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Constant Billy : Billy Wells - morris dancing / William Wells, Clark Bertie

Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: FTX 384 | Folktracks [Folktrax]Publication details: Folktracks [Folktrax], 1975.Description: 1 audiocassette : analog
Contents:
Side 1: 1. Constant Billy / Billy Wells playing fiddle for dancers in the street at Bampton recorded 1943, 0'45" -- 2. Talk about his family & nickname, 1'30" -- 3. Birthplace, brother & education - 0'55" -- 4. His first job & start in the Morris, 0'56" -- 5. Various other jobs - 0'29" -- 6. Family involvement, his first costume, odd stockings & Enoch Tanner, 3'19" -- 7. The Fool (his own poem), 3'00" -- 8. Explanation of Sword in the cake & diddles Highland Mary, 1'03" -- 9. Highland Mary (played on fiddle with humming), 1'54" -- 10. Talk about finding dances and playing at Leafield (Field Town); tune and & description of the Forester (or, Forestry keeper's Jig), 2'15" -- 11. Old Tom of Oxford - talk about hawkers living in a caravan, 1'15" -- 12. Words of Old Tom of Oxford & further talk about hawkers, two men & 1 woman & own experience of living in a caravasn himself; "they never quarrelled", 1'14" -- 13. The Quaker - words of song & Lumps of Plum Pudding - 0'42" -- 14. The Pipe Dance (Bacca Pipes) "Some say the devil's dead" words and hums tune 1'28" -- 15. The Webbley he named the dance after a man called Webb (Tune: "Banks and braes") disapproved by Cecil Sharp House - 1'36" -- 16. Constant Billy - talk about it being the longest dance & done three different ways then hums the tune - 1'54" -- 17. The Maid of the Mill - sings the words - 0'31" -- 18. The Maid of the Mill - title then plays tune on fiddle with humming, 1'05" -- 19. Names of the various dances, words of Bonny Green Garters spoken & hums tune of Princess Royal and explains the various capers, 1'27" -- 20. Bonny Green Garters - song, 0'29" -- 21. Bobbing Around - title then tune on fiddle with humming, 1'24" -- 22. "I bis the only man": his achievements as fool, fiddler, dancer & trainer, and performed in front of two princesses and had three generations in one set, 1'21" -- 23. Playing the tunes on six different instruments: penny tin whistle, mandoleon, concertina, melodeon, violin, swiss pipe but "you can't beat the fiddle, 1'12" -- 24. Song fragment: The Dumb Maid, 0'30" -- 25. recites words, a fragment of his own song composition: "Being a gentleman's son", 1'07" -- 26. The Flowers of Edinburgh, title then tune on fiddle with humming, 1'57" 27. Talk about tent covering a dancing booth, twopence a dance paid by men & boys, 2'50" -- 28. Step and Fetch Her ("Pretty little dear") - sings tune, 0'22" -- 29. The Handkerchief Dance with description, 1'48" -- 30. Tommy, Make Room For Your Uncle - words of song, 0'34" -- 31. "Every dog has his day" - 1'20" -- 32. The Quaker - title before then tune on fiddle with humming for dancing in the street followed by applause (BBC 1321 recorded 1937), 2'26" -- Side 2: 1. Brighton Camp / Bertie Clark -- 2. Glorishears / Bertie Clark -- 3. Banbury Bill / Bertie Clark -- 4. Bonny Green Garters / Bertie Clark -- 5. Bobbing Around / Jim Buckingham [melodeon] playing for team in 1955, 1'58" -- 6. The Flowers of Edinburgh / Arnold Woodley [fiddle], 2'12" -- 7. Interviews in street with Jim Buckingham, Bob Whitlock, Jim Townsend, Mike Bowden and Billy Flux, 3'30" -- 8. The Maid of the Mill / Bertie Clark [fiddle], 2'25" -- 9. Shepherds Hey, 3'02" -- 10. Constant Billy -/Arnold Woodley [fiddle] - 1'06" -- 11. Bonny Green Garters, 0'42" -- 12. Albert Townsend, William Brooks talking.
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Cassette.

