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May Bradley

2007-11-11T16:22:15Z

RichardSpencer:

May Bradley was born in Chepstow, Monmouthshire in a family of travellers about 1900. Her mother’s name was Eliza Smith from whom [[Ella Leather]] collected, and even recorded, several songs in Weobley, Herefordshire in 1908. The Roud index lists only [[There is a fountain of Christ's blood]], and unfortunately the original cylinders have been lost. [[Vaughan Williams]] also collected songs from her grandmother, Mrs Whatton, including [[Christ made a trance]], [[Under the Leaves]].

May herself considered she had had a hard life, which most would acknowledge. She started work at the age of 10, hawking by bicycle, and seasonal work such as hop and pea picking (See [[George Dunn]]). She brought up 15 children.

[[Fred Hamer]] states that “she sang softly if a little harshly, but with the complete assurance of a practised performer”. She can be heard on the [[The Voice of the People]] twice, singing Under the Leaves (No. 11, Topic TSCD 661) and the Willow Tree (Topic TSCD 662), singing in very much in the manner Hamer records.

Hamer records that she spoke Welsh until she was eighteen, which sounds strange, given that her collected songs, and those of her sister, mother and grandmother were all in English. Singing was a family affair, she sang “with her brothers and sisters round the fire at night”, they learned songs from each other and shared some songs. [[Sweet Swansea]] she learned from her grandfather, and claimed that is was written by her “double great grandfather” to commemorate the results of “a minor trespassing offence with his caravan.” She had, Hamer states, “an extensive repertoire”, of which the following, very varied, collection appears in the Roud index:

*[[The Blackbird]]
*[[Cold Blows the Wind]]
*[[Down the Green Groves]]
*[[Lily White Hand]]
*[[McCafferty]]
*[[On Christmas Day]]
*[[The Outlandish Knight]] (The Dappledy Grey)
*[[Sweet Swansea]]
*[[Turpin’s Farewell to Black Bess]]
*[[Under the Leaves]]
*[[The Willow Tree]]
*[[Calvery]]

There is a picture of her, sat outside her house, in [[Garners Gay]], p 49.

There is an account of her first meeting with Fred Hamer at [http://www.btinternet.com/~radical/thefolkmag/fhamer.htm The Folk Mag]

Sources:
* Booklet for [[The Voice of the People]] No. 11, Topic TSCD 661, ''My father's the king of the gypsies''
* [[Garners Gay]]
* [http://www.btinternet.com/~radical/thefolkmag/fhamer.htm The Folk Mag]

May Bradley

2007-11-11T16:17:48Z

RichardSpencer:

May Bradley was born in Chepstow, Monmouthshire in a family of travellers about 1900. Her mother’s name was Eliza Smith from whom [[Ella Leather]] collected, and even recorded, several songs in Weobley, Herefordshire in 1908. The Roud index lists only [[There is a fountain of Christ's blood]], and unfortunately the original cylinders have been lost. [[Vaughan Williams]] also collected songs from her grandmother, Mrs Whatton, including [[Christ made a trance]], [[Under the Leaves]].

May herself considered she had had a hard life, which most would acknowledge. She started work at the age of 10, hawking by bicycle, and seasonal work such as hop and pea picking (See [[George Dunn]]). She brought up 15 children.

[[Fred Hamer]] states that “she sang softly if a little harshly, but with the complete assurance of a practised performer”. She can be heard on the [[The Voice of the People]] twice, singing Under the Leaves (No. 11, Topic TSCD 661) and the Willow Tree (Topic TSCD 662), singing in very much in the manner Hamer records.

