Obit: Nadia Cattouse (1924-2024)

Subject: Obit: Nadia Cattouse (1924-2024)
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 01 Nov 24 - 05:24 PM

Posted on BreakingNewsBelize.com three days ago:

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BREAKING: Nadia Cattouse dies at 99

By Aaron Humes: News has been received of the passing of Meritorious Service Award winner and singer and performer Nadia Evadne Cattouse, 99 who died this morning, Tuesday, in London - five days short of her 100th birthday.

The daughter of an educator, Kathleen Cattouse, and a politician, Albert Cattouse, who later became Deputy Prime Minister, Nadia followed her mother into teaching in Scotland and British Honduras before further qualifying as a social worker. But she first visited Britain in 1943 as a volunteer in the British Army, joining the Auxiliary Territorial Services and training as a signals operator in Scotland and as a physical training instructor in the British Army.

Her entertainment career came later, with albums and on television and in the theater - her hits included "Long Time Boy," "Yellow Bird," "Beautiful Barbados," "Brown Girl In A Ring," and "Red And Green Christmas."

To most, she will be remembers as a self-appointed ambassador of Belize - a point of reference for the powerful and a source of comfort for the many who followed in her footsteps. She is survived by two children and the many who met and lauded her throughout her long and storied life.

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The gibberish came with reposting it, so this mudelf transcribed the article manually. Apologies for typos. ---mudelf

Subject: RE: Obit: Nadia Cattouse (1924-2024)
From: Charmion
Date: 01 Nov 24 - 05:33 PM

Sorry — gibberish!

Subject: RE: Obit: Nadia Cattouse (1924-2024)
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 01 Nov 24 - 07:55 PM

My apologies. Don't know what happened - the original article was copied and pasted into a blank Word document where I cleaned up the formatting, removed extraneous hot links, etc. I then copied and pasted what I thought was the perfect article into my post above.

I was not prepared for what the post looked like, to say the least. It absolutely did not look like that in the preview.

My thanks to the Mudelf who fixed the post.

Jay

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I also tested it by pasting into a Word doc - and it underlined almost every word as misspelled - something was funky with the code on that page. ---mudelf

Subject: RE: Obit: Nadia Cattouse (1924-2024)
From: Anglo
Date: 01 Nov 24 - 10:21 PM

Was it "Roundabout" on British TV that had folk singer cameos? I particularly remember Robin Hall & Jimmie MacGregor, and Nadia Cattouse, who made my life richer in my early days getting involved in folk music.

Subject: RE: Obit: Nadia Cattouse (1924-2024)
From: DaveRo
Date: 02 Nov 24 - 03:59 AM

The site substitutes Cyrillic homoglyphs for ordinary Latin letters, presumably to inhibit copying. For example the B in 'By' is actually the Cyrillic Capital Letter Ve (unicode 1042). Presumably the few readable Latin letters had no suitable subsitutes. Remarkable - I've never seen it before on an ordinary website. But I wonder why they bothered?

I had a couple of LPs - 'Club Folk' volumes 1 and 2'- bought secondhand, with songs by her and other singers from the '60s. I must have liked her songs because I remember her name, but I never digitised it.

Various – Club Folk Volume 1

Thanks for posting Jay.

Subject: RE: Obit: Nadia Cattouse (1924-2024)
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 02 Nov 24 - 04:29 AM

Sorry to hear that, another sound of my youth gone.
RtS

Subject: RE: Obit: Nadia Cattouse (1924-2024)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Nov 24 - 04:36 AM

Remember seeing her perform at the Assembly Rooms in Surbiton many many years ago. RIP Nadia

Subject: RE: Obit: Nadia Cattouse (1924-2024)
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 03 Nov 24 - 10:10 AM

> But I wonder why they bothered?

Possibilities:

* Copy protection?

* Stopping search engines showing the contents without charging?

* Protecting it from being auto-scraped and used as training fodder for Artificial Incompetence?

Subject: RE: Obit: Nadia Cattouse (1924-2024)
From: DaveRo
Date: 03 Nov 24 - 10:41 AM

Nadia Cattouse obituary - the Guardian

Subject: RE: Obit: Nadia Cattouse (1924-2024)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Nov 24 - 01:08 PM

DaveRo, it was obvious there was something going on in the code, and wasn't worth trying to "fix" it, so I retyped it. Odd that they worked so hard to do that.

Nadia Cattouse listing at IMDb.

Subject: RE: Obit: Nadia Cattouse (1924-2024)
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 04 Nov 24 - 07:42 AM

I remember watching the BBC TV series - Songs of Grief and Glory - and buying the songbook that came out of it, although I didn't have the album. The year of that TV song competition, with Nadia Cattouse, Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor plus Sidney Carter appearing, was also the year that I was introduced to my local folk club. And took O-levels.

Kitty

Subject: RE: Obit: Nadia Cattouse (1924-2024)
From: DaveRo
Date: 04 Nov 24 - 10:54 AM

This interview, from 1998, is primarily about Paul Robson - and the interviewer keeps dragging it back to that - but she does describe (about 13' in) how she came to be part of the British folk revival in the early '60s as a result of performing, with Ewan McColl, in a 'folk musical' set during the Notting Hill riots.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/archive/interview/nadia-cattouse/

Subject: RE: Obit: Nadia Cattouse (1924-2024)
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 17 Nov 24 - 07:47 PM

obit on BBC Radio4
Last Word

She was born in what is now Belize and volunteered to serve Britain in the second world war. She had a distinguished career as a folk singer, helped establish the Notting Hill Carnival and supported people arriving in Britain as part of the “Windrush Generation”.

Interviewee: Mike Lindup
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024x4r
> skip to 20:20 (7 minutes)