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13 Nov 02 - 01:37 PM (#825381) Subject: Help: Another new songbook From: Nigel Parsons Just picked up another new songbook at my local "Oxfam" shop. No publication date inside, can anyone help ? "Number One Francis & Day's Popular and Community Song Book For all Occasions Price 10/- net (overstamped 7/6 net) Francis, Day & Hunter, Ltd., 138-140 Charing Cross Road London WC2" Nigel |
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13 Nov 02 - 01:45 PM (#825390) Subject: RE: Help: Another new songbook From: MMario Earliest date I found for a Francis & Day publication was 1912 - the latest 1959 That's just from a quick google - |
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14 Nov 02 - 04:33 AM (#825689) Subject: RE: Help: Another new songbook From: IanC Community song books were in vogue in Britain from about 1920 to 1940 or so. Most of the newspapers, for example, serialised songs and then published them in books at the end of a year or so. This one seems to have simply been produced by a book publisher. This book is available on the web from about £7 ($11). It's described thus. Publisher: London, Francis, Day & Hunter, c.1920; 215mm.W X 280mm., 192pp. Book G, red cloth, gilt lettering, sunned & rubbed, stamp on FFEP. No DW. Popular song-book of period. There is also a Number 2 available, with similar price tag. :-) |
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14 Nov 02 - 09:31 AM (#825775) Subject: RE: Help: Another new songbook From: Geoff the Duck The series - Francis & Day's Community Song Album No's 1 - 6 were certainly printed in large numbers over a long period of time. I don't have any dates, but the copies I have of numbers 2 and 3 were priced on the cover at 1/6 (one shilling and sixpence to those in foreign climes). All six books are listed plus the Camp Fire and Fire Side song book, all at the same price. I cannot find a publication date, but all the comunity song album books contain (and I quote) 32 songs with Full Words, Music, Tonic Sol-Fa and Ukelele arrangements. I think I picked up my copies in a charity shop. Quack! Geoff the Duck! |
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14 Nov 02 - 10:06 AM (#825809) Subject: RE: Help: Another new songbook From: Nigel Parsons Looks like I got mine cheap. £1-99 in an Oxfam shop. And yes, it is the full version with accompaniments, sol-fa & Uke arrangements. The difference between its cover price and those quoted by GtD for nos 2 & 3 (10shillings compared to 1shilling & sixpence)may be that book 1 contains 129 songs. Nigel |
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05 Sep 12 - 08:51 PM (#3400611) Subject: RE: New songbook:Francis & Day's Community Song Album From: GUEST,Kevin Smith I found a Francis & Day's No1 Popular and COMMUNITY SONGSTER for All Occasions Words of over 125 Songs Old & New Everybody's Favourites. there is no date, but the Copyright is by J.Albert & Son pty. ltd, 137-139 KING STREET SYDNEY. does this help anyone? |
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25 Nov 12 - 11:11 PM (#3442214) Subject: RE: New songbook:Francis & Day's Community Song Album From: GUEST Found Community Song Album No. 2. It's signed on the front by my great uncle who was in WWI and lived in Canada until the 30s. I'm thinking he purchased the book there. There's no date. Price on cover is 6 d. The footer on page reads F.&D.Ltd.19215. 1921? Dave (drobbins@provide.net) |
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26 Nov 12 - 12:16 PM (#3442481) Subject: RE: New songbook:Francis & Day's Community Song Album From: Steve Byrne Francis & Day produced Harry Lauder's songbooks in the 1900s, see the list here. |
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23 Mar 15 - 12:32 PM (#3696193) Subject: RE: New songbook:Francis & Day's Community Song Album From: GUEST,Paul Clarke I gather I used to have two copies of the F&D Community Songbook: does it contain quite a few US black songs in what is now seen as offensive transliterations of black speech ("ob" for "of", etc.). I also recall a very extended version of Shenandoah, with verses I don't recall seeing elsewhere since. These copies came from different branches of my family, which make them at the latest early-mid thirties, but just as likely 1920s. I remember a terracotta coloured linen cover, with two black 'framing' lines impressed near the edge. Also, very little text (black, in caps, just the book's title, I think) at the centre of the cover. Those I've seen online have the publisher's name and other details I'm sure weren't on our copies. I assume we had different editions to them, but not sure what no. it was. I guess all 6 weren't issued at the same time, but sequentially, edited to reflect changing musical tastes. |
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23 Mar 15 - 12:59 PM (#3696201) Subject: RE: New songbook:Francis & Day's Community Song Album From: GUEST,# This link says 1931 for #1 in series. |
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24 Mar 15 - 11:44 AM (#3696470) Subject: RE: New songbook:Francis & Day's Community Song Album From: GUEST,John frm Kemsing Reading this thread reminded me I have a "CAMP FIRE & FIRE SIDE SONG BOOK" by Francis & Day (Francis, Day & Hunter ltd.). I can determine no date but it is priced 2/0d, overstamped 2/6d. The contents, 46 songs, are listed inside the front cover and reference to J.Alpert of Australia and N.Z. is made. If it were to be issued in our "P.C." world there would be riots on the street but it is very informative, all the same. |