Hamer records that she spoke Welsh until she was eighteen, which sounds strange, given that her collected songs, and those of her sister, mother and grandmother were all in English. Singing was a family affair, she sang “with her brothers and sisters round the fire at night”, they learned songs from each other and shared some songs. [[Sweet Swansea]] she learned from her grandfather, and claimed that is was written by her “double great grandfather” to commemorate the results of “a minor trespassing offence with his caravan.” She had, Hamer states, “an extensive repertoire”, of which the following, very varied, collection appears in the Roud index:

*[[The Blackbird]]
*[[Cold Blows the Wind]]
*[[Down the Green Groves]]
*[[Lily White Hand]]
*[[McCafferty]]
*[[On Christmas Day]]
*[[The Outlandish Knight]] (The Dappledy Grey)
*[[Sweet Swansea]]
*[[Turpin’s Farewell to Black Bess]]
*[[Under the Leaves]]
*[[The Willow Tree]]
*[[Calvery]]

There is a picture of her, sat outside her house, in [[Garners Gay]], p 49
There is an account of here first meeting with Fred Hamer at [http://www.btinternet.com/~radical/thefolkmag/fhamer.htm The Folk Mag]

Garners Gay

2007-11-11T16:17:05Z

RichardSpencer: New page: ''Garners Gay - English Folk Songs collected by Fred Hamer'', Fred Hamer, 1967. E.F.D.S Publications Ltd. 50 songs of varied nature collected throughout England. 80 pages, with illustr...

''Garners Gay - English Folk Songs collected by Fred Hamer'', [[Fred Hamer]], 1967. E.F.D.S Publications Ltd. 50 songs of varied nature collected throughout England. 80 pages, with illustrations and some photographs.

Song Books

2007-11-11T16:09:35Z

RichardSpencer: /* Collections */

==General Anthologies==

Books of folk songs can be comprehensive anthologies of songs from a region, from a country, or a nation.

* ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams, several editions from 1959 onwards, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s revival as a source of songs.<br/>A revised edition, with more detailed notes, bibliography and information on the source singers, was published by EFDSS as [[Classic English Folk Songs]] in 2003, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. Web pages devoted to additions and corrections, with supporting material, can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/penguin/

* ''[[The Singing Island]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1960, Mills Books. Another great favourite in the early revival. Mostly traditional songs, arranged by theme, and with music.

* ''[[Folk Songs and Ballads of Scotland]]'', Compiled and edited by Ewan MacColl 1965, Oak Publications Books. Traditional songs, with music.

* ''[[I'm A Freeborn Man]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1968, Oak Publications, New York. Tells the story of the eight Radio Ballads (1957 - 1964) commissioned by the BBC. This book contains the story of the original radio ballads, songs taken from some of the ballads and other contemporary songs of struggle and conscience.

* ''[[Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1977, Routledge Keegan And Paul. The result of 15 years of collecting both in the south and south-eastern England and central and north-eastern Scotland. 130 songs arranged into themes along with stories. Excellent book.

* ''[[Till Doomsday in the Afternoon]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1986, Manchester University Press. The result of 20 years of following the fortunes of the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, a family of Scots Travellers. An enormous treasury of tales, jokes, riddles, children's songs and and the words and music of some seventy songs.

* ''[[Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland]]'', Peter Kennedy, 1975, Cassell. Again the songs are arranged by theme, largely using versions collected by Kennedy himself. Has music, and copious notes on each song, with useful references to other versions.

* ''[[Songs of the Midlands]]'', Roy Palmer, EP Publishing, 1972. A collection of 70 traditional songs from the counties of Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire

==Specific Subjects==

* ''Come All you Bold Miners'', [[A. L. Lloyd]], second edition 1978, Laurence and Wishart

* ''A Taste of Ale'', [[Roy Palmer]], 2000, Green Branch, Lechlade

* '' A Touch on the Times'', Songs of Social Change 1770- 1914 Edited by [[Roy Palmer]], Penguin Education 1974

* ''The Rambling Soldier'', [[Roy Palmer]], 1977, Peacock Books

* ''Songs and Music of The Redcoats (1642 - 1902)'', Lewis Winstock, 1970, Leo Cooper Ltd

* ''One Hundred Songs of Toil'', [[Karl Dallas]], 1974, Wolfe

* ''The Cruel Wars'', 100 Soldiers Songs from Agincourt to Ulster [[Karl Dallas]], 1974, Wolfe

* ''Shanties from the Seven Seas'', [[Stan Hugill]], 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul

* ''Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland'' Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield, 1933, Memorial University of Newfoundland

* ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'', [[Roy Palmer]], 1986, Oxford University Press

* ''Boxing The Compass - Sea Songs and Shanties'' - [[Roy Palmer]], 2001, Herron Publishing (Previously ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'' - now expanded)

==Collections==

Books which concentrate on the songs collected by one or two collectors.

