Isle of Wight Folk Archive
*NEW*
Mp3 Collection see 15 below
Link to Old Time Folk Music France
Contents List
2 The original IOW songs by Dumbledore
3 Sea Songs of the IOW and Solent
4 IOW songs yet to fully record mp3s & words
7 Orchestrated Songs (and IOW Folk Orchestra)
8 Music Mixture - Irish, Bluegrass and more (Good for Sessions)
10 Singing Games by Alice Gillington and James Orchard Halliwell's work
11 Polly Oliver Isle of Wight Versions
12 The Isle of Wight Tune Book
13 Isle of Wight Dialect Recordings
14 Folk Music and the ABC Program. Includes large IOW Sea Songs example
16 Bumper Box 2021 Christmas Carols, the Smith Family Story, the Three Little Pigs
18 Sea Songs of the Isle of Wight Electronic Book Version
Passed on to Fiddler's Green
Paul Marsh of Forest Tracks and Hampshire Voices passed away suddenly a few years ago. Sadly his extensive website is now gone. In fact it is up for sale as a domain name! His sudden passing is a huge loss to Hampshire and the folk community. We do hope that all his extensive folk music researches are not lost. He was a compatriot of Steve Roud who created the Roud Folk song index. It does make us think and although this archive is not in the same league as Paul's it would be a shame to be lost. Help from a fellow nerd would be much appreciated!
LINKS
This is an essential link for all things folk on the Isle of Wight. It is Folk on Wight. The Island Folk History gives you many other essential links.
Here it is:
https://folkonwight.wordpress.com/
There is also a Face book page for all things going on at the moment.
Welcome to Dave and Anwyl's IOW folk archive.
Contact us via wholvac@yahoo.com
This site seems to be getting ever bigger. More material is always welcome. "New IOW" folk songs most welcome.
The Isle of Wight folk archive is made up of the original part done over 40 years ago and various snippets of mp3s and the words we have collated from a mouldy box of bits and bobs found more recently. The Notes at the end give you more clues about these songs.
Many thanks to Anwyl for all the typing and to so many people that have shown interest. We are amazed that folk music and dance is such a big thing again on the island since our days of booking guests at the Sloop Inn Folk Club. May it long continue. Enjoy singing these songs and playing IOW tunes!
2 Original IOW songs by Dumbledore
We did record some fully on cassettes back then. Here are the words and scores from the original.
IOW Songs Part 1
IOW Songs Part 2
IOW Songs - Glossary for Parts 1&2
IOW Songs - Notes on Parts 1&2
We transferred the actual songs to mp3 and put them all up on the cloud. We have a Dropbox connection. Here they are:
IOW Songs Part 1
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j82c3dtrqnupsbe/AACRaHbLjHWPP8LB52DySLeBa?dl=0
IOW Songs Part 2
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ c2cc2p3fnxd931p/AAC2nEzevWD_ WsFYCpE8UBr-a?dl=0
Here is a list of the completed ones in Part 1 and 2.
Part 1: Scrow Day, The Widow, Recruiting Sergeant, Summer, Newtown Randy, Man O War, Winter, My Maid, Shickshack Day, Shrove Song, Polly Oliver, Little Cappender. Part 2: Sayings Song, Crossing the Bar, Spring, Wilderness Fox, Carter's Mate, Christmas Party, Autumn, Forsaken, Three Drunken Maidens, Home Harvest Evening, Jolly Waggoner, The Old Grey Hen, March of the Wight Men.
Clare lead singer, Dave guitar and vocal, Anwyl whistle, autoharp, and vocal. Martin recording.
Many more were not fully recorded at the time. From a mouldy pile of words, music and recordings we will try and make the songs more accessible. We will put on rough versions of the songs and hopefully steadily improve them one day. I have put notes up for the songs. Do put them through your own folk/musical process!
It would be great if they could have a new life, maybe out of the traditional folk mould! Folk rock, cafe sound, bluegrass feel ... We have put up a condensed version of music we made for a Brass Band or Symphony orchestra.
