The sounds & songs of Britain /
SAD 4889 Sound Library The sounds & songs of Britain / written and produced by Bob Barratt ; narrators: Bernard Horsfall and Nicholas Pennell. - One-up, [1971]. - 1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm., stereo. ; 12 in.
Analog disc. Originally released on EMI Columbia in 1971. This may be a later reissue.
Side 1: There'll always be an England -- The Wembley roar -- A life on the ocean wave -- Canterbury Cathedral: Toccata and fugue in D minor -- The white cliffs of Dover -- Hastings: The national town criers' championship -- Sussex by the sea (interpolating bonfire night in Lewes and the veteran car run) -- Winchester Cathedral -- Widdecombe Fair -- The Padstow May song -- Flora Day in Helston -- Cornish Rhapsody -- Wookey Hole caves -- Drink up thy cider -- The Marquess of Bath -- Land of my fathers (Mae hen wlad fy nhadau) -- A converstion in Welsh -- A Welsh steel-works -- All through the night (Ar hyd y nos) -- A Welsh coal-mine -- The Tal-Y-Llyn railway -- We'll keep a welcome -- Danny boy -- The old Lammas Fair -- Water-driven trip-hammer and linen hand-loom -- The mountains of Mourne The Manx national anthem (O land of our birth) -- Side 2: 1. The Edinburgh Tattoo: Scotland the brave -- I belong to Glasgow -- A Spey Valley ski resort -- The Skye boat song -- Lewis boy singing in Gaelic: Moch di luainn -- A Highland gathering -- Northumbrian pipes: The keel row -- Blaydon races -- Monkseaton Morris Men: The rapper sword dance -- Scarborough Fair; canticle -- On Ilkla Moor bah't 'at -- The hunt -- John Peel -- She's a lassie from Lancashire -- Blackpool -- I do like to be beside the seaside -- Silverstone motor races -- Greensleeves -- Stratford-upon-Avon: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more -- Bells of Holy Trinity church -- The Coventry carol -- Blenheim Palace organ: Toccata from Symphony no. 5 in F minor -- An English country village -- Country gardens -- Newmarket -- Hey yew gotta loight boy? -- Christmas in Cambridge: Once in royal David's city -- The Eton boating song -- Land of hope and glory.
The record features excerpts from songs, music, seasonal celebrations and documentary sound recordings linked by a narrative.
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