Alex Glasgow-info & songs

Subject: RE: Alex Glasgow
From: GUEST
Date: 14 May 01 - 12:24 PM

Lord Shaftsbury? I'd swear it was Lord Robens (Chairman of the National Coal Board) in the tv version.

There was a book of the songs from tha show came out soon after. I had a copy, but it growed legs and walked ...

Steve

Subject: RE: Alex Glasgow
From: IanC
Date: 14 May 01 - 06:44 AM

Hi

The song about Eldon Square ain't in "Close The Coalhouse Door". I went to the premiere of this at the University Theatre, Newcastle in ?1971 and, somewhere, I have the songbook. By the way, the night I went was the day Sunderland won the FA cup - so another reason for mourning along the Tyne!

Alex was used for loads of dour TV programmes about the "Industrial North" as you say, SF. Probably most of the songs were composed specifically for the programmes and are lost, but you could try looking through his web site here

Alex Glasgow

or e-mailing him.

Cheers!
Ian

Subject: RE: Alex Glasgow
From: Wolfgang
Date: 14 May 01 - 06:29 AM

from a websearch: no help for you, Shields Folk, but here's a bit for you, KJ:

Close the coalhouse door : a stage play in three acts / by Alan Plater ; from stories by Sid Chaplin ; with songs by Alex Glasgow.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Alex Glasgow
From: GUEST
Date: 14 May 01 - 06:18 AM

This name jolted me back a bit but what came into me head was "Close the Coal House Door Lads". Am I right in thinking this was by the same man?
KJ

Subject: Alex Glasgow
From: Shields Folk
Date: 13 May 01 - 06:15 PM

As a lad in the 70's I remember the odd TV program we watched as part of History lessons at school. They were all full of depressing stuff about the twenties, the Jarrow Crusade and the like, and the programs always seemed to feature one song or another by Alex Glasgow. I remember one about Eldon Square, Newcastle, it was about the old Eldon Square lying in the coffin of the new development. Does anyone else remember it and if so what were the words?