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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: rich-joy Date: 24 May 05 - 05:34 AM well, better than I expected ... phew! Thank you VERY much everyone who has contributed so far (any more info on the missing Derek Brimstone / Christy Moore / Packie Byrne titles???) Cheers! R-J |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: rich-joy Date: 24 May 05 - 05:29 AM I'm gonna try and paste my list of Folk, Jazz, Blues Singers & Musicians biogs here (it's originally from Excel, so I'm hoping it will behave!!!) Apologies for any that have already been mentioned above ... ACKER BILK Acker Bilk - Gordon Williams - Mayfair Books, London, 1962 BILL WATKINS Scotland is Not for the Squeamish (Pt 2) - Bill Watkins Flamingo, Sydney, 2000-01 BILL WATKINS A Celtic Childhood (Pt 1) - Bill Watkins ? BILLY CONNOLLY The Big Yin : The Life & Times of Billy Connolly - Jonathan Margolis Orion, London, 1994 BING CROSBY The Story of Bing Crosby - Ted Crosby Forum (World Pub), Cleveland, 1937-1946 BOB COPPER Early to Rise : A Sussex Boyhood - Bob Copper Heinemann, London, 1976 BOB COPPER A Song for Every Season : 100 Years of a Sussex Farming Family - Bob Copper Heinemann, London, 1971-73 CIARAN CARSON Last Night's Fun : In & Out of Time with Irish Music - Ciaran Carson North Point Press, New York, 1996-97 CLEO LAINE Cleo - Cleo Laine Simon & Schuster, London, 1994 COLE PORTER Cole Porter : the Definitive Biography - William McBrien HarperCollins, London, 1998-99 ELLA FITZGERALD First Lady of Song : Ella Fitzgerald for the Record - Geoffrey Mark Fidelman Citadel Press, New York, 1994-96 ELLA FITZGERALD Ella Fitzgerald : 1917 - 1996 - Stuart Nicholson Indigo, London, 1993-96 FISK JUBILEE SINGERS Dark Midnight When I Rise : the story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers - Andrew Ward Amistad, New York, 2000-01 FRANK SINATRA Frank Sinatra - Tony Scaduto Sphere Books, London, 1976-77 FRANK SINATRA Sinatra - Alan Frank Hamlyn, London, 1978 FRANKIE ARMSTRONG As Far As the Eye Can Sing : an autobiography - Frankie Armstrong & Jenny Pearson Women's Press, London, 1992 GEORGE MELLY Owning Up (Pt 3) - George Melly Futura, London, 1965-85 GEORGE MELLY Rum, Bum and Concertina (Pt 2) - George Melly Futura, London, 1977-78 GEORGE MELLY Scouse Mouse, or, I Never Got Over It (Pt 1) - George Melly Futura, London, 1984-85 HAMISH IMLACH Cod Liver Oil & Orange Juice : Reminiscences of a Folk Singer - Hamish Imlach & Ewan McVicar Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1992 HENRY LAWSON A Stranger on the Darling - Robyn Burrows & Alan Barton Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1996 JIM DAVIDSON A Showman's Story : the Memoirs of Jim Davidson - Jim Davidson Rigby, Adelaide, Oz, 1983 JOAN BAEZ And a Voice to Sing With : Baez - Her Own Story - Joan Baez Arrow, London, 1989 JUDITH DURHAM Colours of My Life - Graham Simpson Random House, Sydney, 1994 K. 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LANG All You Get Is Me - Victoria Starr HarperCollins, London, 1994 LOUIS ARMSTRONG My Life in New Orleans - Louis Armstrong Ace (Harborough), London, 1955-57 MEL TORME It Wasn't all Velvet : an autobiography - Mel Torme Robson, London, 1988-89 PADDY TUNNEY The Stone Fiddle : My Way to Traditional Song - Paddy Tunney Appletree Press, Belfast, 1979-91 PETA MATHIAS Burnt Barley : How to Eat, Dance & Sing Your Way Around Ireland - Peta Mathias Vintage (Random House), Auckland, 2000 PETE SEEGER How Can I Keep From Singing : Pete Seeger - David King Dunaway Harrap, London, 1981-85 SLIM DUSTY Walk a Country Mile - Slim Dusty & John Lapsley Rigby, Adelaide, Oz, 1979-84 SWEET HONEY in the ROCK We Who Believe in Freedom … Still on the Journey - Bernice Johnson Reagon & SH/R Anchor (Doubleday), New York, 1993 TED EGAN Sitdown Up North : an autobiography (Pt 2) - Ted Egan Kerr, Sydney, 1997 TED EGAN The