Abanico\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDISC TWO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSHEILA HANCOCK AND SYDNEY CARTER\u003cbr\u003e1 Coming Down From Aldermaston\u003cbr\u003eKEN COLYER’S JAZZMEN\u003cbr\u003e2 Easter Parade\u003cbr\u003e3 The Original Tuxedo Rag\u003cbr\u003e4 Isle of Capri\u003cbr\u003eHUMPHREY LYTTELTON AND HIS BAND\u003cbr\u003e5 Ice Cream\u003cbr\u003e6 The Onions\u003cbr\u003e7 Christopher Columbus\u003cbr\u003eTHE ALBERTS\u003cbr\u003e8 Morse Code Melody\u003cbr\u003e9 Sleepy Valley\u003cbr\u003eKEN COLYER’S OMEGA BRASS BAND\u003cbr\u003e10 Isle Of Capri\u003cbr\u003e11 Panama Rag\u003cbr\u003e12 Tiger Rag\u003cbr\u003e13 Gettysburg March\u003cbr\u003e14 Over In Gloryland\u003cbr\u003e15 Just A Closer Walk With Thee\u003cbr\u003eKENNY BALL AND HIS JAZZMEN\u003cbr\u003e16 Breezin’ Along with the Breeze\u003cbr\u003e17 Riverboat Shuffle\u003cbr\u003e18 1919 Rag\u003cbr\u003eGEORGE MELLY WITH MICK MULLIGAN AND HIS BAND\u003cbr\u003e19 I’m A Ding Dong Daddy\u003cbr\u003eGEORGE MELLY WITH MICK MULLIGAN’S MAGNOLIA JAZZ BAND\u003cbr\u003e20 There’ll be Some Changes Made\u003cbr\u003e21 Mama Don’t Allow\u003cbr\u003eCHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ BAND\u003cbr\u003e22 Everybody Loves My Baby\u003cbr\u003e23 Didn’t He Ramble\u003cbr\u003eOTTILIE PATTERSON WITH CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ BAND\u003cbr\u003e24 St Louis Blues\u003cbr\u003eCHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ AND BLUES BAND\u003cbr\u003e25 Just a Little While to Stay Here\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"El","offers":[{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50458593329483,"sku":"1151675","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5d7d4f63-6830-4307-88a5-708aa08a0a4f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727212103","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/ban-the-bomb-music-of-the-aldermaston-anti-nuclear-marches","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}