Dear Lovers of Traditional Song, Greetings again from Birmingham, England! You can now download the magnificent, deeply spiritual, and hugely influential...
... From: "Lewis Jones" <lewis.jones5@...> <<You can now download the magnificent, deeply spiritual, and hugely influential "Psalms of David" by...
Paul Stamler
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Aug 13, 2004 12:58 am
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Dear Friends and Colleagues, Greetings again from Birmingham, England! If you want them, you can now download, Isaac Watts' "Hymns and Spiritual Songs" from...
Members of the Trad Song Forum (and others) may remember a successful session we held in London a couple of years ago, called 'Discoverers of Tradition', when...
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Welcome once more from Birmingham, England! You must be fed up of me droning on about Isaac Watts, but please allow me one last...
I have just had confirmation from Steve Gardham that the venue and programme for the next TSF meeting are confirmed. It will take place at Sheffield...
In the Guardian last week, there was an obituary for John Seymour, author of The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency and 40 other books. He was 90. To quote: ...
Yes I knew him and he knew Bob Roberts and we have tapes of his work with gypsies. Great fellow. In haste - PK ... From: "Derek Schofield"...
peter
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Sep 27, 2004 8:05 am
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Dear Martin, I should bvery much like to attend the meeting, and there is a tiny chance that I shall be able to fund my travel from Hungary. (I'm also hoping...
Andy Rouse
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Sep 28, 2004 6:48 pm
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I can't add much to that - but for those into trivia - the design of "Complete Book of S.S." was done by Fred Ford of Chingford Morris. Dave In the Guardian...
Baring-Gould gives a song in his manuscripts called 'I had two ships. It was collected from John Woodrich in 1893 and he said that he had got it off a woman...
Martin, Both of the verses look to me like "floaters" - there also seems like a link to "Adieu To All Judges And Juries" and doubtless many others. It appears...
Paul Burgess
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Oct 20, 2004 8:22 am
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Martin and Paul, Joe Heaney did indeed have a version of the Prisoner's Song, which he called I wish I had someone to love me. It was recorded from him under...
It's generally accepted that Dalhart took his name from "the towns between which he had punched cattle in the second half of the 1890s." Haden, in his brief...
Clifford J OCHELTREE
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Oct 21, 2004 7:59 am
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Mainly correct. However, without digging back through various textbooks, I always understood that MTS changed his initials to VD when he first entered the ...
<<Mainly correct. However, without digging back through various textbooks, I always understood that MTS changed his initials to VD when he first entered the ...
Paul Stamler
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Oct 22, 2004 3:49 pm
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Referencing Haden's biography again... "Jim Walsh believes that the first notice that Dalhart was a recording artist appeared in the Edison Diamond Discs...
Clifford J OCHELTREE
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Oct 22, 2004 6:26 pm
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The last time I attended a TSF meeting in London, Steve Roud was talking about adding "motifs" to his folk song index. I have been struggling with adding a...
I have now updated the TSF website. I am sorry for the delay but there hasn't been a great deal of news coming in over the last three months or so. For the...
Dear Martin, Well at last a date on which theoretically I'm free - but sadly as it's in Sheffield I couldn't make it and be down in dorset for Mum's ashes...
armstrongf
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Nov 12, 2004 2:08 pm
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Looks like we are going to have a good 'Do' on Saturday. A number of new faces will be joining us and we have some 'extras' not on the original agenda. a.....
Martin Looks like I'll be able to make the meeting next week. See you there Peter ... From: "Martin Graebe" <martin.graebe@...> To:...
peter wood
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Nov 28, 2004 10:02 am
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On Sunday, November 28, 2004 3:21 AM Martin Graebe wrote ... I'm sure I should know how to handle this but is there a way to get a copy of this presentation? ...
Ben We do not usually publish full texts of the presentations, though the website usually carries a precis after the event. Because this is a 'forum' rather...
Thank you. I appreciate your help. ... From: Martin Graebe To: Tradsong@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 1:44 PM Subject: Re: [Tradsong] TSF...
Can anyone offer a lift from Gloucestershire to the meeting (and back?). Willing to share petrol expenses. Email gwilymdavies@... if you can. Gwilym...
Everyone on this list who knew Keith Summers will know know that he was an assiduous record collector. Also that, in the course of a short but active life, he...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Tradsong group. File : /Keith...
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Dec 7, 2004 10:01 am
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Everyone on this list who knew Keith Summers will know know that he was an assiduous record collector. Also that, in the course of a short but active life, he...