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The Elliots of Birtley a musical portrait of a Durham mining family
- Title
- The Elliots of Birtley [sound recording] : a musical portrait of a Durham mining family / compiled and edited from material collected by Peggy Seeger and Ewan Maccoll.
- Author
- Seeger, Peggy, 1935-
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Folkways Records, c1961.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Use in library | *LZR 26233 [Texts] | Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Use in library | *LZR 26233 [Disc] | Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
Details
- Additional Authors
- MacColl, Ewan.
- Description
- 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.
- Subjects
- Note
- Traditional ballads, music-hall songs, mining songs, children's ballads, street-songs, and song games.
- Program notes, texts, and glossary (15 p.) inserted in container.
- Event (note)
- Recorded in the home of Jack Elliot, at Birtley, Durham Co., England, July 24-25, Aug. 4, 1961.
- Contents
- Family history ; Stanley market -- Begging rhymes, guisers, lullabies, children's songs and rhymes ; Henry my son -- The three Welshmen ; Old Johnnie Booker ; Hunting of the wren ; The sucking pig -- Finger games, hand-warming games, children's street songs, skipping and ball-bouncing games, taunts, chants, etc. -- Anecdotes, local history, pit-poetry, the depression ; Our Gudeman -- Pit-lore ; Big Hewer legends, tales, anecdotes ; The celebrated workingman ; Little chance -- Miner's wit and humour, jokes, local tales, parodies ; The collier's rant.
- Call Number
- *LZR 26233
- OCLC
- 25583286
- Author
- Seeger, Peggy, 1935-
- Title
- The Elliots of Birtley [sound recording] : a musical portrait of a Durham mining family / compiled and edited from material collected by Peggy Seeger and Ewan Maccoll.
- Imprint
- New York, N.Y. : Folkways Records, c1961.
- Performer
- Performed by members of the Eliot family.
- Event
- Recorded in the home of Jack Elliot, at Birtley, Durham Co., England, July 24-25, Aug. 4, 1961.
- Added Author
- MacColl, Ewan.
- Publisher No.
- FG 3565 Folkways Records
- Research Call Number
- *LZR 26233 Program notes on file. Texts on file.