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Thread #79364 Message #3051912
Posted By: GUEST,Recorderer
12-Dec-10 - 02:15 PM
Thread Name: History - BBC's 'Singing Together'
Subject: RE: History - BBC's 'Singing Together'
Hi Ray and Destiny and co,
I have the booklets for Autumn 1980, Spring 1981, Summer 1981 (and Spring 1983 which is after I left primary school - probably from a bookshop.)with some of your songs in. I also have the Rumpelstiltskin Music Workshop booklet from 1978 and 1980. Email me at bleakleys@hotmail.com if you would like more info, scans etc assuming it isn't a copyright issue punishable by death.
Autumn 1980
Farewell to Funery The Hopak Reap the Flax Captain Nipper Who Did? Kelly the Pirate The Friendly Beasts The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy O Sleep my Pretty Baby Rise Up, Shepherd The Gower Wassail
Spring 1981
Song of a Country Girl Mountain Dancer The Tortilla Vendor La Cucuracha Here Come the Navvies The Piper o' Dundee Greek Shepherd Song Alnwick Football Song The Mountains I love The Mountain Skier Troika
Summer 1981
The Ship that Never Returned The Fireman's Song My White Horse Lewis Bridal Song The Spinning Wheel Angelico The Peanut Vendor Lisa Lan
Spring 1983
The Tinker's Wedding Waltzing Matilda Kalinka Cockles and Muscles Swansea Town The Derby Ram Oh, 'twas in the broad Atlantic The Candlelight Fisherman Island in the Sun Marianina My Grandfather's Clock
Rumpelstiltskin
Words R D Ward, music Peter Hutchings
Miller's Song Echo Song sung by Ethel("Verse One: Locked up in this emptiness all alone, Life's become as grey as these walls of stone. Oh, how unkind my fortune seems! Nothing left to comfort me but my dreams. Verse Two: Just myself for company, only me. Words I speak come back to me constantly. I hear the echoes of each sigh. All alone with me, myself and I.") Spinning Song Two-as-One Song Name-Guessing Song Interlude Gloating Song Wedding March Let the Bells Ring
I actually found reason to sing some of 'Here Come the Navvies' to my 6th form class of General Studies students during a discussion about migration last week, so you never know when these things will come in handy! What a fantastic legacy for all of us who listened to Singing Together as a starter for folk history and music here and around the world. So glad I didn't return the booklets when my teacher wanted them back - I'm paying back my debt to society many times over now by teaching teenagers and running a recorder club.