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Thread #121141 Message #2645630
Posted By: Rifleman (inactive)
01-Jun-09 - 11:56 AM
Thread Name: Kate Rusby - 'My Music'
Subject: RE: Kate Rusby - 'My Music'
"Bert lloyd claimed in 1952[That was before Stalins deathin 1953 ]that he had collected the song,the mindset of many communists at this time was the end justifies the means."
Bert Lloyd would have claimed he invented the wheel as well, but someone else had already done that.
Ashley Hutchings noted on the liner notes for Hark! The Village Wait about The Blackleg Miner
"It is strange that a song as powerful and as singable as this should be so rare, yet it has only once been collected, from a man in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, in 1949."
and
"This is the most modern traditional song on the album, possibly dating from the early part of the 20th Century...."
Hardly surprising considering it is thought that Lloyd wrote the song himself.