The Elliotts Of Birtley - The Elliotts Of Birtley - A Musical Portrait Of A Durham Mining Family flac album

The Elliot family of England was recorded by Peggy Seeger and Evan MacColl on three separate occasions in the summer of 1961 in the kitchen of Em and Jack Elliot. Some 17 people, all of whose lives were intimately tied to the local coal mines, participated in the recording sessions. It is a world where the policeman and the pitman are always on opposite sides

The Elliots Of Birtley: A Musical Portrait Of A Durham Mining Family. Released by FOLKWAYS RECORDS Jan 1961 7 Tracks. You have been Invited to join a Family Plan.

A1. Family History, Stanley Market. A2. Begging Rhymes, Guisers, Lullabies, Children's Songs And Rhymes, Henry My Son. A3. The Three Welshmen, Old Johnny Booker, Hunting Of The Wren, The Sucking Pig. A4. Finger Games, Hand Warming Games, Children's Street Songs, Skipping And Ball Bouncing Games, Taunts, Chants, Etc. B1. Anecdotes, Local History, Pit Poetry, The Depression, Our Gudeman. B2. Pit-Lore, Big Hewer, Legends, Tales, Anecdotes, The Celebrated Working Man, Little Chance. B3. Miner's Wit And Humour, Jokes, Local Tales, Parodies, The Colliers Rant. Recorded by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger on three separate occasions - July 24th, July 25th and August 4th, 1961 Licenced from Moses Asch, Folkways Records, . Electronically re-channelled for stereo.

The story of the Elliotts of Birtley is not the story of an ordinary working class family. The Elliotts are anything but ordinary, as the author points out many times in the book. In 1872 Frank moved to 7 Brown's Buildings (a district, not a tenement), Barley Mow, Co Durham where his descendants continued to live. Brown's Buildings were pit cottages and the sons of the tenants were expected to follow their fathers into the mine, which is precisely what the Elliotts did through the generations. The programme led on to the Folkways LP The Elliotts of Birtley: A Portrait of a Mining Family in 1962, the same record that was eventually issued on a British label, Xtra, in 1967. Following the radio ballads, the BBC was interested in 'politically slanted films of ordinary working people' and Charles Parker recommended the Elliotts to Philip Donnellan, who produced Private Faces and later The Death of a Miner.

The Elliotts of Birtley A Musical Portrait of a Durham Mining Family The Elliott Family. Folkways Records FG 3565 (LP, USA, 1961) Transatlantic Records XTRA 1091 (LP, UK, 1969) Smithsonian Folkways FW03565 (CD/download, USA, 2007). Recorded in 1961 by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger; Folkways design by Ronald Clyne; Folkways photograph by Hayward Smead; Transatlantic cover by Brian Shuel. Liner notes (PDF) at Smithsonian Global Sound.

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