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

Link to     INDEX OF AUGUST SONGS


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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


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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


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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


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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)


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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


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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


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

8th August, 1963 Britain’s Great Train Robbery

(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


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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



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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


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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


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Aug 24 - 05:27 PM

August 28 1914 The first major naval action between British and German naval forces during the First World War, the Battle of Heligoland Bight.

WE’LL KNOCK THE HELIGO INTO HELIGO   -   Sung by Laurence Rubenstein accompanied by Denese Coulbeck.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap32LeqW4tg
"We'll Knock the Heligo Into Heligo Out of Heligoland" sung by Arthur Fields, baritone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-JzWbqcQq8
We'll Knock The Heligo-- Into Heligo-- Out Of Heligoland! from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27ll_Knock_The_Heligo--_Into_Heligo--_Out_Of_Heligoland!
Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Heligoland_Bight_(1914)


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Aug 24 - 12:06 AM

28 August 1963 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King made his “I have a dream” speech to a rally of 200,000 people in Washington.

"Abraham, Martin and John" is a 1968 song written by Dick Holler. The song itself is a tribute to the memory of four assassinated Americans, all icons of social change: Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. It was written in response to the assassination of King and that of Robert Kennedy in April and June 1968, respectively.

It was first recorded by Dion, in a version that was a substantial North American chart hit in 1968–1969. Near-simultaneous cover versions by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and Moms Mabley also charted in the U.S. in 1969, and a version that same year by Marvin Gaye became the hit version in the UK. It was also a hit as part of a medley (with "What the World Needs Now Is Love") for Tom Clay in 1971, and has subsequently been recorded by many other artists. Wikipedia

I Have A Dream Martin Luther King Jr with Lyrics
Let Freedom Ring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxRe6rCdYVA Dion


Link to post above by henryp ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 27 Aug 24 - 12:08 PM

August 27, 1798 The Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, when Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clashed with the British Army.The Battle of Castlebar would later become known as the "Castlebar Races" or "Races of Castlebar".
Battle of Castlebar from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Castlebar

THE CASTLEBAR RACES  -   Rob McHale     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7z1NEBEQE4


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 26 Aug 24 - 05:52 AM

August 25 1945 John Birch, an American Baptist missionary and U.S. Army intelligence officer, was killed by Chinese communists Later,this inspired the foundation of the John Birch Society.

SONGS ABOUT THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY

THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY   -   The Chad Mitchell Trio     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWCYSVZhPoU
THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY SONG   -   Tom Paxton     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRDumFXqOV0
TALKIN’ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY PARANOID BLUES   -   Bob Dylan     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AylFqdxRMwE
Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues fromWikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkin%27_John_Birch_Paranoid_Blues

THE JACK ASH SOCIETY  -   Pete Seeger     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xX3IfQEH_E

UNEASY RIDER  -   Charlie Daniels    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJrRwTTqm0o&t=1s
I'm a faithful follower of Brother John Burch
And I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church
And I ain't even got a garage, you can call home and ask my wife


John Birch Society from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Aug 24 - 07:10 PM

24 August 1803 Irish revolutionary James Napper Tandy died in France. He is memorialized in the Irish ballad The Wearing of the Green.

THE WEARING OF THE GREEN    
The Wearing of the Green from Wikipedia   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wearing_of_the_Green#:~:text=The%20best%2Dknown%20version%20is,rebel%20leader%20exiled%20in%20 .
Lyrics and tune recording of The Wearing Of The Green     https://www.ireland-information.com/irishmusic/thewearingofthegreen.shtml
James Napper from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Napper_Tandy
Various recordings of The Wearing of the Green on YouTube
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Wearing+of+the+Green


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 20 Aug 24 - 10:51 AM

August 13, 1952  Willa Mae Thornton recorded "Hound Dog" at Radio Recorders Annex in Los Angeles , the day after its composition.
August 18 1956 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" reached No 1 in the charts.

Hound Dog (song) from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hound_Dog_(song)

HOUND DOG  - Elvis Presley       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eHJ12Vhpyc
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxQdKbhPoBM


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 18 Aug 24 - 06:37 AM

August 17, 1883 The first public performance of the Dominican Republic’s national anthem, Quisqueyanos Valientes.

