#25 George Mitchell Minstrels: Another Black and White Minstrel Show

Yet more from bad taste’s stranglehold over light entertainment…

(His Master’s Voice)

Released: 1961

Topped the chart:

11th November 1961 (for 8 weeks)

Eight weeks total

And so more horrors from the Minstrel hellscape are inflicted upon our eyes and ears: dreary songs with arrangements that are at least 20 years out of date, all wrapped up in a presentation that was racist for the turn of the century, never mind 1961.

Please see previous review for a little more. If you can tell the difference between these rotten collections, you’re better at this than me.

Score: 2/10

Trakclisting:

SIDE A

1.      Meet the Minstrels

2.      Good Old Summertime

3.      Alabamy Bound with Al Jolson

4.      The Old Ark’s A-Movin’

5.      Western Style

SIDE B

6.      Your Requests

7.      Ay Ay Ay!

8.      More Stephen Foster Melodies

9.      Dry Bones

10.  Goodbye-ee