{"id":1691,"date":"2018-06-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2018-06-28T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T10:24:07","slug":"song-of-the-week-london-is-the-place-for-me-by-lord-kitchener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;London Is the Place for Me&#8221; by Lord Kitchener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;London Is the Place for Me&#8221; by Lord Kitchener:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dGt21q1AjuI\" width=\"352\" height=\"220\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Late last week I was reading <em>Kitch<\/em>, a new novel by the writer and musician <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony Joseph<\/a>. It&#8217;s a fact-based fictional telling, in a variety of voices, of the life of the Trinidadian calypso singer Lord Kitchener. Before I was too many pages (two or three, maybe) into the novel I was already looking up Lord Kitchener&#8217;s music, and this, appropriately, was the first song I stumbled onto. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7AprO_Z13LM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s a mini acapella version<\/a>, for a little bonus.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22London%20Is%20the%20Place%20for%20Me%22%20by%20Lord%20Kitchener\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. This is &#8220;London Is the Place for Me&#8221; by Lord Kitchener: \ufeff Late last week I was reading Kitch, a new novel by the writer and musician Anthony Joseph. 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