Lyr Req: Muckin' o' Geordie's Byre (Andy Stewart)

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From: Snuffy
Date: 04 Aug 03 - 07:01 PM

Wasn't Strwberry Fair by Antony Newley?

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From: GUEST
Date: 04 Aug 03 - 02:34 PM

What does burr mean ?   I suppose I have one ?

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From: Watson
Date: 04 Aug 03 - 12:01 PM

Cobber - Dark Island

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From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 04 Aug 03 - 10:49 AM

I have a Ewan MacColl recording of "The Muckin of Geordie's Byre".

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From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 04 Aug 03 - 09:18 AM

This thread is creeping further away, BUT...wasn't the comedy version of Strawberry Fair Bernard Cribbins?
Recently revived threads on both Paddy Roberts & Bernard C.

RtS

Subject: RE: Does anyone have this recording'
From: Snuffy
Date: 04 Aug 03 - 08:16 AM

Paddy Roberts wrote The Ballad of Bethnal Green, and his is the only recording I remember.

But that doesn't mean Andy Stewart didn't record it!

Subject: RE: Does anyone have this recording'
From: musicmick
Date: 04 Aug 03 - 12:54 AM

I have been offered a copy of the very recording I asked about. I am convinced that my contact with Mudcat is the the most useful tool a folksinger can have.
p.s. Does this mean that Andy Stewart did not sing Bethnel Green?

Subject: RE: Does anyone have this recording'
From: Brakn
Date: 03 Aug 03 - 08:22 PM

'A Scottish Soldier' enterred the charts 12th Jan 1961. Highest position it got to was 19.

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From: cobber
Date: 03 Aug 03 - 07:59 PM

I think it was around 1961 that it came out. We bought a copy of course because my father was an ex-Argyll & Sutherland Highlander and the piper played "Scottish Soldier" (as we knew it then)at my father's funeral. As an aside, we saw Andy Stewart when he came to Melbourne in the sixties. He introduced his accordionist to play a solo tune that he (the accordionist) had written. It was the tune "Dark Island" that most session players these days is traditional. Can anyone remember the accordionist's name?

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From: sheila
Date: 03 Aug 03 - 06:31 PM

The flip side was most definitely 'A Scottish Soldier'. It was an EMI release "made by Electical and Musical Industries Ltd. in Gt Britain". I believe it came out sometime in the 1950s. I can't believe I was actually able to find my copy!

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From: musicmick
Date: 03 Aug 03 - 03:52 PM

Is there anything that Mudcatters don't know? I thought that the flip side was "Strawberry Fair" but I haven't been right yet.
Wasn't it Andy Stewart who sang "Bethnel Green"?

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From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 03 Aug 03 - 08:42 AM

My Grandad was a great fan of Andy Stewart, and we grew up listening to the 45's when we visited on a Sunday afternoon.
It's a long time since I heard them though!
Quack!
GtD.

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From: Jim McLean
Date: 03 Aug 03 - 06:59 AM

The first line should read 'Such a stramash was there to see', a stramash being a commotion or uproar.
There is a CD on Music For Pleasure EMI The Andy Stewart Collection, CDMFP 5700.
Slainte,
Jim McLean

Subject: RE: Does anyone have this recording'
From: Metchosin
Date: 03 Aug 03 - 02:53 AM

Musicmic, it was Andy Stewart. The Muckin o' Geordie's Byre was on the flip side of the 45 RPM recording of Scottish Soldier. I think I still might have it, I'll send a PM.

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From: masato sakurai
Date: 03 Aug 03 - 01:55 AM

Info from folktrax. Is this of any help?

MUCKIN' O' GEORDIE'S BYRE, THE - "At the lea-rig old croft upon the hill" - Lowland Scots about the disorderly goings-on at a farm belonging to George McIntyre - ROUD#2137 - KERR Cornkisters has a different version comp by G S Morris - McCOLL SS 1953 p33 from McBeath - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #257 pp566-7 Jimmy White, Whittingham, Northumberland 1954 -- Jimmy McBEATH rec by Alan Lomax, Edinburgh (with chorus) July 1951: ROUNDER 82161-1834-2 2002/ CAEDMON TC 1224/ TOPIC 12 T 197/ 023 & 058/ SAYDISC SDL-407 1994/ RPL 21532 (has verses in different order)/ TANGENT TNGM-109 1971 - Jimmy WHITE rec by PK, Northumberland 9/6/54: RPL 20606/ 425 - TOPIC 12 TS-226 1973 "Geordie McIntyre" (has a day beside the sea - tune: "Soor Milk Cairt" (with 2 concertinas) rec Glasgow - Joe AITKEN (unacc singer) rec Aberdeensh: SLEEPYTOON SLPYMC001 1999 (Cass) - TRADLADS TL-CD-001 1997 "Molly Durkin"

MUCKIN' O' GEORDIE'S BYRE, THE - Jig (D) - BAYARD DTF #602 p53 "O lassie art thou sleeping yet" (6var) alt: "The Stone Barn" - KENNEDY FTB 1 1951 p45/ 1994 #176 p45 - KERR MM 2 #313 p34 "O lassie art thou sleeping yet?" -- GILCURDON TRIO Belfast 1962: 373 - Peter KENNEDY (mel): FOLKTRAX 323 -- Mrs CROTTY's BAND rec by PK, Totnes, Devon 1980: 250 aft "Greengrocer" & bef "Just the Thing" Willie KELBY (harmonica) rec by PK, Blairgowrie, Perthsh: 182/ SAYDISC SDL-407 1994 - MARSDEN RATTLERS: LEADER LER-3008 1971 with "Cock o the North"

~Masato

Subject: Does anyone have this recording'
From: musicmick
Date: 03 Aug 03 - 01:22 AM

Some years ago, I heard a recording of "The Muckin' o' Geordie's Byre". I think it may have been Andy Stewart but my memory is not what it was. It is sung at a swift pace and in a thick Scottish burr but, in the middle of the song, the singer breaks into an exadurated Oxford English that went something like,

"Sachester Moody was there to see.
Five miles away, you could hear the melee.
Even the domesticated animals were consumed with glee,
At the cleansing of George's cow shed."

Then, he went back to the original burr,

"Sickin a sotter were all body in,
Five miles awa' ye could hear the din.
Nae winder the verra coo started to grin,
At the muckin'o' Geordie's byre"

I would love to hear that again.