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31 Jan 13 - 04:57 PM (#3474027) Subject: BBC Schools booklets From: Penny S. Some years back I rescued some children's pamphlets from Singing Together and other programmes - did it several times so ended up with some duplicates. I'm going to list them here in turn, and if anyone is interested in having them, they can PM me and we can take it from there. Number 1 Singing Together - Summer 1990 Midsummer Song - Rune Lindstrom, Hakan Norlen The Drover's Dream - Australian Traditional Vet's Song - Jan Holdstock, Pat Belford Alexander's Ragtime Band - Irving Berlin The Good Eating guide - Janet Wheeler Come to the Well - Welsh Traditional Tune, Janet Wheeler (Can't identify the tune.) Skin Song - Chris Hazell Jump in the Line - Blake Alphonso Higgs, Jessie Cavanaugh Only one folk song in this lot. |
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31 Jan 13 - 05:03 PM (#3474032) Subject: RE: BBC Schools booklets From: Penny S. Number 2 - these are in no order. Singing Together - Summer 1972 As I was going along the road, to see the flowers a-springing - Irish folk song REap the flax - Swedish folk dance The Gypsies - Gaelic folk song Loudly proclaim - Welsh traditional song Taffta Hindi - Arabian folk song No other moon - Brazilian folk song Water come a me eye - Jamaican folk song Fire down below - English sea shanty Much more folky - but what is the difference between folk and traditional? Fire down below reminds me of the first Jennings book, where the boys singing this song reminds the Head to have a drill, with, as they say, hilarious consequences. Penny |
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31 Jan 13 - 05:09 PM (#3474036) Subject: RE: BBC Schools booklets From: Penny S. Number 3 Singing Together - Autumn 1980 Farewell to Fiunary - Scottish The Hopak - Russian Reap the flax - Swedish (again) Captain Nipper - English Who did? - Spiritual Kelly the Pirate - Irish The Friendly Beasts - English The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy - West Indies O sleep my pretty baby - Mexican Rise up Shepherd - American The Gower Wassail - Wales Forgot to mention, there are two copies of number 2. |
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31 Jan 13 - 05:15 PM (#3474038) Subject: RE: BBC Schools booklets From: Penny S. Number 4 Singing Together - Spring 1981 Song of a Country Girl - Welsh, John Emlyn Edwards Mountain Dancer - Czech, John Emlyn Edwards The Tortilla Vendor - Chilean La Cucaracha - Mexican Here Come the Navvies - Ian CAmpbell The Piper o'Dundee - Scottish Greek Shepherd Song Alnwick Football song - English The Mountains I love - Swiss, John Emlyn Edwards The Mountain skier - Austria Troika - Russian |
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31 Jan 13 - 05:22 PM (#3474040) Subject: RE: BBC Schools booklets From: Penny S. Number 5 Singing Together - Summer 1981 The ship that never returned, English, My White Horse - Chilean, Wolfe, Krone & Fullerton Lewis Bridal Song - Scottish The spinning wheel - Irish Angelico - Haitian, John Emlyn Edwards The peanut vendor - Cuban, M Sunshine, L W Gilbert, M Simons Lisa Lan - Welsh, J P B Dobbs |
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31 Jan 13 - 05:23 PM (#3474042) Subject: RE: BBC Schools booklets From: Penny S. Left out The Fireman's Song, Don Bilston |
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31 Jan 13 - 05:28 PM (#3474047) Subject: RE: BBC Schools booklets From: Penny S. Singing Together - Summer 1971 - 2 copies Linden Lea - W Barnes, Vaughan Williams Morris men - Welsh The meadowlands - Czech One Man went to mow - English TRamping Song - Irish Donkey riding - English traditional sea song Pretty Pena - Mexican folk song The top of the morning - Scottish sheep shearing song Found a second copy of Summer 1981 Penny |
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31 Jan 13 - 05:34 PM (#3474051) Subject: RE: BBC Schools booklets From: Penny S. Singing Together - Spring 1972 - two copies Spring song - Swedish folk-tune, trans Ruth Ostland The Gypsy Davey - American version of English folk song Avenging and bright - Irish, Thomas More Glenlogie - Aberdeenshire ballad Lucerne to Weggis - Swiss folk song Stenka Razin - Russian popular song, trans Jacob Robbins Robin Hood - English trad tune, Gordon Hitchcock Maranoa Lullaby - Australian Aborigine tune, M Lyell The Drummer and the Cook - Music Hall and sea shanty Llantwit Major - Welsh Oxen song The rain song - John Parry, Douglas Coombs |
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31 Jan 13 - 05:47 PM (#3474061) Subject: RE: BBC Schools booklets From: Penny S. Number 8 Singing Together - Spring 1971 Kookaburra The spinner - Catalan, trans Margaret Fullerton The noble Duke of York The shanty boys in the pine - American lumberjack song The shpherd and his dog - Welsh, Barbara Kluge The meeting of the waters - Irish, Thomas Moore The wee cooper of Fife - Scots The pedlar - Ukrainian, Max Krone John Brown's Body - American Bound for the Rio Grande - windlass and capstan shanty Penny |
