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Thread #123157   Message #2710739
Posted By: MGM·Lion
28-Aug-09 - 12:15 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: 'The Singer's Club'
Subject: RE: Folklore: 'The Singer's Club'
Yes, now I come to think of it, I still have somewhere a beat-up softback booklet called 'The Skiffle Album - Alan Lomax And The Ramblers', with pic on cover of Alan & Ewan & Peggy & Shirley et·al -- which wasn't really a skiffle album at all, any more than the group was; but both represented a worthy attempt to persuade the then-popular skifflers to perform British material, rather then the ubiquitous Broonzy and Leadbelly & ElizabethCotten which was their staple. Contained such songs as The Day We Went To Rothesay-o, as well as ones mentioned above. In fact, the skiffle-boom died out before the idea could really catch on; & THAT was the point at which Ballads&Blues took over the Princess Louise from Nancy Whiskey, & other British-style folk clubs began gradually to proliferate — nationwide, as well as in London: Roy Harris's Traditional Music Club in Nottingham, High Level Ranters in Newcastle, &c.