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Thread #74120   Message #1649512
Posted By: GUEST
16-Jan-06 - 09:44 AM
Thread Name: North Staffordshire songs
Subject: RE: North Staffordshire songs
My father Alan Wagg was a regular at the Red Lion FC back in the 60s
and we had a copy of "Stoke Folk" as an LP for many years. It is
obvious that this is very similar, if not an alternative pressing, to
the LP that has been referred to elsewhere in the thread.   He and I
now have the CD which combines the original recording with the Keele
Rag records of a number of years.

Dad and Brian Berrington (not Bebbington) often played together and
it was Brian who sang "On The Club" and "Boslem Wakes", which is presumably what was meant by "Blackpool Treat". It was my understanding that "Uncle" Brian wrote both songs but ICBW. Before anyone performs either song, perhaps they would like to check with
him. He lives at Boundary between Cheadle and Blythe Bridge, with his
wife Kay who also appears on the record.

Brian also appears on the record as his alter ego Albert Twemlow,
accompanying Kay and ANO on "Plougman Lad". That is also the name
he used in "On The Club", although I believe that the original name
was that of some bone idle local politician of the time but he changed
it to avoid any possibility of legal action.