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01 Feb 13 - 04:31 AM (#3474256) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Penny S. I've just seen the misspelling in the title - perhaps someone could alter it? Penny |
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01 Feb 13 - 05:40 PM (#3474610) Subject: RE: Siunging Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Penny S. I've had someone interested, so I'm not listing anything else yet, Please assume that only things listed as having more than one are still available. Penny |
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02 Feb 13 - 03:45 PM (#3474953) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,Sylvia These are far too recent. I would love any booklets from 1960's - the beginning of my education in folk music, particularly Scottish, for some reaswon. |
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02 Feb 13 - 11:44 PM (#3475143) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,JohnB One song intrigues me from Singing Together - Summer 1971 Morris men - Welsh. Any way to get the one song? JohnB |
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03 Feb 13 - 05:05 PM (#3475394) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Penny S. The recipient of the first posting will be getting that Morris Men song available as a priority. There is a Summer 1967 bookletstill available: The Coast of High Barbaree Old Mister Noah Casey Jones The BIg Rock Candy Mountain Come o'er the stream Charlie My bonny cuckoo The pearly Adriatic (not any more it isn't, with the film from the countless oil rigs over all) The Lady bird My boy Billy Migildi, Magildi Unfortunately, the school had a scorched earth policy with archival material, and I didn't always know what was happening. I lost a chemical balance, and a very interesting little book from a maths series on symbology of numbers, including ideas for I'll sing you one O, and a some really good nativity costumes 'cos the children in charge of sorting put the wrong ones in the bins and I only found out just after the bin men had been. Penny |
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04 Feb 13 - 04:28 PM (#3475799) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,The Dean of Rochester I absolutely loved these in Music lessons at Primary School back in the late 60s/early 70s. Have you got the ones with 'Hey Ho How the Money Does Go', 'Land of the Silver Birch', 'Three pirates came to London Town' and 'Come and Sing together'? Four tunes I remember very well and loved, but can only remember bits of the words in my old age! |
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07 Feb 13 - 07:33 AM (#3476695) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Nigel Parsons Having been the lucky recipient of some of these books, Morris men is now transcribed Here |
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07 Feb 13 - 11:31 AM (#3476792) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Nigel Parsons If there are any songs in the above listed books that someone would particularly like to see posted (ah, those schoolday memories) just PM me & I'll see what I can do. Otherwise I'll work through slowly, seeing what takes my fancy! |
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07 Feb 13 - 04:59 PM (#3476851) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Penny S. Honourable cleric, the only one of that list I can remember writing down recently is Land of the Silver Birch - it must be in on of those I haven't listed, but sent to Nigel. Still available: summer '71,Summer '72, summer '81, Spring '72 and Summer '67. Pity I couldn't save the lot. They must have been stashed in classrooms and been dumped with staff changes. Penny |
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07 Feb 13 - 05:11 PM (#3476855) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,JohnB Thanks again Nigel, I found your other thread before I re-found this one. JohnB |
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08 Feb 13 - 04:20 AM (#3476972) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Nigel Parsons Numerous versions of Land of the Silver Birch are already available Here |
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05 Mar 13 - 07:03 PM (#3486797) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,Helen Firth We joined in the programmes Autumn 1958 to Summes 1960. The old books were carefully put away so they could be used as well. Has anyone got a pre 1960 book? Who'll buy my caller herring? O give me a cot in the land of the mountains? Have ye heard of a Welshman who travelled to Cork? Sweet Polly Oliver? |
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06 Mar 13 - 04:31 AM (#3486934) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Betsy Helen , I/we had a geography teacher in the 60's who insisted on us listening to Kathleen (spelling?)Ferrier singing "Caller Herring". It still remains for me the definitive version of this song and well worth seeking out. |
