FTX-055 - COALMINER'S
PITANCES
MUSIC & MEMORIES OF WELSH MINERS
| This remarkable recording, made by Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy at
Treorchy, Rhondda, in 1953, is an outstanding social document with its straight-from-the-shoulder
talk about the collier's life in the South Wales valleys. Featuring Tom
Thomas, Gomer Williams, John Rowland & others, interspersed with songs
in both Welsh & English |
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SOSPAN FACH (The Little Saucepan) - talk about pay
- Pea-soup story - Working at the coal-face - 2 stories about Georgie - Talk
in the Barber's Shop and the Mummer's - A travelling ballad-singer - YR ENETH
GADD EI GWRTHOD (The Rejected Maiden) - GOLDEN RING - DAISY DAISY - Theatre
and chapel - Sunday restrictions - sweets & marbles - GUIDE ME, O THOU GREAT
JEHOVAH - BEST LITTLE DOOR-BOY - Strikes - Going round singing - Seeking shelter-
Starvation - HOGYN AMAETHWR (The Farmer's Boy) - the Police - the Unions
- TON-Y-BOTL (Message in a bottle) - Coal-dust & Pneumo-silicosis
- Consumption & Compensation - the Dole - Churchill sends for the police
and the soldiers - an MP in gaol
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