25-651: Jona Lewie (born John Lewis , 14 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his 1980 UK hits " You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties " and " Stop the Cavalry ". Lewie was born on 14 March 1947 in Southampton into a Jewish family. Jona Lewie joined his first group, the Johnston City Jazz Band, while still at school in 1963, and by 1968 had become
50-600: A blues and boogie singer and piano player. In 1969, as a singer/songwriter, he contributed compositions and recordings for the compilation album I Asked for Water She Gave Me... Gasoline on the Liberty / UA label. Other compositions in 1969 were for the album These Blues Is Meant to Be Barrel Housed on the Yazoo / Blue Goose label in New York, still as a solo artist known as John Lewis. In 1969, he became acquainted with
75-572: A backing vocalist during live performances. In 2010, the track was used to advertise kitchens for IKEA . The advert, the full version of which ran to three minutes, features the group Man Like Me walking around a party in a house comprising only kitchens while singing a new version of the song. Lewie himself appeared as the host of the party. The song returned to the UK Singles Chart in 2010 reaching number 71. Albert Ammons Albert Clifton Ammons (March 1, 1907 – December 2, 1949)
100-444: A concert produced by John H. Hammond , which helped launch the boogie-woogie craze. Two weeks later, the record producer Alfred Lion , who had attended the concert, started Blue Note Records , recording nine Ammons solos, including "The Blues" and "Boogie Woogie Stomp", eight by Lewis and two duets in a one-day session in a rented recording studio. In 1941, Ammons's boogie-woogie music was accompanied by drawn-on-film animation in
125-500: A high ratings TV show. Lewie performed the two songs on two episodes of The Ultimate Chart Show which was broadcast 2010 and 2011. He also talked on the 'chat' part of the show with the aid of a German interpreter. During the 1990s, Lewie appeared with solo public performances on a 60-day UK tour as guest of the Blues Band , playing venues such as theatres and civic centres , while occasionally playing one-off gigs such as that at
150-685: A single in 1980. The song entered the UK Singles Chart in May, reaching number 16 and staying for 11 weeks on the chart. The song experienced the greatest success in New Zealand , where it reached No. 3 in October for two weeks, remaining in the top 40 for 17 weeks. Lewie added a new storyline ending to Trouble's lyrics. He wrote the melody on a multi-timbre polyphonic Polymoog in his home eight-track studio , and played on and recorded
175-668: A solo artist, and between 1946 and 1949 recorded his last sides, for Mercury Records , with the bassist Israel Crosby, and took on the position of staff pianist with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. In 1949 he played at the inauguration of President Harry S. Truman . During his last years, Ammons played mainly at the Beehive Club and the Tailspin Club in Chicago. Four days before he died, he had been at
200-447: A songwriter and recording artist, he did not forget his early roots as a blues and boogie-woogie pianist evidenced by Lewie providing blues piano for albums by American blues singer-guitarists Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup ( Roebuck Man released on United Artists) and Juke Boy Bonner ( Things Ain't Right on Liberty) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Also he accepted Bob Hall's invitations to the boogie-woogie piano parties that Hall threw in
225-536: The Hackney Empire , London and taking part in occasional radio and television broadcasts. In December 2005, he appeared in Channel 4 's Bring Back...The Christmas Number One , along with David Essex and Slade . They only fronted, but did not play on, the studio recording session of "I'm Going Home". It failed to secure a recording contract . It was written by ex- Mud star Rob Davis , who also appeared on
250-816: The British charts with what became his biggest UK hit, " Stop the Cavalry ". His subsequent 1981 release, "Louise (We Get It Right)" reached No. 2 in Australia, and achieved chart success in other world territories. His next two singles, "Vous et Moi" and "The Seed That Always Died", both charted in France. Both "Kitchen at Parties" and "Stop the Cavalry" had also been hits in Germany at the times of their original releases in 1980 and 1981 respectively, and remained popular in Germany. In 2010 and 2011, both tracks achieved prominent positions in an all-time German chart that appeared in
275-544: The Chicago pianists Hersal Thomas and the brothers Alonzo and Jimmy Yancey . In the early to mid-1920s Ammons worked as a cab driver for the Silver Taxicab Company. In 1924 he met up with his boyhood friend Meade Lux Lewis, who was also then a taxi driver. Soon the two players began working as a team, performing at club parties. Ammons started his own band at the Club DeLisa in 1934 and remained at
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#1732794151604300-533: The Dominos on a UK tour. Lewie stayed with Brett Marvin until 1973, the band's mainstream hit single being " Seaside Shuffle ", another Lewie composition, released under the moniker Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs . The record did little on first release in 1971, but in 1972 a re-release reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart. A subsequent Lewie-composed Terry Dactyl track, "On a Saturday Night", reached no. 42 in
