Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: Tattie Bogle Date: 24 Jul 24 - 12:27 PM At least it was correct on the album notes, Robin! I used to enjoy singing Dead Dog Scrumpy, as my usual tipple for sessions would be cider! |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Date: 22 Jul 24 - 04:07 AM Please note spelling should be "Bridgwater" (Somerset) above. Robin |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST,Liz Veal Date: 21 Jul 24 - 12:53 PM I knew Trevor when he was a student at Trinity College, Dublin, in the mid 1960s, He was part of a rich folk music scene. I learned so much from him, and I also from many other superb Dublin singers of that time. Trev visited me in Cambridge and occasionally I saw him in London,. Years went by and I was working in Malawi, when someone on the ex-pat network alerted me to an Englishman called Crozier living on a tobacco plantation a day’s drive from Blantyre. It was indeed Trev so I drove out to meet him. The tobacco farm was truly extraordinary, run by two very elderly and wildly eccentric relatives. Nothing seemed to have changed since they built the wooden farmhouse (rather like a rather grand African hut) sometime around 1900 . It might have been earlier. The old people were irascible and probably certifiable. Trev ran the farm. He had some interesting friends out there. I particularly remember being introduced to the local Magistrate and being taken to the ex-pat Club by him and Trev. The Magistrate was a young black Malawian and he visited the Club regularly to enforce the law that it should be open to people of any colour. He (and we) got a chilly welcome. The white « Old Guard » were downright offensive. But there was nothing they could do. The Magistrate had the power of life and death in that area. I have so many great memories of singing with Trevor and some of his songs are still in my repertoire. I’m getting on now, and next week I shall be in a recording studio laying down a few tracks while I’ve still got a voice. Looking at the list, I realise that I’ve been singing songs learned from Trevor for over sixty years. |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: Charley Noble Date: 20 Mar 19 - 08:33 PM Here's the link to how I sing "Dead Dog Scrumpy" which I first heard in a smoky backroom in Bristol, the Scotia Tavern I believe: Click here for a good time! Cheerily, Charlie Ipcar |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: Charley Noble Date: 20 Mar 19 - 08:29 PM Trevor is certainly someone who I would have liked to have met, and thanked for his songs. Given his "absence," I'll thank Nemesis instead. I still sing a version of "Dead Dog Scrumpy" but in the Southern Appalachian style with an added chorus that I'd like to think would have brought a smile to Trevor's face. Cheerily, Charlie Ipcar |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: John MacKenzie Date: 20 Mar 19 - 05:13 PM So did I |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST Date: 20 Mar 19 - 12:44 PM Thanks for that Henry. I ordered it straight away. Roger |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST,henryp Date: 18 Mar 19 - 05:26 PM Epona Records 28 February 2019 The new Epona release is now in the Epona Warehouse. "Farewell He" is a tribute to the late Trevor Crozier and contributors include Maddy Prior, Mike Harding, Lea Nicholson & Naomi Randall, Vic Gammon, Benny Graham, John The Fish, The Druids, Liz Dyer, Shelley Rainey, Feminata Inebriata, The Giles Farnaby Nightmare Band, The Whole Hog Band, Joe Beard and Gerry Robinson. Great value for money with 25 tracks. Available to order now from the shop at www.eponarecords.com |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: Vic Smith Date: 03 Aug 18 - 08:33 AM A song of Trevor's that I particularly remember was the The Piddlethentride Jug Band. I think that Tony Rose recorded it and it became very popular at the time. In a way it is a silly comedy piece but look at the structure and the rhyming patterns and you will find that it is quite clever:- I always planned to make this band |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST Date: 03 Aug 18 - 07:28 AM Nemesis. Thanks for that. I’ll wait impatiently for the tribute! Roger |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST,Nemesis Date: 02 Aug 18 - 07:16 PM Poynton album is "Trouble Over Bridgewater" Trouble Over Bridgewater - recorded at Poynton folk club |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST,Nemesis Date: 02 Aug 18 - 07:05 PM Vectis ... hahaha, yes that probably is Trevor .. I remember as a naive teenager who'd met and palled up with Trev (friends until the end eventually) in 1978ish ... he'd come up with various 'gig' trip invites which involved for example: the pitch dark at midnight trying to hitch lifts a 100 miles home; in the pitch dark, complete strangers' taking us to their homes in the middle of nowhere, at 1am because they'd kindly taken pity on us after a gig; in the pouring wet and dark of a winter's afternoon knocking on his producer Kev's London door:(Trev, "He'll put us up... ") ... to be met at the door by,(Kev) "My f****** wife's just left me!!". Oops. Roger: Ciaran ...hm, he's fantastically smart, hardworking ... and frequently loses his front door keys. Also, he adores music and like his dad,sings very flat. Just spoke with Joe Beard - and there's a big 'Trevor' tribute CD project going down ... involving some luminous contemporaries of Trev's. Not sure if I'm allowed to say more right now, but Mudcat'll be first to know!! |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: vectis Date: 31 Jul 18 - 11:16 PM Is this the guy who was, basically, homeless and would try and stay with club "hosts" until his next gig? If so he is a legend of the folk