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03 Apr 13 - 03:52 PM (#3498429) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,Michael Thomas I'm interested in trying to find a Singing Together Booklet from 1961, containing a song called 'The Boaster.' (I think it was a 'reissue', since the same title appears for one of the 1956 terms.) If anyone knows where I could find the 1961 book, I'd be grateful (I don't know which term it was, I'm afraid). thanks, Michael |
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04 Apr 13 - 04:55 AM (#3498628) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Nigel Parsons Guest: There is a song with that title already in the DT The Boaster Is that the one? Cheers |
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04 Apr 13 - 06:47 PM (#3498891) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST A few years ago at Saddleworth Folk Festival, our old friend Theresa Tooley suggested having a singaround based around these songs - and she managed to find the pamphlets for quite a lot of them. It was amazing just how many people knew them and loved them! Ali |
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07 Apr 13 - 06:07 AM (#3499958) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,Thanks, Nigel Dear Nigel: thank you for your reply. It wasn't that one, though it's a great song and thank you for posting it. I remember a couple of lines from the one I'm trying to find: I've in town three houses fine When I've bought them they'll be mine, I'm from our village, our village, I'm my father's son. with thanks and best wishes, Michael |
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15 May 13 - 04:36 AM (#3515212) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: May Queen Wanted: Booklets from the 1950's and 60's I was going to start a new thread asking about BBC schools broadcasts but I should have known there would be something here already! Mudcatters know everything :-) My interest in these broadcasts is because I would like to share folk songs from these books with my mum who has dementia. She was at school from 1941 to 1952 (do they go back that far?) but she was also a primary age teacher into the late 1960's. Does anyone have booklets from this time? Or even sound recordings? She remembers teaching these songs and has recognised some from CD's playing in my car when we go out although the lyrics sometimes seem to confuse her. One particular one I'd like is 'Haul Away Joe' as she doesnt know the words I know (ie about lips going all mouldy and King Louis having is 'ead cut orf!) I guess some of the songs were "cleaned up" for schools broadcast although it may be memory failure on her part. Another is 'Maid of Amsterdam' and she thought it was hilarious when i told her the version I know...the maid in question being "mistress of her trade" etc BTW I have fond memories of my own regarding these songs from the 1970's and have found similar booklets to Penny's at mums house. How she got these when her own teaching career was over by then I dont know...Unfortunately the ones I remember the tunes of are mostly the Jamaican ones ie Mango Walk and Linstead Market as I'd really like to share British tunes that I have on recordings so we can sing along accompanied. Hope someone can help. Rachel |
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15 May 13 - 03:35 PM (#3515443) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Stilly River Sage What a great resource, Penny, and what a great number of uses for the saved booklets. Good job! SRS |
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16 May 13 - 02:27 PM (#3515860) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Stilly River Sage I poked around and found some of these on eBay. SRS |
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19 Apr 14 - 01:39 PM (#3620339) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST does anyone remember the Hawaiian rainbow,white clouds go by.......or sing sweet string make pitsacado?.... must be about 1979/1980? please help bugging me for years now. |
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19 Apr 14 - 07:27 PM (#3620405) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Joe Offer Here's our thread on 'Hawaiian Rainbows' (click). Can't find "Sing Sweet String" or anything with "make pizzicato." |
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06 May 14 - 08:25 PM (#3624464) Subject: Req: Ten Sail of Turks We Did Spy From: GUEST,Chris Bealey I remember a song which I'm sure was Bbc singing together in the middle seventies.Can only remember some of the words but no title.
we'd hardly left our loading port when 10 sail of Turks we did spy. Come strike you colours ye English dogs, strike colours presently, come strike Your colours ye English dogs or ye will be struck by we.
