The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #75727   Message #1333705
Posted By: Joe Offer
20-Nov-04 - 01:02 PM
Thread Name: Mary Ann Humphreys
Subject: RE: Mary Ann Humphreys
She was started in "BS," Les, but I moved her up here and combined her with your thread.

John, is the Palmer book Bushes and Briars: Folk Songs Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams? In Palmer's notes for "The Golden Glove" in that book, he says that Mrs. Humphrys (note spelling) was either 72 or 75 years old when Vaughan Williams transcribed her singing in 1904. I didn't find anything in the book that tolk more about her - but VW's transcriptions of her songs may also appear in other books, I gather.

-Joe Offer-