QUISQUEYANOS VALIENTES
Dominican National Anthem - "Quisqueyanos Valientes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ED30PNAuU
National Anthem of the Dominican Republic from Wikipedia   https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himno_nacional_de_la_Rep%C3%BAblica_Dominicana


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 17 Aug 24 - 06:20 AM

16 August 1948 Legendary American baseball player Babe Ruth died at age 53.

OH! YOU BABE RUTH;     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrUxBvcS8n0


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 16 Aug 24 - 04:54 AM

14 August 1956 Death of German playwright, songwriter and poet Bertolt Brecht .

Berthold Brecht from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht
List of Songs with Lyrics by Berthold Brecht from Wikipedia   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_with_lyrics_by_Bertolt_Brecht

MACK THE KNIFE     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mack+the+knife+bertolt+brecht
Mudcat Thread,Chord Req: Mack the Knife chord formations    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=77038
Mudcat Thread, Folklore: Beggars opera vs. Threepenny opera /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=77270

Many Bertolt Brecht songs on YouTube   https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Bertolt+Brecht+songs


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 15 Aug 24 - 11:38 AM

Aug 15 778 AD   Battle of Roncevaux Pass at which Roland was killed.

Battle of Roncevaux Pass from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Roncevaux_Pass

THE SONG OF ROLAND  -   Michael Kelly     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNrzCoASqSI
Song of Roland - Rosalind Jehanne     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLUf3vG9VdA

ROLANDSKADET   -   Erik Bye     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXWgoKP1AOU
CHANSON DE ROLAND   -   dArtagnan     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL_XSdQmGp0


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From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 15 Aug 24 - 06:01 AM

.... and by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, which was used as the outtro for the film of the event.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – WOODSTOCK    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM2dzjWYGLc


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From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 Aug 24 - 02:02 AM

On 15 August 1969: The three-day Woodstock festival began in upstate New York. More than 400,000 people watched artists such as The Who, Santana and Jimi Hendrix, but massive traffic jams, adverse weather and a shortage of food led to the event being declared a disaster area.

Woodstock written by Joni Mitchell
Also recorded by Matthews Southern Comfort

Link to post above by henryp about WOODSTOCK

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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 Aug 24 - 01:51 AM

On 15 August 1960 Britain’s first motorway restaurant was opened on the M1 at Newport Pagnell.

Decameron, formed in 1968 in Cheltenham by Johnny Coppin and Dave Bell, had a Motorway Song with a chorus based on the motorway sign;

A petrol pump
A knife and fork
A cup of tea
And a P

I don't think that they ever recorded it.

THE MOTORWAY SONG (Rosselson)   - The Black Family       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmIFNvIxvbk
2-4-6-8 MOTORWAY   - Tom Robinson Band       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGrnEc_3mYo

ENGLAND’S MOTORWAYS   (Ewan MacColl)   - Thomas Doran       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1JqBy6lHK0
England's Motorway · Blackwater Céilí Band · Emmet Mulholland · Dermot Mulholland    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHj2R4EhdE
England's Motorway (My Little Son) · Philomena Begley    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNOS6ckdSIo


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 Aug 24 - 01:05 AM

On 15 August 1771, Sir Walter Scott, creator of the historical novel, was born in Edinburgh.
His home, Abbotsford, is open to the public at Tweedbank in the Borders.

SINGER'S REQUEST (Nic Jones, adapted from Scott)
See Mudcat thread Origin: Singer's Request / Minstrel's Request

Now the sun it does decline; pour the beer and pour the wine.
We can lead your thoughts astray from the world and from the day.

CHORUS Dark the night and long till day; do not bid us further stray.
Dark the night and long till day; do not bid us further stray.

We sing songs of history, love and war and mystery.
We can lead you from despair, or can chill the darkening air.
CHORUS

You may choose to pass us by with a cruel or scornful eye.
We will see the ending through, then we'll turn and say to you:
CHORUS


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 13 Aug 24 - 09:43 AM

AUGUST 11th 1956     Death, in an automobile accident, of American abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock
   
JACKSON POLLOCK  -   Daphne Eckman     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-d7rkqCKVc
Jackson Pollock from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Aug 24 - 05:16 AM

10 August 1842: The Mines Act was passed by the British parliament, forbidding women and children to work underground. (continued)

THE COLLIER LASS; Words collected in a printed broadside by Frank Kidson
Tune compiled from two traditional tunes by Mike Harding www.vwml.org/record/FK/11/107/2 Roud Number: V7863 Traditional

My name’s Polly Parker, I’m come o’er from Worsley
My father and mother work in a coal mine
My family’s large, we’ve got seven children
And so I am forced to work down the coal mine

By the greatest of dangers each day we’re surrounded,
I hang in the air by a rope and a chain.
The mine may fall in; I may be killed or be wounded
May perish by firedamp or the fire of a train.

