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Thread #99106 Message #1971667
Posted By: r.padgett
18-Feb-07 - 12:36 PM
Thread Name: Songs about Yorkshire & Lancashire
Subject: RE: Origins: Yorkshire / Lancashire
Bruce apparently it should be Tommy Daniel and Poverty Knocks!
See the 's' I know I had it that way round until I went see Mick Haywood!
Young Simon John
T'Owd farmer and his Shrew (Mary O Mary)
Owd Jim Slack
Poverty Knocks
All Mick's Batley songs
Arthur Howard/Will Noble
such as:
Merry Mountain Child
Homfirth Anthem
Bright Shiny Morning
Bill Brown
Frank Hinchliffe (Sheffield) trad source singer some fine songs collected and sung by Frank over many years
such as:
Sheffield Park
Edward
Nobleman and Thresher
Old Wooden Rocker
Arthur Wood (Middlesborough)
John Greaves (to my mind a traditional singer with some recently recorded songs for TYG) many I have never heard before
John's at Saddleworth again for the War of the Roses
A number of Industrial songs from Sheffield area:
such as
Sheffield Grinders (see Paul Davenport's collection)
West Riding songs
Cropper Lads
Foster's Mill
All of Hudleston Collection
Ray