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Another Collection Of Traditional Folk Songs This Time From The Child Index
Introduction This piece was inspired by a comment by Sally Whytehead in The Ballad Tree: Traditional Folk Ballads and Songs who provided this link to
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Beat
Another Collection Of Traditional Folk Songs
Introduction This piece was inspired by a comment by Sally Whytehead in The Ballad Tree: Traditional Folk Ballads and Songs who provided this link to
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Beat
The Quest for the Cosmic Cake
Title: "The Quest for the Cosmic Cake" In the outer reaches of our celestial neighborhood, beyond the familiar planets and into the cosmic unknown, there lived an astronaut named Cosmo. Cosmo, a whimsical character with a helmet adorned with stickers of planets and stars, harbored a peculiar dream – a dream of a cake, not just any cake, but a cosmic confection.
By ARTIST2 years ago in Beat
Ten Traditional Folk Songs Inspired By The Roud Index
Steve Roud discusses his work compiling The Folk Song Index, an online index to all the traditional folksongs of the English-speaking world.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Beat
A Few Traditional Folk Songs From The British And Irish Isles And Beyond
Introduction These are a series of traditional folk ballads inspired by comments from members of The Ballad Tree: Traditional Folk Ballads. The group is linked below and contains a lot of great music and articles and is well worth your time to discover more about traditional folk music.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Beat
8th (Elvis' birthday)
Although many equate this popular song with the birth of Elvis' career, it is one he cannot take credit for. It was neither written by him nor was it a song that had not been publicly performed by others before.*
By Shirley Belk2 years ago in Beat
A Seventh Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs
Introduction This is the seventh installment in this series taking it up to seventy songs for you to enjoy. I am trying not to repeat artists but the more I share the more difficult that is to do.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Beat
Rate-O-Rama: Bohemian Rhapsody
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By Rick Henry Christopher 2 years ago in Beat
Little Sister. Top Story - January 2024.
I am a huge fan of the South African duo which consists of sisters Jenni Lonmon and Debbi Lonmon. Of course, I'm biased as Jenni took care of my mom for six months and bonded with her, and became best friends with her, and has been the source of much laughter and great times for me.
By Rick Henry Christopher 2 years ago in Beat
World Turned Upside Down - Incredible Words From Leon Rosselson
Introduction Sometime in the past I first heard this song, either by Billy Bragg or Dick Gaughan. These versions conveyed the anger at the Hateful spite of the privileged classes toward the less fortunate.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Beat
A Sixth Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs From 1960s-1980s
Introduction I need to be a little more careful in my song selections as I repeated one in Episode Five (Link at the end of this article) but I have to be thankful for the suggestions from the members of UK & Irish Folk Music 60s-80s for their suggestions of artists who have slipped my mind and artists I have never heard of. I had been particularly remiss in my lack of coverage of Welsh Folk.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Beat
A Fifth Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs From 1960s-1980s
Introduction This is the fifth installment in this series taking it up to fifty songs for you to enjoy. I am trying not to repeat artists but the more I share the more difficult that is to do.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Beat