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26 Mar 12 - 09:33 AM (#3329081) Subject: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: alex s Which songs do you remember from the "old days" which inspired you to keep going to folk clubs? (fashionable now or not) Wild Rover Banks of the Lee Seth Davy Dirty Old Town The Old Dun Cow (caught fire) Keep Yer Feet Still Geordie Hinny Peggy Gordon Herrin's Heed When the Boat Comes In Mingulay Boat Song Trimdon Grange Explosion...... |
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26 Mar 12 - 09:41 AM (#3329083) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: MGM·Lion The Bonnie Lass Of Fyvie Lord Gregory [sung by the great Seamus Ennis] Four-Loom Weaver7uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu (Sorry ~~ the cat got on my keyboard! True!)6777777777777777777t |
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26 Mar 12 - 10:22 AM (#3329093) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: MGM·Lion Eppie Moray The Day We Went To Rothesay-O |
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26 Mar 12 - 11:08 AM (#3329124) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: GUEST,Don Wise Some of us started differently........... This Land is Your Land Reuben James Scarborough Fair The Wild Rover The Marco Polo I wish I was back in Liverpool The leaving of Liverpool The Times they are a'Changin' My Name is Dick Darby, I'm a Cobbler..... |
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26 Mar 12 - 11:30 AM (#3329141) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: GUEST,Derek Schofield Depends which era of the "old days" you got involved in it all..... but the Spinners/Dubliners/Clancy Brothers/Joan Baez song books must surely have had their impacts in the 1965-70 period..... Derek |
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26 Mar 12 - 11:34 AM (#3329142) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: GUEST,loki Fiddlers Green Mormon Braes Smugglers Johnny Lad Dowie Dens of Yarrow Calton Weaver |
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26 Mar 12 - 12:04 PM (#3329159) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Steve Gardham Everything the Watersons sang! |
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26 Mar 12 - 02:30 PM (#3329214) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Tootler Blowin' in the Wind Last Thing on my Mind Whiskey in the Jar Everything on Robin Hall & Jimmie McGregor's album "Scottish Choice" |
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26 Mar 12 - 02:40 PM (#3329220) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Big Al Whittle All of those - but by far the best was The Cat got on my Keyboard. Who can forget that chorus:- QWERTYUIOP ASDFG HJKL ZXC VBNM 123 Happy faces round the campfire. Joy it was to be alive, but to be young in that bright dawn.... |
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26 Mar 12 - 03:04 PM (#3329226) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Owen Woodson The Greenland Fishery The Banks of Sweet Primroses The Night Visiting Song The Nightingale The Shoals of Herring The Gresford Disaster The Blantyre Explosion The Grey Cock The Barnyards of Delgarty Tramps and Hawkers The Rocks of Bawn Rap Her Tae Bank Jowl and Listen Lad Little Chance Lord Franklin Peggy and the Soldier Go to Sea No More and the best part of quite a lot of sea shanties |
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26 Mar 12 - 03:10 PM (#3329233) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: John MacKenzie What do you mean "Old days"? I still sing at least 10 of the songs listed thus far :-) |
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26 Mar 12 - 03:11 PM (#3329234) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: GUEST,Ebor_Fiddler Then there was (at The Lowther anyway) skiffle revival, Hey Jude and any song from "New Voices" that we could learn before the next person (baggy that!). I still sing things from "those days" and people still like them. Maybe they'v ehad so long a lay=off that they are likeable again - can we do the same with "Kum Baa Yaaa"? |
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26 Mar 12 - 04:02 PM (#3329264) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Steve Parkes Several Music Hall songs in your list, Alex! They make up most of my repertoire these days. |
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26 Mar 12 - 04:57 PM (#3329296) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: alex s Steve - I used to play regularly in Balmbra's Music Hall in Newcastle in the 60s/70s. Good old songs. |
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27 Mar 12 - 06:34 AM (#3329552) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Owen Woodson I forgot the Jute Mill Song. Oh dear me. I forgot the Jute Mill Song |
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27 Mar 12 - 06:57 AM (#3329558) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Dave Hanson These are the sort of songs at this moment of time being slagged of by Ian [ world music ] Anderson and his devotees on his website at fRoots. Personally I love 'em all. Dave H |
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27 Mar 12 - 07:16 AM (#3329560) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: GUEST,Derek Schofield Well, I think you'll find that the only 3 songs listed in this thread that have been listed in the fRoots discussion are Wild Rover, Old Dun Cow and Whiskey in the Jar. And as for "devotees" there are several people disagreeing with him. I'm with Andy Turner (on the fRoots discussion) - it's not the song necessarily, but the way it's sung. Seems that any song that involves clapping in the chorus is a no-no!! I don't think Ian would have any problems with the vast majority of songs listed here. Derek |
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27 Mar 12 - 07:42 AM (#3329568) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Dave Sutherland "Paddy Lay Back" heard back in the summer of 1966 cemented my relationship with the folk clubs. |
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27 Mar 12 - 08:01 AM (#3329575) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: theleveller "Everything the Watersons sang!" I agree with Steve. It was a seminal moment when, in 1964/5 (can't remember which) they came to the tiny East Yorkshire folk club I'd just started going to and sang songs like Three Score and Ten. It was a revelation that people sang like that and sang songs about our area. So that was what folk music was all about! Better yet, they were willing to talk at length to a young 15/16 year old about it - then and many more times after that. |
