sqzbxr Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 http://youtu.be/Qs9PMky7Fj0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Molkentin Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Nice to anticipate the summer with some seasonal music - thank you and best wishes to you too - Wolf P.S.: Love the music of the Watersons! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 (edited) This one (from 1931) has a concertina (or two ) in it, starting at 1.18: "Oxford. 'Ye Merrie Monthe of Maye.' Centuries'-old custom of ushering in May-day at dawn with old English songs and dances, filmed for the first time." Happy May Day! Edited to add: It's starting to look like this newsreel could be a bit of a "discovery" because (on my Facebook page, where I've also posted it) Paul Groff asked about the man watching (on the edge of the crowd, on the right) who is wearing a cap and holding an Anglo, and I believe it's William Kimber! In fact the concertina playing at the very beginning sounds like him too... If so, it's a great pity it's not him that's playing "Country Gardens" for the morris dancers. Edited to add photo Edited May 1, 2014 by Stephen Chambers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Elphick Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Certainly looks like Kimber, and the playing at the start sure sounds like him too. I wonder when that sound recording at the beginning was made? The Youtube clip says 1931, but the earliest recording on the EFDSS Absolutely Classic is 1935. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 (edited) Certainly looks like Kimber, and the playing at the start sure sounds like him too. I wonder when that sound recording at the beginning was made? The Youtube clip says 1931, but the earliest recording on the EFDSS Absolutely Classic is 1935. It's a British Pathé newsreel issued on 4th May 1931Tony, so that's the year it was recorded. If only we had the out takes from the filming... Edited May 1, 2014 by Stephen Chambers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 William Kimber certainly played for morris dancers at that location: William Kimber and the Headington Quarry Morris Dancers, Oxford, 1949. From the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Franch Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 http://youtu.be/Qs9PMky7Fj0 Great singing, and what a period piece! Clouds of cigarette smoke! A poster of a "cowboy" with guitar on the wall--an upcoming attraction, perhaps? Glad we're done with all that smoke, even though I contributed to it at one time; done with it, I suppose, except for the residue in old concertinas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 A poster of a "cowboy" with guitar on the wall--an upcoming attraction, perhaps? That's Jack Elliott, the image was used on the cover of his 1964 Topic Records album (12T106) Muleskinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lester Bailey Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 The Aldbury May Song as performed by Aldbury Morris with concertina content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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