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DANCING DOLL - Operated by Harry Cox: 16mm film with Charles Parker 1962: FF-2217

DEATH -- RPL LP 27675 Pat MULLEN FTX-421 - Bob ROBERTS: "Dead Horse shanty": FTX-208 - Frank KELLY (fid) "Memory of the Dead": TOPIC 12-T-153 1963 - Africa -- OCORA OCR-17 DAHOMEY A5 orchestea bells rattles whistle calabash resonator & 2 water drums - OCR-40 BURUNDI A3 women blowing with cupped hands - OCR-41 GABON A2 harp & bottle & song with ch/ A3 xylo sticks & vocals behind - OCR-48 IVORY COAST A2 Women/ A6/ B1-3 dance during funeral ceremony - OCR-61 ZAIRE Kuba B1 lament with basket rattle - B7 discovery of dead body in forest - OCR-766 TOGO Kabiye A5 drums & bells - Elsewhere -- Brittany rec by Peter Crossley-Holland: RPL 27934 handbells - COLUMBIA SL-207 France Corsica keen at wake 1948 - SL 208 Australia burial ritual & mourning call - SL-211 Canada Indian chant with drum - ELECTRECORD Romania funeral horns, songs & dirges - QUALITON Hungary IIA5 Songs/ IV B6 laments (fid & voc) - OCORA OCR-54 Hungary (fid) - OCORA 558-548 Yugoslavia "Pomana" post funeral celebration & "Padura" ballad sung in house - keening at graveside - OCORA OCR-74 Solomon Islands A6 body in canoe/ A7 bamboo pipes in wind & noise of sea/ B(-10 women's chant - OCR-80 Vietnam funeral lament for dead child

DIALECT SPEECH - England & Wales -- STORIES - TALK --: Norfolk: FTX-034 - Suffolk: FTX-047 Rhondda Valley, S.Wales: FTX-055 - Orkney: FTX-063 - North Cornwall: FTX-096 - Bridport, Dorset: FTX-097 - Suffolk: FTX-099 - Kent: FTX-100 - Dorset & Devon Mummers: FTX-103 - Glos-Somerset Paperboys: FTX-104 - Lincolnshire Plough Lads: FTX-105 - Cheshire Soulcakers: FTX-107 - Cumbrian Pace-eggers: FTX-108 - Yorkshire Pace-eggers: FTX-109 - Staffordshire Horn-dancers: FTX-110 - Lake District Songs: FTX-120 - Norfolk: FTX-134- More Norfolk Songs: FTX-139 - South Armagh: FTX-165 - Portland, Dorset Quarrymen: FTX-203 - West Yorkshire Dances: FTX-211 - Sheffield (Yorks) Miners: FTX-212 - Guernsey & Sark (Channel Islands): FTX-213 - Jersey: FTX-214 - Padstow, Cornwall Hobby Horse Party: FTX-215 - Minehead, Somerset Party: FTX-216 - Belfast, Ireland & Perthshire, Scotland Jack Tales (Stories): FTX-303 - London "Cockney Customs": FTX-332 - Devon WI/ Originals CASS 1248-1255 & 1262-3/ FTX-401/ 402/ 403/ 404 - Somerset Village Traditions: FTX-405 - Wiltshire: FTX-406 - Devon: FTX-407 - Dorset: FTX-408 - Clydeside & Tyneside: FTX-409 -Lake District: FTX-410/ - Dorset & Somerset: FTX-411 - West Country: 412 - "Jan Stewer" Devon: FTX-413 - Somerset: FTX-414 - Gloucestershire: FTX-415/ 416 - Aran Islands: FTX-421 - Tyneside: FTX-425 - Tinker Cant & Gypsy Romany: FTX-441 - Regions of Britain: FTX-450 - North of England: FTX-451 - Midlands & East Anglia: FTX-452 -South & West: FTX-453/ - Lowland Scots Songs: FTX-460 - Lowland Scots Stories: FTX-461 - Stories from Barra, Hebrides: FTX-463 - "Dialects of Britain" CASS 0181-C60 - Geoffrey WOODRUFF "How to speak Bristolese" rec RPL 20/11/56: CASS-0182 (first part lost but incl conversation at end) - Clement MARTEN Devonshire Dialect: CASS-60-1247 - "Sounds like North Cornwall": SENTINEL SENS-1011 1972 - Arthur Grimley (or Quigley ?) rec by Damian Webb, Garforth, Leeds, W Yorks 1977 Talk about pheasant shooting rec by Damian Webb, 35 (Reel 5) - Stanley ELLIS coll ANGLESEY rec RPL 26/5/85: CASS-0183 - Stanley ELLIS coll Northumb & Glasgow 10/83: CASS-0184 --- Gerry Anderson prog: Radio 2: 30/6/93 CASS-1235 Neil TRABEEN: Cork, Kerry, Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow & Dublin

