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Thread #56382   Message #881923
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
03-Feb-03 - 08:33 PM
Thread Name: Liverpool Packet
Subject: RE: Liverpool Packet
It was from William (Billy) Bartle of Wrestlingworth in Bedfordshire that the blind folk song collector Fred Hamer got the set of Come All You Garners Gay that is quoted in the DT. That was in 1960; Billy died in the hard winter of 1962-3. There is a midi made from notation given in Hamer's book Garners Gay (EFDS 1967) at the Mudcat Midi Pages:

Garners Gay

He can be heard singing his set of the song on the CD A Century of Song: A Celebration of Traditional Singers Since 1899 (EFDSSCD02, 1998), issued by the English Folk Dance and Song Society to mark the centenary of the Folk Song Society.