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27 Mar 12 - 09:50 AM (#3329647) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Northerner Interesting thread. I sang "Copper Kettle", which was sung by Joan Baez (among others) recently at a pub open mic and it was very well received. Favourite singers to inspire me when I was young were The Clancy Brothers (who I saw performing), Joan Baez, The Dubliners, The Spinners, Alex Campbell, and The Kingston Trio. Basically any folk material that I had heard of in my pre-folk club era. Interestingly my list also includes Jeannie Robertson, through my sister's LP of "Heather and Glen", which is now out on CD. I did listen to folk on the radio though. |
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27 Mar 12 - 10:41 AM (#3329665) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Dave Hanson No not exactly the same list of songs Derek but the same type, things that people enjoy joining in with, to me it's a form of snobbery, like some years ago some people thought they were being superior by knocking The Dubliners and Clancy Brothers etc. I do agree with you to some extent about the performance aspect. Dave H |
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27 Mar 12 - 11:50 AM (#3329690) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Mo the caller Well, you wouldn't want to go to a session where someone sang Wild Rover etc. etc. every week. And if you were getting ready to perform something you'd practised you wouldn't want some drunk insisting that you had to sing it. But there are times when it is just right. We sometimes go to a session in Audlem. One Boxing Day afternoon the pub was full and we 'played to the gallery' with a load of stuff people would know. The next Monday evening it was quiet and people tried out more unusual tunes and songs. Completely different, both enjoyable. Same goes for tunes. A lot to be said for the ones everyone knows and can join in with. Mixed with some that you don't know but get under your skin after a few hearings. |
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27 Mar 12 - 12:16 PM (#3329705) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: John MacKenzie Singing the Wild Rover in certain venues, can lead to a £5 fine! |
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27 Mar 12 - 12:26 PM (#3329710) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Musket Jones's ale. The knocker upper man A man you don't meet every day Pomona Irish Rover Manchester Rambler And many more which were guaranteed to be sung on a singers' night in Worksop when I started going. |
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27 Mar 12 - 06:08 PM (#3329825) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Tootler If I can bring a smile to peoples faces by singing one of the aforementioned songs (which I have done), then I will sing it and sod Ian Anderson and his ilk. The trouble is that are several songs that simply got overworked and people got fed up of them. That said I do draw the line at melodeon playing sharks as the humour is more than a little worn out and I am pleased to say you don't hear it much now, though Pleasant and Delightful is quite regularly sung at one Folk Club I go to. |
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28 Mar 12 - 06:38 PM (#3330339) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: GUEST Any thing by The Watersons or Ewan McColl Jug of Punch Rose of Allendale Spencer the Rover The Recruited Collier Black Velvet Band and many more |
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29 Mar 12 - 03:48 AM (#3330496) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: janemick We sing Pleasant and Delightful here in Brittany, although I would hesitate to sing it in the UK. However, it is much appreciated and regularly requested, because it is such a fine song. Some of our French friends are now singing it too. |
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29 Mar 12 - 05:07 AM (#3330513) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: GUEST,Don Wise Good God-talk about long faded memories coming back up.........! Re "The Wild Rover". Perhaps it ought to be made clear that it's THAT version (Clancy Brothers et al)that's being talked about. There are,of course, other and better versions available. |
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29 Mar 12 - 06:27 AM (#3330528) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: banjoman The hole in the Elephants Bottom (learned from Pete McGovern) Anything by Tom Paxton Loads of others |
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29 Mar 12 - 09:38 AM (#3330611) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: GUEST,Pete You keep singing 'em and we'll keep listening, and with a bit of luck some youngsters will learn them and still be singing them in forty more years. That's what the oral tradition means isn't it? |
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29 Mar 12 - 03:08 PM (#3330742) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Bert Loads of great songs above, I think that this thread is very close to providing the answer to the question "What is folk". Lonnie Donnegan and The Spinners were most influential to me. It is a shame that you don't hear much of Lonnie these days, even though he sang a few folk songs. Steve Parkes would you post a few song titles of the Music Hall songs that you are singing. |
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30 Mar 12 - 04:35 AM (#3331002) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Dave Hanson Lonnie probably sang more traditional songs than most people are aware of, and pretty good too. Dave H |
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30 Mar 12 - 05:44 AM (#3331022) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: bubblyrat I 'ad 'er, I 'ad 'er , I 'ad 'er', I 'ad 'er, I upped an' I showed 'er the way ( Peter Sellers) But I doubt if it would be as funny today ! Sipping Cider Through A Straw ( Baron & Baroness Van Pallandt ) quirky ! The Golden Vanity ( Lonnie ) a personal favoutite Lonnie number Little Boxes ( P Seeger) A timeless classic,and back with us in a TV advertisement , I see / hear. Silver Dagger ( Joan Baez ) A great song to accompany in altered D tuning ; I love it ! The White Rose of Athens ( Nana Mouskouri ) I never heard anyone else do it , not even George Papavgeris , but I love the tune, it's sooooo beautiful ! |
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30 Mar 12 - 06:42 PM (#3331335) Subject: RE: UK folk revival golden oldies. From: Tootler I have just started a ukulele group for our local U3A. I have an electronic keyboard tutor which is proving an excellent source of simple arrangements that I can adapt for the group to use. It had the White Rose of Athens in it, so I copied it out, found the rest of the words and took it to last week's meeting and it went down a real treat. Simple three chord arrangement, attractive melody and words. It was a winner, they kept asking to play it again. (Sam? <g> ) Here is Nana Mouskouri Singing it. |