* ''Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs'', [[Maud Karpeles]], 1974, Oxford University Press. About two-thirds of the songs and tunes collected in England in the early 1900s by the most prolific collector, mostly in their original forms, though not invariably accurately or completely transcribed by Dr Karpeles. In two volumes, but difficult to find except through university libraries and 'antiquarian' book dealers.

* ''The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection'', [[Pat Shaw|Pat Shuldham-Shaw]], Emily B Lyle and others, 1981-2002, Aberdeen University Press and Mercat Press. The entire collection of the two Scots collectors [[Gavin Greig]] and [[John Duncan]], who worked in Aberdeenshire at the same time as Sharp and his contemporaries were collecting mainly in the south and east of England. Eight volumes: numbers 2, 4, 7 and 8 of which can still be got from the publishers.

* ''[[Marrow Bones]]'', ''[[The Wanton Seed]]'', ''[[The Constant Lovers]]'', and ''[[The Foggy Dew]]'', [[Frank Purslow]], 1965 to 1973, EFDS Publications Ltd. A series of books with a selection of songs from the collections of and [[H.E.D. Hammond|Henry]] and [[Robert Hammond]] and [[George Gardiner]], who collected mainly in Dorset and Hampshire respectively, again in the early 1900s. The books were intended for relative newcomers to folk song and, as was usual until very recently in 'popular' anthologies, many of the song texts were edited and collated in order to produce good 'singing' versions.<br/>A new, extensively revised edition of ''[[Marrow Bones]]'' was published by EFDSS in June 2007, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. A new edition of ''[[The Wanton Seed]]'' is planned for 2008.

* EFDSS also published two books from the collecting of [[Fred Hamer]] and one from the collecting of [[Ken Stubbs]]. These were ''[[Garners Gay]]: English Folk songs collected by Fred Hamer'' (1967): ''The Life of a Man: English Folk Songs from the Home Counties collected by Ken Stubbs'' (1970); and ''Green Groves: More English Folk Songs collected by Fred Hamer'' (1973).

* ''Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', [[Roy Palmer]], 1983, J M Dent.

* ''Bushes and Briars, Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', [[Roy Palmer]], 1999, Llanerch Press (Reprint of "Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams" 1983, but with corrections): http://www.llanerchpress.com/

Song Books

2007-11-11T16:03:25Z

RichardSpencer: /* General Anthologies */

==General Anthologies==

Books of folk songs can be comprehensive anthologies of songs from a region, from a country, or a nation.

* ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams, several editions from 1959 onwards, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s revival as a source of songs.<br/>A revised edition, with more detailed notes, bibliography and information on the source singers, was published by EFDSS as [[Classic English Folk Songs]] in 2003, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. Web pages devoted to additions and corrections, with supporting material, can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/penguin/

* ''[[The Singing Island]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1960, Mills Books. Another great favourite in the early revival. Mostly traditional songs, arranged by theme, and with music.

* ''[[Folk Songs and Ballads of Scotland]]'', Compiled and edited by Ewan MacColl 1965, Oak Publications Books. Traditional songs, with music.

* ''[[I'm A Freeborn Man]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1968, Oak Publications, New York. Tells the story of the eight Radio Ballads (1957 - 1964) commissioned by the BBC. This book contains the story of the original radio ballads, songs taken from some of the ballads and other contemporary songs of struggle and conscience.

* ''[[Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1977, Routledge Keegan And Paul. The result of 15 years of collecting both in the south and south-eastern England and central and north-eastern Scotland. 130 songs arranged into themes along with stories. Excellent book.

* ''[[Till Doomsday in the Afternoon]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1986, Manchester University Press. The result of 20 years of following the fortunes of the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, a family of Scots Travellers. An enormous treasury of tales, jokes, riddles, children's songs and and the words and music of some seventy songs.

* ''[[Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland]]'', Peter Kennedy, 1975, Cassell. Again the songs are arranged by theme, largely using versions collected by Kennedy himself. Has music, and copious notes on each song, with useful references to other versions.

