{"id":379,"date":"2011-08-22T23:15:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T04:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2019-12-03T19:37:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T01:37:34","slug":"ken-snakehips-johnson-al-bowlly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Ken “Snakehips” Johnson & Al Bowlly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“It Was A Lover And His Lass”
\nKen “Snakehips” Johnson And His West Indian Orchestra
\nAl Bowlly & The Henderson Twins, vocal
\n1940 (HMV BD 5592 mx OEA 8583)
\nKen Snakehips Johnson And His West Indian Orchestra – It Was A Lover And His Lass]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind”
\nKen “Snakehips” Johnson And His West Indian Orchestra
\nAl Bowlly & The Henderson Twins, vocal
\n1940 (HMV BD 5592 mx OEA 8582)
\nKen Snakehips Johnson And His West Indian Orchestra – Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind]<\/a><\/p>\n

When I selected this record to present here on the blog it occurred to me that both of its featured artists were killed less than a year later in two separate bombings during the London blitz.<\/p>\n

Ken “Snakehips” Johnson<\/a> was Britain’s most successful black bandleader.\u00a0 Johnson’s band had a long term engagement at London’s Cafe de Paris<\/a> nightclub where it was performing on March 8, 1941 when two bombs came into the building<\/a> through a ventilation shaft and exploded in front of the band killing Johnson and dozens of others.<\/p>\n

A little over a month later on April 17, 1941 vocalist Al Bowlly<\/a> was killed when a parachute mine exploded outside of his apartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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