scene. |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST Date: 31 Jul 18 - 03:35 PM It’s good to hear that Trevor has a son. I sincerely hope he’s as daft as his Dad. I knew Trev during his ‘sojourn’ in the Poynton area in the seventies. He installed himself occasionally in our flat for a time and also stayed for quite a while with a local lad called Chris Wainwright. Trev partnered up with Joe Beard of Purple Gang fame, and along with other daft buggers recorded a live album, at Poynton Folk Club, the name of which I can’t remember. We had a band which gloried in the name of ‘ Lord Longford’s Eleven’- another of Trevs wonderful inventions. If Joe is still about, I’m sure he can give a better account of that dime than I can. Thanks for clearing up what actually happened to Trev. Roger |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: Nemesis Date: 31 Jul 18 - 11:51 AM Hi, Very late to come to this thread ... I'm Trevor's son Ciaran's kind-of 'foster-mum' altho he's a strapping lad over 6 feet and is 30 soon. Trevor was killed on his motorbike, in a hit and run in MALAWI, Central Africa (where I also lived, although had returned to UK by the time of his death) Trevor went out there in 1979 to his family's small tobacco growing estate. I'd met Trevor in Worthing, south coast, where before he left for Malawi he'd run a weekly folk night "Sing With A Skinful" he called. Awesome entertainment from Trev - a funny, multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist - with great pro and semi-pro musicians from all over who'd turn up and play because he was Trev. Very sadly missed friend and a musician and entertainer who - IMO, as I've wept silenty into my ale - could wipe the floor with many so-called 'multi-talented' acts I've since been an audience for. |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: Vic Smith Date: 04 Aug 17 - 03:55 PM I used to see Trevor quite often at folk clubs in the 1960s, booked him a few times as well. He never seemed to be able to decide whether he was a serious musician recording with the likes of Vic Gammon in the aforementioned GF Dream Band or a comic songwriter. To my mind his real talent was for writing and performing really clever comic songs with some awful rhymes. The one I remember best, probably his best known song, was If the Piddlethentride Jug Band Hits the Charts. Lyrics at https://mainlynorfolk.info/tony.rose/songs/thejugbandmadethecharts.html |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST Date: 04 Aug 17 - 12:40 PM I remember Trevor Crozier when he was attending Trinity College, Dublin in the mid sixties. I remember him singing "My father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light". He had great personality on stage and people loved him. |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST Date: 22 Sep 16 - 03:23 PM fondly remember propping the bar up for a weekend with Trevor at Cambridge Folk Festival - 1975 or 76. Loved his song "We've got a new landlord in our village pub..." |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST Date: 07 Apr 16 - 12:11 PM "Pastime With Gopof Company" should read "Pastime With Good Company". Also, I am not implying King Henry the Eighth wrote "Ratcliffe Highway". |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST Date: 01 Apr 16 - 11:12 AM I always believed Trevor Crozier died in an accident some years ago; from this thread, it appears to be the late 1990s. By a sad coincidence another member of a "Scrumpy and Western" band (I am asuming Trevor Crozier sang with the "Yetties", Adge Cutler of the Worzels, was I think also killed in a car accident (or was it a combine harvester?!) though I think this was before Trevor Crozier. I first heard of Trevor Crozier on the vinyl albun "Giles Farnaby's Dream Band" - I think he is mentioned as being part of the Folk Trip "Broken Consort" (the album content is mostly instrumentals going back in some cases as far as 1651, but there are several songs including "The Helston Furry Dance", which is the progenitor of "The Floral Dance", Pastime With Gopof Company, which some believe was written by King Henry the Eighth, probably while he was writing his little-known book "Making Marriage Work", and "Ratcliffe Highway"), but also have another vinyl album with songs by Trevor Crozier. This contains generally light-hearted songs like "Dead Dog Scrumpy", "Don't Tell I, Tell 'Ee", "Lamorna", etc. |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST Date: 13 Feb 16 - 10:03 AM Who was Margie Fearn ? |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST Date: 10 Apr 15 - 12:39 PM Does anyone remember Margie Fearn who used to sing with Trevor Crozier. She could sing the blues. Jake Harries |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: Vic Smith Date: 06 Mar 15 - 06:25 AM " a tea planter in Malayar " I believe it was was Kenya - and it might have been coffee. |
Subject: RE: Help: Where is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST,Dave Sampson Date: 05 Mar 15 - 07:27 PM From what the Yetties told I Trevor became a tea planter in Malayar became ill and died about 20 years ago |
Subject: RE: Help: Were is Trevor Crozier From: Liberty Boy Date: 04 Sep 10 - 07:03 AM I'm amazed that you're still around Jake. God be with The Neptune and The Prentice Folk! |
Subject: RE: Help: Were is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST,Jake Harries Date: 04 Sep 10 - 04:45 AM RIP old mate |
Subject: RE: Help: Were is Trevor Crozier From: GUEST,GUEST Tom Munnelly Date: 26 Sep 00 - 02:33 PM Regret to inform you that Trevor was killed in a motor bike accident in Africa a couple of years ago. |
Subject: Were is Trevor Crozier? From: GUEST,Ken Galipeau Date: 26 Sep 00 - 11:18 AM Can anyone tell me how to contact Trevor Crozier? |
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