* ''[[Songs of the Midlands]]'', Roy Palmer, EP Publishing, 1972. A collection of 70 traditional songs from the counties of Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire

==Specific Subjects==

* ''Come All you Bold Miners'', [[A. L. Lloyd]], second edition 1978, Laurence and Wishart

* ''A Taste of Ale'', [[Roy Palmer]], 2000, Green Branch, Lechlade

* '' A Touch on the Times'', Songs of Social Change 1770- 1914 Edited by [[Roy Palmer]], Penguin Education 1974

* ''The Rambling Soldier'', [[Roy Palmer]], 1977, Peacock Books

* ''Songs and Music of The Redcoats (1642 - 1902)'', Lewis Winstock, 1970, Leo Cooper Ltd

* ''One Hundred Songs of Toil'', [[Karl Dallas]], 1974, Wolfe

* ''The Cruel Wars'', 100 Soldiers Songs from Agincourt to Ulster [[Karl Dallas]], 1974, Wolfe

* ''Shanties from the Seven Seas'', [[Stan Hugill]], 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul

* ''Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland'' Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield, 1933, Memorial University of Newfoundland

* ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'', [[Roy Palmer]], 1986, Oxford University Press

* ''Boxing The Compass - Sea Songs and Shanties'' - [[Roy Palmer]], 2001, Herron Publishing (Previously ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'' - now expanded)

==Collections==

Books which concentrate on the songs collected by one or two collectors.

* ''Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs'', [[Maud Karpeles]], 1974, Oxford University Press. About two-thirds of the songs and tunes collected in England in the early 1900s by the most prolific collector, mostly in their original forms, though not invariably accurately or completely transcribed by Dr Karpeles. In two volumes, but difficult to find except through university libraries and 'antiquarian' book dealers.

* ''The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection'', [[Pat Shaw|Pat Shuldham-Shaw]], Emily B Lyle and others, 1981-2002, Aberdeen University Press and Mercat Press. The entire collection of the two Scots collectors [[Gavin Greig]] and [[John Duncan]], who worked in Aberdeenshire at the same time as Sharp and his contemporaries were collecting mainly in the south and east of England. Eight volumes: numbers 2, 4, 7 and 8 of which can still be got from the publishers.

* ''[[Marrow Bones]]'', ''[[The Wanton Seed]]'', ''[[The Constant Lovers]]'', and ''[[The Foggy Dew]]'', [[Frank Purslow]], 1965 to 1973, EFDS Publications Ltd. A series of books with a selection of songs from the collections of and [[H.E.D. Hammond|Henry]] and [[Robert Hammond]] and [[George Gardiner]], who collected mainly in Dorset and Hampshire respectively, again in the early 1900s. The books were intended for relative newcomers to folk song and, as was usual until very recently in 'popular' anthologies, many of the song texts were edited and collated in order to produce good 'singing' versions.<br/>A new, extensively revised edition of ''[[Marrow Bones]]'' was published by EFDSS in June 2007, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. A new edition of ''[[The Wanton Seed]]'' is planned for 2008.

* EFDSS also published two books from the collecting of [[Fred Hamer]] and one from the collecting of [[Ken Stubbs]]. These were ''Garners Gay: English Folk songs collected by Fred Hamer'' (1967): ''The Life of a Man: English Folk Songs from the Home Counties collected by Ken Stubbs'' (1970); and ''Green Groves: More English Folk Songs collected by Fred Hamer'' (1973).

* ''Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', [[Roy Palmer]], 1983, J M Dent.

* ''Bushes and Briars, Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', [[Roy Palmer]], 1999, Llanerch Press (Reprint of "Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams" 1983, but with corrections): http://www.llanerchpress.com/

May Bradley

2007-11-11T15:55:52Z

RichardSpencer:

May Bradley was born in Chepstow, Monmouthshire in a family of travellers about 1900. Her mother’s name was Eliza Smith from whom [[Ella Leather]] collected, and even recorded, several songs in Weobley, Herefordshire in 1908. The Roud index lists only [[There is a fountain of Christ's blood]], and unfortunately the original cylinders have been lost. [[Vaughan Williams]] also collected songs from her grandmother, Mrs Whatton, including [[Christ made a trance]], [[Under the Leaves]].