325-570: The Stiff package tours, he had a solo hit with the synthpop number " You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties " co-written with fellow Brett Marvin member Keef Trouble , which he occasionally performed live with Kirsty MacColl on backing vocals. The song made the British Top 20. His next single, "Big Shot – Momentarily", was a hit in Germany but not in the UK. By the end of 1980, he was back in
350-683: The UK chart in 1973, and a cover version was a hit in Spain. "She Left, I Died" was the third and last Lewie composition he recorded for the Terry Dactyl catalogue in May 1973, just before leaving the band. After the demise of Terry Dactyl, Lewie continued to write and make records, now as a solo artist for Sonet, between 1974 and 1976 including the titles "Piggy Back Sue" and "The Swan", which were both played by BBC Radio London disc jockey Charlie Gillett , who would regularly feature them on his Honky Tonk radio show. At this time, he also helped form
375-410: The backing track entirely himself, apart from bass guitar from Norman Watt-Roy and additional hi-hat percussion from Bob Andrews . It has been claimed that the female backing vocal is by Kirsty MacColl , but Lewie has confirmed that during the recording of the song they were done by the wives of producer Andrews and Dave Robinson , the owner of Stiff Records . MacColl did however appear as
400-682: The blues band Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts , which was holding a residency at London's Studio 51 club, joining as a vocalist and piano player. Brett Marvin signed to the Robert Stigwood Organisation agency in 1970, and Jona Lewie, as part of the band, appeared on television in Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands, and in 1971 performed in a concert with Son House and supported Eric Clapton 's Derek and
425-443: The club for the next two years. During that time he played with a five-piece band that included Guy Kelly , Dalbert Bright, Jimmy Hoskins, and Israel Crosby . Ammons also recorded as Albert Ammons's Rhythm Kings for Decca Records in 1936. The Rhythm Kings' version of "Swanee River Boogie" sold a million copies, and their 1936 recording of "Boogie Woogie Stomp" has been described as "the first 12-bar piano based boogie-woogie, [which]
450-473: The piano in the Ammons household. From the age of ten, Ammons learned about chords by marking the depressed keys on the family pianola (player piano) with a pencil and repeated the process until he had mastered it. He also played percussion in a drum and bugle corps as a teenager and was soon performing with bands in clubs in Chicago. After World War I he became interested in the blues, learning by listening to
475-504: The seventies before he moved away from London. English boogie-woogie players of the period would often drop in to spend time with him, comparing notes and discussing styles. At one such party, Ian Stewart duetted with Bob Hall along with Lewie himself, all three in emulation of the master American triumvirate popular in the 1940s: Albert Ammons , Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson . Lewie's career continued to rise when he signed to Stiff Records in 1977. In 1980, following appearances on
500-404: The short film Boogie-Doodle , by Norman McLaren . Ammons played himself in the movie Boogie-Woogie Dream (1944), with Lena Horne and Johnson. As a sideman with Sippie Wallace in the 1940s Ammons recorded a session with his son, the tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons . Although the boogie-woogie fad began to die down in 1945, Ammons had no difficulty securing work. He continued to tour as
525-663: The short-lived band the Jive Bombers that played the established London gig circuit at such venues as the Hope and Anchor, Islington , the Greyhound, the 100 Club and the Marquee Club . The band stayed together for six months and was not able to develop a recording career, despite Ted Caroll's offer of a record deal on his own label Chiswick Records . The band members included Iain "Thumper" Thompson, who went on to help form
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#1732794151604550-599: The show. In 2009, Lewie performed two songs at the London Ukulele Festival. The next year, Lewie joined Captain Sensible and the Glitter Band on their British tour. You%27ll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties " You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties " is a song by English singer-songwriter Jona Lewie . It was written by Lewie and Keef Trouble , and was released as
575-519: The successful chart act Darts , the guitarist Martin Stone and drummer Wilgar Campbell . This period, however, did culminate in some further recordings that achieved chart activity for Lewie in Europe as a solo recording artist, with two of his Sonet singles, "Cherry Ring" and "Come Away (Bate O Pe)", leading to solo TV appearances in central and northern Europe. Despite Lewie's continuing development as
600-473: Was an American pianist and player of boogie-woogie , a blues style popular from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s. Ammons was born in Chicago , Illinois . His parents were pianists, and he had learned to play by the age of ten. His interest in boogie-woogie is attributed to his close friendship with Meade Lux Lewis and also his father's interest in the style. Both Albert and Meade would practice together on
625-530: Was imitated by many jazz bands." Ammons moved from Chicago to New York City, where he teamed up with another pianist, Pete Johnson . The two performed regularly at the Café Society , occasionally joined by Lewis or by other jazz musicians, including Benny Goodman and Harry James . On December 23, 1938, Ammons appeared at Carnegie Hall with Johnson and Lewis in From Spirituals to Swing ,
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