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Sheffield Students' Union Folk Club
Sheffield Folk

Single UK 1964 on Sitrec label
Folk (Folk, Celtic, Sea Shanties)

Record comes with a typed sheet: SHEFFIELD FOLK SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY FOLK SONG CLUB The club was formed in November 1961 by a handful of enthusiasts who met sporadically in a secluded corner of the old Union building. After six months the membership had risen to somewhere in the region on thirty enlightened souls, who were by now seeking their cultural inspiration in the stimulating atmosphere of a nearby hostelry. Since those pioneering days the club has gone from strength to strength, and now has about six hundred members, a sizeable proportion of whom pack into the Hallamshire Hotel every Friday evening to listen to a wide selection of folk songs sung by, among others, the singers on this record. THE SINGERS JEFF PARTON was a founder member of the club, and is this year's chairman. For some time he specialised in American music, but recently has begun to cut down his American repertoire in favour of British folk songs. MIKE WILD has been singing regularly at the club since the early days. His accompanied Irish rebel songs and sea shanties are a popular feature of every session. JILL MCLEAN, the secretary of the club, became interested in folk music when she came up to Sheffield two years ago, and since then has ammassed a sizeable collection of English and Scottish songs and ballads, which she sings unaccompanied, and to the accompaniment of Jeff Parton's guitar. TOM MURPHY & TERRY GREEN are comparative newcommers to the ranks of resident singers, and since they started singing regularly about six months ago, they have gained great popularity with their reditions of Scottish and English songs. The guitar is played by Terry. THE SONGS 1) BROWN'S FERRY BLUES is a song from the Southern States of America, dating from the nineteen-twenties when the traditional mountain music was beginning to reach a wide audience via the "modern wonder" of the phonograph. 2) SHOALS OF HERRING was written by Ewan MacColl for the radio ballad "Singing the Fishing." 3) THE GREY COCK is a ballad about a cock fight which took place near Liverpool sometime in the 1820's, when Lord Derby's charcoal black was beaten by a silver grey cock belonging to a party of visiting Lancashire miners. 4) THE SILKIE is a ballad from the North of Scotland. It tells of a mythical creature, half seal, half man, who comes ashore and has a child by a mortal woman and later comes back to claim his son. 5) AIR FALALALO is a translation by Hugh S. Robertson of a traditional Gaelic song. Recorded by Tim Holl, 1964.

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	Sheffield Students' Union Folk Club , album by
	Jill McLean vocals
	Mike Wild vocals
	Tom Murphy vocals
	Jeff Parton vocals, guitar
	Terry Green vocals, guitar
	Sir Hugh Roberton voc, 1906-1952 GB translated by

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