That new Sea Nymphs track...
Sean Cooke
that they would play whilst you were waiting for the Schools programmes to
begin, but that is not a bad thing. What we want is much more stuff from Mr.
Drake... One new album per week for the next two years should do it.
Fang
"Sean Cooke" <sco...@whsmithnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Oh, I do like this little confection. It reminds me a little of the music
> that they would play whilst you were waiting for the Schools programmes to
> begin, but that is not a bad thing.
I still remember at least four of them from the early 70s!
One had a whooping sound in the melody (played on a theremin?) which all the
kids would whoop along to - much to the teachers' annoyance!
One was in five time.
Thanks for indulging me,
Fang
Sean Cooke
http://www.sub-tv.co.uk/schoolsmusic.asp
You may just find that whooping noise is a little closer than you think...
marinecreature
good god... chills...
Now... I'm searching for info on BBC Schools Radio programmes,
particularly the music ones that had you singing along with special
booklets. Around 1971-1977. I remember an American folk songs one, a
scary one with incredibly sophisticated 2-part harmonies called
Journey Through Badlidreamt (or something like that), an Australian
aborigine one called Rainbow Snake which I loved but our headmaster
didnt; a song called 'Spaceship Calling Earth'...
What the hell were these called? (yes, I've been Googling but no
luck... anyone?)
Brennan Young
> Now... I'm searching for info on BBC Schools Radio programmes,
> particularly the music ones that had you singing along with special
> booklets. Around 1971-1977. I remember an American folk songs one, a
> scary one with incredibly sophisticated 2-part harmonies called
> Journey Through Badlidreamt (or something like that), an Australian
> aborigine one called Rainbow Snake which I loved but our headmaster
> didnt; a song called 'Spaceship Calling Earth'...
>
> What the hell were these called? (yes, I've been Googling but no
> luck... anyone?)
Sort of 'cut out and keep your own concept album'. You'd learn a new song
each week and hear an episode of the story, and then at the end of term,
you'd 'perform' the whole thing. They'd also introduce specific instruments
and stuff like that. Very 'Peter and the Wolf' like, actually. I seem to
remember Derek Griffiths being involved in such programs too. (What a COOL
guy he is!)
Alas, they never offered gold lamé cloaks, or mellotrons, so we could get in
the mood. or that we could perform on ice. I suppose the budgets were a bit tight.
BTW, It's 'Badlidrempt'. This guy is offering the whole series(!) for sale
on tape (and he spells the name wrong too):
<http://otrsite.com/logs/logj1017.htm>
Warning! Some of the pages that Google returns after searching for
'Badlidrempt' have crashed various browsers on my system HARD. This one has
caused me particular trouble:
<http://www.old-time.com/class_project/>
Quite rare to find a site which is so ill-behaved. Be careful not to visit
it with any unsaved documents open.
I missed 'Journey Through Badlidrempt', but my class caught 'Return to
Badlidrempt' which was probably the following year, or the year after
(1978-ish). I enjoyed it so much I pilfered the booklet from school, but I
was not smart enough to keep it. Doh!
I can still remember one of the songs, called 'Grazzo's Waltz' which I can
probably play on the piano if provoked. Grazzo was the villain. Big nose and
pointy waxed moustache. It was a good series, although I remember others
that were far less good. There was one about a little shepherd boy who was
present at the birth of Jesus. The kind of sentimental Christian pap that we
got far too much of at school. (And did we hear a word of the 'mabinogion'
or 'King Arthur' or even the norse myths? Something actually relevant to our
island's unique origins? Did we fuck.)
'Journey Through Badlidrempt' is also available right now as a book (check
Amazon) by Derek Farmer, but I don't think there are any songs or anything.
--
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Brennan
Sean Cooke
one that used to worry me slightly was "Twigwidge". Nowadays if I heard this
song at a gig sponsored by the ORGANS (Cheer!) I would tap a lively toe to
it...
DOWN AT THE GATE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN
TWIGWIDGE LIVES IN A CHESTNUT TREE
NO ONE KNOWS OF THE MERRY LITTLE TREE SPRITE
DAYLONG WORKING SO HAPPILY
TAP-TAP TWIGWIDGE
RAT-A-TAT TWIGWIDGE
TWIGWIDGE, SPIRIT OF THE CHESTNUT TREE
TAP-TAP TWIGWIDGE
RAT-A-TAT TWIGWIDGE
TWIGWIDGE, SPIRIT OF THE CHESTNU-HUT TREEEE.
;-Peter Ramsey
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> I missed 'Journey Through Badlidrempt', but my class caught 'Return to
> Badlidrempt' which was probably the following year, or the year after
> (1978-ish). I enjoyed it so much I pilfered the booklet from school, but I
> was not smart enough to keep it. Doh!
Wow! I'm not alone!!
I have (or had last time I looked), the complete Journey Through Badlidrempt
on battered old tape... all except the first two episodes which, at age 15,
I BOUGHT FROM BBC SCHOOLS RADIO!!!! (And funnily enough, due to copyright
restrictions, I had to actually pretend to be a teacher before they'd let me
have one!)
I totally missed Return To Badlidrempt, but I did find the accompanying
booklet at a boot sale years ago... (doh, it couldn't be the same one, could
it?)
There must be MP3s of all this available somewhere... or maybe a CD ('The
Compleat Badlidrempt') would fit nicely on the list at ORG Records... :)
Now here's one BBC Skool's Radio show I'd love to hear again - The
Adventures of Caracticus Turniptop. This must have been broadcast around
1980, and now seems to have vanished without trace. All I remember is that
it featured a stuttering robot called Cricklewood. I'd be a very different
person now if I hadn't heard that show....
Answers on a postcard please........
;-Peter
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Fang
"marinecreature" <marin...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Sean Cooke" <sco...@whsmithnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > Fang! You might enjoy a few of these little musical indulgences!!!
> >
> > http://www.sub-tv.co.uk/schoolsmusic.asp
> >
> > http://www.itvschools.co.uk/
> >
> > You may just find that whooping noise is a little closer than you
think...
>
> good god... chills...
>
The whoops turn out to be "Running with the Wind" by Roger Roger - d'you
think that's his real name? and are whoopier than I ever remembered - wow!
I also remember "Barockign Beat" (which in my childhood I always referred to
as "Don't Get Lost" - I probably had my own lyrics too) and "Prima
Ballerina" (I'd forgotten that one).
The 5-time one isn't there and there's another one which was a bit Jazz-625
in my recall.
Still - that was wonderful! Thanks, Sean!
F
marinecreature
Thank you thank you Brennan, and Sean and Peter. I really thought I'd
imagined it all.
As for gold lame I'm sure I ended up dressed as an angel or something
due to one of them (they wouldnt let be me a dragon), so cloaks were
involved. Kind of explains the musical tastes found here... Did we
ever have this conversation before, Brennan (or was I still convinced
it was all, er, badly dreampt and too embarrassed too?).
Anyway, the songs that have stuck in my head are 'There Was A Tailor
Had A Mouse', 'The Barnyards of Delgatty' and this very BBC-ish
masterpeice:
Spaceship Calling Earth
Stand by to receive
The things we've seen and been and done
You never would believe
We set a proper course for mars
and navigated by the stars
And then we found along the way
That somehow we had gone astray
Chorus
(er... bits missing, but they land on a cuboid planet and the
punchline goes...)
...Had 'squared' the fu-el in our tanks
And so we're speeding home with thanks
crikey... M :))))
OK, your homework for this week is... the madrigalist Gesualdo. What a
guy...