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Thread #99275   Message #1976264
Posted By: greg stephens
22-Feb-07 - 03:17 PM
Thread Name: Songs about the British Motor Industry
Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs about the British Motor Indus
When Ewan McColl packed in making Radio Ballads, Charles Oarker(the producer of the original series) got Alisdair(sp?) Clayre(sp?) to take over. How many he made I dont know, but he made at least one, about the Morris works at Cowley(Oxford). I presume(hope?) that the BBC still have tapes. Clayre wrote a number of songs for this, including one I remember "The Ballad of Tiny Newman". It recalls a legendary worker in the 30's, who was so strong he could change tyres with his bare hands, a trick with which he delighted visitors to the works.
   Now someone, with any luck, might come up with some words and music from this forgotten bit of BBC history.