Hello Friend — Jacqui & Bridie: Forgotten Favourites #15
In the early 1970s some bright spark decided School needed new laboratories and set about finding the moolah. Term followed miserable fund-raising term full of begging letters, boot sales, money-making schemes and sponsored marathons. The one bright spot was a series...Banks of Green Willow – Tony Rose. Forgotten favourites #14
Folk song and Tony Rose met and fell for each other at Oxford University in the early 1960s, when he was reading modern languages and taking his turn as President of the Heritage Society, the university folk club. He moved to London to teach, but was offered so many...Caution to the wind — Paul Metsers: Forgotten Favourites #13
Last Mothering Sunday, on a trip to the magnificent ruins of Fountains Abbey, I was ambushed by an ear-worm that went round and round in my head all day and simply wouldn’t stop: ‘And as I gazed in wonder the towering walls did humble me, and never growing weary...Reasons briefly set down by th’author to perswade euery one to sing: Bill Caddick – Forgotten Favourites #12
I actually tried to buy Sunny Memories, Caddick’s second album, laboriously sending off a cheque to Folk News. Instead there came a letter: ‘Sorry, none left. I’ve sent you his latest LP and an extra one.’ The extra was Rough Music, his first; the latest was Reasons...Bar the Doors and Bang the Shutters Down
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