Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song from BBC1 Ballad of the North West
From: Ian Hendrie
Date: 08 Feb 12 - 01:06 PM

An audio recording of The Great Lead Rush featuring Bullock Smithy has been uploaded to http://www.waterwaysongs.co.uk/Archive_Recordings/Great_Lead_Rush.mp3.

I have had this recording for many years but can no longer remember when it was recorded. As the end of the recording runs into an account of local folk festivals I am tempted to deduce that this is a recording of a radio programme rather than the TV series.

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Apparently this featured on a Folkweave programme from Wadebrudge F.F.:

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=0&q=The+Great+Lead+Rush

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BBC Radio 2

22 January 1976 20.02

Folkweave

Tony Capstick Introduces recordings made of the club residents from the Centre Folk Club. Portsmouth

The Great Lead Rush written and narrated by KEN CAMPBELL , with
Folkweave

Tony Capstick Introduces recordings made of the club residents from the Centre Folk Club. Portsmouth

The Great Lead Rush written and narrated by KEN CAMPBELL , with the music provided by BULLOCK SMITHY and BRENDA WOOTTON recorded at the Wadebridge Festival News from the Folk World

Producer PETER PILBEAM BBC Manchester

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Sadly it is known that the Folkweave masters were junked into skip by BBC Radio Manchester - they were found digitised but then the finder dropped contact. They are gone for good.

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CJB