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Here's Won't You Buy My Pretty .flowers ? Sung By Richard Hayward from a rare 78 rpm
Born in Southport, Lancashire, Richard Hayward was an enthusiast for all Ulster regional popular culture. He was a member of the Orange Order, to which he dedicated much time. After a period working at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin he helped form the Belfast Repertory Theatre Company. He was a popular singer in the forties and fifties.[2] His career meant he lived a typical theatrical lifestyle being constantly on the move.
Death Edit
He died due to a road accident outside Ballymena, in October 1964.
Here's Won't You Buy My Pretty .flowers ? Sung By Richard Hayward from a rare 78 rpm
Born in Southport, Lancashire, Richard Hayward was an enthusiast for all Ulster regional popular culture. He was a member of the Orange Order, to which he dedicated much time. After a period working at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin he helped form the Belfast Repertory Theatre Company. He was a popular singer in the forties and fifties.[2] His career meant he lived a typical theatrical lifestyle being constantly on the move.
Death Edit
He died due to a road accident outside Ballymena, in October 1964.
![O eyes, O mortal stars - Come, my Celia Sung By John Goss Diana Poulton Lute Rare 78 rpm
Heres ,O eyes, O mortal stars - Come, my Celia Sung By John Goss Diana Poulton Lute from a 78 rpm shellac record released in 1928.
The first recordings of the lute appeared in 1927, featuring the lutanist Diana Poulton and John Goss in a performance of “Flow not so fast ye fountains.
Diana Poulton, also known as Edith Eleanor Diana Chloe Poulton (18 April 1903, Storington – 15 December 1995, Heyshott)[1] was an English lutenist and musicologist.[2]
From 1919 through 1923 she studied at the Slade School of Fine Art.[3] She was a pupil of Arnold Dolmetsch (1922–5) and became a leading member of the early music revival.[3] She played a key role in the revival of the popularity of the lute and its music. She was married to the illustrator Tom Poulton. O eyes, O mortal stars - Come, my Celia Sung By John Goss Diana Poulton Lute Rare 78 rpm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kzqBM7EB-G4/mqdefault.jpg)
![Somerset The British Drama League Lyntone Flexi record reissue of 1920s 78 rpm Gramophone Record.
Heres Somerset The British Drama League Lyntone Flexi record reissue of 1920s 78 rpm Gramophone Record.
The British Drama League was established in 1919 to promote amateur and professional theatre in England, with a head office based at Fitzroy Square, London. It was founded by Geoffrey Whitworth. Its work included pursuing the creation of the National Theatre, offering library and research services, founded the journal Drama in 1919, and encouraging the introduction of drama into the national curriculum.[1] Its name was changed to the British Theatre Association in 1972.[2] The Association was disbanded in 1990, due to financial pressures. Play scripts held in its archive are now in the possession of the Theatre Museum, London Somerset The British Drama League Lyntone Flexi record reissue of 1920s 78 rpm Gramophone Record.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lYbtRX6izK0/mqdefault.jpg)




![Loves Old Sweet Song by Edna.Thornton Contralto Rare 78 rpm
Heres Loves Old Sweet Song Sung.by the contralto Edna.Thornton from a rare 78 rpm shellac record recorded in 1913.
Edna Thornton was Born Bradford Yorkshire in, 1875.
Died Worthing, 15 July 1964.
English contralto.
Edna Thornton had a long career with the major British opera companies, particularly as an interpreter of Wagner.
She worked at Covent Garden from 1905 to 1910, appearing in the Ring cycles of 1908 and 1909. These were conducted by Karl Richter, and her roles were Erda and Waltraute. With the Denhof company she added Flosshilde and First Norn.
She toured with the Quinlan and Beecham companies, returning to Covent Garden between 1919 and 1923. After the BNOC was established she worked with it extensively.
Other roles in her repertoire for which she was noted included Dalila and Amneris as well as Brangäne. She also appeared in the premiere of Holsts comic opera The Perfect Fool at Covent Garden in 1923.
James Lynam Molloy (19 August 1837 – 4 February 1909) was an Irish composer, poet, and author. His songs were praised by his contemporaries; one said that he will be remembered, or certainly his songs will, long after the superior and so-called art-songs of to-day are forgotten.[1] Loves Old Sweet Song by Edna.Thornton Contralto Rare 78 rpm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oIU4V1rUycc/mqdefault.jpg)


![Song Of The Fisherman To The Twin Stars - Hedge Rose sung By John Goss Baritone rare 78 rpm
John Goss (1894-1953) was an English singer who revived interest in traditional folk music, which he orchestrated and sang in his beautiful baritone voice, and thus inspired people like Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger.
Heres Song Of The Fisherman To The Twin Stars - Hedge Rose by Schubert sung By John Goss Baritone from a rare 78 rpm shellac record released around 1927
John Goss was born in Birmingham, England in 1894, the son of a labourer. He worked in a variety of factory jobs, and once led a protest of electrical apprentices. He might have spent his life on the shop-floor, but his fine singing won him a scholarship to Ruskin College, Oxford, and by great perseverance he succeeded in building a career for himself; he spent some years studying in Germany, the musical centre at that time, and acquired a broad, humanitarian outlook.*
His family was fiercely working class, and be had difficulty explaining his decision to go into something so refined as music. Thus he determined to devote himself to the revival of folk songs, the music of the people, and to perform these in the factories and union-halls, where working people tended to gather. He was a close friend of the composer Peter Warlock, and on good terms with Benjamin Britten.
After performing far and wide, he came to Canada around 1940; and started giving concerts in Vancouver then. He started a summer school of music on Galiano Island in 1947, at the property known as Lyons. This was at the same time that there was a thriving artistic scene at Arbutus Point Resort, frequented by painters like Molly Lamb Bobak and Jack Shadbolt, so the island must have been a hive of creativity. This was also about the time that Nigel Morgan, head of the B.C. Communist Party, established his Communist retreat and study centre near Retreat Cove.
John Goss, with his pacifist, working-class leanings was also suspected of being a communist. He addressed a peace conference in New York in 1949, in company with other musical figures like Aaron Copland, Dimitri Shostakovich, Paul Robeson, Benjamin Britten and many others. Just as the event was ending, he was approached by the police: they told him he could leave the country immediately or suffer the indignity of being deported.
He left the United States quietly but that was not the end of his problems. There was as much nastiness in Canada; the Vancouver Parks Board terminated his contract in the interest of good public relations, and he had to close the summer-school on Galiano Island. Broken in health he returned to Birmingham, where he died in 1953.[1] Song Of The Fisherman To The Twin Stars - Hedge Rose sung By John Goss Baritone rare 78 rpm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pjSHai0MAvA/mqdefault.jpg)
