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Thread #133777   Message #3038500
Posted By: Jim Carroll
23-Nov-10 - 04:23 AM
Thread Name: Info on Ned Adams
Subject: RE: Info on Ned Adams
This, from the BBC index of folk songs
The index credits him with only two songs, Bold Princess Royal and The Girl Raking Hay, though it's always been my opinion that a singer of such calibre must have known more but, due to the 'headhunting' nature of the BBC's mopping up campaign, they never spent enough time with him to find out what he knew.
Jim Carroll

"ADAMS, Ned ('Wintry')
Singer. Old Town, Hastings, Sussex. 13.11.54 and March 1962.
Edward Frederick Adams, born 19.2.02. Has been all his life a fisherman and for a number of years coxswain of the local lifeboat. Inherits a true traditional style of ballad singing from father and grandfather. Learned 'The Bold Princess Royal' from an old fisherman called 'Doctor' Gallop, with whom he went-to sea at the end of the First World War. Since recording he has gone to live with a married daughter in Australia. The collector, Bob Copper, gives a lively account of finding him and persuading him to sing in Copper: Songs and Southern Breezes, pp. 60-66."