| Description | Tracks 2 to 20: Recording of a programme by Alan Lomax for the BBC Home Service called 'A Ballad Hunter looks at Britain: 2'. The third of eight programmes about British folk music in the company of Peter Kennedy and Seamus Ennis called ' From Cornwall to Yorkshire'.
Tracks 21 to 24: A previous recording.
Tracks 25 to 38: Followed by a recording of a programme by Albert B.Lord in the BBC Third Programme series 'Epic Survivals', under the general editorship of A.L.Lloyd. Produced by Douglas Cleverdon. This compares Homeric epic poems with Balkan and South Slavic epic songs recorded in the 1930s.
Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.19 Description of track: Silence
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 0.21 Description of track: Programme announcement
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 1.00 Description of track: Fisherman from the Lizard, Cornwall Song 'We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors'
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 2.54 Description of track: The Skinners Bottom Glee singers 'Goin' up Camborne Hill'
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 0.49 Description of track: ditto Helston Flora dance tune
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 1.16 Description of track: Helston Flora dance
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 5.07 Description of track: Padstow 'Obby 'Oss May day festival
Song 'in the merry morning of May'
Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 2.09 Description of track: Stanley Slade Peter Kennedy introduces Slade, a shanty-man from Bristol leading a choir
Track 9: Duration (min/sec): 2.08 Description of track: Crampton, Somerset. Wassailing the apple trees.
Track 10: Duration (min/sec): 1.23 Description of track: Wales. Singing of a scripture lesson.
Track 11: Duration (min/sec): 1.47 Description of track: Seamus Ennis introduces Ben Bach(?) from Fishguard, singing in Welsh
Track 12: Duration (min/sec): 0.50 Description of track: Andrew Thomas Sings 'The Cuckoo' in Welsh
Track 13: Duration (min/sec): 1.06 Description of track: New Year's Eve Hobby Horse event, north of the Gower
Track 14: Duration (min/sec): 2.12 Description of track: Shropshire version of 'John Barleycorn'.
Track 15: Duration (min/sec): 0.58 Description of track: A Black Country workman talks about the change to life
Track 16: Duration (min/sec): 1.24 Description of track: Song '4d a day' by a Teesdale worker
Track 17: Duration (min/sec): 0.54 Description of track: Ewan MacColl Sings children's songs from Salford
Track 18: Duration (min/sec): 1.51 Description of track: Souling song for the Hallowe'en play at Antrobus Cheshire
Track 19: Duration (min/sec): 0.54 Description of track: On Ilkley Moor bar'tat
Track 20: Duration (min/sec): 0.25 Description of track: End of programme announcement
Track 21: Duration (min/sec): 0.33 Description of track: Woman speaking to a Mr Archer about a possible book publication
Track 22: Duration (min/sec): 0.32 Description of track: Woman speaking to a Mr Archer about a possible book publication
Track 23: Duration (min/sec): 0.57 Description of track: Speaking to Mr Dent, ex-miner, now a porter
Track 24: Duration (min/sec): 0.12 Description of track:
Track 25: Duration (min/sec): 3.33 Description of track: Stories of Telemachus, and Odysseus 'Return of the Hero' stories. Odysseus and Nausicca.
Track 26: Duration (min/sec): 1.50 Description of track: Franje Vukovic Similar Yugoslav story, with song
Track 27: Duration (min/sec): 2.28 Description of track: Recognition of the hero
Track 28: Duration (min/sec): 1.01 Description of track: Salik Ugljanin Recording of Slavic song made in 1934
Track 29: Duration (min/sec): 1.58 Description of track: Singing in operatic style
Track 30: Duration (min/sec): 3.40 Description of track: Avdo Mededovic
Track 31: Duration (min/sec): 3.23 Description of track: Camil Kulenovic
Track 32: Duration (min/sec): 1.54 Description of track: Trajko Stajanoski
Track 33: Duration (min/sec): 2.19 Description of track: Metodija Sijaskaski
Track 34: Duration (min/sec): 2.13 Description of track: Baba Vasalenka
Track 35: Duration (min/sec): 2.35 Description of track: The oral tradition
Track 36: Duration (min/sec): 1.38 Description of track: Reading from the Iliad, and Slavic song
Track 37: Duration (min/sec): 0.31 Description of track: End of programme announcement
Track 38: Silence
Total duration: (min/sec): 66.07 |