Morris dancers and musicians, interviews and tunes.

Side 1: 1. Constant Billy / Billy Wells playing fiddle for dancers in the street at Bampton recorded 1943, 0'45" -- 2. Talk about his family & nickname, 1'30" -- 3. Birthplace, brother & education - 0'55" -- 4. His first job & start in the Morris, 0'56" -- 5. Various other jobs - 0'29" -- 6. Family involvement, his first costume, odd stockings & Enoch Tanner, 3'19" -- 7. The Fool (his own poem), 3'00" -- 8. Explanation of Sword in the cake & diddles Highland Mary, 1'03" -- 9. Highland Mary (played on fiddle with humming), 1'54" -- 10. Talk about finding dances and playing at Leafield (Field Town); tune and & description of the Forester (or, Forestry keeper's Jig), 2'15" -- 11. Old Tom of Oxford - talk about hawkers living in a caravan, 1'15" -- 12. Words of Old Tom of Oxford & further talk about hawkers, two men & 1 woman & own experience of living in a caravasn himself; "they never quarrelled", 1'14" -- 13. The Quaker - words of song & Lumps of Plum Pudding - 0'42" -- 14. The Pipe Dance (Bacca Pipes) "Some say the devil's dead" words and hums tune 1'28" -- 15. The Webbley he named the dance after a man called Webb (Tune: "Banks and braes") disapproved by Cecil Sharp House - 1'36" -- 16. Constant Billy - talk about it being the longest dance & done three different ways then hums the tune - 1'54" -- 17. The Maid of the Mill - sings the words - 0'31" -- 18. The Maid of the Mill - title then plays tune on fiddle with humming, 1'05" -- 19. Names of the various dances, words of Bonny Green Garters spoken & hums tune of Princess Royal and explains the various capers, 1'27" -- 20. Bonny Green Garters - song, 0'29" -- 21. Bobbing Around - title then tune on fiddle with humming, 1'24" -- 22. "I bis the only man": his achievements as fool, fiddler, dancer & trainer, and performed in front of two princesses and had three generations in one set, 1'21" -- 23. Playing the tunes on six different instruments: penny tin whistle, mandoleon, concertina, melodeon, violin, swiss pipe but "you can't beat the fiddle, 1'12" -- 24. Song fragment: The Dumb Maid, 0'30" -- 25. recites words, a fragment of his own song composition: "Being a gentleman's son", 1'07" -- 26. The Flowers of Edinburgh, title then tune on fiddle with humming, 1'57" 27. Talk about tent covering a dancing booth, twopence a dance paid by men & boys, 2'50" -- 28. Step and Fetch Her ("Pretty little dear") - sings tune, 0'22" -- 29. The Handkerchief Dance with description, 1'48" -- 30. Tommy, Make Room For Your Uncle - words of song, 0'34" -- 31. "Every dog has his day" - 1'20" -- 32. The Quaker - title before then tune on fiddle with humming for dancing in the street followed by applause (BBC 1321 recorded 1937), 2'26" -- Side 2: 1. Brighton Camp / Bertie Clark -- 2. Glorishears / Bertie Clark -- 3. Banbury Bill / Bertie Clark -- 4. Bonny Green Garters / Bertie Clark -- 5. Bobbing Around / Jim Buckingham [melodeon] playing for team in 1955, 1'58" -- 6. The Flowers of Edinburgh / Arnold Woodley [fiddle], 2'12" -- 7. Interviews in street with Jim Buckingham, Bob Whitlock, Jim Townsend, Mike Bowden and Billy Flux, 3'30" -- 8. The Maid of the Mill / Bertie Clark [fiddle], 2'25" -- 9. Shepherds Hey, 3'02" -- 10. Constant Billy -/Arnold Woodley [fiddle] - 1'06" -- 11. Bonny Green Garters, 0'42" -- 12. Albert Townsend, William Brooks talking.

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