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Thread #146595   Message #3754375
Posted By: The Sandman
29-Nov-15 - 03:29 AM
Thread Name: Can a pop song become traditional?
Subject: RE: Can a pop song become traditional?
here is some of Walters Repertoire
Cover photo by Sylvia PitcherMT CD 305:

    Cupid the Ploughboy
    A Country Life
    The Poor Smuggler's Boy
    I'm Yorkshire Though in London
    Seventeen Come Sunday
    The Parson and the Clerk
    Blow the Winds I-O
    Hold the Fort
    All Among the Barley
    Black-Eyed Susan
    Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold
    Lord Lovel
    The Skipper and his Boy
    Thornaby Woods
    An Old Man's Advice
    If I Were a Blackbird
    The Bonny Bunch of Roses-O
    The Green Bushes
    Polly Vaughan
    The Saucy Sailor
    Little Ball of Yarn
    The Huntsman

MT CD 306:

    Put a Bit of Powder on it, Father
    The Cuckoo
    Old Joe the Boat is Going Over
    Cock-a-Doodle-Do
    The Harland Road / Wheel Your P'rambulator
    Ben Bolt
    Uncle Walter's Tune
    Two Lovely Black Eyes
    Alice Grey
    Rosin-a-Beau
    Not for Joseph, Not for Joe
    The Old Armchair
    The Marble Arch
    Wake Up Johnny / When the Cock begins to Crow / Saving Them All for Mary / Down by the Old Abbey Ruins
    The Mistletoe Bough
    On a See-Saw
    Your Faithful Sailor Boy
    Here's to the Grog
    Nancy Lee
    Up the Chimney Pot / Slave Driving Farmers / Bound to Emigrate to New Zealand
    Husband Taming
    Uncle Walter's March
    If I Ever Get Drunk Again
    Naughty Jemima Brown
    The Dandy Man
    For Me, For Me
    While Shepherds Watched

so apart from those I have mentioned before in my last post, We also have, While Shepherds Watched, Two lovely black eyes, NOT FOR JOSEPH NOT FOR JOE. WALTER HAD AT LEAST 8 SONGS IN HIS REPERTOIRE THAT WERE NOT TRADITIONAL SONGS.