SCS 561
Anne Mason Annex
Fred Hamer collection (NSA Tape 90)
- NSA, 1950-1969.
- 1 audiocassette : analog
Cassette. Transcriber's note: This is a privately made recording from BBC? radio transmissions. The recording starts (and closes) with an extract from the LP Liege and Lief by Fairport Convention with a voice over giving details: The programme is a 'Folk on Sunday Special' when the Folk on Sunday team went to Nelson, Lancashire, to present Folk in Concert & this programme is recorded highlights of that concert. The concert, held at Nelson and Colne? College of Further Education, featured the Taverners, from Blackpool, Harry Boardman, and the Pendle Folk and includes the first performance of the ball of North West, compiled by Alan Bell. Date of transmission unknown, except the month was either late April or May on a Sunday at 16:00; and likely to be early 1970s. The presenter was Jim Lloyd and the producer was Francis Line?.
(Sides 1 & 2: duration 56'30). Taverners: The lark in the morning / tune by Martin Carthy & Steeleye Span) -- Taverners: The five foot flirt -- Boardman, Harry: Them golden kippers (a Lancashier recitation) -- Boardman, Harry: We come a cobber coaling -- Pendle Folk: Watercress oh -- Pendle Folk: The [?]stall annual fair -- Taverners; Boardman, Harry; Pendle Folk: The ballad of the North West (a portrait of Pendle Hill and the North West).