Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry

Subject: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: kendall
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 03:06 PM

A friend of mine wants positive songs about industry. Any takers?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 03:19 PM

The most positve song about industry I know is Woody Guthrie's Grand Coulee Dam.
"In Washington and Oregon
You can hear the factories hum
Making chrome and making manganese
And fine aluminum"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 04:03 PM

William Brown, or Keep That Wheel a-Turning - fine, all except for the last verse. (Any time I've heard it sung, or seen it in print, it's been "....excursions down" in the fourth verse, and the last line scans better as "Seven more days and they sacked young Brown."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 04:31 PM

Hi Kendall, check out a marvelous Canadian singer/songwriter named David Francey.   He's got some great songs about working class people including factories etc. I met him when he toured up here in Alaska and have become an ardent fan. You will like his stuff I think.

Mike

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: mack/misophist
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 12:07 AM

If hydroelectric power counts, let me add Roll On, Columbia to kendall's choice.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 02:02 AM

In that case, there's the famous Snowy River Hydro song... will post the link later when I can remember the name of the damn song...

Robin

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: GUEST,pavane
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 02:22 AM

There is an album from the 70's called 'Songs of a Changing world' - I can't remember all the names, but Nic Jones was one of them.
Songs about various industries/industrial revolution/etc

It's probably Bulmerised and unobtainable though.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: GUEST,pavane
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 02:28 AM

Found a description on the web
here

'Songs of a Changing world'
Nic Jones, Tony Rose & Jon Raven

Titles include
Poverty Knock
The Nailmaker's strike
Hold the Fort (Union song)
The Grinders
You won't get me down in your mine

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 02:32 AM

G'day Foolestroupe,

I think I posted Snowy River, Roll a year or two back ... in response to a request - (myself, I had to sing it in the school choir ... not a good start in liking a song!)

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 02:35 AM

Oh ... Kendall,

Whose industry ... when ... where ... if not to say why? (It all helps select suitable material - or not.

Regards,

Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: fat B****rd
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 03:24 AM

How about Danny and Richard Thompson's "Industry".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: kendall
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 05:17 AM

This is for a friend, not me. I just introduced her to the Mudcat, so she will be checking this thread from time to time.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From:
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 09:52 AM

Immediate thoughts:-
Jackhammer blues (Woody, recorded in my time by Logan English)
Jackhammer John, I'm a jackhammer man
I was born with a jackhammer in my hand
I'ts lord lord got them jackhammer blues!

Dick Derby, as performed by Tommy Makem,
O me name is Dick Derby I'm a cobbler

Probably think of some more given time
regards Brian Quinn

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: alanabit
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 11:24 AM

There's that song by Woody Guthrie in which three kids watch a plane up in the sky and each one tells the others of his father's part in putting it there. Someone here is bound to come up with the title.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 11:31 AM

Tunnel Tigers by Ewan MacColl

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Roberto
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 11:56 AM

Here are the industrial ballads and songs' CDs and LPs that I know. Some of them are available, others (the LPs and some CDs) are more difficult to find.

