tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4999226515644223110.post3489670183041429944..comments2023-09-27T15:53:47.194+01:00Comments on A Liverpool Folk Song a Week: 5: Liverpool's an Altered TownUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4999226515644223110.post-34989573763790970602011-05-09T08:07:17.225+01:002011-05-09T08:07:17.225+01:00You're not the only person who has a problem f...You're not the only person who has a problem finding suitable tunes for broadsides! Very few of them indicate a tune, and even those that do aren't very helpful since the original air has gone missing sometime over the last two or three hundred years!<br />Cross-searching the Roud Index can often show whether a particular broadside has been collected from tradition, but otherwise there's no real harm done if you fit your own tune to match the words.<br />One very useful resource for ballads and their tunes is at the late Bruce Olson's <a href="http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/Olson/index.html" rel="nofollow">Roots of Folk</a> website. It takes a while to find your way round, but as Bruce Olson's motto says <b>"Keep at it; muddling through always works."</b><br /><br />MatthewMatthew Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05167414190233864155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4999226515644223110.post-85918998182876521162011-05-08T20:48:59.450+01:002011-05-08T20:48:59.450+01:00Wow, thanks for letting me know about the Liverpoo...Wow, thanks for letting me know about the Liverpool Street Songs & Broadside Ballads packet - looks very interesting and I haven't seen it before. In fact, I was unaware of the whole 'Liverpool Packets' series until I saw one on sale in the Walker Art Gallery last week.<br /><br />I find a lot of those broadsides fascinating, and the Bodleian collection is a goldmine (thanks for pointing me to the "Liverpool Improving Daily"). My only problem with the broadsides is that I'm not that well informed about appropriate tunes, and so I generally don't have a clue what tune would have been suitable unless there's a very clear indication. This is something I have to learn more about, because there are some that I'd really like to dig out and sing.robotforadayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05302954722308521390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4999226515644223110.post-78392389456734909252011-05-08T20:18:23.702+01:002011-05-08T20:18:23.702+01:00Thank you Richard, and very well sung; I don't...Thank you Richard, and very well sung; I don't think I've heard anybody sing this before, but it is a fascinating comment on social history. There is a full version of the Harkness broadside in Fritz Spiegels Scouse Press packet 'Liverpool Street Songs & Broadside Ballads' but have a look at the Bodliean Ballads Collection for an even earlier song from c.1828 on the same theme:- "Liverpool Improving Daily".<br />http://bodley24.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/acwwweng/ballads/image.pl?ref=2806+c.17%28229%29&id=13967.gif&seq=1&size=0<br /><br />MatthewMatthew Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05167414190233864155noreply@blogger.com