From Coal mining with folk arts and poetry Produced by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), June 2014
Written by Jayne Ambrose (NCMME), Sue Bousfield and Bryony Griffith Edited by: Frances Watt

THE TRAPPER BOY’S DREAM https://lobmusiclibrary.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/the-colliers-rant-and-other-miners-ballads/

It shouldn’t be any surprise to learn there’s a large section in Lloyd’s book concerning songs about pit accidents and disasters. Mining today still has its dangers, but nothing compared to the perils of working in a Victorian-era mine. In his notes to this song, Lloyd gives the following information:

The explosion at the West Moor Colliery, Killingsworth, [in 1845] occurred between two shifts. The gas was ignited by the candle of a little boy who was allowed to proceed before the men. There had been a fatal explosion at West Moor in January of the previous year, but nothing had been done to improve safety.

His description of a ‘little boy’ makes me wonder whether the mine owner ignored the recently enacted Mines and Collieries Act. Here’s a couple of verses.

‘I thought that at my post I sat, upon my duty bent,
When suddenly there came a sound as if the mine was rent:
And then the earth rocked to and fro, and I strove for help to call
For o’er my head a mass of coal hung ready to fall.

‘It swayed and tottered, still it hung, as held by secret power,
and as I gazed such horrid faces round me seemed to lower.
Grim demons looked with scowling eye, and nearer then they came.
They smote and dashed me to the earth and turned my heart to flame.’

No recording to be found of this.


Various recordings of The Collier Lass on Youtbe    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Collier+Lass+swong

Link to post above by henryp about: The Mines Act of 10 August 1842 & THE TESTIMONY OF PATIENCE KERSHAW


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Aug 24 - 06:07 AM

AUGUST 10th ,  2008   Death, at age 65, of American singer-songwriter Isaac Hayes

WALK ON BY  -   Isaac Hayes     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5loAY27W5IY

Isaac Hayes top hits on YouTube nbsp;   https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=isaac+hayes+top+hits+
Isaac Hayes from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Hayes


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Aug 24 - 09:00 PM

Oops, I see I posted about that song three years ago! Still, isn't it lovely...

Link to Steve Shaw's post above HARES ON THE MOUNTAIN


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Aug 24 - 08:55 PM

Chris Wood's version of Hares On The Mountain. It's August in the third verse! What a lovely song: do YouTube it...


If all you young girls were like hares on the mountain
We'd soon get our boots on and go out a-walking.
But if all you young girls were like swans in the water
We'd soon take those boots off and dive in there after.

And if all you young girls were like stars in the dark
We'd chase round the world to avoid the dawn's spark.
And if all you young girls were like the sun in the morning
We'd sit bleary-eyed just to see the day dawning.

And if all you young girls were like rain from the sky
We'd stand out in T-shirts and shun all things dry.
And if all you young girls were like the hot August sun
Then we'd sit out with ice-cream and get nothing done.

And if all you young girls flew south like the swallow
There's be nothing for it but to up sticks and follow.
But if all you young girls were like my own true lover
Then all you young men would love them as I love her.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 07 Aug 24 - 06:51 PM

8 August 1929 The German airship Graf Zeppelin began a round-the-world journey. The entire circumnavigation (including stops) took 21 days, 5 hours, and 31 minutes. It was the fastest circumnavigation of the globe at the time.
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127_Graf_Zeppelin

GRAF ZEPPELIN  - Attila the Hun      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-xcUzC0LXM


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 07 Aug 24 - 09:23 AM

7thAugust 1974     French high-wire artist Philippe Petit, walked a high wire between twin towers of the World Trade Center

SONGS ABOUT PHILIPPE PETIT
MAN ON WIRE  -  27     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCS8uznSoUY
SLEEPWALKING  -   Ste van Holm     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k9XZyPf76c
FUNAMBULIST  -   Cormorant     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrCDASDQvvU

Philippe Petit from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit#:~:text=The%20song%2C%20%22Man%20on%20Wire,Petit's%20World%20Trade%20Center%20walk.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 06 Aug 24 - 05:49 PM

7 August 1888 The first of the murders committed by Jack the Ripper took place in London's East End.

JACK THE RIPPER  -   Lord Sutch & The Savages     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWCOFkyeGNs
Various songs about Jack the ripper on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jack+the+ripper+song


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Aug 24 - 09:31 AM

5th August 1305 William Wallace, was captured by the English forces near Glasgow. He was then transported to London to face trial and execution for leading the resistance against English domination.

