Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/17/23/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date2 March 1960
DescriptionEwan MacColl, Charles Parker, and Peggy Seeger talk about folk song with Sam Larner.

Track 1: Sam Larner sings 'Green Grow the Laurel', 2.18 mins
Track 2: continues 'Green Grow the Laurel', 2.06 mins
Track 3: Sam Larner talks about not liking to make up songs, Ewan MacColl talks about other versions of 'Green Grow the Laurel', Ewan MacColl asks Sam about making up tunes and asks whether he makes up new versions of songs, 2.30 mins
Track 4: Sam Larner sings 'The Dolphin' and explains how he changed the song, 3.56 mins
Track 5: Ewan MacColl asks Sam Larner if he's ever made up new tunes, Sam Larner recalls buying broadsheets of ballads and fitting tunes to them, 1.31 mins
Track 6: Sings the tune of 'Old Ireland Far Away', 0.32 mins
Track 7: describes singing in a house in Ireland where the pigs lay in the hearth, 0.51 mins
Track 8: Ewan MacColl asks him about the song 'Henry Martin', 0.35 mins
Track 9: Sam Larner sings part of 'Henry Martin', 1.47 mins

Total time: 16.09 mins

Dubber's reference: PLA YL458D0959574
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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