NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT [Episode #456 ~ 08-09-31]

Pictured: Kishore Kumar.

The Hindi film industry aspired to the dazzle and glamour of Hollywood, but its antecedents lay elsewhere, in epic Hindu pageantry, where tales of misbehaving gods would be interrupted by intervals of singing and dancing that had little to do with the story. In what came to be known as Bollywood, they’d hit the ‘pause’ button on the plot line a half-dozen times during a film and treat the audience to a lavish production number with actors lip-synching voices clearly not their own. From the start in the 1940s, Hindi film music had always been a hodge-podge: Bengali and Punjabi folk tunes backed by lush Hollywood strings with jazz (take another bow, Benny Goodman), Latin, country & western, surf guitar and the Twist all thrown in over the years and delivered with a vague nod in the direction of India’s own classical traditions. Over time, Western beats began crowding out local rhythms. On Bombay sound stages, writers, actors, directors, composers and musicians from all regions and religions collaborated in the construction of a cultural behemoth that, with its powerful blend of familiar and foreign (mostly US) styles, slowly suffocated local folk music.

— Joe Boyd, And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music.

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 456 of No Condition Is Permanent:

FIRST SLICE O’SCHEIßE...

Bettye Swann — “When The Game Is Played On You” — Crème De La Crème Two: More Philly Soul Classics And Rarities From The Vaults Of Atlantic, Atco And Warner Bros. Records 1970-1980

Joe Kemfa & Aura — “Jungle Magic Music” — Jungle Juice

The Original Surfaris — “Surfari” — Bombora!

Charif Megarbane — “The Invisible Cut” — Hawalat = حوالات

The Raves — “Mother Nature” — Beyond The Calico Wall

Charanjit Singh — “Yahan Nahin Kahoongi” — Instrumental Film Tunes

The Seeds — “No Escape” — Raw & Alive

Errol Brown — “Stealing Version (aka Thief in the Night Version)” — The Treasure Dub Albums Collection

IT’S MADISON TIME…

Messer Chups — “Christopher Lee vs. Bruce Lee” — Spook-O-Rama

SECOND SLICE O’SCHEIßE…

5 Gentlemen — “LSD 25 Ou Les Métamorphoses De Margaret Steinway” — Riviera 45rpm

The Rhythm Rockers — “Teenagers’ Party” — Desperate Rock ‘N’ Roll Vol. 14

Winston Edwards — “Big Daddy Amin” — Natty Locks Dub

Buzzcocks — “Breakdown” — Spiral Scratch EP

Kalyanji & Anandji feat. Anand Prayag & Chorus — “Pretty Pretty Priya” — Bombshell Baby Of Bombay

The Undertones — “True Confessions (Keyboard Version)” — The Undertones

Fumaça Preta — “Toda Pessoa” — Fumaça Preta

The Dore Strings — “Gone With The Wind Is My Love” — Double Cookin’: Classic Northern Soul Instrumentals

Ali Hassan Kuban — “Maria-Maria” — Nubian Magic

Detroit Sex Machines — “The Funky Crawl” — Soul Fire Box Set

THIRD SLICE O’SCHEIßE…

Mike Ibrahim & The Nite Walkers — “Chock Chock Kundong” — Steam Kodok : 26 A-Go-Go Ultrarities from the 60’s Singapore & Southeast Asia Underground

The Kinks — “You Shouldn’t Be Sad” — Kinda Kinks [mono]

The Golden Ring حلقهطلایی — “Tulips” — Iranian Styled 60’S Garage & Other Exotic Sounds

Jimmy Castor Bunch — “TR-7” — Maximum Stimulation

Ralph Robles — “Taking Over” — We Got Latin Soul

The Only Ones — “Lovers Of Today” — Vengeance 45rpm

Debra Keese & The Black Five — “Travelling” — The Black Ark Years: The Jamaican 7”s

Rosco Gordon — “Tummer Tee” — Stompin’ 29