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dmcg pm	Posted - 05 Aug 06 - 07:25 am edit (id)
	I've put together a master index of all the 'Singing Together' threads, partly because I am nearing the end, but also because it helps me check what I still have to work through. Just in case it isn't obvious, the booklets are in chronological order, but grouped by school year, rather than calendar year. Part One: Background discussion History of Singing Together Singing Together Part Two: The Booklets Autumn 1960 Spring 1961 Summer 1961 Autumn 1965 Autumn 1966 Spring 1967 Summer 1967 Spring 1968 Summer 1968 Autumn 1968 Spring 1969 Autumn 1969 Spring 1970 Summer 1970 Autumn 1970 Summer 1971 Autumn 1971 Spring 1972 Autumn 1972 Spring 1973 Autumn 1973 Spring 1974 Summer 1974 Autumn 1974 Spring 1975 Summer 1975 Spring 1976 Summer 1976 Spring 1977 Summer 1977 Autumn 1977 Spring 1978 Summer 1978 Autumn 1978 Summer 1979 Spring 1981 Spring 1982 Autumn 1984 Spring 1985 Autumn 1985 Spring 1986

Mr Happy pm	Posted - 13 Aug 06 - 01:38 pm edit (id)
	I seem to remember BBC schools radio singing programmes prior to 1960. Ah! I just checked the history link giving 1948 as the earliest. Does anyone have song index 1948 - 1960?

Jon Freeman pm	Posted - 13 Aug 06 - 02:53 pm edit (id)
	The list we have has been made from pamphlets Kernow John and I had. Unfortunately they don't go back that far.

dmcg pm	Posted - 09 Sep 06 - 08:53 am edit (id)
	I think it might be helpful to make a notes of the 'ground rules' I have followed in making these entries. The main ones are as follows: 1. All the song titles are listed in the main thread for that booklet. 2. If a version of the song was already in the database, I did not re-enter it. In some cases, this could lead to the version in the database being an inferior version by having fewer verses than were in the booklet, for example. 3. If the song is originally in English, I have entered it, whether or not it meets my personal definition of being a 'folk song'. 4. If the song is originally not English, I have NOT entered it, unless either the English words are themselves sufficiently well-known in their own right, in which case I have entered the English words; or, alternatively, I have access to the original French, Austrian, etc, in which case I have entered those lyrics with a translation. 5. When I am in doubt over the origin for guides 3 & 4, I have usually entered the song. This is particularly true of Welsh songs, as I am rarely knowledgeable enough to know whether a song identified as 'Welsh' had Welsh or English lyrics originally. When I say 'English' above, I am referring to the language (or any of its variants- American English, Jamaican English and so on), rather than the country. The word 'originally' in the above, is of course, to be interpreted remarkably loosely!

denbobembo (guest)	Posted - 21 May 09 - 08:26 pm edit (id)
	i was looking for a particular piece of music thathsd been in my head for over 40 years! it was in the singing together pamphlet and recently i was able to remember it on my son's keyboard. it was given a ?? foreign name butand sounded clasical. Basically it was sang like this; Do re me me fa fa fa me do me re do do do ; do re me me fa fa fa do me re re do do . so la so fa fa, me do re re do do so la so fa fa, me do re re do do i recently found something similar on a BBC CD Banks of green willow, Butterworth with Vaughn Williams and its name was?; i cant remember where i wrote it down now. Blast!!! if you play it on the piano, i'm sure that you may know it.

Jon Freeman pm	Posted - 23 May 09 - 10:04 am edit (id)
	Pip tried it on the piano last night. Neither of us recognise anything from the above.

dmcg pm	Posted - 23 May 09 - 10:12 am edit (id)
	I tried it as well, without success. It might help if you could add an indication of the length of the notes.

AndyM (guest)	Posted - 26 Nov 09 - 12:20 am edit (id)
	I have a 1950 to 1968 listing - almost complete on excel

dmcg pm	Posted - 06 Dec 09 - 07:46 am edit (id)
	Sorry for the delay, Andy. If you could send the excel spreadsheet via the help link, I'll look at trying to merge it with the information we have here.

ChristineB pm	Posted - 14 Feb 10 - 10:53 pm edit (id)
	Reply to denbobembo: Think this is used in Peter Warlock's 'Capriol Suite', the movement called 'Mattachins'