Paperboy's War : an autobiography (Pt 1) - Ted Egan Kerr, Sydney, 1993 TED EGAN A Drop of Rough Ted (based on the Nomad Enterprises' film) - Ted Egan self, Sydney, 1979 THEODORE BIKEL … on loan … ? ? WOODY GUTHRIE Bound for Glory - Woody Guthrie Picador (Pan), London, 1943-74 various Bandstand … and All That! - John Byrell Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1995 various Bluegrass - Bob Artis Leisure Books, New York, 1975 various Blues : the British Connection - Bob Brunning Blandford Press, Dorset, 1986 various Buried Country : the Story of Aboriginal Country Music - Clinton Walker Pluto Press, Sydney, 2000 various Celtic Women in Music - Maireid Sullivan Quarry Music, Ontario, 1999 various Folk Music Encyclopedia, The - Kristin Baggelaar & Donald Milton Omnibus Press, London, 1976-77 various Hoot! : A 25 year History of the Greenwich Village Music Scene - Robbie Woliver St Martin's Press, New York, 1986 various Illustrated Enc.of Jazz : an Indispensable A-Z of the Legends of Jazz, The - Brian Case/Stan Britt/Chrissie Murray Tiger Books, London, 1986-91 various Jazz Lives : 100 Portraits in Jazz - Gene Lees & John Reeves Firefly, New York, 1992-94 various Listener's Guide to Folk Music, The - Sarah Lifton Quarto Book, New York, 1983 various Meet Me at Jim & Andy's : Jazz Musicians & Their World - Gene Lees Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1988 various Memphis Blues & Jug Bands - Bengt Olsson Studio Vista (November Bks), London, 1970 various Music City of Babylon : Inside the World of Country Music - Scott Faragher Birch Lane Press, New York, 1992 various Observer's Book of Folk Song in Britain, The - Fred Woods Frederick Warne, London, 1980 various Real Folk - John Meredith National Library, Canberra, 1995 various Singers & Sweethearts : the Women of County Music - Joan Dew Country Music Mag Press, New York, 1977 various Singers & the Song - Gene Lees Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1987 various Singers & the Song II - Gene Lees Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1987-98 various Song by Song : the Lives & Work of 14 Great Lyric Writers - Caryl Brahms & Ned Sherrin Ross Anderson, Bolton, England, 1984 various The Songwriters - Tony Staveacre BBC, London, 1980 various Turn it Up, I Can't Hear the Words : the Best of the New Singer/Songwriters - Bob Sarlin Coronet, London, 1973-75 various Verandah Music : Roots of Australian Tradition - Graham Seal & Rob Willis Curtin University Bks, Fremantle, Oz, 2003 various Wasn't That a Time! : First Hand Accounts of the Folk Music Revival - Ronald D. Cohen Scarecrow Press, New Jersey, 1995 various When the Music Stopped : the Big Band Era Remembered - Bernie Woods Barricade Books, New York, 1994 hmmm ... gawdownleenose what this'll scan like ... :~) Cheers! R-J |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: GUEST,wildlone Date: 23 May 05 - 05:55 PM R-J, The info for the two books of Bob Copper I posted above is taken from the copies that I have got. There is no ISBN No given. Early To Rise, covers Bob's boyhood and family life in rural Rottingdean, Sussex between the wars. Also 25 songs and music notation taken from the Copper family song books. A Song For Every Season, Is the a year in the life of a farmer and tells of the songs that would have been sung. 47 songs and music notation. dave |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: GUEST Date: 23 May 05 - 05:40 PM 'Memoirs of a fat folk singer' by Hamish Imlash - a cracking good read, but alas I don't think it is still in print. Borrowed it from Manchester Library about 10 years ago. Also recall a fair Luke Kelly biog ,but can't remember who by, ' Bound for Glory' ..a must, ditto Mac Coll's 'Journeyman' and of course Dylan's memoir. I also remember having in my posession a Jimmy Shand biography which I bought from a library sale for about 20p, can't remember it being earth