English traditional songs:R.V. Williams

Subject: English traditional songs:R.V. Williams
From: squeeze box
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 11:53 AM

I have several hard to get volumes of English Traditional Folk songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams:More Folk Songs from Lincolnshire; Yellowbelly Ballads Parts I and 2 all edited by Patrick O'Shaughnessy; larger "Bush and Briars" collection edited by Roy Palmer. If anyone is interested in any copies of these songs please email me at [e-mail]

I am interested in any Steeleye Span Songbook copies of the first 6 or so records.

Squeeze Box

Subject: RE: English traditional songs:R.V. Williams
From: Folkiedave
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 12:37 PM

Hi I am a dealer and have a number of Steeleye Records.

I am sure we can come to some agreement!!

Let me check what the records are and I will get in touch later this evening..

Best regards

Dave Eyre

Subject: RE: English traditional songs:R.V. Williams
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 12:52 PM

Hi, Squeeze Box - do you have those books for sale, or are you offering to transcribe songs from them for us?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: English traditional songs:R.V. Williams
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 02:04 PM

Sorry to be pedantic but little, if any, of the Lincolnshire material, in the books edited by Patrick O'Shaughnessy and cited above, was collected by 'R.V.Williams' (I've done a quick scan but have failed to find a mention of his name). The majority of the songs printed in these two books were collected by Percy Grainger. Apart from Grainger a few other Twentieth Century Lincolnshire collectors are represented.

Subject: RE: English traditional songs:R.V. Williams
From: Folkiedave
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 02:43 PM

I have PM'ed you

DAve

Subject: RE: English traditional songs:R.V. Williams
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 08:20 PM

Patrick O'Shaughnessy's collections of songs found in Lincolnshire are all out of print, and all worth having. There aren't any songs collected by RVW in the three books mentioned above, though, as "Shimrod" has said; most were recorded and/or noted by Percy Grainger.

Roy Palmer's Bushes and Briars: Folk Songs Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams is also an excellent book, but certainly not "hard to get". It is in print, and available new, at a good price, from the publishers:

Llanerch Press.

Subject: RE: English traditional songs:R.V. Williams
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 08:40 PM

I have a Bushes and Briars and number of other Llanerch reissues - they're real treasures.
-Joe-