May herself considered she had had a hard life, which most would acknowledge. She started work at the age of 10, hawking by bicycle, and seasonal work such as hop and pea picking (See [[George Dunn]]). She brought up 15 children.

[[Fred Hamer]] states that “she sang softly if a little harshly, but with the complete assurance of a practised performer”. She can be heard on the [[The Voice of the People]] twice, singing Under the Leaves (No. 11, Topic TSCD 661) and the Willow Tree (Topic TSCD 662), singing in very much in the manner Hamer records.

Hamer records that she spoke Welsh until she was eighteen, which sounds strange, given that her collected songs, and those of her sister, mother and grandmother were all in English. Singing was a family affair, she sang “with her brothers and sisters round the fire at night”, they learned songs from each other and shared some songs. [[Sweet Swansea]] she learned from her grandfather, and claimed that is was written by her “double great grandfather” to commemorate the results of “a minor trespassing offence with his caravan.” She had, Hamer states, “an extensive repertoire”, of which the following, very varied, collection appears in the Roud index:

*[[The Blackbird]]
*[[Cold Blows the Wind]]
*[[Down the Green Groves]]
*[[Lily White Hand]]
*[[McCafferty]]
*[[On Christmas Day]]
*[[The Outlandish Knight]] (The Dappledy Grey)
*[[Sweet Swansea]]
*[[Turpin’s Farewell to Black Bess]]
*[[Under the Leaves]]
*[[The Willow Tree]]
*[[Calvery]]

There is a picture of her, sat outside her house, in [[Garner’s Gay]], p 49
There is an account of here first meeting with Fred Hamer at [http://www.btinternet.com/~radical/thefolkmag/fhamer.htm The Folk Mag]

May Bradley

2007-11-10T17:22:58Z

RichardSpencer: New page: May Bradley was born in Chepstow, Monmouthshire in a family of travellers about 1900. Her mother’s name was Eliza Smith from whom Ella Leather collected, and even recorded, several s...

May Bradley was born in Chepstow, Monmouthshire in a family of travellers about 1900. Her mother’s name was Eliza Smith from whom [[Ella Leather]] collected, and even recorded, several songs in Weobley, Herefordshire in 1908. The Roud index lists only [[There is a fountain of Christ's blood]], and unfortunately the original cylinders have been lost. [[Vaughan Williams]] also collected songs from her grandmother, Mrs Whatton, including [[Christ made a trance]], [[Under the Leaves]].

May herself considered she had had a hard life, which most would acknowledge. She started work at the age of 10, hawking by bicycle, and seasonal work such as hop and pea picking (See [[George Dunn]]). She brought up 15 children.

[[Fred Hamer]] states that “she sang softly if a little harshly, but with the complete assurance of a practised performer”. She can be heard on the [[Voice of the People]] twice, singing Under the Leaves (No. 11, Topic TSCD 661) and the Willow Tree (Topic TSCD 662), singing in very much in the manner Hamer records.

Hamer records that she spoke Welsh until she was eighteen, which sounds strange, given that her collected songs, and those of her sister, mother and grandmother were all in English. Singing was a family affair, she sang “with her brothers and sisters round the fire at night”, they learned songs from each other and shared some songs. [[Sweet Swansea]] she learned from her grandfather, and claimed that is was written by her “double great grandfather” to commemorate the results of “a minor trespassing offence with his caravan.” She had, Hamer states, “an extensive repertoire”, of which the following, very varied, collection appears in the Roud index:

*[[The Blackbird]]
*[[Cold Blows the Wind]]
*[[Down the Green Groves]]
*[[Lily White Hand]]
*[[McCafferty]]
*[[On Christmas Day]]
*[[The Outlandish Knight]] (The Dappledy Grey)
*[[Sweet Swansea]]
*[[Turpin’s Farewell to Black Bess]]
*[[Under the Leaves]]
*[[The Willow Tree]]
*[[Calvery]]

There is a picture of her, sat outside her house, in [[Garner’s Gay]], p 49
There is an account of here first meeting with Fred Hamer at [http://www.btinternet.com/~radical/thefolkmag/fhamer.htm The Folk Mag]

