The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #10091   Message #75290
Posted By: Pete peterson
03-May-99 - 10:40 AM
Thread Name: Origin:Bells of Rhymney (Idris Davies/Pete Seeger)
Subject: RE: Bells of Rhymney
I have loved Bells of Rhymney for just about 40 years now having first heard it on Pete Seeger's Folkways record-- his 1957 Carnegie Hall concert with Sonny Terry. He re-recorded it on Vanguard's Folk Music at Newport 1959, volume 1 and had greatly complicated the guitar accompaniment. A friend of mine, knowing my fascination with the song, once travelled all through Wales (he had traveled through Britain and most parts of Wales) sendine me postcards from each of the towns. . . does anyone besides me make the connection with 1984 and Winston Smith's befuddled attempt to remember the first four lines of the Oranges and Lemons rhyme? PETE