Any August Songs?

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Aug 24 - 09:35 AM

29th August 1930 The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda (40 miles west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean) were voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.

Alasdair Roberts & Robin Robertson - Hirta Songs     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT0E2QR7A2g
Hirta from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirta
Lost songs of St Kilda     https://www.lostsongsofstkilda.com/
On this day 1930: The evacuation of St Kilda, from The Scotsman   https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/on-this-day-1930-the-evacuation-of-st-kilda-581945

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Aug 24 - 06:13 AM

30th August 1936 The RMS Queen Mary won the Blue Riband by setting the fastest time for a transatlantic crossing.

QUEEN OF THE SEA  - Alex Mendham & His Orchestra      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uFz4AF-cfY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElFGB1KStxg
Queen Of The Sea "Queen Mary"by Horatio Nicholls from Songfacts  -   https://www.songfacts.com/facts/horatio-nicholls/queen-of-the-sea-queen-mary

RMS Queen Mary from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 02 Sep 24 - 07:18 PM

August 6, 1962 Jamaica became independent after centuries of British and Spanish rule.

INDEPENDENT JAMAICA  -   Lord Creator     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmJbq2U7ODk

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Sep 24 - 05:04 AM

8th August, 1963 Britain’s Great Train Robbery
Great Train Robbery (1963), article from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_Robbery_(1963)#:~:text=stolen%20the%20train!%22-,Robbers%20and%20accomplices,to%20recr

(HAVE YOU SEEN) BRUCE RICHARD REYNOLDS?   -   James Donal Faulkner     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHnc0kxwB_E
Have You Seen Bruce Richard Reynolds - Alabama 3     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QbmRgKuWa8
Bruce Richard Reynolds  -   Nigel Denver   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSKTxGhJDY4
Bruce Richard Reynolds - Co Jo    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAp6S735D4o

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 10 Sep 24 - 11:16 AM

18–19 August 1612 Pendle witch Trials took place at Lancaster Assizes.
Pendle witches from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendle_witches

SONGS ABOUT THE PENDLE WITCHES    
OLD PENDLE  -   The Pendlefolk     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-g8Wvttrj8
THE PENDLE WITCHES   -   Cobalt Tales     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNT-6cuEuZE
PENDLE WITCH SONG     by Ursula Holden Gill     https://ursulaholdengill.bandcamp.com/track/pendle-witch-song
THE SONG OF ALIZON DEVICE (PENDLE WITCH SONG No 1)         https://soundcloud.com/something-memorable/the-song-of-alizon-device
MENDLE  -   Mr. Fox    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQN9XyGcuyE

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Sep 24 - 07:05 AM

13 August 1961 Construction of Berlin Wall started.

BERLIN WALL SONGS
BERLIN WALL  - Rai Thistlethwayte       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBX1Al6RlZ4
DANCING ON THE BERLIN WALL   - Rational Youth       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZr4KnpYhCE
TEAR ME DOWN  - Hedwig and the Angry Inch       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIZ5F2CKlZE
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL  - Pink Floyd       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMtSisXjYZo
WIND OF CHANGE  - Scorpions       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4RjJKxsamQ

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 16 Sep 24 - 06:04 PM

August 28, 1955 Murder of Emmet Till
Emmett Till from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till#

SONGS ABOUT EMMET TILL
THE DEATH OF EMMET TILL     AKA The Ballad of Emmet Till  -   Bob Dylan     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-0vClQa1Hw
THE DEATH OF EMMET TILL   -  The Ramparts     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in4fJ1s_W84
MY NAME IS EMMET TILL   -   Emmylou Harris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlHAr5IZhp8
EMMET’S GHOST  -   Eric Bibb    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_OBMr-SvM4
TOO MANY MARTYRS   -   Phil Ochs     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwh3UwElu6c (A song about Medger Evers which also refers to Emmet Till)

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 18 Sep 24 - 01:17 PM

August 10, 1887 The Great Chatsworth Train Wreck occurred 3 miles (5 km) east of Chatsworth, Illinois, in the United States. About 85 were killed and many were injured.

CHATSWORTH WRECK  -   Johnsburg 3 (Bucky Halker)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clcYc4-R3JE

Lyrics from Mudcat DT /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6040
Great Chatsworth train wreck from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1887_Great_Chatsworth_train_wreck

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 19 Sep 24 - 06:57 AM

30 August 1860   Britain’s first tramway opened in Birkenhead, near Liverpool.

RIDING ON TOP OF THE CAR    Various recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Riding+on+Top+of+the+Car

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Sep 24 - 04:23 PM

31 August 1900 Coca Cola is sold for the first time in Britain.

RUM AND COCA COLA  - The Andrews Sisters       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxL2uNr7bk
Rum & Coca Cola -Lord Invader   - Rupert Westmore Grant     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFKnLfOEwqI
Coca Cola Commercial - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) - 1971https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q

THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE  -   The Who     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oCp5dV61g4
COCA COLA COWBOY  - Mel Tillis       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT7j5qOcbR0

Link to post above from henryp I’D LIKE TO BUY THE WORLD A COKE

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Sep 24 - 07:13 AM

Link to     INDEX OF AUGUST SONGS

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 02 Nov 24 - 07:31 PM

Geoff\Anyone interested in Frederick Douglass ^
mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170145#songsaboutfrederickdouglass
might like to listen to this BBC programme from 2018.
NB no music.

