In 1862 the writer George Eliot was the first person to use the term pop music. She (yes George was a woman) wrote “there is too much pop for the thorough enjoyment of chamber music“. So to recognise that staggering piece of trivia and to celebrate some classic pop please enjoy these songs and feel free to suggest your own contributions.
It doesn’t seem to have been widely reported, well I certainly missed it anyway. But Jamaican ska singer Lord Tanamo died in Canada in April this year. He had suffered a debilitating stroke in 2008 which left him unable to speak. The former Joseph Abraham Gordon was 81 when he passed away.
His classic “I’m In The Mood For Ska” finally became a UK hit in 1990 when it reached number 58 following its use as the soundtrack to a Paxo stuffing advert. The song was a ska update of a song that became a standard, “I’m In The Mood For Love”. ng had a hit with it in 1935. Another top Tanamo cut was his reggae cover of Tony Joe White‘s “Rainy Night In Georgia” which went to number one in the Jamaican charts in 1970.
RIP Lord Tanamo
With Just A Hint Of Mayhem 