-Joe Offer, Music Editor- |
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28 Nov 14 - 08:31 PM (#3680876) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,Conan McDonnell I remember these programmes from around 1980-81. I'm pretty sure we learned Cadet Rousselle from this series but can't find any reference to it. Thanks for listing these - brings back many happy memories |
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28 Nov 14 - 08:45 PM (#3680879) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,Conan McDonnell Incidentally, "Cadet Rousselle has houses three". Michael, could you have got it mixed up with that song? |
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28 Nov 14 - 09:05 PM (#3680884) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: EnglishFolkfan BBC Radio programme on 'Singing Together' to be broadcast today and accompanying article on BBC website: Jarvis Cocker presents Singing Together on Archive on 4 on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 29 November 2014 at 20:00 GMT (this should then be available on BBC Radio iPlayer for 30 days) Singing Together: The radio show that got schoolchildren singing - For nearly 60 years the long-running BBC Schools radio programme Singing Together got generations of children singing in classrooms across the country. What made it so special and why does it still have a place in people's hearts, asks the BBC's Ruth Evans. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30210485 Remember and enjoyed these singalongs in our small village school in the 1950's, mono sound from a plywood boxed speaker placed on the teachers desk. Same speaker taken outside for 'music and movement' programme on the asphalt playground in clement weather. |
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29 Nov 14 - 02:19 PM (#3681022) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Irene M Looking forward to the programme. Sadly the Beeb didn't record the programmes fro posterity. I have a spare copy of the Spring '67 pamphlet if anyone is keen. The staples are a bit rusty! |
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29 Nov 14 - 03:51 PM (#3681037) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,Janet M I listened during the last two years of primary school from 1957-9. We've heard from William Appleby, but does anyone remember Miss Avis who did some of the singing at that time? |
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29 Nov 14 - 06:55 PM (#3681083) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Nigel Parsons Miss Avis would have been Miss Marjorie Avis. Shown in a photo in a copy of Singing Together currently on EBay UK. Cheers Nigel |
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02 Dec 14 - 04:07 PM (#3681909) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,Nick Kirby Just discovered this forum, thanks to the Radio 4 programme. Is the copy from 1981 still available, please? nkx9@hotmail.co.uk |
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02 Dec 14 - 04:35 PM (#3681913) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Penny S. Sorry, it's gone. Penny |
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05 Dec 14 - 12:28 PM (#3682835) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,Barry Fisher All you people are postively youngsters! My wife and I listened in the early 1950s (albeit 125 miles apart) and we argue over the date of The Ash Grove, and The Animals Went In Two by Two. Any one help? |
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06 Dec 14 - 06:50 AM (#3682995) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,guest Jocelyn Hi I caught up with the programme on iPlayer last night and really enjoyed it...... was singing along just like lots of other people who listened to it I expect! My junior school was hopeless and Singing Together was definitely the best thing about it. Except for Autumn 1957 and Summer 1958, I have all the copies from the school years 1957 to 1960 and could photocopy the odd song for anyone who needs it. If anyone has the ones I'm missing I would be interested in buying them. When my children were small I used the booklets for bedtime songs and lullabies and I'm hoping they'll do the same with their babies now. |
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14 May 16 - 07:46 PM (#3790361) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,Stephen Hi I have been looking for the name of a Peruvian folk song that I used to sing at school in Engkand. The lyrics go something like: "Let me tell you a story, of a long time ago...' and was about a boy and girl called rairu and marilia. Does anyone know this song? |
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09 Jun 16 - 02:20 PM (#3794620) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST When the sun left the heavens, and the clouds turned to snow. I still say no this with my sisters! |
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15 Jan 17 - 12:56 PM (#3832790) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST Hi, I can help with this one. It was from BBC Time and Tune, Spring 1973, from a story called La Campanelita. The song was called Sun Bird: Sunbird tell me the story Of a day long ago, When the sun left the heavens, And the clouds turned to snow To a girl in a village Came a king robed in gold They were happy together So the story was told. Then the king had to leave her And he never returned, But the heavens were shining And the golden sun burned. For the girl, left alone, now, Waiting days were so long She became lovely sunbird, And keeps singing her song. I've just tracked down the sheet music for this - if you want a copy drop me a line via the 'About' section on my website www.antonuzzo.com |
