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Thread #7910   Message #48325
Posted By: Bob Bolton
06-Dec-98 - 07:22 PM
Thread Name: BBC Radio Ballads by Ewan MacColl/Chas. Parker
Subject: RE: BBC Radio Ballads by Ewan MacColl/Chas. Parker
G'day Steve,

I have about a few of them in my vinyl shelves - off the top off my head there should be: The Ballad of John Axon (the original from c. 1959) Singing the Fishing (Herring fishing - possibly the programme that most affected folk revivalists) The Travelling People (Gypsies, Tinkers &c) The Boxing Game (eponymous) The Big Hewer (coal mining) Song of a Road (building the M1 - this I heard first on radio ~mid 1960s, in Tasmania while I was working in the big construction game, so it has a great relevance to me personally).

There may be more ... I will see how far I need to excavate tonight! I know that there was one about disturbed teenagers that I never saw in the shops here in Australia. I think the material and the techniques hold up quite well and I would love to see (and hear) them on CD. I know there was at least one MacColl/Seeger LP record just of songs from the Radio Ballads.

Regards,

Bob Bolton