DIVINATION -- FORTUNE TELLING

DOCTORS - see also ILLNESS - MEDICINE - BONE SETTER - BROWN GIRL - COD LIVER OIL - COTTON-EYED JOE - IT'S A WONDER I'M ALIVE TO TELL THE TALE - MARROWBONES - MILLER'S DAUGHTER - NATIONAL HEALTH SCHEME - Children - HERE COMES THE NURSE - HOLY MOSES - JOHNSON'S HAD A BABY - LITTLE FAT DOCTOR - MOTHER, MOTHER I AM ILL - O DEAR DOCTOR - TOOTHACHE - UP IN THE LOFT - WHOOPING COUGH - WILL YOU HAVE A GAME OF GOLF?

DOGS -- Jossy "Pop" MAINPRIZE rec by Jim Eldon 1982-8 of Flamborough Fishermen, E Yorks Gypsies & Ben JARVIS, Pocklington cobbler SD-005 1988/ CASS-0992 "Dogs & Poachers

DONKEYS - Video by PK of the TRAPNELL family with donkeys and ponies on the beach at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset 1983: FF-1117

DOUBLE TRACKING -- Alistair ANDERSON: LEADER LER- 2074 1972 - Vin GARBUTT: LEADER LER-2102 1976

DRINK - Songs of Diversion: FTX-027 - Saturday Night "Sing Song" in a Suffolk pub: 036 - Welsh Song from Glamorganshire: 054 - Belfast "Jug of Punch": 071 - Sussex publicans: 082 - Contemporary Singers: 093 - Bawdy Songs: 127 - "Pop" in the pub: 280 - London pub scene: 331/ 332 - Devon food & drink: 404 - Gloucestershire Cider: 416 - Co Down: 433 - RPL 18534 Terry Devlin, Co Tyrone - 18686 Bob Arnold, Burford, Oxfordsh 1952 - 18718 Wally Fuller 11/11/52 - LP-23100 Jim Baldry, Woodbridge, Suffolk - CAEDMON 6534 Oscar Brand & The Souses - FOREST TRACKS FT-6003 - FREE REED-FFRD-023-4 "A Tale of Ale" + cass - MAJOR MINOR MMLP-3 & 14 Dubliners - TOPIC 12-TS-205 Watersons - TOPIC 12-TS-236 Harry Boardman - TOPIC 12-TS- 241 Bernard Wrigley - TOPIC 12-TS-248 John Lyons - TOPIC 12-TS-265 Watersons - TOPIC 12-TS-304 Gypsies - TRANSATLANTIC XTRS 1150 1975 pub rec Lewes, Sussex - TOPIC TSCD-663 1998 "The joys and curse of drink"

DRUGS -- David CALLISTER (talk), Isle of Man: RPL LP 28547

DUST -- Talk about pneumo-silicosis rec by PK & Alan Lomax, Treorchy Miner's Club, Rhondda, S Wales 1953: FTX-055 - Johnny HANDLE: ELEKTRA EVK-253 1966 - TOPIC 12-TS-270 1975

EASTER EGGS -- FTX-199 #/14-15 & Cumberland descr of "Egg dyeing & Rolling "Dumping" (In Northumb called "Jarping"): FTX-289

EDUCATION - "Talking with gypsies" radio prog introduced by John Seymour: FTX-283

ELECTIONS -- Oscar BRAND: CAEDMON TC-1505 1976 Presidents of USA (Tues following 1st Monday Nov)

EROTIC -- TOPIC 12-T-135 1966 "Bird in the Bush": A L LLOYD, Anne BRIGGS, Frankie ARMSTRONG

EVICTIONS -- Gaelic Songs from Sutherland by James C Campbell, Edith & Joseph McKay about Clearances in Islands: (RPL LP 29896)