•        Along The Coaly Tyne, Old and new Northumbrian songs, 1962 e 1976, with Louis Killen, The High Level Ranters (Topic)
•        A-Mining We Will Go, Songs of Coal, Iron, Steel & Tin (Miners & Metalworkers)(Foltrax)
•        Deep Lancashire, with Harry Boardman, Oldham Tinkers, Pete Smith etc, 1968 e 1970 (Topic)
•        Hard Cash, 1990, with Richard Thompson, Ron Kavana, Martin Carthy, The Watersons, June Tabor etc
•        If It Wisnae For The Union, STUC Centenary Album, 1996, with The Dubliners, Capercaille, Gaughan, Runrig, Gordeanna McCulloch, Christy Moore, Eric Bogle, Battlefield Band, Ewan MacColl, The McCalmans, Brian McNeill, Ceolbeg etc
•        The Iron Muse, A panorama of industrial folk music, with Ewan MacColl, Louis Killen, Dick Gaughan, The High Level Ranters, Ed Pickford, Anne Briggs, Bob Davenport etc
•        Almanac Singers, The Original Talking Union (Folways)
•        The Almanac Singers, Volume 1, Talking Union, 1941-1942 (Naxos)
•        Roy Bailey, Band of Hope, with Martin Carthy, 1994
•        Roy Bailey, Coda, 2000
•        Critcs Group, Waterloo: Peterloo
•        Dick Gaughan, True and Bold, Songs of the Scottish Miners, 1988
•        Joe Glazer, Songs of Joe Hill, 1954, Folkways
•        Ewan MacColl, Steam Whistle Ballads (+ Shuttle & Cage), Lp and Lp '10
•        Ewan MacColl, The Big Hewer, 1961, with Peggy Seeger, Ian Campbell, A.L.Lloyd, Isla Cameron, Louis Killen, Dave Swarbrick etc
•        Jon Raven, Nic Jones, Tony Rose, Songs of a Changing World
•        Jon Raven, Nic Jones etc: The Halliard / Jolly Machine
•        Pete Seeger, American Industrial Ballads, 1956 (Folkways)
•        Richard Thompson + Danny Thompson, Industry, 1997

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Cool Beans
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 12:23 PM

That Woody Guthire song about the three kids would be "Ship in the Sky." One kid's dad flies the plane, another's works at "The iron and the steel," making the raw materials for the airplane. The third kid's dad "works at that place where they land." Very sweet song about interconnectedness. Excellent verison of on "Cicso Houston Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie." .

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Roberto
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 12:49 PM

i have forgotten a recording about british railroads: Steam Ballads, with Harry Boardman, Tony Rose, etc. Not quite industrial songs, but near to.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 12:58 PM

Stan Rogers' I'm an Idiot.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: kendall
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 01:12 PM

Please folks, I am not the one who wants these songs. A friend who just discovered mudcat, thanks to me, wants them. Her addy" [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Terry K
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 01:18 PM

There's an absolute wealth on this site

Bugger - can't make the link work, but you get the message.

cheers, Terry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Mr Happy
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 01:21 PM

http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=314

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Mr Happy
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 01:28 PM

@displaysong.cfm?SongID=314

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Terry K
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 01:35 PM

Well, the clicky worked but didn't get there anyway! The site is www.folktrax.org and there is a heap of really good industrial stuff.

cheers, Terry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: alanabit
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 01:53 AM

Thanks Cool Beans. It's some time since I heard it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Susan of DT
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 04:40 AM

Search for @industry. There is also @work, but this gives mostly nonindustrial work.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 06:00 AM

If you can find it there is an excellent anthology by Karl Dallas, ' 100 Songs of Toil. '
eric

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 09:02 PM

Rosie the Riveter?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Helen
Date: 23 Jan 04 - 10:28 AM

Monica Wants to be an Engineer

The Factory, or is it called Working Life by Bruce Springsteen

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 23 Jan 04 - 11:03 AM

Two books:

Jon Raven: Victoria's Inferno

Ewan MacColl: The Shuttle and the Cage


You might even be able to find copies when you're over here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 Jan 04 - 01:00 PM

The old IWW songs such as "The Commonwealth of Toil' (coal mining)

Si Kahn's songs such as "Gonna Work on Monday One More Time" (brown lung disease)

"Pittsburgh" (What did James & Laughlin steal? Pittsburgh!); should be on Pete Seeger's INDUSTRIAL BALLADS.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wanted songs about industry
From: open mike
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 12:13 AM

i was thinking she wanted ANTI industrial ballads..Luddite songs about
the dangers of mines, mills and machines. I guess she has a different focus. I heard yesterday about a factory where 4 out of 5 workers are missing at least one finger....I forget where, but i th8ink it was in Mexico--yikes! Hard to think of the positive there...well the good thing is the other worker has all of theirs! (so far!) And those others have their other 8 or 9 digits--today any way....and this was CURRENT news, not some long ago and far away story..