FTX-201 - SOMEBODY UNDER THE BED

GAMES: London & Home Counties

Actuality recordings of 25 games from 3 playgrounds featuring Ring & Line Song-Games, Skipping and Ball-bouncing, with children giving their own spoken commentary, as well as saying the words of the rhymes. Recorded by Peter Kennedy: (1) Titchmarsh School, Northamptonshire, Oct 1952, (2) Kentish Town, London, Jan 1953 and (3) Guilden Mordern, Cambridgeshire, July 1956 and .

TITCHMARSH SCHOOL (Skipping & Ball)

24. AT LIVERPOOL THERE IS A SCHOOL (Skipping with descr aft) - 0'42"

25. MY NAME IS ADDY-ADDY - 0'16"

26. ORDINARY CLAPSI (Ball game with descr aft) - 0'59"

GUILDEN MORDERN (Skipping)

27. EVENING CHRONICLE, EMPIRE NEWS - 0'37"

28. PIGGY ON THE RAILWAY - 0'14"

29. TEDDY BEAR - 0'29"

30. UP IN THE LOFT - 0'37"

31. DOWN IN THE MEADOW (sound of airplane bef) - 2'03"

32. THE SHIP GOES THROUGH THE ILLEY-ALLEY-O - 0'47"

33. I SENT A LETTER - 1'20"

34. IN AND OUT THE WINDOWS - 1'13"

KENTISH TOWN, LONDON (Circular Singing Games)

35. IN AND OUT THE DUSTY BLUEBELLS (talk bef) - 1'32"

36. THERE WAS A LOVELY PRINCESS (or THE SLEEPING BEAUTY) - 2'25"

37. WHO GOES THERE, PUNCHINELLA ? - 1'04"

KENTISH TOWN, LONDON (Skipping & Ball):

38. ON A MOUNTAIN (Skipping: descr bef) - 1'48"

39. GREEN GRAVEL (Skipping: words & descr bef) - 1'48"

40. WHEN I WAS ONE (Ball: words & descr bef) - 2'36"

41. THERE CAME A GIRL FROM ITALY (Skipping: descr before) - 1'15"

42. SOMEBODY UNDER THE BED (Skipping: descr before) - 0'59"

43. OLIVER (Skipping: descr aft) - 1'16"

44. I WISH TO-NIGHT WAS SATURDAY NIGHT (Skipping: words & descr bef) - 1'23"

45. TOY TOWN MAJOR (Skipping) - 0'23"

46. Mrs. ONE GOES IN (Skipping) - 0'28"

47. OVER THE GARDEN WALL (Ball) - 0'54"

48. ONE-TWO-THREE-A-LEARY (Ball: descr aft) - 0'52"

Recorded & edited by Peter Kennedy and first published on Folktrax cassettes 1975.

OTHER RECORDINGS OF CHILDREN'S GAMES BY PETER KENNEDY: FTX-201 from Sidbury School, near Sidmouth, Devon - 12 singing games as well as ball-bouncing and skipping rhymes with explanations by the children. Their headmaster gives the background to the way the games are passed, on leadership etc.