FACTORIES -- Charles BOYLE (talk about factory girls in Belfast): 7"RTR-0543

FAIRIES -- TROWIE - SPALDING: The Lilt of the Irish p368 - BLARNEY STONE - CAN Y TYLWYTH TEG (Welsh) - KING OF THE FAIRIES - LEPRECHAUN - QUEEN OF THE FAIRIES - SHEEAGHYN TROALTAGH & SHO-HEEN SHO-HO (Isle of Man) - SISTER O SISTER (Fairy Sweetheart's Lament - Scots) - TA ME MO SHUIDHE - TAM LIN - TAMMY DODDLE - WELL OF SPRING WATER - WELSH FAIRY SONG - Britain & Ireland -- Isle of Man: FTX-007 - John THOMAS (Welsh shepherd): FTX-051 - McPEAKES (Belfast): FTX-071 - Mickey DOHERTY(Co Donegal): FTX-073 - Seamus ENNIS (Dublin): FTX-FTX-079 - Neil BOYLE (Donegal): FTX-170 - Barra (Hebrides): 191 - "Talking with gypsies" radio prog introduced by John Seymour: 283 - Seamus ENNIS: FTX-302 - Aran Islands: FTX-421 - Women's Voices in Ulster: FTX-434 - Voices Raised: FTX-435 - Male Dialect speaker from Cornwall: FTX-450 "Being pixie-led" - Davie STEWART: FTX-461 - Annie JOHNSTONE (Barra): FTX-463- "The Gravel Walks" rec by Kevin Danaher & Seam O Raymond for The Irish Folklore Commission Donegal 1949 Remastered & produced by Harry Bradshaw: COMHAIRLE BHEALOIDEAS EIREANN CBE-002 1990 d/cass CASS-1150 includes written notation of Slip Jig "learnt from the fairies" - Michael DOHERTY (fid)Co Donegal : RPL 16657-8 - Terence McSHANE (fid) story & tunes rec by PK, Loughguile, Co Antrim 1953: 20029 - Pat MULLEN, Aran Islands: RPL LP 27625 - John CALLISTER, rec by Stewart Wavell, Isle of Man Oct 1960: RPL LP 28457 - Maire O SULLIVAN: COLUMBIA SL-204 - Seamus ENNIS Dublin: LEADER LEA-2003 1969 - Dave & Toni ARTHUR: LEADER LEA 2017 "The Witches Rune" -Eddie BUTCHER: LEADER LEA 4055 "Tam Lin" - Paul DAVEY (flute)t Dartington, Devon 4/12/71: CASS 60-0909 "The Fairy Lullaby" - Miss Pender (talk), Sennen, Cornwall: RTR-810/ CASS- 0440

FAIRS - "Talking with gypsies" radio prog introduced by John Seymour: FTX-283 - Impressions of Puck Fair by Brian George, Puck Fair, Killorglin, Kerry, 11/8/47: RPL 11065-7 - recs of songs from tinkers at Fair incl BLACKWATERSIDE, GALTEE FARMER (part) & I BOUGHT A MARE AT DERRY FAIR (mentions Crossmaglen, Co Armagh): RPL 13383 - Song about taking down tent & moving MUCKRAM WAKES:LEADER LER-2085 1973 - "Deep Lancashire" Harry Boardman, Oldham Tinkers: TOPIC 12-T-188 1968 - Harry BOARDMAN: TOPIC 12-TS-236 1973

FALSE PARTS - ARTIFICIALS

FAMILY HISTORY -- ELLIOTTS, Birtley, Durham rec by Peggy Seeger & Ewan Mc Coll: FOLKWAYS FG-3565 1962

FAMINE -- Colm KEANE rec by Seamus Ennis, Galway 1960: RPL LP 29885 Gaelic Song

FARMING -- Songs of Country Life: FTX-023 - Jimmy McBEATH: FTX-059 - John McDONALD, Morayshire "The Roving Ploughboy": FTX-061 -Bob & Ron COPPER, Sussex: FTX-081/ 082 - Fred JORDAN "The Farmer's Boy": FTX-130 - Graeme MILES (comp): FTX-221/ 230/ 238/ 239 - Bothy Ballads: FTX-260 - Peter PRATT, Orkney: FTX-389 - Devon Diaelect talk:"The Ups and Downs of Farming" & Song: "Tavistock Goosey Fair": FTX-401 - Somerset Farm Talk: FTX-414 - Northumbrian Song: "The Canny Shepherd Laddies": FTX-425 - "Bothy Ballads", Aberdeenshire: FTX-460 - USA: - Alan LOMAX Cowboy Songs: FTX-941

FIGGY or FUGGY -- FTX_198 A 21-2 Wakefield, Yorks

FIGHTING -- Jimmy McBEATH: FTX-060 Talk about life -- kids rec by Sasha Moorsom: Prog by Robert Opie: FTX-198 - FTX-199 - Voices of children: FTX-289

FILMS -- French Radio prog on International Folklore Film Festival Paris Jan 1984: CASS-90-0618 when Peter Kennedy showed his cine-film "Health to the Barley Mow" (Singing & Step-dancing in a Suffolk pub)

