The main purpose of this channel is to conserve and share authentic recordings of all kinds of traditional music. If you support this goal and appreciate this channel's content, consider subscribing. Here is a playlist with 39 of Sam Larner's songs: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VDp6KBc3Gs4.html Here is a playlist with 104 of Harry Cox's songs: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5jfnF1lJl50.html Here are the full recordings of the songs played at the end: Sam Larner’s recording of "Henry Martin": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vptLanSBwBA.html Harry Cox’s recording of “Georgie”: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5jfnF1lJl50.html And here is a full recording of “Betsy the Milkmaid” or "Blackberry Fold", which Harry Cox only sang part of in the video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TZ8DM3o-GDY.html This video is an interview with a woman named Hilda Thurtle (1911-2003), who was the daughter of Theresa “Thurza” Larner (1871-?), Sam Larner’s older sister: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zxs2BX4U4Dc.html If you're interesting in learning more about Sam Larner and Harry Cox, there is a book available which was written by a local author www.amazon.co.uk/Bold-Singermen-English-Folk-Revival/dp/1781799172 www.abebooks.co.uk/9781781799178/Two-Bold-Singermen-English-Folk-1781799172/plp Here is some information about the documentary that the video is from: folktrax-archive.org/menus/cassprogs/2217norfolk.htm If anyone could write full captions for the spoken parts of the video, that would be much appreciated!
Lost to time? It's still right here. England still exists. Although with the way British society is setup today, it won't for much longer. Especially if people already resign themselves to wistful memory.
Wow! I just discovered these wonderful videos today and I've already "wasted" the whole afternoon listening and taking notes. Astounding work! Thank you!
This is a beautiful restoration. You put a lot of care into it, thank you for the effort! Having the lyrics on the screen is very useful. Sam and Harry were living and breathing their songs, and with an energy and enthusiasm that is to be admired. Also I did not know that it was possible to add colour to old films like that without too much effort, that's quite interesting.
@@TheFolkRevivalProject Thank you for the link. I have to try it myself sometime. It would be nice to colourize George Landers singing The Scotland Man, for example.
I met Dick Green of Harleston many years ago, an ex copper, but a Winterton boy. Sam was his uncle. He knew all these old songs and sung them to me, l learned one or two
#ugottalisten2b4udie #HarryCox #SamLarner It is found in Nova Scotia and in the U.S. where it is known as The Boston Come-All-Ye. Kipling in Captains Courageous tells us that it was popular with the Banks fishermen. - Pete Seeger
11:03 'Harry says 'I never learnt anything there (school), I learnt ten thousands times more since I left. I learnt myself'. That's funny that, I am of the same way of thinking. I learned much more since I left school than I ever learned at school, and I too hated school lol.
The song 'Seventeen come sunday' starts of quite similar to the song 'Searching for lambs' which goes : As I walked out one May morning, one May morning betime I met a maid from home had strayed just as the sun did shine 'What makes you rise so soon, my dear, your journey to pursue?' 'Your pretty little feet they tread so neat, strike off the morning dew'. 'I'm going to feed my father's flocks, his young and tender lambs' 'That over hills and over dales lie waiting for their dams' 'O stay, o stay, you handsome maid, and rest a moment here' 'For there is none that you alone that I do love so dear'. 'How gloriously the sun doth shine, how pleasant is the air' 'I'd rather rest on a true love's breast than any other where' 'For I am thine and thou art mine, no man shall uncomfort thee' 'We'll join our hands in wedded bands and married we shall be'. I'm pretty sure 'Seventeen Come Sunday' was very strongly inspired by 'Searching For Lambs', I mean the start of the song is almost identical. I've loved the searching for lambs song for years now since I first heard part of it sung by John Tams in a Sharpe episode and then searched for it on youtube.
The elements shared between the songs are stock lines and phrases in broadside ballads of a certain era. "Seventeen Come Sunday" (Roud 277) is probably more 'original' than "Searching for Lambs" (Roud 576), as it has a much more established history - look at this broadsheet from around 1820, for example ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/10000/09869.gif. Both songs are extremely similar to “Dewy Morning” (Child 112, Roud 11), which Sam Larner sings at 3:47 (more commonly known as "The Baffled Knight"), which is much older, being traced back to around 1600.
I'm loving all your videos - what great work you are doing to preserve and gather these wonderful songs! And having the words on the screen as well is so helpful. Thank you for all your hard work! 🙏
This is an incredible project! You have transformed random footage into a genuine research tool! Thanks so much for adding this to the library of knowledge for this genre. Amazing!
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