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GAELIC - see under MUSIC TYPES

GAMBLING -- COLUMBIA SL-211 Canada: Indian Gambling Song

GAMES -- Jimmy McBEATH: FTX-060 Talk about games

GANGS -- "Lucky" Luckhurst of London: FTX-332 Talk about names, secrecy etc - Douglas KENNEDY, Edinburgh, Scotland: FTX-481

GARDEN GNOMES -- Video by PK of C.W. HARVEY, father & daughter, gnome artists, Summerlands Road, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset 1983: FF-1117

GIPSIES - see GYPSIES

GOLF - HAVE A CIGARETTE, SIR? (WILL YOU HAVE A GAME OF GOLF?)

GOOD FRIDAY - Bonfires - FTX-199 (see KIDS FILE for transcipt) - Skipping -- David WARD (talk) rec on Radio 2: 31/3/80: CASS 0418 mentions started with letter from Mrs Lucy Barker (71) of Gloucestershire about customs in Poplar, London (see GROTTOES) & Parker's Piece, Cambridge - Radio 2: 21/4/80: CASS-0417

GREETING -- OCORA OCR-3 Mali Dogon speech by man - OCR 40 Burundi B2-3 by girls

GROTTOES -- Children's voices: FTX-199 & 289 - Lucky LUCKHURST: FTX-332 - David WARD (talk) about Poplar on Radio 2 rec 31/3/80: CASS- 0418

GROVELEY -"Oak Apple Day" rec Great Wishford 28/5/51: RPL 16756 "Rough music" wakens villagers/ "Grovely Charter" read in Saisbury Cathedral/ Cry of "Grovely" by villagers / "Roll Taties and Onions" (Four Hand Reel) with melodeon/ RTR-0026 (6/10/54)/ FTX-309 A-ROVING 1968 #3

GUNS -- OCORA OCR-33 Mali Dogon announcing funeral - Wassailing at Carhampton Somerset

GUY FAWKES DAY -- "On GF Day we all go chubbing (collecting wood also called Chumping) make it like an Indian tepee"FTX-199 - Bill THOUME rec by PK, St Martin, Guernsey CI 1/5/57: RPL LP 23845 talk about custom in Guernsey: FTX-243 - ARKY'S TOAST: LEADER LER-2092 1975 - Pete COE: LER-2098 1976"To welcome cold November"

GYPSIES - see also CARAVANS - FAIRS - FORTUNE-TELLING - HORSES - MEDICATION - TINKERS - England & Wales- "Songs of the Travellers": FTX-031 - Rebecca PENFOLD (Devon): FTX-042 - Carolyne HUGHES (Dorset) FTX-043 - Fred ROOKE (comp): FTX-045 -046 - - Hywel & Manfri WOOD Songs in Welsh Romany & conversations with words & riddles rec by PK: RPL 22429-31/ FTX-053 - Phoebe & Joe SMITH (Kent) rec by PK Woodbridge, Suffolk 1954: FTX-100/ videoed by PK 1983: FF-2208 - - Charlie & Ted SCAMP rec by PK, Chartham Hatch, Canterbury, Kent 15/1/54 incl Romany: RPL 19964-6 & FULLERS & SMITHS rec by PK, Lewes, Sussex incl Romany RPL 18717 : FTX-140 - Carolyne HUGHES (Dorset - see above) #2: FTX-143 - "Talking with gypsies" radio prog introduced by John Seymour with Gordon Boswell, Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald, Prof Walter Starkie, Dora Yates & others: CASS-90-1237-9/ FTX-281 282 283 - Tinker "Gammon" rec Belfast 1952 incl Romany language: RPL 18305-6/ 18550-4/ 18577-90/ "Can you pooker Romany?" English & Welsh Rom Language Study: FTX-441 - Charlotte SMITH rec by PK, Tarrington, Herefordsh 14/10/52: RPL 18690/ FTX-504 - Frank O CONNORS gypsy family rec by PK Friday Br, Wisbech, Cambs with step dancing 1956 RTR 977-9/ CASS-0855/ RPL LP 23099/ 423 - Walter Aldridge (gypsy harmonica) Leedstown, nr Hayle Cornwall rec by PK 22/11/56: RTR-4"-1020 "Old Cornish Breakdown", Hornpipe & "Cock o the North" with talk about gypsy crafts incl "fuzzsticks", umbrellas, bee- hives, basket-making, scissor-sharpening - THE DUBLINERS: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-3 1967 - STAVERTON BRIDGE incl songs collected from Devon gypsies SAYDISC SDL-266 - SMITH'S East Yorks rec Jim Eldon 1988 STICK SD-005 - WILLETT Family rec Kent TOPIC 12-T-84 1962 - Phoebe SMITH TOPIC 12-T- 193 1970 - Ewan McCOLL & Peggy SEEGER: Radio Ballad "The Travelling People": ARGO DA-133 & SPA A-216 1972 - Songs of the Open Road: TOPIC 12-T-253 1975 - Peta WEBB: TOPIC 12-TS-223 1973 - Henry LEE (gypsy fid): TOPIC 12-T-240 1974 - Various recs by Mike Yates: TOPIC 12-T-253 1975 - WATERSONS Sharp coll & from Glos gypsy: TOPIC 12-TS-265 1975 - Various recs by Mike Yates: TOPIC 12-TS-304 1977 - Various recs by Sam Richards, Devon: (TOPIC 12-TS-344) & TOPIC 12-TS-349 1979 - More recs by Mike Yates: TOPIC 12-TS-395 1985/ CASS-0195 - Song & step-dance Suffolk VINTAGE-002 (cass) - Tom & Rose ODLEY Kent rec by Gwyn Richards 1985 CASS-0810 - Jim ELDON talks about Appleby Fair on Radio 2 28/12/88: CASS-60-0849 & song from Feeny family (Potteries) - SMITH Family with songs, talk, harmonica rec by Jim Eldon 1982 -8 of E Yorks Gypsies SD-005 1988 CASS-0992 -- Europe -- European Vlaxi Roms: FTX-608 - Dervish Ceremonies ARGO ZFB-91 - Schunkenack Group, Heidelberg Germany: CAMERA SM 95015 1969 - Romania: FTX-281 - FTX-631-633 - Hungary: FTX-641-642 - Dervishes: FOLKWAYS FR-8943 - McWeeney coll: LYRICHORD LL-178 - Manitas De PLATA rec St Marie de la Mer, France: VOGUE LVLX-261 - Radio Progs -- Brian VESEY FITZGERALD, Dora YATES, Augustus JOHNS, Manfri WOOD, Daisy LEE: CASS-90-1031 (tape sent by Sally Stephen of Bristol (Sampson's grand-daughter 28/10/90 - ARTISAN sing "Brough Hill Fair" at National Garden Festival, Gateshead on Radio 2 27/7/90 CASS-1034 - Prog by Simon EVANS RPL "Kaleidoscope" progs Sept 1991 CASS-60-1025 & 60- 1029-30 - Norma WATERSON's "Gypsy Music" Radio 2 June 1993: CASS-1236

HALLOWEEN -- see SOULCAKERS - Talk about lanterns by Phyllis CARNWELL rec by PK, Hammerwich, Staffs, 25/11/55: RPL LP 23930 - Isle of Man conversation with children about carrying lanterns rec by Stuart Wavell 1960: LP 28457

HANGING -- Phyllis Carnwell, rec by PK, Hammerwich, Staffs, 25/11/55: RPL LP 23930/ FTX-452 Talk about hanging of Burntwood murderer at Stafford - Ewan Mc COLL: Chorus from the Gallows TOPIC 12-T-16 1959

HARD TIMES -- Harry COX rec by PK 1952: FTX-034/ EFDSS LP-1004 1965 - Jimmy Mc BEATH: FTX-059 - Sheila GALLAGHER rec by PK, Middledore, Co Donegal 24/8/53: RPL 20147/ FTX-271 & 272 - Gordon SOSQWELL & Others onb "Talking with gypsies radio prog introduced by John Seymour: FTX-283 - TOPIC 12-T-188 1968 "Tyrants of England - race may soon be run"

HARVEST - England -- Harvest Home supper at Wickham Ford Glos 1938: RPL 1755 - Herbert SMITH rec by PK, Blakeney, Norfolk 4/11/52: RPL 18707 talk about "Harvest Frolics" - Dick PEARCE rec by PK, Exeter, Devon 1954: FTX-086/ RPL 21489 Talk about "Last Sheaf" ceremony - Elsewhere -- COLUMBIA SL-208 Australia B1 New Guinea Aborigines - Romania: ELECTRECORD EPD 1015/ DAT-90-632 #33 - OCORA OCR-17 Dahomey A6/ B4 Orchestra of flutes & drums - OCR- 51 Volta Lobi with buzzng bee sound for dance

HARVEST HOME -- Richard PEARCE (talk) of Kingsbridge rec by PK, Exeter, Devon 13/10/54: 7T-014/ RPL 21489 incl talk about "Last sheaf ceremony" - Thomas CONINGSBY (82) rec by PK, Whaddon, Cambs 1956 "After the corn has been carted" FTX-452

HEALING -- Pat Moffitt COOK: "Shaman, Jankri & Nele" (Music healers of Indigenous Cultures) : ELLIPSIS ARTS CD-3550 1997

HENS -- Romanian pastoral: ELECTRECORD EPD 1016/ DAT-90-633 #10

HERDING -Ireland - Margaret DIRRANE Aran Is: FOLKWAYS P-1002 1957 - Sean McDONAGH (in Gaelic) rec by Seamius Ennis, Galway 1954: RPL 21828 - Elsewhere - Venezuela: with whistling call & song: COLUMBIA SL-212 - Kenya: Rendille nomads (cass) - Peru: OCORA OCR-30 1965 B4 Man blowing in hands & flute urging cattle - Venezuela: cowherd & milking songs by male: OCR-78 1964 - Hungary QUALITON - Herding tunes from Dalarna: SWEDISH RADIO RD-559 (78 rpm) - Ancient Pastoral Music rec 1941-63: RELP-5017 (LP)

HIGHWAYMEN - LEADER LER-2025 Tim Greenwood song about "Jock-o-Leg" (Hertfordsh) - TOPIC 12-TS- 328 1977/ CASS-0198 Bob Copper: "Farmer from Chester" & "Dick Turpin" - TRANSATLANTIC TRA 185 1968 JOHNSTONS: "Newry Highwayman" - TRA-235 1971 Bert JANSCH: "Sylvie" (Female H) --- UNITED ARTISTS ULP-1002 1962 Group called "The Highwaymen"

HIRING FAIRS - England: Dicky LASHBROOK: FTX-019 "Bargain with me" - Scotland: Talk about hiring: Jimmy Mc BEATH: FTX-059 - 066 John STRACHAN Aberdeensh: FTX-066 - Ireland: 134 Bertha BROWN:FTX-134 "Magherafelt Hiring Fair Song" - John CORRY: FTX-175 - Duncan Mc PHEE: Song: FTX-183 "Tam Buie" - Bothy Ballads: FTX-460 - (RPL LP 37157) Hiring Fairs at turn of century: interviews & music (not ABR) - FREE REED FRR-001 Seamus ENNIS Story - FRR- 003 Eddie BUTCHER Derry

HITLER -- THE ALMANAC SINGERS rec NY 1941-2: PRISM PLATCD 704 2001- Children's Voices: FTX-198 & 289

HOBBY HORSES & OTHER ANIMAL STREET PERFORMERS - England - rec Padstow (Cornwall) 1930s: RPL 1083 - rec 1943: RPL 9499-500 &- RPL 11049 - Song by Chalie Bate rec by PK 1954: FTX-010 - "Oss Oss Wee Oss" film produced by Peter Kennedy, script and direction by Alan Lomax & camera by George Pickow 1953: FF-1103 / Sound: FTX-215 - Soulcakers at Antrobus & other villages include "Wild Horse" (Cheshire)/ Film of Antrobus: FF-1108 Sound: FTX-107 - "Hal-an-tow" dragon at Helston, Cornwall: FF-1110 - Horn Dance at Abbots Bromley (Staffordshire): FTX-110 - Sheffield (West Yorkshire) "Old Tup": RPL LP 26582/ Sound:: FTX-212 - Minehead (Somerset) rec 31/4/47: RPL 17232 - rec 1/5/50: RPL 18335/ rec 4/5/52: FTX-216 & FTX-405 / FF1102 - Ireland -- Steve McDONAGH: CASS-0302 "The Wren Boys of Dingle" (Co Kerry) incl "Strawboys", Hobby Horse & drum band rec 26/12/85/ "Masks & Mummers" film FF-4402 includes mummers at Enniskillen (Co Fermanagh) as well as "Strawboys" & "Wren boys" (Co Kerry) - Wales -- "Mari Lwyd" recs by PK: FTX-050 - Europe --Basque Country: FTX-606-607 - France: Video by PK at Pezenas & Montblanc near Beziers (Herault, Languedoc) with music on clarinet FF-4403 Hobby horse dance with shawm & rattles - Bali: harness with bells: OCORA OCR-72 - Romanian Calusari film: FF-4404

HOOPS -- Lucky LUCKHURST (of Edmonton, London) rec by PK, Harberton, Devon 1978: FTX-322 - Talk by Don & brother Lionel ELLIS, rec by Peter Duddridge Chipping Campden, Glos 1962-5: SAYDISC SDL-222 1972 & cass

HOPSCOTCH -- "One Potato" Film Sound track rec Kentish Town, London on three 5" reels @ 7½" top track/ FF-1107 - "The Singing Street" Film rec Edinburgh: FF-1114

HORSES - see also HUNTING - MARES - RACING -- ARTHUR BOND'S MARE - BANKS OF THE CONDAMINE - BAS AN EICH - BROKEN-DOWN GENTLEMAN - CREEPING JANE - CURE FOR THE MARE - DOWN THE ROAD AND AWAY WENT POLLY - EPSOM RACES - GALTEE FARMER - JACKSON & JANE - JERUSALEM CUCKOO - MONEY WILL MAKE THE MARE TO GO - MOSS THE MILLER AND HIS MARE - MY DASHING LITTLE HUNTER - MY FATHER HAD A HORSE - NEWCASTLE RACE WEEK - NEWMARKET HORSE RACE (Jig) - OLD GREY HORSE (Talking)- OLD GREY MARE - OLD MAN'S MARE'S DEAD - PAT FROM BOLANEER - PONY SONG - RANDWICK RACES - SKEWBALL - - THACKER'S HORSES - TOM PEARCE - "Talking with gypsies" radio prog introduced by John Seymour with Gordon Boswell: FTX-281 - PIGS WHISKER (cass): Robin WILLIAMSON Story "The Fisherman's Son" Pt 2 - Video by PK of the TRAPNELL family with donkeys and ponies on the beach at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset 1983: FF-1117 - Children - CHICKA TONY WENT TO LONDON - DEAD HORSE - HERE COMES A DUKE A-RIDING - TWO WHITE HORSES - WHEN I LEFT SCHOOL LAST JULY - WHITE HORSES

HOT CROSS BUNS -- FTX-199 & 289 #66 "Childrens Customs" - Nursery Rhymes arr Nigel Pegrum & Vince Cross 1989 CASS-1173

HUNTING - Britain & Ireland -- Songs of Country Life: FTX-023 - Mickey DOHERTY (fid): FTX-073 - Johnny DOHERTY (fid): FTX-074 "Fox Chase" (Co Donegal) - Stag-hunting ballad (Somerset): FTX-086 - Lake District Songs: FTX-120 - David DODDS: Songs: FTX-126 - Felix DORAN (U-pipes): FTX-172 - A-ROVING radio prog: FTX-307 - Devon dialect: FTX-401 - Lake District: FTX-410 - Nortumbrian & Tyneside Song: FTX-425 - Fermanagh & Tyrone: FTX-432 - Dialect: FTX-451/ Video #8 Johnny DOHERTY (Donegal fid) "Fox Chase" - THE YETTIES: ACORN CF-201 1968 instrum "The Hunt" - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) Donegal: RPL 19534 - Jimmy WHITE Northumb: RPL 20607 - Fred CLARKE (mel) variations: RPL 22448"John Peel" - Moore SEDGWICK Sedbergh Yorks 1954: RPL 22449-50 - William David THOMAS Llangynwyd Glam S Wales 1956: RPL LP 23514 - Billy IRVING, Miles WILSON & Billy BOWMAN Cockermouth Cumb: RPL LP 26582-3 - THE CHIEFTAINS: CLADDAGH TR 4 (c)"The Fox Hunt" - Derek & Dorothy ELLIOTT: LEADER 2023 1972 (Durham) - Geof & Penny HARRIS (hare-hunting): LEADER 2092 1975- MUCKRAM WAKES (Derbysh): LEADER 2093 1976 - 1976 Pete COE (Chesh): LEADER 2098 - 1975 Holme Valley Beagles: LEADER 4056 - Nigel DENVER: MAJOR MINOR MMLP-1 1967 "The Royal Hunt" - Martin CARTHY: PHILIPS 638202"Black Hare & White Hare" - Willie SCOTT (Border Country): TOPIC 12-T- 181 1968 & 183 1968 - Harry BOARDMAN: TOPIC 12-TS-236 1973 (Otter Hunt) - John LYON: TOPIC 12-TS-248 1974 Gaelic Foxhunt Song - WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-TS-265 1975 - Tom GILFELLON (cittern): TOPIC 12-TS-282 1976 "Foxhunter's Reel" - Felix DORAN (U-pipes): TOPIC 12-T-288 1976 "Fox Hunt" - WATERSONS (Yorks): TOPIC 12-TS-415 1981 - YOUNG TRADITION: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-155 "The Fox Hunt" (RVW Norfolk) - PENTANGLE (own comp) TRA 205 - Archie FISHER: XTRA-1070 "The Kielder Hunt" - Elsewhere - - see also CALLS - CANADA - GREENLAND -- COLUMBIA SL- 208 Papua New Guinea Pig-hunt horns, vocal & drum & "cassavary" (ostrich) chase - OCORA OCR-75 Ethiopia Flute solo imitating chase & kill of oryx - OCR-80 Vietnam gong ensemble "Death of the Stag"

ILLICIT BREWING - BLACKBERRY WINE - BLACKBIRD OF MULAGHMORE - EXCISEMEN - GAUGER'S SONGS - MICK McGEE - MOONSHINE - MOUNTAIN DEW - OLD GRAYSON

ILLITERACY - - "Talking with gypsies" radio prog introduced by John Seymour: FTX-281

ILLNESS - COFFIN - DARLING GO HOME - HAVE A CIGARETTE SIR - HERE COMES THE NURSE - HOLY MOSES - HOSPITALS - I FOUND A PEANUT - I HAD THE GERMAN MEASLES - INVINCIBLE INVALID - HERE COMES THE NURSE - HOLY MOSES - JACK IN THE BOX (Whooping cough) - JOHNNY GET UP AND LIGHT THE FIRE (toothache) - LITTLE FAT DOCTOR - MOTHER MOTHER I AM ILL - NOBODY LOVES ME (worms) - O DEAR DOCTOR - POOR JACKIE IS ILL (Welsh) - UNCLE BILL WAS VERY ILL - UP IN THE LOFT (Whooping cough) - UP IN THE NORTH (Whooping cough) - WALLFLOWERS (measles) - WARTS

INDUSTRIAL - Songs of the Trades: FTX-021 - Martin GRAEBE (comp): Lacemaking (Devon): FTX-049 - Treorchy Miners (S Wales): FTX-055 - Hugh QUINN (Belfast): FTX-072 - David DODDS (comp songs) FTX-126 - Bertha BROWN (Belfast): FTX-134 - Portland Quarry (Dorset): FTX-203 - Rowland KELLETT (Leeds): FTX-209 - Sheffied (Yorksh): FTX-212 - Gaeme MILES (comp): FTX-222-225 - Graeme MILES (comp): FTX-228 - Miners (Durham & Clydeside): FTX-409 - Tyneside Song: FTX-425 - Miner's Ballads: FTX-511 - Video#10 Portland Quarry - TOPIC 12-T-86 963 The Iron Muse/ CASS 45- 0827 - 12-TS-206/ 237/ 276 OLDHAM TINKERS - 12-TS-226 The Streets of Glasgow - 12-TS-270 Johnny HANDLE The Collier Lad - TRADITION TS0-016 TEESSIDE FETTLERS

INITIATION - BARENREITER BM-30 L-2305 Ethiopia Circumcision - COLUMBIA SL-214 Formosa (Taiwan) "sobrisal" (26) - KENYA Rentille nomads (cass) - OCORA OCR-17 Dahomey flute bef circum - OCR 74 Solomon Is Girls faces scarred with song - OCR 76 Togo Kabiye B3 & B6

 
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