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10 Nov 10 - 03:26 AM (#3028127) Subject: Lyr Req: Tonypandy riots centerary: BBC documener From: Mick Tems BBC Wales did a magnificent documentary on the Tonypandy Riots, which occured on November 7, 1910 when coal owners of the Cambrian Combine staged a lockout and 12,000 miners struck. The programme showed Sophie Evans, runner-up in Over The Rainbow, singing All The Nice Girls Love A Miner, and I would dearly love to track down the words again. The lyrics went: It's handy In Tonypandy... The song the BBC didn't show was one I collected from Wyn Jones: Tonypandy, Tonypandy, Tonypandy, don't forget; Tonypandy, Tonypandy, All the Welsh remember yet. Mick Tems |
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10 Nov 10 - 03:30 PM (#3028593) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tonypandy riots centerary: BBC documener From: GUEST,S Byers The prog. is a available for downloading - with images - from http://www.radioarchive.cc/torrents-details.php?id=10393 Create a free account first. |
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10 Nov 10 - 03:40 PM (#3028606) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tonypandy riots centerary: BBC documener From: Richard Bridge Careful, Steamin Willie will be suggesting they should all be shot or massacred as at Peterloo. |
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10 Nov 10 - 07:35 PM (#3028833) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tonypandy riots centerary: BBC documener From: GUEST,CJB There was also a t.v. documentary on BBC Wales - actually two. Tonypandy Riots: A New History Channel: BBC One (Wales only) Date: Sunday 7th November 2010 Time: 22:25 to 23:25 HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Tonypandy Riots - A New History On: BBC 2 Wales (Digital) Date: Tuesday 9th November 2010 (Already shown) Time: 19:00 to 20:00 (1 hour long) |
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12 Nov 10 - 09:16 AM (#3030262) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tonypandy riots centerary: BBC docume From: Jim Dixon The site that S Byers provided the URL for, requires you to log in, and I am reluctant to create an account just for this. If anyone else goes there, please transcribe the lyrics and post them here. I have failed to find any reference anywhere to ALL THE NICE GIRLS LOVE A MINER. From the title, I'd guess it's a parody of SHIP AHOY (ALL THE NICE GIRLS LOVE A SAILOR)—Words, A J Mills. Music, Bennett Scott (1909)—a music-hall song, the chorus of which is apparently familiar to almost all Brits and almost no Americans. |