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Thread #65481   Message #3934472
Posted By: Jim Carroll
30-Jun-18 - 07:05 PM
Thread Name: Worst singing accent.
Subject: RE: Worst singing accent.
It's not a matter of them being used Dick - anybody is welcome to do that anyway - it's a matter of them being preserved as performances.
THey will be archived as part of our collection of course, but it would be a tribute to the memory of the storytellers and especially to their families to see them circulated widely
We used a couple when Malcolm Taylor was Librarian at Cecil Sharp House established a series of Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Cassettes - now sadly discontinued
The first was one of our recordings of Travellers; "Early in the Month of Spring"; then one on British and Irish Storytellers, '...and That's My Story; next, Malcolm and I edited selections from the Fred Hamer collection, 'Leaves of Life', then one of Yorkshire Singers, "Will's Barn" and finally a Fred Jordan Cassette.

It was a great series - Malcolm got no credit for it and 'them upstairs' finally sat on the project.   
If we can't get a book of these stories published - that type of thing would do just as well.
THere doesn't seem the interest in the U.K. nowadays
We'll see
Jim Carroll