Jarrow Marchers

Subject: Jarrow Marchers
From: Steve-Acton
Date: 22 Jun 04 - 08:07 AM

Back in the 1970s the BBC Current Affairs/News programme Nationwide broadcast a short documentary series about the Jarrow March. It was introduced by a song, sung unaccompanied. Does anyone remebr the song and who sang it, and is there a set of words?

Subject: RE: Jarrow Marchers
From: Fiolar
Date: 22 Jun 04 - 08:26 AM

Would it be by any chance "The Jarrow Song" by Alan Price? I am only guessing as I cannot recall seeing the programme you mention.

Subject: RE: Jarrow Marchers
From: Steve-Acton
Date: 22 Jun 04 - 08:33 AM

The song was definately unaccompanied. And haunting.

Subject: RE: Jarrow Marchers
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 22 Jun 04 - 09:51 AM

There were a number of songs composed about the Jarrow Marchers there is at least one songster of them. Alan Price was famous for his but that wa more recent than the march and it was a pop song. The march took place in 1936
Many wrote songs for March commemorations. Try a google search for those.
The Whiskey Priests (great band from the N.E.) had a Jarrow Song on their CD Timeless Street.

Outside of that no songs it seems contempoary with the march about it.

Conrad

Subject: RE: Jarrow Marchers
From: Steve-Acton
Date: 22 Jun 04 - 10:24 AM

I am beginning to recall what the programme was about. I think it was to retrace the march for it's 40th anniversary.

Subject: RE: Jarrow Marchers
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 22 Jun 04 - 11:48 AM

Try the BBC website - they may have references to old programmes which might help you pinpoint what the programme was!
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Jarrow Marchers
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 22 Jun 04 - 12:28 PM

Charlie Hardy who was originally from South Shields but was better known for singing around the London clubs in the sixties and seventies (although he returned North in the late eighties)had a song about the Jarrow March but I don't think haunting was the word I would use to describe it. More of a battle cry. I have had a quick look at some of Alex Glasgow's songs but to no avail

Subject: RE: Jarrow Marchers
From: Zorg
Date: 22 Jun 04 - 01:14 PM

Hi Dave. Charlie Hardy is still alive and kicking and in good voice and living in Barnet London

Subject: RE: Jarrow Marchers
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 23 Jun 04 - 06:39 PM

Harvey Andrews' song 'Unaccompanied' mentions the Jarrow marchers in the last verse:

The thirties are a memory for Dad again
He tells me it can never be that bad again         
But from Jarrow and from Clyde they come
With silent hearts and muffled drum
We want the cake and not the crumb
We're mad again

Could this have been the one?

Subject: RE: Jarrow Marchers
From: Gareth
Date: 23 Jun 04 - 06:45 PM

In the back of my mind exists a Peggy Seager song once heard at the Singers Club at the Merlin at King Cross, London in the early 70'.

Does this tivkle any memories ???

Gareth

Subject: RE: Jarrow Marchers
From: GUEST,Steve-Acton
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 01:36 PM

The song was just one verse or chorus... starting something like
Gannin doon, Geordie, gannin doon.

I was in my mid teens at the time.