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04 Feb 09 - 11:58 PM (#2557648) Subject: Lyr Add: Ed Pickford Songs From: mark gregory I have added the following Ed Pickford songs to the Union Songs Collection Farewell Johnny Miner http://unionsong.com/u607.html The Workers' Song http://unionsong.com/u608.html Ah Cud Hew http://unionsong.com/u609.html One Miner's Life http://unionsong.com/u610.html Strange Lover Is A Coalmine http://unionsong.com/u611.html I Am Coal http://unionsong.com/u612.html Sixteen On The Dole http://unionsong.com/u613.html The Pound A Week Rise http://unionsong.com/u614.html The Credit Crunch Song http://unionsong.com/u615.html |
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05 Feb 09 - 03:05 PM (#2558239) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ed Pickford Songs From: Folkiedave When you see amongst those songs, those folk club "standards", you realise what damn good songwriter he is. |
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05 Feb 09 - 03:43 PM (#2558278) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ed Pickford Songs From: Betsy Was Ed's Surmame - Pigford - which I seem to remember, or, - Pickford - as it keeps getting spelt on various threads ? |
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05 Feb 09 - 03:55 PM (#2558289) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ed Pickford Songs From: peregrina If you google you can find his website and songbook--spelled Pickford: here |
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05 Feb 09 - 04:28 PM (#2558325) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ed Pickford Songs From: Dave Sutherland On his LP "Songwriter" it is Pickford |
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06 Feb 09 - 10:09 AM (#2558992) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ed Pickford Songs From: Betsy I rechecked by Google - it turned up this Mudcat thread http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=50029#757410 and if Malcolm Douglas was puzzled after doing his homework , that's good enough for me.I always believed it was with a "g" - I can go back to the Northern Front days, and I wish Ed,Mike and Nick all the best , should they be viewing these pages. It's no big deal of course, it's just a visual thing , I (rightly or wrongly) associate "Pickford" as being a spelling mistake e.g. as one I would if saw Middlesbrough spelt Middlesborough. |
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15 Feb 09 - 09:40 AM (#2567420) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ed Pickford Songs From: Colin Randall I am in e-mail correspondence with Ed, having interviewed him for a series mentioned in another thread and beginning here: http://www.salutlive.com/2009/02/ed-pickford-the-big-interview.html and he is Pickford. |
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16 Feb 09 - 01:31 PM (#2568370) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ed Pickford Songs From: Jim Dixon Songs by Ed Pickford at Mudcat: In the DT: THE WORKERS' SONG FAREWELL, JOHNNY MINER Posted in various threads: AA CUD HEW THE WORKERS' SONG UNCLE ALBERT'S SAD FAREWELL TO THE WORLD (recitation) THE POUND A WEEK RISE THE TORTOISE THE OLDEST SWINGER IN TOWN ONE MINER'S LIFE HAMSTER SID FAREWELL JOHNNY MINER FAREWELL JOHNNY MINER THE DOWDY STREETS OF JARROW (a parody on THE DOWY DENS OF YARROW) THE POUND A WEEK RISE GEORDIE BROON |
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18 Feb 09 - 07:30 PM (#2570486) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ed Pickford Songs From: GUEST,Steve I'm with Betsy... as someone who remembers Northern Front from days long gone I've always held the impression that Ed's surname was "Pigford". I can't remember exactly where or when (either not quite that sad or succumbing to memory loss... I prefer the former!) but it was definitely stated by either Nick or Mike on at least one one occasion. Looking back, it may well have been said as a joke but it stuck! Doesn't detract from the fact that Ed has written some cracking songs. Would be good to see Northern Front again if they ever had a mind to regroup! |
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19 Feb 09 - 04:54 AM (#2570674) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ed Pickford Songs From: Betsy Missing from the above ( I think ) - "The day I took the vow ". Chorus:- The day I took the vow The day I took the vow I said farewell to liberty The day I took the vow. Quite a humourous song. |
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19 Feb 09 - 10:12 AM (#2570867) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ed Pickford Songs From: nickp Pretty sure it was Northern Front that I remember seeing at Durham Folk Festival mid-70's and one of them asking another (who was at the Town Hall piano) for a note to tune to. A piano key was suitably removed and thrown across the stage to great amusement... |
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21 Oct 18 - 04:16 AM (#3957644) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ed Pickford Songs From: GUEST Hi Was an everpresent at Londonderry. Mick Elliott used to sign a sing called "to be a european" im trying to find lyrics for this song. Not sure who wrote it. Cheers Frank TURNS |