The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #83520   Message #1535610
Posted By: Abby Sale
05-Aug-05 - 10:10 AM
Thread Name: happy? - Aug 5 (Brigg Fair)
Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 5 (Brigg Fair)
Yes, I'd forgotten. It's surprisingly good, to. I'm happy to have mp3s of the whole. It's on Leader, unfortunately. Has any reader any gossip of the Leader catalog being reissued. I've been seening rumors but none lately.

From the liner notes, FYI:

"Horkstow Grange"
Sung by George Gouldthorpe and recorded on a wax cylinder for Percy Grainger in 1908. (See text at #B5 below)

Note from the Unto Brigg Fair LP sleeve: In his manuscripts, Grainger notes that John Bowling was a foreman on a farm at Horkstow and John 'Steeleye' Span a waggoner under his control. Thus "him and his man" in line three should be understood as "... his foreman". In the first line, "miser' might be just a derogatory epithet though not necessarily so. No other versions of this song are known and it does not appear to have been issued on broadsides in the district or even in adjacent areas where printers were more active.