Ice Cream, Chris Barber 1954.

[Wisniowysad44]

Te lody są przewspaniałe,jedyne w swoim rodzaju.Dziękuję i serdecznie pozdrawiam.

[bstrutt]

i also have this record and helps me relive my youth.We used to go to the hot club of london in Woolwich when Chris had Lonnie Donegon in his band

Does any one remember this place

[gte2000]

The album is LK 4088 and contains a superb (dare I say show-stealing!) set from Alex Welsh and tracks from Ken Colyer and the Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group. Oh and also the greatest clarinet solo of all time in the Chris Barber version of "Oh Didn't He Ramble!

[gte2000]

I have the LP that this is taken from and also the one from the following year when Alex Wesh topped the bill. Great stuff!

[jphar]

@gte2000 Yes, thanks for the comment, I think it's the best ever version. My copy is from the 'Festival' EP No.DFE 6344.

Great days, I was at the concert.

John

[brownsrd16]

Fan-bloody-tastic. Just listening to this makes me feel fifty years younger! Thanks for posting!

[13421JLUJ]

Times revive again. This was one of his greatest songs. Thanks ever so much!

[yunorisson]

Lovely stuff!

[969DENNIS]

Top favoriet in the fifties

[969DENNIS]

I heard it first on a jukebox ,13 years old..never forgotten.Later dance and more (Zutphen,1954...Baudartius!)

[kickoscar]

ICE CREAM- YOU SCREAM! THE VERY , VERY , VERY BEST VERSION! GREAT !!!

[heringHH]

Great times - great music. Thanks.

[MartinPadderborn]

Brings back great memories of the young guys I used to knock around with when Barber and the gang were at their best. I actually preferred British traditional jazz to American because it seemed more spontaneous and was just a bunch of guys having a good time. No drugs or self-loathing; lots of booze though. I still have this original record stashed away in the house somewhere.

[pietalpha2]

A Classic!

[1510Ronald]

best version forever, no other!!!!

Thank you, Ronny Germany

[rremote]

Chris Barber do you remember the days at the White Hart Southall Mybrother in law tells me R.I.P you used to come on with the line What do you want boys some Ice Creanm..............

[rremote]

Love this version My Brother played the Trombone rather badly Loved  C

[hapeverse]

great, best version ever heard

[jphar]

Hi hapeverse, I agree, never been a better version than the 1954 Festival.

Thanks for the comment.

John

[mrroyjones1000]

@hapeverse Version from 1959 is also great! :O) Sunshine, Barber in bestform!!!

[corksand]

Either your cleaning software is better than mine or you have not played this too much. I think this was recorded at the National Jazz Federation Festival of Jazz. I was there I think didn't he ramble was next and last Item that night. Ah memories.

[jphar]

Thanks for that corksand, I was there too.

As the record jacket shows it was at the Royal Festival Hall. It is the genuine EP, well used over the years. My software is Audacity, the record deck having a USB output.

John

[fragandy]

Immer noch heiß die Eiscrem

[luneda2]

Those were the days when that damn rock terror was still buried.Wish it had always been like that

[MoleDFigg]

The band at their best (in my view), they really seemed to 'have the spirit' then.

[jesper2610]

I think it's Monty Sunshine on clarinet. Or..??

[DADRENO]

You're right there!

[4frederik2]

@jesper2610 Yes it is Monty Sunshine

[jesper2610]

G R E A T....Thanks for upload. :-)

[topcattopone]

Yeah thanks for that! I missed this set of EP's although I do have a couple of the Barber in Berlin set also 1954 with 12,000 people in the Deuchlande Hall(spelling?). The atmosphere can be felt even on a recording that old. Does this set have Climax Rag on it?

Regards

[jphar]

Hi, I don't have it, just the one EP, but I do have George Lewis's Climax Rag-coming soon

jphar

[MrRepizza]

@jphar Which is by far the better version :-)

[GinTW]

Many, many thanks for posting; this actual recording is the very first jazz record I ever heard - my mother often played this single when we were living overseas some 40 years ago. She still has the single, tho it sounds a lot scratchier now than this version!

[jphar]

Glad to oblige, it's one of my favourites too.

I went to that concert.

jphar

[COLYERFAN]

Thanks for that!