The sounds and songs of Britain

Main Author: Barratt, Bob
Other Authors: Horsfall, Bernard, Pennell, Nicholas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hayes, Middlesex: EMI: Columbia, 1970
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Table of Contents:
  • Thereʹll always be an England
  • The Wembley roar
  • A life on the ocean wave
  • Cantebutty Cathedral: Toccata and fugue in D minor
  • The white cliffs of Dover
  • Hastings: the national town criersʹ championship
  • Sussex by the sea
  • Winchester Cathedral
  • Widdecombe fair
  • The Padstow may song
  • Flora day in Helston
  • Cornish rhapsody
  • Wookey hole caves
  • Drink up thy zider
  • The marquess of bath
  • Land of my fathers
  • A conversation in Welsh
  • A Welsh steel-works
  • All through the night (Ar hyd y nos)
  • A Welsh coal-mine
  • The Tal-y-llyn railway
  • Weʹll keep a welcome
  • Danny boy
  • The old Lammas fair
  • Water-driven trip-hammer and Linen hand-loom
  • The mountains of Mourne
  • The Manx national anthem (O land of our birth)
  • The Edinburgh tattoo: Scotland the brave
  • I belong to Glasgow
  • A spey valley ski resort
  • The skye boat song
  • Lewis boy singing in Gaelic: moch di luainn
  • The northern lights of Aberdeen
  • A Highland gathering
  • Northumbrain pipes: The keel row
  • Blaydon races
  • Monkseaton morrismen: the rapper sword dance
  • Scarborough fair/canticle
  • On ilkla moor bahʹtʹat
  • The hunt
  • John Peel
  • Sheʹs a lassie from Lancashire
  • Blackpool: I do like to be beside the seaside
  • Ferry cross the mersey
  • Silverstone motor races
  • Greensleeves
  • Stratford-upon-avon: once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
  • Bells of Holy Trinity church
  • The coventry carol
  • Blenheim palace organ: toccata from Symphony no. 5 in F minor, op. 42
  • An English country village
  • Country gardens
  • New market: Hev yew gotta loight boy?
  • Christmas eve in Cambridge: Once in royal Davidʹs city
  • The Eton boating song
  • Land of hope and glory