BBC London Folk Song Cellar

Subject: RE: BBC London Folk Song Cellar
From: Little Robyn
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 06:49 PM

? - Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya (incomplete)
? - Whup Jamboree

I think both were done by Colin Wilkie and Shirley Hart.

Robyn

Subject: RE: BBC London Folk Song Cellar
From: Little Robyn
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 06:37 PM

We've got some! All of those and maybe more but still on reel to reel tape. Mitch says he must do something about them - one day.
We learnt many of the songs we sang back then from the programmes that were played around midnight on a Saturday night, in 68 and 69.
Paul Metsers was in that flat in Wellington, NZ then too.
Happy days, fond memories and lots of good material that wasn't otherwise available in this part of the world.
That's when I first heard the Northumbrian pipes - played by Colin Ross and Forster Charlton, and it took me 4 years before I managed to find a set for myself. Ray Fisher sang on that programme too - 'The Lum hat wantin' a croon' if I remember correctly. Also Charlie Bate singing the Padstow May song and the Sweet Nightingale.
It's a treasure trove if you can find them.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BBC London Folk Song Cellar
From: mikesamwild
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 08:20 AM

A great resource , takes me back

Thanks !

Subject: RE: BBC London Folk Song Cellar
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 08:16 AM

BBC Radio's London Folk Song Cellar - compered by Scottish folk duo Robin Hall & Jimmie Macgregor * - dates from the mid-1960s. This now largely unknown radio series was produced by the BBC World Service and distributed worldwide on acetate discs by the Transcription Service of the BBC. These latter disks are now long gone - usually junked for lack of storage - but were mainly distributed to overseas broadcasting corporations for late night transmission aimed at British ex-patriots. The series was also transmitted on shortwave. Most of these recordings were RadioRipped direct from the BBC World Service on shortwave (hence the poorish quality). They are over 45 years old. The actual dates of transmission are also long forgotten.

* For Robin Hall & Jimmie Macgregor see:

http://www.theballadeers.com/scots/hm_01.htm

These 30 min. programmes recorded in London emulated the ambience and sounds of the folk clubs of the 1960s that were predominant at the start of the British folk song, music and dance revival of that period. The performers included such pioneering luminaries as the Young Tradition, the Dubliners, Cyril Tawney, Sandy Denny, the High Level Ranters, and a host of others from those times.

The recordings uploaded here were RadioRipped onto reel-reel 1/4" tape and have now been passed onto a collector, before that though they were transcribed onto cassette tape, these were then in turn digitised to MP3. It is thought that it is best to present these latter recordings just as they are (or were) on the cassette tapes. These recordings are quite unique and probably do not exist elsewhere. If anyone wishes to try and reconstruct the original 30 min. programmes then if the original lists of performances can be found in the BBC archives then Audacity could do that.

And if anyone knows where other copies of the BBC London Folk Song Cellar exist please do let us know.

And there was also the inimitable Sandy Denny, see:

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/unsung/topic/42592/

Note that from the Sandy Denny reference it appears that the BBC London Folk Song Cellar was superceded by similar programme called 'A Cellar Full of Folk' (BBC World Service) of which there are (currently in 2010) no known extant recordings in the public domain.

Subject: RE: BBC London Folk Song Cellar
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 08:13 AM

Further references can be found at:

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/sound/radio/world/world.html

Quote: "The British folk revival of the 1950s and 60s was documented at its peak in BBC Radio's London Folk Song Cellar (1966-??). Recorded live in the basement of Cecil Sharp House (the HQ of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London), this key series juxtaposed the mature work of the first generation revivalists (Martin Carthy, Shirley Collins) with that of younger performers such as Sandy Denny during an important period of transition." Unquote.

Subject: RE: BBC London Folk Song Cellar
From: pavane
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 08:08 AM

That looks very interesting. Dated around 1967-1968?

