Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/39/23/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date21 May 1965
DescriptionFinal version of the twelfth programme in 'The Song Carriers' series

Track 1: programme introduction with extract from Moira McGhee of Belfast singing 'My Aunt Jane' 0.20 mins
Track 2: programme introduction with extract from Enoch Kent of Glasgow singing 'Coulter's Candy 0.44 mins
Track 3: Harry Boardman of Failsworth, Manchester sings 'Molly's Owd Shop Window', discussion of the three previous songs concerned with urban folk tradition, all sung by revival singers 1.58 mins
Track 4: Dominic Behan sings 'The Waxy's Dargle' 0.18 mins
Track 5: Bob Blair sings 'One Two Three A Leary' 0.31 mins
Track 6: Anna Lyons sings 'Cruel Mother' 0.45 mins
Track 7: Dominic Behan sings 'Poor Old Dicey Riley', discussion of oral transmission of children's street songs and work created by nineteenth century urban song writers with regional associations, repertoire of folk revival singers 1.27 mins
Track 8: Jack Elliott of Birtley, Co. Durham sings 'Stanley Market', discussion of local songs and influence of early music halls in revival repertoire 3.25 mins
Track 9: Terry Yarnell of East London sings 'Tottie', discussion of use of soldiers and sailors songs from First and Second World War in folk revival 1.47 mins
Track 10: John Reavey of Gateshead sings 'Scapa Flow', introduces soldier's song from Second World War 0.55 mins
Track 11: Ewan MacColl sings 'Any Complaints', discussion of recent discovery of industrial folk songs 2.27 mins
Track 12: Denis Turner of Bolton, Lancashire sings 'The Four Loom Weaver', introduction to next song 2.42 mins
Track 13: Harry Boardman of Failsworth, Manchester sings 'Droylesden Wakes', introduction to next song 2.47 mins
Track 14: Lou Killen of Gateshead sings 'Trimdon Grange Explosion', introduction to next song 2.40 mins
Track 15: Enoch Kent of Glasgow, accompanied by Gordon McCulloch on guitar and Bobby Campbell on fiddle, sings 'Work of the Weaver', discussion of wide repertoire of folk revival and contemporary ballads, introduces next song, composed by headmaster a West London school, dealing with the death of one of his pupils in a road accident 3.03 mins
Track 16: Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger sing 'The Ballad of John Andrews' 4.02 mins
Track 17: programme credits 0.31 mins
Track 18: silence 2.40 mins

Total: 33.04 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0023080
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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