SONGS ABOUT WILLIAM WALLACE
THE WALLACE  -   MD Donnelly     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR5her2eCS8
WILLIAM WALLACE (THE KNIGHT OF ELDERSLIE)   -   Alastair McDonald     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcD0gWk7Z9w
THE BALLAD OF BRAVEHEART WILLIAM WALLACE   -   Song Lyrics by Joel Sattler https://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=310719


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Aug 24 - 09:01 AM

August 5 1932 Clyde Barrow, with an accomplice, killed Deputy Eugene C. Moore at Stringtown, Oklahoma. This was the first law officer killed by Barrow and his gang.
Bonnie and Clyde from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde

SONGS ABOUT BONNIE PARKER AND CLYDE BARROW
THE BALLAD OF BONNIE AND CLYDE Georgie Fame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEMBlJpjWqY
THE STORY OF BONNIE AND CLYDE  -   Flatt & Scruggs     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdsfuttVYjU
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF BONNIE AND CLYDE   -   Mel Torme     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwG4hS0V_c
THE LEGEND OF BONNIE AND CLYDE   -   Merle Haggard     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfp4jxRuizM
The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde   -   Tammy Wynette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGf2-61U6D0
BONNIE UND CLYDE   -   Die Toten Hosen     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaR4RQAE2fc
BONNIE AND CLYDE   -   Serge Gainsbourg Brigitte Bardot     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GPm5_X3Ykg
’03 BONNIE AND CLYDE   -   Jay-Z & Beyoncé     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idU3XPCpZvw
'03 Bonnie & Clyde from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2703_Bonnie_%26_Clyde
'97 BONNIE AND CLYDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NyoAiROoVI
97 Bonnie & Clyde from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2797_Bonnie_%26_Clyde


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Aug 24 - 03:54 PM

As a semi-irrelevant aside, about forty or fifty years ago I read the opinion of a "leading" meteorologist of the time that, in their opinion, August should be regarded as an autumn month. Well, I spent the Augusts of both 1975 and 1976 in the northern Highlands, and anyone of a certain age (me included) who was in Scotland at that time will attest that those remarkable Augusts were anything but "autumnal!" And in Burns' time the climate was much colder than it is today.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Aug 24 - 09:37 AM

August 4, 1892 Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.

LIZZIE BORDEN   -   Chad Mitchell Trio    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdF428jC6vw
Lizzie Borden from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 03 Aug 24 - 05:49 AM

August 3,1804   After a five-year-long expedition to Latin America, the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt returned to Bordeaux, France. His scientific journey contributed significantly to the understanding of the natural world and laying the foundation for modern scientific exploration.

SONGS ABOUT ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT ( Pretzel Boys)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45NlJJ7piCY
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT ( La Poudre)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZlAm54fjXk
THE VERY STRANGE JOURNEY OF ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT   -   The Shrugs     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWNfDyWF3TI
HUMBOLT’S GROOVE   -  Retrogott feat. El Temba     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuHUCe7Wmg4


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 01 Aug 24 - 06:02 AM

2 August 1997     Death of Fela Kutti, Nigerian musician and political activist.
Fela Kuti from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Kuti

SONGS OF FELA KUTTI
Fela Kutti songs on YouTube    
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiSx_RyMYooNKnxTl80983w
Fela Kuti Song list from Songfacts     https://www.songfacts.com/songs/fela-kuti


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 31 Jul 24 - 04:06 AM

Gerry M: definitely “Autumn’s pleasant weather” (not August’s) in any books of Burns’ poetry, and in the copy held in the National Library of Scotland.
But it seems I have mis-spelled slaughterin’ - should be slaught’ring - which is as the DT has it.


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Jul 24 - 08:24 AM

1 August 1779 Birth, in Frederick County, Maryland, of Francis Scott Key, writer of the US national anthem, TheStar-Spangled Banner.

THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER    Many recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=THE+STAR+SPANGLED+BANNER
The Star-Spangled Banner from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
THE ANACREONTIC SONG from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anacreontic_Song
"To Anacreon in Heaven" sung, with lyrics displayed, on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IPLFLH3BHU
Various other recordings of The Anacreonic Song on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22To+Anacreon+in+Heaven%22


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 27 Jul 24 - 11:17 PM

Tattie Bogle, I'm sure you're right, but that implies – horror of horrors! – that the Digital Tradition is wrong. It gives August, not Autumn.

Link to Mudcat DT Lyrics for NOW WESTLIN WINDS    /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4291


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 27 Jul 24 - 04:20 AM

A wee correction to Gerry M’s post from 24th July 2021 re “Now Westlin Winds”. (Missed it at the time!)
It should be:
Now Westlin’ winds and slaughterin’ guns
Bring AUTUMN’S pleasant weather
(Not August’s).
The only time that August is mentioned is in the alternative title “Song Composed in August”.
All correct in the linked text in mainly Norfolk.