English Source Singers

2007-11-10T17:15:32Z

RichardSpencer:

[[Singers by County]]

'''An Alphabetical List'''

* [[Jack Arnoll]]
* [[Bob Blake]]
* [[May Bradley]]
* [[Angela Brazil]]
* [[Danny Brazil]]
* [[Harry Brazil]]
* [[Hyram Brazil]]
* [[Lemmie Brazil]]
* [[Tom Brazil]]
* [[Weenie Brazil]]
* [[Charlie Bridger]]
* [[Henry Burstow]]
* [[The Copper Family]]
* [[Debbie and Pennie Davies]]
* [[Doris Davies]]
* [[Bill Dore]]
* [[Johnny Doughty]]
* [[Ray Driscoll]]
* [[George Dunn]]
* [[Jack Elliott]]
* [[George Fradley]]
* [[Alice Francombe]]
* [[Jacquey Gabriel]]
* [[Jack Goodban]]
* [[Archer Goode]]
* [[Jim 'Brick' Harber]]
* [[Bob Hart]]
* [[Mary Ann Haynes]]
* [[Ivor Hill]]
* [[Frank Hinchliffe]]
* [[Harry Holman]]
* [[Joe Jones]]
* [[Joe Jones|Lena Jones]]
* [[Fred Jordan]]
* [[George 'Pop' Maynard]]
* [[Tom Newman]]
* [[Freda Palmer]]
* [[Walter Pardon]]
* [[Alice Penfold]]
* [[Cyril Philips]]
* [[Cyril Poacher]]
* [[Sarah Porter]]
* [[Bill Porter]]
* [[Ted and Bet Porter]]
* [[Louie Saunders]]
* [[John Short]] '' aka Yankee Jack''
* [[Biggun Smith]]
* [[Denny Smith]]
* [[JLM Smith|Derby Smith]]
* [[JLM Smith|Jasper Smith]]
* [[JLM Smith|Minty Smith]]
* [[JLM Smith|Levi Smith]]
* [[Wiggy Smith]]
* [[Wisdom Smith]]
* [[George Spicer]]
* [[Joan Taylor]]
* [[Henry Tidball]]
* [[George Townshend]]
* [[Harry Upton]]
* [[Alice Webb]]
* [[Bill Whiting]]
* [[Chris Willett]]
* [[Jim Wilson]]

Songs of the Midlands

2007-10-16T09:20:45Z

RichardSpencer: New page: ''Songs of the Midlands'' is a collection of 70 traditional songs from the counties of Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, edited by Roy Palmer, with Pamela Bishop ...

''Songs of the Midlands'' is a collection of 70 traditional songs from the counties of Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, edited by Roy Palmer, with Pamela Bishop and Katharine Thompson as music editors.

The material is thematically arranged as follows:

*Seasonal and ritual songs (15 items)
*Songs of love and courtship (28 items)
*Songs of crime and punishment (14 items)
*Songs of social comment (13 items)

The "book grew out of the work of the Birmingham and Midland Folk Centre" whose members collected some of the material and assisted with "selection of material, musical and editorial policy".

The collection is valuable in that it concentrates on a region under represented in most song books, and in particular includes many songs from two important singers [[George Dunn]] and [[Cecilia Costello]].

115 pages, including 2 photographs, musical notes, song notes, bibliography and discography.

Temporary Store

2007-10-16T08:36:09Z

RichardSpencer: /* New Contributions List */

To use this temporary store............

* enter the edit page

* decide the title for your new page and put it at the bottom of the list in double square brackets. <nowiki> [[New Page]]</nowiki>

* put a sentence of explanation by it

* save the edit

* click on the title which will be highlighted in red

* start to make your new page and when it's done.....

* alert johnadams@imailbox.com and we'll put it on the list for placement.

* when your page is in place the title will be highlighted in blue.

==New Contributions List==

[[Meere]] A music publisher mention in Frank Kidson's directory

[[John Meredith]] Australian Collector

[[Old England She Needs Soldiers]] military recruiting song collected 1992.

[[The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington]] from Percy's Reliques

[[Songs of the Midlands]], Roy Palmer, EP Publishing, 1972. A collection of 70 traditional songs from the counties of Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire