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PACE-EGGERS - England: -- MIDGLEY Play by boys of Calder High School, Mytholmroyd, W Yorksh rec 1952 RPL 18112-3 - Dorothy FURBUR rec by Seamus Ennis Chesh 1/6/52: RPL 18137-8 2var - Mrs MIDGLEY & Mrs ROWE rec by PK, Dent, Sedbergh, W Yorks 22/11/54: RPL 22324 Talk about custom, eggs & Play by local Group of "Pace-eggers" - Children Cumberland FTX-108 - DENT 1954 & Midgley play by Mytholmroyd children W Yorksh FTX-109 - Tom HORNER talk about custom & Preston-under-Scar version of song rec by PK, Swithinwaite, Wensleydale, W Yorksh 22/8/59: RPL LP 26583/ FTX-109/ FTX-265 - Thomas Coningsby (82) rec by PK, Cambridgesh 1956 talks about "Three horse land" and Whip-cracking: FTX-423 - Emma VICKERS rec by Fred Hamer, Burscough, Lancash 1963 2var incl "Callin On": EFDSS LP-1006 (+cass) 1971/ Talk, Play & "Peace Egg" Song VWML-003 1989/ TOPIC TSCD-666 1998 - Arthur HOWARD rec by Ian Russell, S Yorksh: HILL & DALE HD-006 1981 ("Easter is coming" "These eggs are not scarce") - Children descr custom, Workington, Lancs 31/3/60: RPL LP 26349 - 2 groups of children perform plays from Far & Near Sawry (Beatrix Potter lived here & welcomed the "Jolly Boys" with smiles and shillings), rec by Damian WEBB, Westmoreland: FTX-108 - Far & Near Sawry: FTX-199 A17 - WATERSONS, Broadwood, Lancs TOPIC 12-T-136 1965 - Pete SMITH (& ch): TOPIC 12-T-188 1968 (Gilchrist, Lancs "Beg your leave") - HEYSHAM (Lancs) Song perf by CROOKFINGER JACK Radio 2: 7/4/80: CASS-0416 starts with Calling-on song with band - BRIGHOUSE Children's Theatre rec by Mike Storey & Stephen Gaunt 3/3/63: 4"RTR-0883-5/ CASS-0390 & 1233 (edited version) with interview - Elsewhere -- children "Roulee des Oeufs" rec Cote d'Or, Courbans, France 1967: MUSEE NATIONAL 1969

PEDLARS - Ireland -- Talk by Johnny DOHERTY rec by PK, Co Donegal 1952: FTX-075

PLOUGH PLAYS & CUSTOMS - England -- Plough Plays rec by PK in Lincolnsh 1953 incl Barrow-on-Humber, Helpringham & other neighbouring villages: RPL 19028-34/ FTX-105 - Arthur ABBS rec by PK, Whaddon, Cambridgesh 1956 talking about custom in Cambridge: FTX-452 - Extracts of play and reading about Plough Monday "Plough Light": Ashley Hutching's "Rattlebone & Ploughjack"ISLAND HELP-24 1976 - Pete & Chris COE: LEADER LER-2098 1976 - Elsewhere: -- Roumanian Plugusorul verse recitation by boy with friction drum: ELECTRECORD EPD 1015 #27/ DAT-90-632

POACHING - England: - Harry COX talk & song HENRY THE POACHER - Jim BALDRY Woodbridge Suffolk FTX-023 "Northamptonshire P"- Fred ROOKE (comp): FTX-045 "Charlie Fox" - George DUNN Staffs 2 songs LEADER LEE-042 1973 - Arthur Grimley (or Quigley ?) rec by Damian Webb, Garforth 1977 Talk about pheasant shooting #35 (Reel 5) - 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"- Scotland: - Jimmy McBEATH: FTX-080 talk

PLOUGHING -- England: -- Mr SWEETING (aged 100) talks about ploughing with oxen rec Churchill, Somerset 3/3/42: RPL 9594 - Billy DICKERSON rec by PK, Morston, Norfolk 1952 Talk about himself & ploughing a straight furrow, easier with tractor than horses: RPL 20134/ FTX-452 Dialect - Edgar ALLINGTON rec by PK, Brandon, Suffolk: FTX-452 talk about ploughing with bullocks as a boy - Ernest JEFFREY (75), rec by PK, Friday Bridge, Wisbech, Lincs, 1956 FTX-452 "I used to be a leading horse-holder" - Fred ARCHER Worcs talk about shire horses: SAYDISC SDL-(c)-284 - Scotland: - John McDONALD: TOPIC 12-T-263 1975 "Ploughing Match at Duffus" (Elgin) - Elsewhere -- French song on Berry cylinder rec 1913: COLUMBIA SL-207 - Roumanian Song with friction drum: ELECTRECORD IV A2 (a)

POEMS -- Frank PROFFITT (Poem about the American Civil War) rec by Frank & Anne Warner 1959 NC: FTX-932

POLICE -- Children's Voices: Police names & Liverpool bonfires: FTX-198 & FTX-289 #22-26 - Ewan Mc COLL Glasgow: TOPIC 12-T-41 1959 - Elsewhere -- COLUMBIA SL-208 Papua cannibals using police whistle

POLITICAL -- THE ALMANAC SINGERS rec NY 1941-2: PRISM PLATCD 704 2001 - Hamish IMLACH: TRANSATLANTIC 1128 1972 "Fine Old English Tory Times"

POLLUTION -- FTX-044 Fred ROOKE (comp) "Night Soil Men" - Martin GRAEBE: FTX-049 "Lavender Express" - Bert JANSCH: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-235 "Wayward Child" (Beach in Calif USA)

PONIES - HORSES

PRISONERS OF WAR - Maurice ROONEY "Down the Mine" Japanese POW Camp March Song in Taiwan (Formosa mentioned) "Down the Mine" Radio 2: 31/11/90 CASS-60-1032

PROSTITUTION -- MEMPHIS MINNIE (v/piano) rec 1935: John Peel on Protest in 50s & 60s Radio 2: 7/3/87: CASS-90-0565

PROTEST - Adrian TUCKER (One-man Band): FTX-037 - Folk in the Fifties: FTX-093 - Song & Story in South Armagh: FTX-165 - Berryfields of Blair: FTX-185 - Graeme MILES (compositions): FTX-229 - Co Down: 433 - Women's Voices: FTX-434 - Voices Raised: FTX-435 - The Angry Muse (Union Songs etc): ARGO ZFB-65 - Leon ROSSELSON (comp): LEADER LER-3015 - PEOPLE'S STAGE (cass) 1978 - OLDHAM TINKERS TOPIC 12-TS-206 - Harry BOARDMAN: TOPIC 12 TS 215 - Vin GARBUTT: TOPIC 12-TS-378 - Sydney CARTER & Sheila HANCOCK: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-106 - Sydney CARTER & Donald SWANN (piano) rec by PK, London: FTX=146 - Colin Irwin's radio prog 1988 "Acoustic Roots": CASS-0351 incl Bob Dylan, Red Flag, Alan Price, Pete Seeger, Paul Robeson, Ry Cooder, Phil Ochs, Country Joe & the Fish, Bob Davenport, Bob Marley, Billy Bragg & Peter Gabriel - Bacom LUNSFORD: RIVERSIDE RLP-645 1956 "I shall not be moved" with Freda ENGLISH (banjo & gtr) - John Peel on Protest in 50s & 60s Radio 2: 7/3/87: CASS-90-0565 & 2/4/87: CASS-90-0566 - USA: -- Video#11 Texas Penitentiary TRANSATLANTIC XTRA-1015 Pete SEEGER Broadsides

PUBS (PUBLIC DRINKING HOUSES) - England: "The Ship Inn", Blaxhall, Suffolk: FTX-036 - Miners Club, Treorchy, S Wales: FTX-055 - COPPERS: FTX-081-082 - Kingsbridge, Devon, Song Contest: 088 - "The Napoleon Inn", Boscastle, Cornwall: FTX-096 - "Soulcakers", Antrobus, Cheshire: FTX-107 - "Cock & Monkey", Bermondsey, London: FTX-331 - Luckhurst, London: FTX-332 - "The Golden Lion", Padstow, Cornwall: 215 - Cornwall & Isles of Scilly: FTX-217-218 - The COPPER Famuily: FTX-238-239 - Mrs CROTTY'S, Totnes, Devon: FTX-250 - "As I roved out" radio progr rec Central Club, Peacehaven, Sussex: FTX-253 - - "The Cherry Tree", Copthorne, Sussex with "Pop" Maynard & others: FTX-280 - Devon Dialect about food & drink: FTX-404 - Copper rec Hampsh & Sussex: FTX-426/ 427 - Westmoreland & Yorkshire: RPL 2519-23 - Ship Inn Blaxhall 10/10/53: RPL 19981-4 - Dunster Carol, Somerset 11/12/53: RPL 20078 - Songs from the Village Inn: EMI 7-EG-8288 (45 EP)/ - Johnny HANDLE: TOPIC 12- TS-270 The Old Pubs" - NOTTS ALLIANCE: TRADITION TSR-011 "The Brewer Laddie" - Saturday night chorus singing in Suffolk pub: FF-1105

PUCK FAIR - Ireland: - Impression of scene by Brian GEORGE rec 10 & 11/8/47: RPL 11045-7 (6 sides) - Christy PURCELL (tinker) rec by PK, Belfast 24/7/52: RPL 18579 (talk bef & aft/ Interviewer: Liam Andrews)/ FTX-168

PUNCH & JUDY -- "Prof" Vernon ROSE rec by PK, Dartington, Devon 1975 RTR 380/ CASS-0836 & 0837 - Video by PK of "Professor" Lewis STADDON, talking and his son, Graham performing on the sands at, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset 1983: FF-1117 - John POOLE (unacc) with song & story of P& J at McColl-Concert, Purcell Room: Radio 2: 6/7/81 CASS-0427 "Punchinella"

PUPPETS -- Douglas KENNEDY talks about puppet theatre on board ship S.S."Paris" & puppet-master William Simmonds (Gloucester Museum): FTX-481-493 (on 492) - Italia #2 rec Roberto Leydi Palermo Sicily: ALBATROS 8088 Duel between Orlando & Rinaldo 1963 - Indian puppeteer with double reed in mouth: (RPL 31766) - Ivory Coast: OCORA OCR-52 Disguised acting voice - books in Library by Walter Wilkinson

PYGMIES - Africa - BOTSWANA - NOMADS - ZAIRE - Mbuti pygmies in Central Africa/ Babenzele Pygmy woman trills her slurred yodeling calls as she gathers in the forest. Female solo. (Didier #1, A1) : FTX-781 - also Hugh Tracey Coll -- Colin Turnbull's rec of pygmies of Ituri Forest: ELLIPSIS ARTS #4020 CD & Book 1995 "Echoes of the Forest" - Louis Sarno's rec of Babenzele pygmies: ELLIPSIS ARTS 3490 1995 (CD inside book)"Bayaka"

QUARRYING - England: Quarrymen at Portland Dorset 1937: RPL 1707 & 1939: RPL 2266 / COLUMBIA SL-206 1952/ - Joe WHITE rec by PK 20/10/54: RPL 22480 with talk/ - FTX-203/ 308 A-ROVING 1968 #2/ Films of Portland by PK: FF-1106 - Purbeck, Dorset: Underground Quarrymen: film by Trilith: FF-1121 - Europe -- Marble quarries in Toscana (Rope-hauling): RPL 23588

RACING - also CYCLING - HUNTING - MOWING - PLOUGHING - RUNNING -- ARTHUR BOND'S MARE - BARRANSTOWN RACES (Jig) - BRAVE DUNKIRK - COSTERMONGER'S SONG - CREEPING JANE - DELANEY'S DONKEY - DOWN THE ROAD AND AWAY WENT POLLY - EPSOM - GALWAY HUMOURS OF TH RACES - JACKSON AND JANE - LAMBERTON - LITTLE DUN MARE - LORD FRAMPLIN - MASTER McGRATH - MY NAME'S BILL - NEWCASTLE RACE WEEK - OLD GREY MARE - PUNTER'S SONG - QUEER FOLK IN THE SHAWS - RANDWICK RACES - SPORTING DOGS - SPORTING RACES OF GALWAY - SKEWBALL - TOMMY CORRIGAN - TROTTING HORSE - WEE MIDGIE MEER - WHIP AND THE SPURS - WHITTLE'S WHIPPETS -- "Talking with gypsies" radio prog introduced by John Seymour": FTX-283

RADIO PROGRAMMES - see also under TITLES: "AS I ROVED OUT", "A-ROVING" etc - "Everybody Swing" with PK rec Bristol: RTR#0289 - AS I ROVED OUT 1953-4 Wassailing & Christmas Party with Isla CAMERON, Bob & Ron COPPER, Seamus ENNIS, Brian GEORGE & Peter KENNEDY: RTR-0139- 0144/ FTX-253 - AS I ROVED OUT "Music of the Sea" 1956: FTX-255 - AS I ROVED OUT "Collector's Corner" with PK, Seamus ENNIS, Paddy GALVIN, Brian GEORGE, Spike HUGHES & Sheila TRITTON: FTX-257 - Alan Lomax: Third Prog on "The Gaelic West" with Seamus ENNIS: RTR-0290-2/ FTX-275 - "Folkmusic of Donegal & Tory Island" with PK, Noel Hamilton & Conal O Donnell: FTX-276 - Alan Lomax Christmas prog 1957: RTR#0288/ FTX-950 -"Calling the tune" with PK: RTR-0298/ red 5"RTR#0403-4 - "I'll sing you one-o" with PK: 5"RTR#0396-7 (slow speed rec) - "A-Roving" with PK: blue-5"RTR-0399-0402/ Progs 1-3 CASS-90-0843/ progs 4-6 CASS-0844-C90/ progrs 7-8 CASS-60-0845/ FTX-307-310 -"The Roving Journeyman" with PK progrs 4 & 5 CASS#60-1177 - "Royal Britain"CASS 0362 - "As I roved Out" in which Spike Hughes intro PK on Singing Games from Sidbury, Devon & Kentish Town, London, Sussex gypsy girl Sheila SMITH (age 8) "Sweet William"/ Seamus ENNIS with orch: "Donegal Cow" (polka) RTR-139-144/ CASS-0458 - Northumberland prog rec (off air) Roy Hartnell 1955 with PK & Jack Armstrong, talking, pipes & 3 sets by his band finishing with complete music of Spike Hughes arrangement of the signature tune: CASS-60-1256/ 258

RAIL:- Fred ROOKE: FTX-044 (comp) "Wrong Train" - Martin GRAEBE (comp) FTX-049 "Lavender Express" - rec of Mr Ellworthy (75) by Martin Graebe, Cheriton Fitzpaine CASS 0331 "The Terrible Ride by Rail" (Exeter-Teignmouth) - "Venture into Space" Folk in the Fifties: FTX-093 - Radio Ballad: John Axon: ARGO DA-139 - Railways in Aspic: RPL REB-49-M 1970 TRANSATLANTIC TRA-205 PENTANGLE "Train Song" (comp lamenting passing of steam) - Colin Irwin's radio prog 1988 "Acoustic Roots": CASS-0354/B ---USA - "Railroad Songs & Ballads" LIB OF CONGRESS L 61 1931-46 - L-67 "New Railroad" voc/banjo Miss 1971 - ROUNDER CD-11661-1821-2 1999 - "American Banjo" rec Mike SEEGER (FOLKWAYS FA 2314): RTR-0316

RAIN - Europe: Roumanian Spring customs: ELECTRECORD EPD 1015/ DAT- 90-632 #30-31 - USA & Canada: Indian Rain Dance COLUMBIA SL-211 - Africa: - Ethiopia Prayer BARENREITER BM-30-L-2305- Cent Afr making sound of rain tapping calabash to fool the termites to come out OCORA OCR-43 Elsewhere: - Rajasthan sounds at well & rain song OCR-47 - Mexico Music for rainy season OCR-73 - Togo Rain Dance with unusual flute sounds OCR-76

REBEL -- Joe BRANNIGAN Talk about Kevin Barry rec by PK, Rostrevor, Co Down 1953: RPL 19350 - 19356 Lampoon ballad rec by PK, Co Fermanagh 10/8/53 "Lord Leitrim" - GAEL-LINN CES-001 1967 "Young Emmett" - MAJOR MINOR LP-1 1967 Nigel DENVER Scottish Nationalist - LP-3 1967 DUBLINERS "Old Alarm Clock" (IRA) - LP-6 1967 Dominic BEHAN - LP-26 1968 Danny DOYLE - PICKWICK ALL-859 1967 Irish Rebel Songs - ALL-867 1967 Freedom Fighters - HM-544 1968 THE FONTANAS - Andy Kershaw radio prog 1987 incl John JONES. Peter WRIGHT song & Billy BRAGG: CASS-0349

RECITATIONS - England: - Colin DAVIS rec by AL & PK, Players Theatre, London 1951: 7" RTR 0085 "The Dire History of Mary Arnold, the Female Monster" or "Black Beetles" - Welsh coalminers: FTX-055 - Boscastle: FTX-096 - Jersey: FTX-244 - Northumbria: FTX-330 - Devon Dialect: FTX-401-404 - Wiltshire: FTX-406 - Devon: FTX-407 - Dorset FTX-408 - Lake District: FTX-410 - Jan Stewer recitations: FTX-413 - Bernard WRIGLEY: LOOFY LOO-006 1984/ cass "Robin Hood & the Bogey Riding Contest"

RECRUITMENT - England: - Joe THOMAS rec by PK, Constantine, Cornwall 22/11/56: RPL LP 23654 Talk about "the king's shilling" & Press Gang Song: "Banks of the Sweet Dundee" - Elsewhere -- Hungary: Recruiting Ballads: QUALITON

REIVING - Border and Clan raiding - Scotland: - Flora McNEIL: RPL 16167 "Fliuch an Oidche" - Kate NICHOLSON: RPL 16425"Oran Creiche" - Donald McPHERSON: RPL 19012 "Thuglad an Crodh" - Calum JOHNSTONE: RPL 23193 "Crodh Chium Saileadh" Reiving Song for Pibroch - "The Song Reivers" by Hamish Henderson: (RPL LP 35995)

RELIGION -- England: - Fred ROOKE (comp) FTX-045 Crucifixion ballad "Gypsy Nailsmith" - Michael DOHERTY: FTX-073 parables St Colmkille -Martin SPRING: FTX-128 "Holy Grail" - "Talking with gypsies" radio prog introduced by John Seymour "The Fourth Nail": FTX-281 - FONTANA FTL-5436 "Songs of Grief & Glory" - Damian WEBB: PROFILE "Mass for Young People" Ireland: Dominic BEHAN: DOBELL F-LEUT-4 - USA & Canada -- AMERICAN LIB OF CONGRESS L-2 - L-3 - L-5/ CASS 0214 - L-10 - L-11 - L-13 - L-56 - RPL LP 26146-50 Sacred Harp Gospel Alabama rec by Alan Lomax 1959 incl baptism/ COLUMBIA SL- 211 Canada Indians & Eskimaux - DOBELL 77-LA-12/13 Louisiana Penitentiary - NEW FREEDOM (Mike Seeger's cass) - NEW WORLD NW- 205 & 294 Sacred Harp & Gospel - ROUNDER 0094 The Social Harp - TAOS Penitent Songs New Mexico - Africa -- BARENREITER BM-30-L-2304 Ethiopia Coptic - OCORA OCR-75 Ethiopia solo singer with deep buzzing lyre & Christian hymn in praise of Mary - Elsewhere - Japan, Ryakus, Formosa & Korea COLUMBIA SL 214 - Islamic Liturgy rec John Levy London 1960 FOLKWAYS FR-8943 culminating in Dance of Dervishes - Jamaica FOLKWAYS P-453 Chorus with blowing and groaning etc - Shalosh Re'galium HED ARZI BAN-14492 1975 - Gregorian Chant HUNGAROTON LPX-11477 - Peru OCORA OCR-30 - Tibet OCR-48 & 71 - Iraq OCR- 55 - Iran OCR-57 - Venezuela OCR-78 - Rajasthan OCR-81 A3 2 men with zither - Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, London TROUTBECK - PK's lecture tape CASS-45-0610

REVELS -- Harry WESTAWAY (talk) rec by PK, Belstone, Devon Aug 1950: 7T-010

RIDDLES -- Manfri WOOD (Welsh gypsy) rec by PK, Bala, Merionethsh 11/11/54: RPL 22431/ FTX-053 - Phoebe SMITH (Kent gypsy) rec Suffolk: FTX-100 & FTX-501 Ballads -- Children's riddles FTX-198/ 289 - Canada & USA -- Jean JENKINS American Ballads rec by PK: FTX-914 - Cliff TILLETT rec by Frank & Anne Warnert, Roanoke, NC 1940: FTX-926 - Maggie PARKER (Hammons Family): LIB OF CONGRESS L-66 - Jean RITCHIE (dulc) with Oscar BRAND (gtr) & Dave SEARS (banjo): RIVERSIDE RLP-12-646 1957 - Africa -- AML TR-110 B4

RIDING THE STANG -- Richard BROWN rec by PK, Lincolnsh 23/3/52: RPL 19030 - Jim MARTIN rec by PK, Barrow-on-Humber, Lincs 1952: Carnwell, rec by PK, Hammerwich, Staffs, 25/11/55: RPL LP 23930ƒ FTX-451 Dialect talk "Ran- tanning"

ROADS -- Ewan McCOLL & Peggy SEEGER: ARGO SPA-A-216 1972 "Driver's Song" "Fitter's Song"

ROMANY -- Travellers Selection: FTX-031 - Carolyne HUGHES rec by PK, Blandford, Dorset 1968: FTX-043 / CASS-1245-C45 - Sussex & Kent: 140 - Can you pooker Romany?: FTX-441 - Phoebe SMITH film: FF-2208 - Mary Ann HAYNES & Jasper SMITH rec by Mike Yates TOPIC 12-T-253 - Wally FULLER (gypsy) of Kent rec by PK, Laughton, Sussex 1952 clothing, parts of body & conversation with Jack Fuller & Jimmy Smith RPL 18720 - Charlie & Ted SCAMP (gypsies) rec by PK, Chartham Hatch, Canterbury, Kent 1954: RPL 19966 Dialogue with cant & Romany with explan aft - Wales: - Hywel WOOD (gypsy) rec by PK, Bala, Merionethsh 1954: RPL 22429- 31/ FTX-053/ - Europe: -- "Vlaxi Roms", mainly rec in Czechoslovakia: FTX-608

ROWING -see also BOAT-PULLING - Scotland - IOMARAIBH EUTROM (Row Lightly) Scots Gaelic - IOMRAMH EADAR IL' A'S UIST (Rowing from Islay to Uist): OSSIAN IONA IR-001 1978-- Allan McDonald, rec by Alan Lomax, Skye 1951 COLUMBIA SL-209 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1743 1998 - Isabel SUTHERLAND: TOPIC 12-T-151 1966 -- OSSIAN IONA IR-001 1978 - Neil GILLIES rec by Alan Lomax, Barra 1951: FTX-191 - Ireland - Sean Mc DONAGH rec by Alan Lomax, Oughterard, Co Galway 1951: 7"RTR#0587 "S'oro Mavourneen" - Canada - - Group of men, Cape Breton Canada (with foot stomping): ELEKTRA EKL-23 1954-5 (10"LP) "Orain Iorram" - Caribbean - rec by AL, Scott's Head, Dominica June 1962: ROUNDER CD 1724 1999

RUSHBEARING -- SAYDISC 33-SD-245 1973 St Mary Redcliffe Bristol bells & talk about Rush bearing

 
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