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02 Jul 09 - 06:16 AM (#2669565) Subject: Folklore: Beaux of London City Morris Men From: Jack Blandiver As espied dancing in Paddington Station in the 1974 BBC documentary Vivian Stanshall's Week - currently on YouTube in 3 parts, the Beaux appears in part three, in the sequence beginning around 1.02: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0U1AeS5Cow Anyone information would be most welcome! |
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02 Jul 09 - 11:38 AM (#2669795) Subject: RE: Folklore: Beaux of London City Morris Men From: Tug the Cox The dance looks lioke the Brackley version of Beaux of London City. |
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02 Jul 09 - 12:50 PM (#2669871) Subject: RE: Folklore: Beaux of London City Morris Men From: pavane I wonder if they know that I found the song on which the dance (Beaux of London city) was based? |
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02 Jul 09 - 03:07 PM (#2670002) Subject: RE: Folklore: Beaux of London City Morris Men From: Tug the Cox Have heard that myself. Don't know which came first though....do your reaearches shed any light? |
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03 Jul 09 - 04:52 AM (#2670425) Subject: RE: Folklore: Beaux of London City Morris Men From: Mitch the Bass I'm in the film! I'd forgotten all about it until I saw the clip. As far as I remember we were asked, and paid, to go to Paddington Station one evening. The whole sequence filmed involved us wearing bowler hats and carrying umbrellas and brief cases, getting off a train, changing the hats and umbrellas for sticks and morris hats (you can see that at the beginning of the sequence), dancing, then changing back and marching off down the tube. You can see in the last shot that we're wearing different hats. The dance in the shot is Beaux of London City from Brackley. I can identify a few of the people, John Richie (d) on fiddle, Rod Stradling on accordion, Dancers - Bruce Webley, Graham Cole, Mervyn Clayton, John How (I think) and yours truly, Howard Mitchell, in the horse. Mitch www.hgmitchell.co.uk |
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03 Jul 09 - 05:38 AM (#2670454) Subject: RE: Folklore: Beaux of London City Morris Men From: Jack Blandiver Thanks for that, Mitch. |