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Mary Humphreys Lyr Req: Songs from the East Anglia fenlands (16) RE: Lyr Req: Songs from the East Anglia fenlands 28 Jan 11


There are some really good songs:
Harold Covill - Happy Families, William Taylor
Ernest Jeffrey - All Jolly Fellows that Follows the Plough
that were recorded by Peter Kennedy for the BBC & released on the Folktrax label during the 50s or 60s - I can't remember which.
They are no longer commercially available, but there are tape recordings in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at Cecil Sharp House. Well worth a listen.Plenty of others, Anna Bidder - recorded & published by Fred Hamer ( also in C# House. )
The Vaughan Williams songs collected in 1906-8 - Roy Palmer published several in his various books. None were recorded except on paper. The MS notebooks are in the British Library, and available to see & touch.Microfilm in C#H.
Cecil Sharp collected songs in 1911 from Ely, Littleport & one or two other places - they were published in Maud Karpeles' 2-volume work - also available in C#H. Again, not recorded on phonograph.His notebook are in Clare College archives, available to look at & study by arrangement.
Ella Bull from Cottenham (partly in asssociation with Percy Merrick) collected loads of songs - from 1904 onwards - from servants & family acquaintances. She would have published them in the FSJ if they hadn't been so hard to notate musically ( many were in 5/4 time - rather obscure for a novice musician.) All in the Lucy Broadwood archives in C#H - worth a look. PM me for further details.


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