FINDSIES KEEPSIES -- FTX-198 #25-6 & 289 #16 Cardiff, London

FIRE CUSTOMS -- "The Burning of Bartle" rec by PK, West Witton, Wensleydale W Yorks 1959: RPL LP 26583/ FTX-265 - John CALLISTER (talk) rec SW Jurby, Isle of Man 1960 RPL LP 28457 - Running with lighted tar barrels, Ottery St.Mary, Devon filmed in colour 1983: FF-1113 - Elsewhere - - QUALITON Hungary Festival Song#3 A7 "Fire Jumping"

FIREWORKS - Damian Webb Coll Portugal 1960

FISHING - England - Walter BARNES Brixham Devon RPL 9593-4 - Skipper BALL rec on board trawler 1958 RPL LP 26954 - Harry COX, Norfolk: FTX-034 - Bob ROBERTS, Suffolk: FTX-047 - Manfri WOOD (Welsh gypsy): Fishing stories: FTX-053/- Tom BROWN "The Smacksman": FTX-133/ 134 - Sam LARNER, Norfolk: FTX-139/ RLP LP 26075-6 - Bob ROBERTS: "Windy Old Weather": FTX-208- Graeme MILES (comp): FTX-223/ 328 - Billy DICKERSON: "The Young Girls of Blakeney": FTX-328 - Storm & Shipwreck: FTX-512 - Sailors & Sweethearts: FTX-514 - Coastal Songs & Forebitters: FTX-515-- Miss PENDER rec by PK, Sennen Cove, Cornwall 5/11/74 talk about sailing boats: RTR-810/ CASS- 0440 - ARGO DA-142 & SPA A-216 Radio Ballad: "Singing the Fishing" - Robin WILLIAMSON Story: PIGS WHISKER PW 1981 "The Fisherman's Son" - Scotland - Johina LEITH, Orkney"The Nor-West Song": FTX-389- Neil GILLIES, Barra, Hebrides: Fishing Story: FTX-463 - Quest of "Oyster Dreg Song" LP 25800 - Ireland - Pat MULLEN: The Aran Islands: FTX-421 - Peter SLOAN, Co Down: "The Wreck of the Newcastle Fishing Fleet": FTX-433 - Elsewhere - -- Bahrein pearl fishers OCORA OCR-42 - Mexico unacc solo chant OCR-73 - Solomon Is panpipes: OCR-74 B2

FLOODS -- Bill MEARE (68), rec by PK, Drayton, Langport, Somerset 1957: FTX-453 Story of musicians in cart at Muchelney

FOLKLORE - Isle of Man: FTX-007 FTX-444 & 445- Fred ROOKE (Gypsies): FTX-046 - Welsh (Nantgarw): FTX-050 - Pace Egging (Cumb): FTX-108 - (Yorksh): FTX-109 - David DODDS: FTX-126 - Matthew SPRING (Holy Grail): FTX-128 - Peter OPIE (Schoolchildren): FTX-198 & 199 - Rowland KELLETT (Leeds): FTX-209 - Sheffield: FTX-212 - Guernsey & Sark: FTX-213 - Jersey: FTX-214 - Cornwall Hobby Horse: FTX-215 - Somerset HH: FTX-216 - Graeme MILES (comp): FTX-230 - "Lucky" LUCKHURST (London): FTX-332 - Dialect speech: FTX-401- FTX-403 - Miners (Durham/ Clydeside): FTX-409 - West Country: Cornwall, Devon, Dorset & Somerset: FTX-412 - North of England: FTX-451 - Midlands & East Anglia: FTX-452 - South & West: FTX-453 - Tristan de Cunha: FTX-609 - John CALLISTER rec by Stewart Wavell Jurby Isle of Man Oct 1960: talk about cures, drugs, fairies, fire-jumping, witches, evil eye etc: FTX-FTX-444 - Fishermen in the Isle of Man: Ned Maddrell 1961: 445 - Sailor's: Bob ROBERTS interviewed on Radio 2 "Folkweave" 24/8/78: CASS-0412 Albatross was old sea-captain/ Fiddler's Green/ Shipwreck threw coat into sea for sacrifice (previously children) - Ireland - Jack Tales: Scotland & Ireland: FTX-303 - South Armagh: FTX-165 - Aran (Co Galway): FTX-421 - Story about FINN McCOUL (Local Legend) Frank "Wings" CAMPBELL rec by PK, Forkhill, Co Armagh N I 1952 Talk with story 7"RTR-0549 - Scotland - John & Ethel FINDLATER (Orkney): FTX-063 - Jeannie ROBERTSON (Scots tinker): FTX-187 - P S PETERSON (fid), rec by Tom Anderson, Papa Stour, Shetland RTR-1079 Witch, trolls, seals and spirits

