Roy Palmer collection CD 23
SCD CDA PALMER 23 Sound Lib. CDA Roy Palmer collection CD 23 - British Library Sound Archive, [2001]. - 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Compact disc. Tales, reminiscences, songs.
C1023/53 [not a VWML tape]. Group of unidentified ex POWs talking about prison camp life, and singing songs, recorded by Peter Cheeseman, New Victoria Theatre, Stoke on Trent, 1971: 1. Talk about singing -- 2. My brother Sylvest -- 3. Salome -- 4. Ringarangaroo -- 5. The wanderer's warning [radio interference from here on] -- 6. Talk about camp life, singing, planning for the future -- 7. talk about camps in Germany, Italy & Greece; delousing; hearing tales of gas chambers; keeping spirits up (British POWs were the least despondent) -- 8. Suvla Bay -- 9. It was in an Austrian lager [tune: Suvla Bay] -- 10. Counting the bars [tune: Twenty one years] -- 11. Talk about tricks played on German guards -- 12. Talk about making and hiding wirelesses -- 13. Escapes; stories about Welsh Pow -- 14. Sempre lavorare [tune: Lili Marlene] -- 15. Watch and chain song -- 16. Talk about singing in camp; Maori POWs; Zulu chants -- 17. McCaffery [fragment] -- 18. This bloody life is no good [tune: This is my story; fragment] -- 19. Frame eree [Tattooed lady (Roud 9622); incomplete].
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