Hello Chris. Well I'm off and running thanks to you. I'll set about inviting a few more friends.
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Joy
5/17/2015 02:44:04 pm
I'm still on L plates. I'd welcome comments. Is anybody out there? Joy
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5/17/2015 04:16:34 pm
Lovely to meet with the owner of this fascinating website :-)
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Ian St George
9/15/2015 01:05:27 am
Look at http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=HBH18630113.2.10, Joy: there's a version of Billy Barlow there rewritten to lampoon a local Napier politician Rev. William Colenso ("Billy K'lenso") and sung by "The inimitable Thatcher" a travelling entertainer and quack medicine seller. What a great subject you have studied! well done. I am studying Colenso and can tell you heaps more about whet the words mean if you are interested....
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Joy Hildebrand
9/16/2015 02:23:42 pm
Thank you Ian. It's good to find someone on a similar journey. Such an interesting time. Thank you for the link. This belongs more to my original study of the "Billy Barlow" name among 19-century performers. It's on Warren Fahey's site of Australian Folklore. I wrote this before Trove and the NZ papers online so there is more to find now. Especially in NZ which I only covered briefly. I had to limit myself a bit because there were thousands of "Billy Barlow Songs". Warren still collects them so I'll pass your information on if I may. Thatcher was a friend of Barlow and they crossed paths but never - as far as I know - actually performed together. I would be interested in your findings. It's all part of the big picture isn't it. Local politicians were popular targets for the generic "Billy Barlow". He was a pompous, self-opinionated clown. Great to meet you. Joy
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Elsie Portch
2/6/2019 09:45:20 pm
Hi Joy, if you are interested I have an original poem written by "Billy Barlow", I believe.
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Author-Joy HildebrandMy interest in minstrel songs
began in childhood. I was born in
Melbourne at a time when horse troughs were still in use in the city, and where
you could buy a posy of violets from a cart.
The 19th century hadn't quite left us.
My world was, and in many ways still is, back in that century. Pantomimes, parlour songs, banjos, folktales,
jigsaw puzzles... ArchivesCategories |