Link to GerryM 's post above NOW WESTLIN WINDS


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 26 Jul 24 - 03:40 PM

Yorkshire Day - Don't forget SOME BUGGER FROM YORKSHIRE by Bernard Wrigley!

Some Bugger from Yorkshire' – Bernard Wrigley recording on Bandcamp  
https://bernardwrigley.bandcamp.com/track/some-bugger-from-yorkshire
Mudcat, Lyr Req: Some Bugger from Yorkshire (B Wrigley)    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=93865


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 26 Jul 24 - 05:42 AM

Link to     INDEX OF AUGUST SONGS


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Jul 24 - 01:33 PM

1 August Yorkshire Day

SONGS FOR YORKSHIRE DAY
YORKSHIRE SONG   -   Anna Shannon     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3PoDcyIdhQ
GOD’S OWN COUNTRY  - Sam Turner       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BXgDZEM_Is
ON ILKLA MOOR BAHT'AT   Many reordings on Youtube       https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ilkla+Moor+Baht+%27At+song
SING A SONG OF YORKSHIRE      -   Ruth Strangeway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3zqMcjRMwo
YORKSHIRE BORN AND BRED  -   Steve Saville     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Rht-XVMYE
HEY YORKSHIRE !   -   Hirsty's Daily Dose     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP84i5ZlF0M
MY GIRL’S A YORKSHIRE GIRL  -   Kevi n McDermott &Ralph Richey     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdnTzVx_zqw
THE OWD WOMAN IN YORKSHIRE  -   Steve Gardham     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7YtA3t3u7s
The Old Woman in Yorkshire , information and recording from The Yorkshire Garland site https://yorkshirefolksong.net/song.cfm?songID=6

Many other Yorkshire songs in the Song Listing and Database of The Yorkshire Garland     https://yorkshirefolksong.net/song.cfm
Yorkshire Day 2024 from The Yorkshire Society https://theyorkshiresociety.org/what-we-do/yorkshire-day/


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GerryM
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 08:31 PM

Another Katrina song is THE COVER OF THE NEW YORK TIMES,    by Truckstop Honeymoon , on their CD, Great Big Family. They lived in New Orleans, were out of town when Katrina hit, and were surprised to see a picture of their home, or, rather, the water covering it, on the cover of the New York Times. Here's a live performance on Youtube: https://youtu.be/SyHvBiV3N7c?si=OX8_RCHjhQGHsHZp


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 07:24 PM

CHOLERA CAMP
Lyrics by Rudyard Kipling


Since August, when it started, it's been stickin' to our tail,
Though they've 'ad us out by marches an' they've 'ad us back by rail;


Cholera Camp · Cockersdale   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOi7MxPydeU&list=OLAK5uy_nrx0heiAa5TkTNGDE4h6kNiHUy9b3UR3A&index=10
Cholera Camp · Peter Bellamy    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW37xlsMPPM
Bellowhead Cholera Camp     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrDRhFgF8hI
Cholera Camp Lyrics and information from Mainly Norfolk    https://mainlynorfolk.info/peter.bellamy/songs/choleracamp.html
Cholera Camp [Kipling poem set to music]     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfjMjwbUuGo


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 07:37 PM

SONGS ABOUT HURRICANE KATRINA
August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina, a devastating Category 5 Atlantic hurricane resulted in 1,392 fatalities and caused damage estimated between $97.4 billion to $145.5 billion, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding areas.
GO DOWN MOSES
Recording and information about “Go Down Moses “ by Natalie Merchant, from Song Facts    
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/natalie-merchant/go-down-moses

HELL NO WE AIN’T ALRIGHT by Public Enemy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5TejX2rUeY

GEORGE BUSH DOESN’T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE by Kanye West     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2kMsI4cIxI
George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bush_Doesn%27t_Care_About_Black_People

Hurricane Katrina from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
Songs about Hurricane Katrina from Wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_about_Hurricane_Katrina


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Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 04:14 AM

SONGS SUNG BY DEREK BRIMSTONE

29 August 1932 Derek Brimstone , British singer was born at Islington, London.

Derek Brimstone: brief biography from Musician Bio.org    
https://musicianbio.org/derek-brimstone/
Derek Brimstone recordings on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=derek+brimstone+all+tracks https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=derek+brimstone+all+tracks
MUDCAT - Derek Brimstone Youtube videos    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=161141


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