Subject: BBC London Folk Song Cellar
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 07:13 AM

There are seven hours worth of 'live' recordings on TheBox.bz

Included are:

http://thebox.bz/details.php?id=135280

The Yetties - The Maypole
The Yetties - The Mallard
Isla Cameron - Bobby Shaftoe
Isla Cameron - The Wars of Germany
Roy Guest - Did You Ever See Such a Funny Thing Before?
Roy Guest - Kellyburn Braes
Roy Guest - Captain Kidd (incomplete)

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The Spinners - Maggie May (show intro)
The Spinners - Three Jovial Welshmen
The Spinners - Liza
The Spinners - Hosanna
Robin Hall & Jimmie McGregor - Camp in the Country (incomplete)
Mike Blakeman, Patrick & Rosemary Small - I Will Give My Love an Apple
Mike Blakeman, Patrick & Rosemary Small - Sylvie
Noel Murphy - Courtin' in the Kitchen
Noel Murphy - Whiskey in the Jar
The Spinners - The Docker's Way
The Spinners - Whiskey on a Sunday

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http://thebox.bz/details.php?id=135314

? - Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya (incomplete)
? - Whup Jamboree
Robin Hall - ?
Robin Hall & Jimmie McGregor - Donald Don
The Young Tradition - Chicken on a Raft (incomplete)
The Young Tradition - Blow The Man Down
The Young Tradition - Butter and Cheese and All
The Young Tradition - The Birmingham Man
Joanne Hindley Smith - Farewell To Nova Scotia
Joanne Hindley Smith - She's Like A Swallow
Joanne Hindley Smith - Ballad of the Bluenose
Robin Hall & Jimmie McGregor - Nancy Whiskey
Alex Campbell - The False Bride
Alex Campbell - Mairi's Wedding
Alex Campbell - Bonnie Ship The Diamond
The Young Tradition - Claudie's Banks
The Young Tradition - General Taylor
The Young Tradition - Chicken on a Raft (fades out)
Ian Campbell Folk Group - Twa Recruiting Sergeants
Ian Campbell Folk Group - Johnny Black?
Ian Campbell Folk Group - Blow Boys Blow
Anne Briggs - A Bower in My Breast
Robin Hall & Jimmie McGregor - The Enniskillen Dragoons
Johnny Handle - The Kye Come Hyem
Johnny Handle - Drunken Bella Roy
Johnny Handle - The Trepanner Song
? - Chevy Chase (instrumental)
? - Nancy Till (instrumental)
Anne Briggs - Polly Vaughan
Ian Campbell Folk Group - The Gypsy Rover

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http://thebox.bz/edit.php?id=135315

Dave Swarbrick ? - Way Stormalong John
? - George Washington Bridge
? - Delia's Gone
Gareth Francis Group - ?
Gareth Francis Group - Cosher Bailey's Engine
Gareth Francis Group - Milgi Milgi
Nigel Denver - The Twa Corbies
Nan Fleming-Williams & Denny Smith - Singing The Travels
Robin Hall & Jimmie McGregor - Brian O'Lynn
Shirley Collins - Cambridgeshire May Carol
Shirley Collins - Hardly Think I Will
John Foreman - The Winkle Song
John Foreman - Why Does The Winkle Have To Turn To The Right?
Nan Fleming-Williams & Denny Smith - The Piper's Weird
Nan Fleming-Williams & Denny Smith - The De'il Among The Tailors
Nigel Denver - The Bleacher Lass O' Kelvinhaugh
Gareth Francis Group - Ar Lan y Môr
Gareth Francis Group - Roll Alabama Roll
The Four Folk - The Derby Ram
The Four Folk - The Old Lady All Skin And Bone
The Four Folk - All For Me Grog
Felicity Johnson - When I Was No But Sweet Sixteen (incomplete)

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5till to be indexed ...

http://thebox.bz/details.php?id=135316
http://thebox.bz/details.php?id=135317
http://thebox.bz/details.php?id=135318
http://thebox.bz/details.php?id=135397

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