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16 Aug 2012

Music From My Past

The Ballad of Accounting by Ewan Macoll and Peggy Seeger, leading lights in the British folk revival of the 1950s and 60s.
Macoll and Seeger are legends on the British left, Peggy now in her 70s is still touring and performing at folk clubs and festivals around the UK.

 From Wikipedia
MacColl was born as James Henry Miller in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire to Scottish parents, William Miller and Betsy Miller née Hendry. Both of his parents were socialists and William Miller was an iron-moulder and militant trade unionist who had moved to Salford with his wife to look for work after being blacklisted in almost every foundry in Scotland. They lived amongst a group of émigré Scots and Jimmy, their only surviving child of four, was brought up in an atmosphere of fierce political debate interspersed with the large repertoire of songs and stories his parents had brought from Scotland
He left school in 1930 during the Great Depression and, joining the ranks of the unemployed, began a lifelong programme of self education whilst keeping warm in the Manchester Public Library.
Margaret "Peggy" Seeger (born June 17, 1935, New York City) is an American folksinger. She is also well known in Britain, where she lived for more than 30 years with her husband, the singer and songwriter Ewan MacColl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewan_MacColl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Seeger

9 comments:

  1. I'm glad She.....but this isn't the easiest way to communicate is it....thanks for leaving your comment :-)

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  2. Interesting biographies for both, AA. McColl's case just goes to show that self-education can be a dangerous thing, AA---it can lead to creativity.

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  3. Very socially-biting and nice song, AA. MacColl's case shows the "dangers" of self-education. Done properly with the "wrong sort" of family background it could lead to success and creativity. :-)

    Nice post.

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    1. Doug these are two comments you left 12 days ago that I just found in my Spam folder, I can hardly believe it - sorry you must have wondered where your comments had gone, I had no idea they were there

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  4. I can't reply yo you Loretta when I try it says your profile has not been enabled, so it won't let me visit your page. Nice to see you here :-)

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  5. Really good song, with lyrics worth thinking on.

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  6. Thanks for the comment Iri, great to see you here :-)

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