shattering though. |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: johnross Date: 23 May 05 - 05:36 PM "More Than a Song" was published in the UK under the somewhat misleading title of "The Folk Music Encyclopaedia" (Omnibus Press 1977). Here are some others from my shelf: How Can I Keep From Singing: Pete Seeger, by David King Dunaway (McGraw-Hill, 1981) Lonesome Traveler: The Life of Lee Hays, by Doris Willens (Norton, 1988) Charles Seeger: A Life in American Music, by Ann M. Pescatello (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992) Singing Family of the Cumberlands, by Jean Ritchie (Oxford University Press, 1955) Cecil Sharp: His Life and Work, byu Maud Karpeles (University of Chicago Press, 1967) Radio's 'Kentucky Mountain Boy' Bradley Kincaid, by Loyal Jones (Appalachian Center/Berea College, 1980 As Far As the Eye Can Sing, by Frankie Armstrong with Jenny Pearson (The Womens' Press, 1992 |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 May 05 - 04:04 PM Folk Music- More Than A Song by Kristin Baggelaar and Donald Milton 1976 ISBN0-690-01159-8 it's now very old and very much about the US but it has 340 shortish biograghical entries and does include Ewan MacColl but not Lloyd |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: Big Al Whittle Date: 23 May 05 - 01:01 PM Elijah Wald has written at least two great biogs One of Josh White - absolutely and utterly brilliant - don't miss it. He has also edited the reminisences of Dave Van Ronk there is another book about Robert Johnson, by him. there is a classic book about Django Rheinhrdt - by somebody whom I've forgotten, but which I felt was a little unsympatheic (Alain....?) Alan Lomax wrote a great book called Mr Jelly Roll about jelly Roll Morton Eddie Condon - great jazz rythm guitarist wrote a very enjoyable auto biography WE CALLED IT MUSIC - he knew everybody Bix, fats waller, etc. julian Cope has written two autobiographies of what it was like to be in the thick of it in the early eighties music scene Sam Charters book The Country Blues is a classic - but you need the record to go with it shout of course - great inside book about the Beatles - Philip Norman Lenny Bruce wrote an autobiography, which could have been great because he hung out with some great jazzmen - but was it Grossman - who wrote Ladies and Gentlemen I give you Lenny Bruce - it was my bible when I first started performing - tells you how much courage you need to be a showbiz footsoldier. the same guy wrote one about Elvis - but he had none of the same affection for him. i thought the best one about Elvis was that one wrote by his four bodyguards just before the poor chap snuffed it. |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: Scotus Date: 23 May 05 - 09:03 AM If my memory serves me 'Herd Laddie of the Glen' is by Alison McMorland and not Shiela Douglas. Jack Beck |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: The Borchester Echo Date: 23 May 05 - 08:55 AM Dazzling Stranger by Colin Harper is a biography of Bert Jansch combined with an account of the folk revival in the early 1960s which includes (as far as I can remember!) reasonably accurate vignettes of many of the main protaganists. When it was published around five years ago there was an accompanying Channel 4 documentary. Then there is Colin Irwin's recently published In Search of Albion . . . |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: rich-joy Date: 23 May 05 - 08:40 AM Yes Please! There's a surprising amount that I've not heard of, here in Oz (and I'm known as "a bit of" a bookaholic!!!) And I'll try and submit the titles that I've got, sometime soon ... Cheers! R-J |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: rumanci Date: 23 May 05 - 08:22 AM Here's another half dozen gems gleaned from the home library !! CHRISTY MOORE (mentioned by GUEST,Gerry above in this thread) ONE VOICE : MY LIFE IN SONG (Hodder & Stoughton, 2003) ISBN 0340830735 LIAM CLANCY LIAM CLANCY : MEMOIRS OF AN IRISH TROUBADOUR (Virgin Books, 2002) ISBN 1852279486 SHANE MacGOWAN A DRINK WITH SHANE MacGOWAN by Victoria Mary Clarke & Shane MacGowan (Pan Books, 2002) ISBN 0330490087 THE CHIEFTAINS THE CHIEFTAINS : THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY by John Glatt (St Martin's Press, 1997) ISBN 0312166052 JIMMY NAIL A NORTHERN SOUL : THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Penguin/Michael Joseph, 2004) ISBN 0718146530 SANDY DENNY NO MORE SAD REFRAINS : THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SANDY DENNY by Clinton Heylin (Helter Skelter Pub., 2000) ISBN 1900924358 Shall I keep looking ? *bg* rum |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: rumanci Date: 23 May 05 - 05:01 AM Here's a few more recent ones to add to your list :-D SHIRLEY COLLINS autobiography AMERICA OVER THE WATER (SAF Pub., 2004) ISBN 0946719667 (HB) (subject of a recent Mudcat thread) RICHARD DIGANCE autobiography A WEALTH OF COMEDY (Robson Books, 2003) RALPH McTELL STREETS OF LONDON biography by Chris Hockenhull (Northdown Pub., 1997) two autobiographical volumes ANGEL LAUGHTER - Volume 1 (Amber Waves - Heartland Pub., 2000) ISBN 1902684028 covers his childhood up to the "purgatory" of leaving the Infantry Junior Leaders Battalion of the Army at age fifteen SUMMER LIGHTNING - Volume 2 (Amber Waves - Heartland Pub., 2002) ISBN 1902684036 covers the next five and a half years and the start of his musical journey ! and three posthumous biographies NICK DRAKE NICK DRAKE : THE BIOGRAPHY by Patrick Humphries (Bloomsbury, 1998) ISBN 0747535035 (PB) VIV STANSHALL (Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band) GINGER GEEZER : THE LIFE OF VIVIAN STANSHALL by Lucian Randall and Chris Welch (Fourth Estate - Harper Collins, 2002) ISBN 1841156795 JIMI HENDRIX JIMI HENDRIX : THE MAN, THE MAGIC, THE TRUTH by Sharon Lawrence (Sidgwick & Jackson, 2005) ISBN 0283070056 (HB) ISBN 0283070196 (PB) All personally recommended and sparkling good reads apart from anything else ! rum |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: rich-joy Date: 23 May 05 - 03:27 AM Thanks, one and all (esp Malcolm!) - remember, if you have the actual titles and publishing details, that'd be great too : Internet searching is becoming a pain - too much crap out there :~))) Cheers! R-J |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 22 May 05 - 11:12 PM Christy Moore has written something which is autobiographical, if not exactly an autobiography. It has the lyrics to a couple hundred of his favorite songs, and for each song there's a page which talks about the song, or how he & the song met, or some incident in his life that has some bearing on the song - if you put it all together you learn a lot about Moore's life, just not in the orderly way that you would in an actual biography. On the American side, I've read biographies of Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and autobiographical works by Judy Collins & Joan Baez. |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 22 May 05 - 02:24 PM Dave Arthur has been working, on and off, on a biography of Lloyd for quite a time. Whether he'll ever finish it we don't know, but some material from it appears in the insert for the cd Classic A L Lloyd: Traditional Songs (Fellside FECD98, 1994; still available) and in Ian Russell (ed), Singer, Song and Scholar; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1986. Out of print but well worth tracking down. It also includes contributions relating to Lloyd from Vic Gammon, Roy Palmer and Leslie Shepard. See also David E Gregory's two papers from Canadian Journal for Traditional Music / Revue de musique folklorique canadienne. Both are available online. A. L. Lloyd and the English Folk Song Revival, 1934-44 Starting Over: A. L. Lloyd and the Search for a New Folk Music, 1945-49 Some biographies and autobiographies that come to mind: Ewan MacColl, Journeyman. