In reply to
Gene Burton
Date: 18 Feb 08 - 01:53 PM .
Actually, I think most people who sing Cyril Tawney songs learned/adapted them from the singing of others (eg. in clubs, etc.), largely because that's almost the only context in which his songs can be readily heard these days (anybody tried to get hold of his recordings of his own songs in recent years?? You don't find them in HMV). I've known Sally Free and Easy and several other Tawney compositions for many years, but only heard the original recording for the first time last week on Youtube.


After the current project of going through a large amount of unreleased and wonderful Tony Rose material, I will be getting together with Rosemary very shortly to do the same with a whole bunch of Cyrils unreleased recordings.
We will also be making available a one hour interview with Tony talking to Cyril about five years ago. Its absolutely riveting.