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15 Jan 17 - 02:00 PM (#3832802) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Nigel Parsons All you people are postively youngsters! My wife and I listened in the early 1950s (albeit 125 miles apart) and we argue over the date of The Ash Grove, and The Animals Went In Two by Two. Any one help? Looking at the partial index Here the closest I can get to early fifties is that "The animals went in two by two" was broadcast Spring '54 & The Ash Grove Summer '51 & Summer '57 Cheers Nigel |
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02 May 18 - 10:02 AM (#3921609) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST Hello- I was at junior school until 1960 and Singing together was a favourite. I have a distinct memory of singing a song that began "I came down Ellum and I came down Main, trying to beg a nickel to buy cocaine" but nobody believes me- am I mistaken? I'm Ron Wood, email four.posts@btinternet.com. Help me Obi Wan- you're my only hope! |
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02 May 18 - 10:14 AM (#3921614) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST Leadbelly ........... Take a Whiff (click) email sent to requestor -Joe Offer- |
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12 Feb 19 - 11:10 AM (#3976343) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST Hi, I'm looking for a 'Singing Together' booklet from, I think, 69/70. I remember the 'Nature Carol' Coral, Amber, pearl and Shell, gifts we gather from Summer seas.... Even to establish the issue date, or picture of the right one , other songs in the booklet would be an enormous help. Anyone? |
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12 Feb 19 - 11:20 AM (#3976349) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST Amazingly, I've now established it was Summer 1970 which had the Nature Carol in it - Thanks! |
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13 Feb 19 - 07:30 AM (#3976493) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Nigel Parsons If it's any help someone (not me) has currently got it listed on EBay, with pictures of the cover: Here Quite reasonable, £3.75 'buy it now' with free postage. Cheers Nigel |
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12 Mar 19 - 12:15 PM (#3981682) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Nigel Parsons To expand on my earlier response, I have now transcribed Nature carol in its own thread to make it searchable. Cheers |
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12 Nov 20 - 11:19 AM (#4079368) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,Andy Hadfield Hi does anyone have a copy of either Singing Together The Christmas Collection music book OR Autumn 1990 teachers notes they would be willing to sell? I never can find either on any auction sites or second hand music www’s Many thanks Andy |
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12 Nov 20 - 12:14 PM (#4079375) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Nigel Parsons Guest: Andy Sorry, I can't help with this one. Neither booklet is in my collection. Are you after the whole thing, or is it one or two specific songs (which may appear elsewhere)? |
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23 Nov 21 - 06:55 AM (#4127060) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST Hi, do you still have the ones from 1971spring ang summer and 1972 please. My email is housekeeperfsh@yahoo.co.uk I would love them, I loved singing together and was not a bad singer in my time.. Too shy to perform, but saw my dream come true when both my children became performers. Kind regards Polly Sanderson. |
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01 Dec 21 - 04:08 PM (#4127751) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,Jason Preece Hi. Is there anyway someone would be kind enough to advise how I can access the singing Together songbooks from 1979 to 1983. I'm new to this thread so would be grateful for any help. My email is jasonapreece@gmail.com. Thankyou all. Jason |
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07 Jan 22 - 06:52 AM (#4131349) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: GUEST,Sue Greeves Hi, I am trying to fine the lyrics to the song The Three Hunters from the 1965 spring book Singing together. My husband used to sing it to our boys and heard it when at school. They now want to sing it to their children but have forgotten some of the words. It's about 3 hunter hunting for a dragon and it turns out its a cuckoo! I think! email: geeves163@btinternet.com |
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07 Jan 22 - 07:15 AM (#4131355) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Nigel Parsons Okay, I'm on it (save anyone else typing it out) It actually appears to be Spring 1964 & title "The three huntsmen" |
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07 Jan 22 - 07:36 AM (#4131361) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Reinhard See the thread Origins: Three Jovial Huntsmen (and related songs). There's neither dragon nor cuckoo in the versions shown, though. |
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07 Jan 22 - 08:06 AM (#4131366) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Nigel Parsons The version from Singing Together has now been posted Here Separate thread to make it searchable. |
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08 Nov 23 - 04:46 PM (#4185573) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Nigel Parsons If anyone, member or guest, is still coming to this thread looking for songs from 'Singing Together' I have scanned my whole collection. Click at the link at the top of this thread for 'singing together downloads' to see how to access online copies. |
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08 Nov 23 - 04:46 PM (#4191519) Subject: RE: Singing Together: BBC Schools booklets From: Nigel Parsons If anyone, member or guest, is still coming to this thread looking for songs from 'Singing Together' I have scanned my whole collection. Click at the link at the top of this thread for 'singing together downloads' to see how to access online copies. |