I’m trying to put together some old recordings of junkanoo. Unfortunately not very many are commercially available. I’ve assembled a short clip of some tracks that are available at Global Sounds or Folkways. Unfortunately none of them are recorded live at the parade. I’m also in the process of obtaining a copy of Chippy’s Carnival in Nassau lp. As far as I know, this is the only live recording of pre-70’s junkanoo commercially available. Next time in Nassau I hope to start to go through my fathers collection to see what is still salvageable. If anyone has any recordings they want to share give me a shout!
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Yes, and unfortunately not the best recordings, and the beats are fairly unique — the last two sound like they were made up for specific purposes in the Florida Keys (which isn’t to say that they’re inauthentic, but rather that they wouldn’t have been commonly heard on the parades.
Depending on the state of Poppa’s recordings, you’ll get some good sounds from the 1970s. Nina Wood should have some recordings from the late 1980s and 1990s and Keith should ahve some from the 1980s.
What I would really love to hear, though, are recordings of the group beats of the 1980s — the Saxons Rolling Beat and the Valley Fast Beat, for instance, if we can find them.
You might want to touch base with Ray and/or Fred Munnings.