Release Date: 09 November 2009
Label: Veteran
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 5060021600820
Genres: Folk English Folk
Description
A rare collection of archive traditional music recordings made in Mid-Suffolk between 1958 and 1993
This collection traces John Howson's survey of traditional music making in Mid-Suffolk and includes not only recent recordings, but also fascinating archival recordings made by the few other collectors who ventured into the area. There are old ballads, Music Hall and comic songs, melodeon, mouthorgan and accordion players, plus the rattle of bones and a stepdance, interspersed by reminiscences of musical days gone by.
Mid-Suffolk was almost virgin territory when this survey was done in the mid 1980s, and a rich and diverse musical tradition, not unlike that of East Suffolk, was found. Memories and photographs of the musicians, singers, stepdancers and broom dancers are published in the book of the same name.
Tracks; DISC ONE. 1. The Dark-eyed Sailor - Gordon Syrett / 2. The Scarlet and the Blue - Roy Last / 3. Peggy O'Neill - Reg Pyett / 4. Sweet William - Emily Sparkes / 5. Cock-a-Doodle - Jack Pearson / 6. The Faithful Sailor - Charlie Carver / 7. Tune Medley - Charlie Griggs / 8. Buttercup Joe - Unknown singe / 9. Phil the Fluter's Ball - Tom Williams / 10. Barbara Allen - Emma Briggs / 11. Your Aged Mother and Me - Tom Smith / 12. Heel and Toe Polka - Reg Pyett / 13. In a Beautiful Mansion - Gordon Syrett / 14. Polka/ Oh Joe - John Mitchell / 15. The Sailor Cut Down - Stan Steggles / 16. Shake Hands with your Partner - Tom Williams / 17. Cupid the Ploughboy - Charlie Carver / 18. Farewell my Bluebell - Reg Pyett / 19. Green Mossy Banks of the Lea - Emily Sparkes / 20. Trousers on the Door - Gordon Syrett / 21. Song Tunes Medley - George Wade / 22. Talk; Farmer's Boy - Ernie Lyas / 23. In & Out the Windows - Reg Pyett / 24. 21 Years on Dartmoor - 'Gypsy' Charlie / 25. Stepdance - 'Gypsy' Charlie / 26. The Mistletoe Bough - Gordon Syrett /
27. Paddy McGinty's Goat - Tom Williams / 28. Eggs and Bacon - Stan Steggles / 29. I Don't Care What you Used to Be - Reg Pyett / 30. Sarah - Charlie Carver / 31. Yarmouth Hornpipe - Tom Williams (Stowupland) / 32. All Jolly Fellows That Follow the Plough - Gordon Syrett / 33. No, Sir, No - Emily Sparkes / 34. Redwing - Clement Pearson / 35. Blackberry Fold - Charlie Carver / 36. Smile Awhile - Reg Pyett / 37. Banks of the Sweet Dundee - Stan Steggles / 38. Which Gate? - Charlie Stringer / 39. The Isle of Inisfree, Hornpipe, She Wore a Tulip, Heel & Toe Polka - Ernie Nunn
DISC TWO. 1. My Brother Sylvest - Doddy Thorndyke / 2. Yellow Rose of Texas - Reg Pyett / 3. 21 Years on Dartmoor - 'Lubidy' Rice / 4. Yarmouth Hornpipe - 'Lubidy' Rice / 5. Jim the Carter's Lad - Gordon Syrett / 6. Sweet William - Charlie Carver / 7. Merry Wido, I'll Never Find Another You - Tom Williams / 8. Died For Love - Emily Sparkes / 9. Sailor's Hornpipe - Reg Pyett / 10. Our Goodman - Stan Steggles / 11. Balaclava - Roy Last / 12. Suffolk's March/ Jig - Bill Smith / 13. Poor Old Jeff - Gordon Syrett / 14. Scotland the Brave - Reg Pyett / 15. The Iron Door - Emily Sparkes / 16. Talk - Andy Austin Quickstep - Jimmy Gladwell's Band / 17. Banks of the Sweet Dundee - Charlie Carver / 18. Lassie from Lancashire - Reg Pyett / 19. M-o-n-e-y - Gordon Syrett ) / 20. Cuckoo Waltz - Tom Smith & Alf Cresswell / 21. Talk - 'Tinker' Parker & Gordon Syrett, Love and Duty - Gordon Syrett / 22. Cliff Hornpipe - Reg Pyett / 23. Bonny Bunch of Roses - Stan Steggles / 24. The Ship that Never Returned - Bert Allen / 25. Medley - Tom Williams, Tom Smith & Alf Cresswell / 26. The Jealous Lover - Emily Sparkes / 27. The Grenadier and the Lady - Charlie Carver /
28. Tzena Tzena - Glynn Griffiths / 29. The Faithful Sailor - Stan Steggles / 30. Soldier's Joy - Reg Pyett / 31. Ball of Yarn - Hubert Smith / 32. Sailor's Hornpipe - Tom Williams, Tom Smith & Alf Cresswell / 33. Nobody’s Child - Charlie Stringer / 34. Bluebell Polka - Tom Smith / 35. They Won't Know I Come From the Country - Tom Smith / 36. The Fox and the Hare - Emily Sparkes / 37. Alf Peachey's Polkas - Reg Pyett / 38. Jolly Ploughboy - Gordon Syrett / 39. Irish Medley - Tom Williams, Tom Smith & Alf Cresswell
Also available
VTDC11CD Pigeon on the Gate. VT154CD Good Hearted Fellows.VT150CD Heel & Toe.VT140CD Good Order. VT138CD Who Owns the Game? VTC2CD Songs Sung in Suffolk. VTC3CD Comic Songs Sung in Suffolk
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Fred Jordan
Phil Tanner
Will Noble & John Cocking
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Tom, Jean & Ashley Orchard
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