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Thread #75851   Message #1337267
Posted By: Peace
23-Nov-04 - 11:42 PM
Thread Name: Recording Req: SOLDIER, SOLDIER, WILL YO
Subject: RE: Recording Req: SOLDIER, SOLDIER, WILL YO
FF-2209 - SARAH MAKEM (colour 1977/ 18 mins) - A sensitive film by David Hammond of the Ulster folksinger, of Keady, Co Armagh, born 18th October 1900 and died April 20th 1983. Peter Kennedy recorded her in 1952 and used her "As I roved out" for the signature tune for a weekly Sunday morning radio programme that ran for nearly 15 years. Songs in this film include As I roved out, False Lover, Keady Town, The Banks of the Roses (Murder Ballad), Soldier Soldier will you marry me now? (sung by her son, Tommy with banjo guitar & drum), Our ship she's ready to bear away. (See also CD#161)

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FOLKFILMS ON DVD-R
... PK used to teach in the 1960s) performed a ... family, taking part in the BBC radio programme ...
of the Roses (Murder Ballad), Soldier Soldier will you marry me now? ...
www.folktrax.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/menus/folkfilms.htm