Shirley Collins, Martin Carthy & the Albion Band : Bonny Labouring Boy
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2009
- Beter quality version now up (Mar 2014) at • Shirley Collins, Marti... !
From the 1978 UK National Theatre production of 'Lark Rise'. This is an excerpt of a 1979 BBC TV documentary on Ashley Hutchings and the Albion Band.
The video was already a few generations old when I got the VHS and the colour comes and goes... but it's an all too rare film of the period of folk rock, and indeed of Shirley Collins! The spoken intro is by playwright Keith Dewhurst. 
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LOVE SHIRLEY! Her album The Sweet Primroses changed my life! ❤
Thanks SO much for posting this. Saw the orginnal programme, and Lark Rise at the Cottesloe with lovely Shirley. I think "Bonny Labouring Boy" came from Shirley's auntie or grandma!
Wouldn't it be marvellous if the BBC havesn't wiped this programme and puts it out in their archive or on DVD? Fat chance......
Wonderful to see Shirley Collins again. I saw her many times in the 1960s and 70s.
Thanks so much for sharing this, brings back all the times I saw Shirley in the 70s
Beautiful. Hilary and her sisters will love this. Greetings to one and all from Jarrahnut in ... you know where ...
I recall the stage production very well. I hadn't been all that bothered about theatre before that. After that I was determined to act. Many years later I quit my job and went to drama school and acted for a few years. Several years after that I went back to the Cottesloe to see the revival of the 'Mysteries'. I had a long chat with Linda Thompson after the show. She was absolutely lovely. Bill Bryden and his company has something very special in that little room.
Fantastic, I've had an audio copy of this prog. since 1979 but was unable to pin it down. Rough recording taken off tv ls. Shirley Collins is mesmerising.
Thanks nearlyoutof ideas !
Thank you for sharing. Added to favourites with Love & Appreciation.
This tune sounds like it was taken and used as the basis of an Anglican hymn. Anybody recognise it? I met Shirley Collins in the 1960s - she is a lovely woman. Her autobiography is very interesting. Shirley has been a huge influence on the British folk music revival.
Maybe you know this but she’s been singing again - I think there’s even an album!
I bought "Lark Rise to Candleford" the compilation of the 3 books) after hearing a few songs from this on various CDs.
Wish there was more of Shirley on video.
Wonderful song ...the same transition happend much later in Ireland.
Finally!! Thankyou!!!!!
I think this programme is held in the National Sound Archive in London. All you need to do is arrange a viewing, in order establish the possibility of making a copy!!
I still have the hots for Shirley
That early company, doing things in the round, had something special. Years later I went back to see a revival of the same company's Yorkshire Mysteries, and they had abandoned all the crowd-handling techniques of getting the front few rows of people to sit down for a particular scene, and you couldn't see anything for the selfish people at the front, and it was all spoiled.
Pity about the little hitch towards the end of the video ... but it's still worth viewing ... I think ...
I think he says "to the age of 18 / 20" as opposed to the year 1820...
@UncleBoko Unfortunately, I'm a long way indeed from London. However, I'm expecting a much better quality version of this program sometime soon.....
Doesn't he mean to say "from the 1880s until the 1920s"?
nowt wrong with this ...does anyone have the complete show ???