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1990. ISBN 0283060360 Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger, Till Doomsday in the Afternoon: The Folklore of a Family of Scots Travellers, the Stewarts of Blairgowrie. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986. ISBN 0719018471 (note: the Stewarts were unhappy about certain aspects of this book). James Porter & Herschel Gower, Jeannie Robertson: Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice. East Linton (Edinburgh): Tuckwell Press, 1995. ISBN 1898410844 Betsy Whyte, The Yellow on the Broom, 1986. Reprinted Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2001, ISBN: 1841581356. Betsy Whyte, Red Rowans and Wild Honey, 1990. Reprinted Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2000, ISBN: 1841580708. Sheila Douglas, The Sang's the Thing: Voices from Lowland Scotland. Edinburgh: Polygon, 1992, ISBN 07486611900. Biographies of a number of traditional singers, with examples of their songs. Sheila Douglas, Herd Laddie o' the Glen - Songs of a Border Shepherd (Willie Scott, Liddesdale shepherd and singer). Tryst Publications, 1988. Reg Hall, I Never Played to Many Posh Dances - Scan Tester 1887-1972. Rochford, Musical Traditions, 1990. ISSN 02655063 See also the excellent booklets provided with the Musical Traditions series of cds of traditional singers. The full text of every booklet can be seen at their website. There are more, of course; largely out of print. On the whole, there are more books devoted to Irish singers and musicians than to those from the countries of the UK; where Scotland seems to score highest. Academic journals such as Tocher and Folk Music Journal are also good sources. |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: GUEST Date: 22 May 05 - 12:29 PM For short biographies, there's a book called Music Hound Folk: The Essential Album Guide. A.L. Lloyd warrants a few pages, at least. Many other U.S. musicians are included. Folksingers and Folksongs in America also has nice biographies, but only of American performers. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: GUEST Date: 22 May 05 - 09:51 AM Derek Brimstone has done his Autobiography , and of course there is the Packy Byrne book too ! |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: GUEST,wildlone Date: 22 May 05 - 05:40 AM Bob Copper wrote, Bob Copper; A Song For Every Season 1971 William Heinmann. Bob Copper; Early To Rise 1976 William Heinmann. Also Songs And Southern Breezes. |
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Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: rich-joy Date: 22 May 05 - 04:22 AM OK, there was something nibbling at the edge of my memory about Books on Mudcat - a search under "FAQ" produced the Perma Thread for suggestions for "A Basic Folk Library" :~)) (thanks, Joe!) But I think my request still stands. Cheers! R-J PS I could add a list of Artists about whom I have books, if anyone's interested ... |
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Subject: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's From: rich-joy Date: 22 May 05 - 03:06 AM Can we please have a list of books here (including publication details where possible) that covers Biographies of "folk" Singers and Musicians. Perhaps ALSO including a list of books that THEY have had published too. I am particularly interested in British performers - but only because I know that quite a bit exists for the Americans - and that the other SEEMS to be harder come by ... This request has come about because I have had no luck in trying to find a book on the life of A.L.Lloyd - surely the 25 years since his death, is long enough for someone to write one??? :~))) Hoping 'Catters can help ... Cheers! R-J |
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