Songbooks: Singing Together books on Web Site

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: Noreen
Date: 07 Feb 03 - 07:08 AM

Thanks John, will feedback asap.

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: Kernow John
Date: 07 Feb 03 - 06:25 AM

DMcG & Noreen
CD's in post and instructions in a PM.
Regards
John

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: bill\sables
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 07:09 PM

John I am still taking donations for mudcat. I have a few coppies of these books if you are short of any.
Cheers Bill

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: Kernow John
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 05:31 PM

Autumn 1965 is up.

If anyone would like an email as an issue is added, PM me your e-mail address.
John

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: Kernow John
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 04:48 PM

Thanks PattyClink
Unfortunately the contents page changes from issue to issue. I've just prepared a text file and will put that up. It lists all the songs in the first 20 I have scanned and tells you which in issue the song occurs.

I've got your pm Alan and I'll get in touch with Bill Sables to see if he is still handling Mudcat Donations and as soon as I get comments back from the first two I'll be in touch.

John

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: pattyClink
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 02:02 PM

Nice project, thanks for the link. The images are huge but that allows for less loss of quality in the fine illustrations. You might want to let people know the table of contents is the LAST page in the series.

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: GUEST,alanww
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 02:01 PM

This looks a smashimg resource, John. And I've managed to right click and copy and then put into a word document for further manipulaation and printing.

(For your info, I've sung at the Top House whilst on holiday in both 2001 and 2002 and I recognise one or two of the faces on the website.)

I would very much be interested in a copy of the CD and have PMed you with my address. Let me know how much and to whom. Thanks in advance - and thanks for some good sessions at the Top House!

"As I was a-walking down by the sea shore ...!"
Alan

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: Kernow John
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 01:37 PM

Guest Jon Thanks for the offer.
Malcome I didn't appreciate the problems between frames and Hi Res. I'm quickly putting together a no frames version. Thanks for the feedback.
Noreen I'll PM you regarding address to send CD to.

Jon There will be CD's available I will wait for some feedback from Noreen and t'other 'catter as to the way in which they are put together, to see what changes need to be made.

Regards

John

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: IanC
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 11:26 AM

John

I remeber these with pleasure and have a few of the early ones. I'll see which they are.

The radio programmes had the excellent effect that most adults now have a repertoire of folk songs and tunes (albeit often bowdlerised) which they are familiar with. You can use this to tremendous advantage in pub sessions where the customers are in the bar with you.

Please put my name down for a CD if there's one going!

:-)

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 11:23 AM

Browsers don't have very good print functions; I do as John and George do for images. My problem with the site is that it uses layers and absolute positioning, which means that anyone with a high-resolution display sees garbled pages with pictures superimposed on text and so on; effectively, some of the links are "hidden" and don't function.

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 11:19 AM

Kernow John, I don't know if this will become a larger project or what editions of Singing Together you have. I have a set running from around 1968 to about 1985 with some gaps.

If I have any editions you may need, you are welcome to borrow them. email me at [e-mail].

Jon

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From:
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 11:07 AM

I always find it better to download the image to my computer and print it from graphics software instead of the browser. You would have more control over it. Strange about the yellow/negative image, but as I remember it, (I looked at a few of them last night), there was BLACK around the edge, and the paper colour was a little yellowed.

My scan software would allow me to set the specific area to take the image from so I can avoid that sort of black edging.

In the graphics software, I can also "whiten" the yellowed pages.

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: Noreen
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 09:34 AM

CD would be great, John!
Hanging Johnny aren't on the website as appearing, but Ali will know more.

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From:
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 08:56 AM

I can't get to the festival Noreen, but could send you a copy of the CD I'm working on that has 20 issues on at the moment.

Do you have Hanging Johnny there this year? If so I may be able to send some old copies with them.

John

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From:
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 08:47 AM

Is anyone else experiencing the same problem as Joan from Wigan?
I've tried but don't get the same result, ie no yellow involved.

The page is too big to print in one go, this was done on purpose as it made it easier to save the image for reading into music scanning software. (To produce a midi).

The easiest method for printing from online, for me, is to right click the image, copy and then paste it into my word processor or graphics package.

Hope this helps

John.

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 08:16 AM

Joan --- I haven't tried printing, but I'm not getting the whole image on the screen and there are no scrolling bars to move it around.

BJ

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: Noreen
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 08:13 AM

What perfect timing, John!
A crowd of us got to reminiscing on this very subject at Whitby last year, and Ali has timetabled us to do a 'Singing Together' workshop/singaround at Saddleworth festival this year. See Saddleworth festival thread.

Gathering songs and information for it at the moment, so I'm sure your resource will be of great help to our aging memories :0)

Why don't you get yourself up to Saddleworth and help us out? (and Malcolm, Joan, Sal and Robyn, if not MMario and katlaughing!)

....Oh, no John, no John, no, John, No!

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 07:22 AM

Oh what fond memories. I remember singing 'Casey Jones' and 'Long Black Veil'

Good old William Appleby... and a radio that was an octagonal board with a big speaker in the middle! Showing my age now.

Sal

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: Joan from Wigan
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 05:00 AM

John, that has the potential to be a wonderful resource.

As an experiment, I tried printing out a page, as that would be the most useful use to me. However, not only was the image too wide and long to print on one A4 page, it printed yellow on black instead of black on white (very wasteful of ink). Does anyone else find this problem, or can anyone tell me how to correct this please? John, have you tried printing any of the images from the site yourself? What am I doing wrong? (I've never found an image elsewhere that prints in the negative.)

Joan

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 05 Feb 03 - 10:38 PM

Pleasant childhood memories for many who grew up in the UK during the 1950s-70s; and for many of us, our first conscious introduction to folk songs (well, re-made "children's versions" of them, anyway). I still have some copies of Singing Together from the mid 60's; though I do seem to have drawn all over them at the time...

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Feb 03 - 10:24 PM

Thanks for sharing these, John. I was not familiar with them. They look like a fun resource. I had trouble seeing the whole thing without having to move the bar thing over, but that's probably the way I have my browser set. They look really neat.

kat

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: Little Robyn
Date: 05 Feb 03 - 10:21 PM

I've spent an enjoyable hour or more on your web site - found John the Fish again after 30 years and also added the ABC tune finder to my favourites.
Thank you.

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: MMario
Date: 05 Feb 03 - 10:03 PM

Came through fine for me. WOuld probably be a nice resource.

Subject: RE: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: Kernow John
Date: 05 Feb 03 - 06:15 PM

I should have said follow the link on the front page.
Not had time to add it to site index yet.
John

Subject: Singing Together books on Web Site
From: Kernow John
Date: 05 Feb 03 - 06:10 PM

Do you remember the Singing Together books?

I have started to scan my copies of these and thought there might be some folks out there who would like to see them.
I have put the first (not the earliest) scanned one on one of my web sites.
Let me know what you think.

If you would like a particular copy scanned and put on the site PM me.

This one is black on white but later copies were in colour.

I have put together a collection of 20 issues on CD in Flip Album format and sent them to a fellow 'catter for comment. If the comments are favourable I could make further copies available in exchange for donations to Mudcat.

Regards John