Sussex Traditions

BUTTER AND CHEESESee full record

So now you've called on me to sing, I'll see what I can do

Guidance: Field recording from Ken Stubbs' collection. Click on the audio icon to play.

Roud number510
PerformerWeller, Walter James (Pop)
Place Freshfield, West Sussex, England
Date1962
Source Ken Stubbs Field Collection (tape 6) KS-06-3-11
Broad CategorySong
FormatSound recording

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BUTTER AND CHEESE AND ALLSee full record

What a pity it is to tease me or try me for to sing

Guidance: Book still in copyright & cannot be reproduced here. Copies in East & West Sussex libraries and the VWML.

Roud number510
PerformerJohnson, Leslie
Place Rustington, West Sussex, England
Date1954 (8 Nov)
Source Roud & Bishop, New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (2012) pp.155-156
Broad CategorySong
FormatBook

BUTTER AND CHEESE AND ALLSee full record

So now you've called on me to sing, I'll see what I can do

Guidance: Field recording from Ken Stubbs' collection. Click on the audio icon to play.

Roud number510
PerformerWeller, Walter James (Pop)
Place Freshfield, West Sussex, England
Date1962
Source Ken Stubbs Field Collection (tape 21) KS-21-3-23
Broad CategorySong
FormatSound recording

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BUTTER AND CHEESE AND ALLSee full record

What a pity it is to tease me or try me for to sing

Guidance: Commercial album, available for download at www.Topicrecords.co.uk

Roud number510
PerformerJohnson, Leslie
Place Fittleworth, West Sussex, England
Date1954 (8 Nov)
Source Topic TSCD 673T ('Good People Take Warning')
Broad CategorySong
FormatSound recording

BUTTER CHEESE AND ALLSee full record

Guidance: Included in the list of songs known by Henry Burstow. Some of his songs appear in full in other books & collections

Roud number510
PerformerBurstow, Henry
Place Horsham, West Sussex, England
Source Burstow, Reminiscences of Horsham (1911) p.117
Broad CategorySong
FormatBook

COOK'S CHOICE, THESee full record

What a pity it is to tease me or try for me to sing

Guidance: Field recordings made by the BBC in the 1950s are not generally available, although some have been issued on commercial recordings. Copies can be heard at the VWML.

Roud number510
PerformerJohnson, Leslie
Place Fittleworth, West Sussex, England
Date1954 (8 Nov)
Source BBC recording 22762
Broad CategorySong
FormatSound recording

COOK'S CHOICE, THESee full record

What a pity it is to tease me

Guidance: From the book in which John Johnson (1865-1941) wrote down the words of the songs he knew

Roud number510
PerformerJohnson, John
Place Fittleworth, West Sussex, England
Source Collection of the Old Songs (John Johnson's MS songbook)
Broad CategorySong
FormatManuscript

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COOK'S CHOICE, THESee full record

What a pity it is to tease me or try me for to sing

Guidance: Book still in copyright & cannot be reproduced here. Copies in East & West Sussex Libraries & the VWML

Roud number510
PerformerJohnson, Leslie
Place Rustington, West Sussex, England
Source Copper, Songs & Southern Breezes (1973) pp.236-237
Broad CategorySong
FormatBook

GREASY COOK, THESee full record

What a pity it is to tease me or try me for to sing

Guidance: Folktracks (Folktrax) albums no longer available, but copies can be heard at the VWML. Kennedy's original recordings now in the British Library.

Roud number510
PerformerJohnson, Leslie
Place Fittleworth, West Sussex, England
Source Folktracks FSA 427 (`Rolling in the Dew')
Broad CategorySong
FormatSound recording

GREASY COOK, THESee full record

So now you've called on me to sing

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Roud number510
PerformerWeller, Walter James
Place Freshfield, West Sussex, England
Date1962
Source Stubbs, Life of a Man (1970) pp.38-39
Broad CategorySong
FormatBook

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