FOOD -- DECCA VOCALION VL-3728 - - TOPIC 12-TS-236 1973 Harry BOARDMAN Recipe rec - Children - FTX-198 - Voices of children rec by Sasha Moorsom: FTX-298 - rec by Damian Webb, I A8 (a) "Yum Yum" (b) Rhymes to make you ill: "Scab and matter pie" etc - children rec by Damian Webb, 33 #8 Conversation by Scots children, Dingwall - Caribbean - Lord KITCHENER calypso on rationing with Rupert Nurse & his Trinidad Troubadours: ROOT & BRANCH #2 CD 2000 "Sweet Jamaica"

FOOLERY -- Charlotte HIGGINS (tinker) rec by PK, Blairgowrie, Perthsh 1955 Stories of the Laird o Udny's Fool: FTX-183 - children's voices: 289 "There is a school in Liverpool"

FOOTBALL -- Lincolnshire Ball-game custom - (nr Doncaster) rec by PK, Wagstaffs, Haxey, Lincs 1953: "John Barleycorn"/ "Drink Old England Dry": FTX-025/ 423/ 516 - Jimmy MacBEATH, supertramp, rec Scotland 1951 talk: FTX-060 - Margaret BARRY talk about singing for Irish football teams (Co Armagh) FTX-270 - Lucky LUCKHURST, London, 1978 talks about Jimmy Dimmock & Spurs & about "Pitch and toss": FTX-332 - Joe BRANNIGAN, rec PK Rostrevor, Co Down: "John Thompson, The Scottish goalkeeper" talk bef & aft: FTX-433 - Dialect speaker from Lancashire talking about his friend's visit to London for the Cup Final at Wembley; his friend buys a parrot in the Edgware Road which turns out to be a duck: FTX-450 - David PEACE, Kirkwall, Orkney descr of Ba' Game: RTR-0655 & 0688 - Talk by Don & brother Lionel ELLIS, rec by Peter Duddridge, Chipping Campden, Glos 1962-5: SAYDISC SDL-222 1972 - Glasgow Songs sung by Terry DICK with CLUTHA: TOPIC 12-TS-226 1973 with game atmosphere -- Children - Liverpool "After the ball was centred" recorded by Sasha Moorsom & Damian Webb 1960: FTX-FTX-198 - Tom LANGLEY: TOPIC 12-TS-210 - Children & Football Song medley: TOPIC 12-TS-226 - Elsewhere -- AFRICA Kasai (Zaire) 1957 song with 4 goblet drums & wooden sticks: TRACEY TR-32 A7

FORTUNE-TELLING - rec by Damian Webb, 2 B/2 (c) & (e) Palm-reading/ Ears going red/ St Valentine's Day FTX-199 & 289 - "Talking with gypsies" radio prog introduced by John Seymour: FTX-281 - Phoebe SMITH (Southern English romany gypsy) gives her views: FF-2208

FROGS -- Damian Webb rec of frogs at night in rice fields in Portugal 1960

FUNERALS - Harry COX: "The Sailor cut down in his prime": FTX-033 Bob & Ron COPPER, Sussex: "The Time passes over" - FTX-082 - Herbert PRINCE, Wiltshire: FTX-406 - Jack GRIBBLE, Devon "The Dying Cowboy" - FTX-407 - Lucky LUCKHURST: "The Wheel fell off the hearse": FTX-332 - Ireland - see KEENING under MUSIC-TYPES -- Mary DORAN (Irish tinker): "When I was in horseback": FTX-123/ 167 - Sarah MAKEM, Co Armagh "Derry Gaol" FTX-161 - USA -- Alan LOMAX (Solo album with guitar/ banjo) ): FTX-904 - Jean JENKINS (Solo album unacc & with banjo): FTX-915 "Slack your rope, hangman" -- Europe -- Romanian funeral call: ELECTRECORD EPD 1015/ DAT-90-632 #35-40 - Caribbean -- East Indian Music in West Indies: ROUNDER CD 1723 1999 Madrasi Funeral Drumming rec by AL, Tunapuna, Trinidad 1962 - Wake Songs (orig from Guadelope) : rec by AL, Dominica: 1724 - "Saraca"Funerary Music of Carriacou (Grenadine) & Grenada: 1726 - "Tombstone Feast" Funerary Music of Carriacou: 1727 - Grenada: 1728 Fishermen's Wake "breaking the barrel"

 
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