Frederick Douglass - 2018
BBC Radio4 - In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818 and, once he had escaped, became one of that century's most prominent abolitionists.
He was such a good orator, his opponents doubted his story, but he told it in grim detail in 1845 in his book 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.' He went on to address huge audiences in Great Britain and Ireland and there some of his supporters paid off his owner, so Douglass could be free in law and not fear recapture.
After the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, he campaigned for equal rights for African-Americans, arguing against those such as Lincoln who had wanted freed slaves to leave America and found a colony elsewhere. "We were born here," he said, "and here we will remain."

With :
Celeste-Marie Bernier
Professor of Black Studies in the English Department at the University of Edinburgh

Karen Salt
Assistant Professor in Transnational American Studies at the University of Nottingham

Nicholas Guyatt
Reader in North American History at the University of Cambridge

Producer: Simon Tillotson.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09qb0kc

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Link to post above SONGS ABOUT FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 09 Nov 24 - 07:07 PM

4 August, 1725 Birth of John Newton English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist, at Wapping, London. He is noted for being author of the hymns “Amazing Grace” and “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken”.
John Newton from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Newton

HYMNS BY JOHN NEWTON
Amazing Grace · Judy Collins    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3G-suuZgK4
Many more recordings of Amazing Grace on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=amazing+grace+hymn
Amazing Grace from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Grace
Many recordings of “ Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken” on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Glorious+Things+of+Thee+Are+Spoken.+
Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Things_of_Thee_Are_Spoken

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 11 Nov 24 - 06:31 AM

5 August 1916 English composer, George Butterworth was killed at Pozières, Somme, France, during World War One.
George Butterworth, article from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Butterworth

SONGS COMPOSED BY GEORGE BUTTERWORTH    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhHUg8xSoZUHxYeq8dAJoTOewOvP-Alw8

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 14 Nov 24 - 04:55 PM

August 1695 British grenadiers mounted an assault on the French-held fortress of Namur during the Nine Years War. This is reputed to be the event which sparked the writing of the song THE BRITISH GRENADIERS
The British Grenadiers from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_British_Grenadiers

Various recordings of “ The British Grenadiers“ on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+British+Grenadiers+Song+
How Soldiers in the Seven Years War originally sang "The British Grenadiers"    https://www.militaryheritage.com/british-grenadiers.htm

Grenadier from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenadier

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 17 Nov 24 - 12:53 PM

THE LAUGHING BOY    by Brendan Behan
't was on an August morning, all in the morning hours
I went to take the warming air all in the month of flowers
And there I saw a maiden and heard her mournful cry:
Oh, what will mend my broken heart? I've lost my laughing boy!

The Laughing Boy - The Brendan Behan Pig and Whistle Band     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5VMdqoRl5c

The Laughing Boy by Brendan Behan performed by McKenna, Carroll, Rowsome     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZRyXGkqJxc
The Laughing Boy/An Buachaill Geal Gáireach, RTE Radio programme about the song    https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22137880/
Lyrics and recording of the poem “The Laughing Boy “ from Poets Corner     https://poetscorner.blog/2019/03/20/the-laughing-boy/


Link to Index of Any November Songs?   /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?ThreadID=170494#indexnovember:~:text=below.%2D%20Regards%2C%20GeoffLawes-,INDEX%20OF%20NOVEMBER%20
Link to Index of Any December Songs?     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170618#4126401:~:text=From%3A%20Levana%20Taylor%20%2D%20PM%0ADate%3A%2016%20Nov%2021%20%2

Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 20 Nov 24 - 06:14 PM

20th August 1867. The Merchant Shipping Act 1867 was passed by the UK Parliament requiring that lime or lemon Juice and other anti-scorbutics must be provided and kept on board ships. This was intended to prevent scurvy amongst ships’ crews. This gave rise to the term “lime-juicers” when referring to British sailors and in the USA this eventually resulted in the term “limey” being used as a slang term for British folk in general.   Limey from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limey

THE LIME JUICE SHIP Mainsail Café     https://mainsailcafe.com/songs/limejuice-ship
Many other recordings of ”Lime Juice Ship” on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Lime+Juice+Ship

ACCORDING TO THE ACT   - Hughie Jones       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hm3wRrB2E0
According to the Act from The Ballad Index    http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/FaE042.html