Wizz Jones and Lord Franklin BBC Radio4

Subject: Wizz Jones and Lord Franklin BBC Radio4
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 26 Aug 14 - 03:54 AM

This morning's Today programme - an item on Wizz Jones around 8.25, followed by another on Lord Franklin about half an hour later. I just heard a snatch of Stan Rogers singing North West Passage.... (and there was an earlier item on tonight's Kate Bush concert too)!

Kitty

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones and Lord Franklin BBC Radio4
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 26 Aug 14 - 05:00 AM

The Wizz Jones item can now be heard here for a week. I wish there was more of him playing though!

Kitty

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones and Lord Franklin BBC Radio4
From: The Sandman
Date: 26 Aug 14 - 05:16 AM

wizz jones ,
I remember him with pete stanley back in 1966 and then brian golbey, i think mudcatter greycap played with him too,good to see him getting recognition.

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones and Lord Franklin BBC Radio4
From: GUEST,Silas
Date: 26 Aug 14 - 05:17 AM

Well, thanks for that, but honestly, 51/2 min of verbal garbage and 30 sec of him playing!

Mad

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones and Lord Franklin BBC Radio4
From: GUEST,Silas
Date: 26 Aug 14 - 05:19 AM

Brian Golbey? That is a name I have not heard in a long time - is he still playing?

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones and Lord Franklin BBC Radio4
From: GUEST,CJB
Date: 26 Aug 14 - 05:53 AM

Ah - Brian Golbey and Mike Stanley. I have great memories of the Stanford Folk Club at the Stanford Arms pub at Preston Circus, Brighton - in the 60s. A great place to end a Sunday cycle ride at. Bikes parked in the side passageway; upstairs a thick pall of cigar smoke; Merrydown (English wine) and blackcurent; and Tim Broadbent, Miles Wooten, Brian Golbey and Mile Stanley singing and playing. I think one of the regular guys taped the sessions - but I suspect those are long gone. Would be nice to hear these guys again though.

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones and Lord Franklin BBC Radio4
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Aug 14 - 06:14 AM

Some links:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wizz+jones

http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/bio/brian-golbey/436459

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=brian+golbey

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pete+stanley

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=miles+wootton

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tim+broadbent

Wonderful.

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones and Lord Franklin BBC Radio4
From: The Sandman
Date: 26 Aug 14 - 06:28 AM

i have aeeling that mudcatter greycap played with pete stanley.

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones and Lord Franklin BBC Radio4
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Aug 14 - 07:29 AM

It is more properly SIR JOHN FRANKLIN ; he was never a "Lord" . I cannot understand how this LORD Franklin thing persists ! !

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones and Lord Franklin BBC Radio4
From: GUEST,Silas
Date: 26 Aug 14 - 07:32 AM

Confusion with Lord Randal probably

Subject: RE: Wizz Jones and Lord Franklin BBC Radio4
From: GUEST,LynnH
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 03:47 AM

@GUEST: perhaps because 'Sir John Franklin' doesn't scan and flow off the tongue in the way that 'Lord Franklin' does. Try it. I also doubt very much whether the broadside writing hacks from Seven Dials and the common people who took up the song cared very much about the difference between 'Sir' and 'Lord'- they were all aristocracy, weren't they, whatever the handle to the name!