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Thread #16369   Message #152061
Posted By: JTT
20-Dec-99 - 03:55 PM
Thread Name: Help: Ulster Protestant music
Subject: Ulster Protestant music
I've had no answers to this under a less obvious heading, so am reposting - sorry if this irritates anyone.

I've just been listening to an old EP of songs sung by Richard Hayward and the Loyal Brethren - old Orange songs, recorded I'd say in the 1960s. The name of the publisher was Beltona Records in London, and the name of the record was Orange and Blue.

Does anyone know where I can get more of the same?

I also heard, some years ago, really beautiful singing by Ulster Protestant choirs of four or five men singing together in a kind of barbershop quintet effect - singing hymns like "Jesus is the Lighthouse". I've never been able to track down any of these records - apparently they sold, or sell, through Ian Paisley's churches, though where I heard them was in Big Tom's recording studio.