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Thread #34654   Message #468487
Posted By: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
23-May-01 - 04:20 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Going Home (Dvorak)
Subject: RE: Going Home
Jazz trumpeter/left-handed skiffle guitarist Ken Colyer (the man who REALLY started the skiffle boom in UK in the '50s)also wrote a song with this title, different words. It is credited as Colyer/Dvorak but the tune sounds nothing like the Spiritual or the classical version that Dvorak incorporated in the New World Symphony.
It is on the Van Morrison/Lonnie Donegan skiffle Live in Belfast concert CD. The original Colyer skiffle sessions have also been re-released recently with Sammy Rimmington (later better known as a reeds player) on mandolin and a banjo player I've forgotten for the moment (damn CRS) and of course Bill Colyer on washboard or suitcase.
RtS (useless knowledge by the bucketful useful by the thimble!)