Help: Richard Heyward

Subject: Richard Heyward
From: JTT
Date: 19 Dec 99 - 03:00 PM

I've just been listening to an old EP of songs sung by Richard Hayward and the Loyal Brethren - old Orange songs, recorded I'd say in the 1960s. The name of the publisher was Beltona Records in London, and the name of the record was Orange and Blue.

Does anyone know where I can get more of the same?

I also heard, some years ago, really beautiful singing by Ulster Protestant choirs of four or five men singing together in a kind of barbershop quintet effect - singing hymns like "Jesus is the Lighthouse". I've never been able to track down any of these records - apparently they sold, or sell, through Ian Paisley's churches, though where I heard them was in Big Tom's recording studio.

Subject: RE: Help: Richard Heyward
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Date: 05 Nov 04 - 06:16 PM

What do you ant to know about Richard Hayward? He was an Ulsterman, Orangeman, collector of folksongs, lecturer, actor, author, and much more. Over the years he recorded practically the whole of the Orange song book, i.e. "The Sash my father wore", "No Surrender", "The walls of Derry", "Dollys braes", "The Orange Flute".
I have many 78s, made before 1960 of Orange songs and some of Orange flute or accordion bands.
www.beltonaproject.co.uk