3 Sea Songs of the IOW and Solent
The Dropbox Connection
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/skfdennyx4uhxpj/AAAr_pNtvmSZYAgRPVNnjf1Ja?dl=0
Notes on the CD
Isle of Wight and Solent Sea Songs
Words of the Sea Songs
Sea songs complete set of words
4 IOW songs yet to fully record mp3s & words
mp3s (Snippets)
Apple Tree Wassail
Brading Haven
Clowns CourtshipCrockery Ware
Damask Rose
Golden Gorse
Lumps of PuddenMary Maid of Wight
Old Man Clothed in LeatherShroven
Silver Bow
Song of Sixpence
Whistle Daughter WhistleWords
Apple Tree Wassail
Brading Haven
Clowns CourtshipCrockery Ware
Damask Rose
Golden Gorse
Lumps of Pudden
Mary Maid of Wight
Old Man Clothed in LeatherRoger and Dolly
Shroven
Silver Bow
Song of Sixpence
Whistle Daughter Whistle
Actual Music for snippets and sea songs
IOW stories, tales, sayings, rhymes, jokes and other beasts
Midwinter on the Isle of Wight
Exploring Wines with Vernon Vine
7 Orchestrated Songs and IOW Folk Orchestra
IOW music for Symphony Orchestra or Brass Band or ensemble. This is a very condensed version compiled by Martin who did the first recordings. It contains a variety of tunes that tell a story / give a picture of the IOW. The start for instance is your arrival on the island in a mist, it covers the island and a widow is waiting on the quay. The tunes are Scrow Day, The Widow, Recruiting Sergeant, Summer, Man O'War and the Reprise of Recruiting Sergeant and Man of War. We intended to do a second and third part. Click Below
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vtxos1q41upr70n/IOW%201st%20Movement.mp3?dl=0
Isle of Wight Folk Orchestra and Choir
Folk Orchestra Tune Sets (Actual Music)
8 Music Mixture - Irish, Bluegrass and more (Good for Sessions)
The Isle of Wight has always had a mix of folk bands. Over the years we have played in most types, here is some of the music we used.
For Music Mix: Click Music to find information on Irish, Bluegrass, Old Time, Cajun, Jug Band and Breton / French Song.
IOW Irish Song and Tune notes click music above to find session sets.
Celtic Plus tunes for extra session spice
New IOW folk songs welcome here.
Here are some words from the 1960s and 1970s
Sea Songs of the Isle of Wight
10 Singing Games by Alice Gillington and James Orchard Halliwell's work
Old Isle of Wight
Singing Games Alice E Gillington 1909
https://imslp.org/wiki/Old_Isle_of_Wight_Singing_Games_(Gillington%2C_Alice_E.)
We noted this book over 40 years ago
and disregarded it as it seemed that the songs were in other places. Her idea
was to make some singing games more accessible to teachers and parents. Today we
may think the songs more suitable for adults. Recently research has taken
place into the work of Alice Gillington. Forest Tracks produced a major
article but sadly this is no longer available as the person who ran this
Hampshire site has now passed on.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41727/41727-h/41727-h.htm
Alice Gillington collected 22 IOW ones that she published in her book. She did
produce a number of these books from other counties and some are repeats.
Here is the list.
See this pretty girl of mine
The Dairy Ho!
Bingo
The Jolly Miller
Rosy apple, lemon or pear
Threadle the needle
Oats and beans and barley
Babes in the wood
A hunting we will go
When I was a lady
My man John
The grand old Duke of York
Hark, the robbers
English Soldiers
Yellow Gravel
London is the Capital
There stands a lady
Sally Waters
Down in the meadows
How many miles to Barbary land
Here comes the Duke from sunny Spain
Here
are the words and some extra notes. Isle of
Wight Singing Games words and notes
James
Orchard Halliwell (Phillipps) 1820 - 1889
Popular Rhymes and
Nursery Tales 1849
Contains the first
printed version of 'The Three Little Pigs'. Set in Shanklin on the
Isle of Wight.
Dragon- Flies.
Under the Nature Songs section. Has a dialect and standard version.
Isle of Wight
Shrovers. Under the Customs and Rhymes section. This tells about Shroven
and also includes the Shroven songs. His correspondent is Captain Henry
Smith. Later Major Henry Smith who wrote the first dialect dictionary 'A Glossary of Words in use in The Isle of
Wight'. It also describes how doughnuts were peculiar to the Isle of
Wight.
11 Polly Oliver Isle of Wight versions
Here is an investigation into a particular IOW song. The tune is already within the Dumbledore collection. Here are the notes and versions.