Theme: World Date: 25/11/2012

Wimmera River October 2012 Looking to South bank near Horsham Weir © 2012 Rjn

 

The Gypsy Jack Boggle Show

© 2012 Rjn

Theme: World

Date: 25/11/2012

Artiste:	Title:
The Spinners	The Family of Man
Rudi Knabl	Tief drin in Böhmerwald, Auf der Alm da gibts Kao Sünd, Beider Linden, Der Alpenmusikant.
Rjn homage to Charles Harpur	Squatter's Song: Bush Justice
Ballroom Dance Express	Tango D'Amour, O Sole Mio, Tango Misterisio, Cara Mia
Rjn Homage to: Patrick R. Chalmers - Willliam Howitt -	Roundabouts & Swings. The Wind in a Frolic.
Odetta	Water Boy, Santy Anno, Buked & Scorned, Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Mike Martin	From the Strelley Project: English Bay, Rubbish, Ethnic Cleansing, Bureaucracy, Paid my Dues.
Yothu Yindi	Gapu, Treaty, Maralitja
Mercedes Sosa	Si Se calla el cantor, Alfonsina y el mar, Amos, Pedro Conaero.
Paul Robeson	Chassidic chant, Water Boy, Ma Curly Haired Baby.
Historic Recording Pete Seeger Martha Schlamme with Frank Hamilton	from the 1959 Fairport Folk Festival: The Bells of Rhymey, One Grain of Sand/Aiyoyo. Hey Doroma, Que Bonita Bandera.
Roaring Forties	Wild Goose Shanty, Sail Boat Malarkey, John Kanaka, Royal Artillery Man, Lowlands.
Louis Killen	The AntiGallican Privateer, The Blackleg Miners, Derwentwater's Farewell, Aw wish pay Friday wud come.
Joan Baez	John Riley, House of the Rising Sun, With God on our Side, Waggoner's Lad.

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Our opening theme song from the Spinners was not idly

chosen....we are all part of the family of man no matter

where we live, our nationality or the hue of our skin....

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Next Sunday – Australian Theme – Until then be responsible and don't drink & drive but

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Date: 18/11/2012 Theme: English

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© 2012 Rjn

Theme: English

Date: 18/11/2012

Artiste:	Title:
The Spinners	The Family of Man
Bernard Cribbins	The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
Johnny Collins	The Blacksmith's Son, The Minstrel's Song, Oxplough Song, Willie's Lyke Wake, Farewell.
The Wurzels	I Got My Beady Little Eye On You, Market Gardners, I wish I Was Back On The Farm, I'll Never Get Scrumpy Here.
Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger	The Ballad of Accounting, Brother Did You Weep, Shoals of Herring, Looking For A Job, The First Time I Saw Your Face.
Joyce Grenfell	Old Girl's School Re-Union, Joyful Noise (Music Donald Swann), Nursery School “Flowers”,Time.
June Tabor	Reynardine, The Merchant's Son, Pull Down Lads.
Bernard Wrigley	The Dutchman, Liverpool Lou, Knocking Nelly & The Mothman, Kinky Keith.
The Taverners	The Ladies Dance at Whitsun, The Blowing Sands, The Rape of Glencoe, I'm Looking For A Job.
Phoebe Smith	I'm A Romany Rai.
Caroline Hughes & Family	The Soldier & The Lady, The Sprig of Thyme, A Blacksmith Courted Me.
Brian Dewhirst	Mock beggar Hall, Geordie Black, Farewell She, Matty Groves,Grimshaw's Factory Fire.
Steeleye Span	All Things Are Quite Silent, The Hills of Greenmore, One Night as I Lay on My Bed, False Knight on the Road.
Alan Bell	So Here's to You.

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Link: to Our Facebook Site

Whether you are a listener, a performer or just a

well-wisher please come and befriend us.

The show already has some wonderful friends.

Why don’t you also become one.

I particularly hope that some of the overseas readers

of the blog will come forward and say hello.

I notice that we have in the last week had viewers from

many places including China, Russia, Holland, USA, and Turkey to name but a few. If you are a performer and SoundCloud user you can also contact us there.

Our opening theme song from the Spinners was not idly

chosen....we are all part of the family of man no matter

where we live, our nationality or the hue of our skin....

Hello and Welcome.

Next Sunday - World Theme – If I get my arse into gear perhaps a South American slant to the music and something from France and Italy or Greece. Until then “have a fffolking good week”.

Tune in or chew your own ears off.

Cultural Exchange at Work

I was recently delighted to receive an email from a young acquaintance who became a FaceBook friend. In the way of Cultural Exchange (see also the Articles page above) she has been inspired by Eric Bogle's "Singing the Spirit Home" played 14th October 2012.

She writes ...

Hi Richard,

Sorry that it has taken me so long to get this to you. I had intended to send it to you right after I got back from Melb just over a week ago.
Anyway here is the art piece for "Sing The Spirit Home"

More of Emma's work can be found by following this link 

 

 her "HellHounds Song" drawing reminds me of the reaction most have to a neighbour's garage band practising twenty feet away during the hours for sleeping. 

I commented on another superb Cultural Exchange example on the FaceBook home page during the week. 

Date 11/11/2012 Theme Celtic and Remembrance Day

The Gypsy Jack Boggle Show

© 2012 Rjn

Theme  Celtic and Remembrance Day

Date 11/11/2012

Artiste	Title
The Spinners	The Family of Man
Richard Baker	Newsreel #1 Outbreak of WWI.
Lt Gen Sir John Kiszely	Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon.
Richard Baker	Newsreel #2 Fraternising with the Enemy Christmas 1914.
Duncan Chalmers	Christmas in the Trenches, Where have all the Flowers Gone, Boys of Bedlam.
Eric Bogle	The Digger's Legacy, No Man's Land, And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, The Gift of Years.
Bernard Cribbins	For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon.
Gordon Lorenz	Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen.
Stephen Fry	In Flanders Files by John McCrae.
Joanna Lumley	Poppies by Jane Weir.
Hayley Westenra	They Tell Me by Anon.
Lt Gen Sir John Kiszely	Sunset Vigil by Andrew McFarlane.
Richard Baker	Ode:For the Fallen by Lawrence Binyon.
Dame Vera Lynn	Kohima Epitaph by John Maxwell Edmonds.
Band of the Queen's own Highlanders	Heilan Laddie.
Gordon Highlanders	Mist Covered Mountains.
Royal Hong Kong Police	Dark Island/Road to the Isles/The Dream Valley of Glen Dural/The Old Rustic Bridge.
Michael Sheen	The Fusiliers by Robert Graves.
Michael Maloney	The Next War by Osbert Sitwell.
Dave Swarbrick	The Athol Highlander, Chief O'Neil's Favourite, Bonaparte's Retreat.
Ronn McFarlane	A Scot's Tune, The Scottishe Huntsupe, Gypsies Lilt, Flowers of the Forest, Adieu Dundee.
Jean Redpath	The Battle of Sherra Moor, The White Cockade, Parcel of Rogues in the Nation.
Clancy Bros & Tommy Makem	The Rising of the Moon, Wind that Shakes the Barley, Kevin Barry, Boulavogue.
Christie Moore	St Brendan's Voyage, Johnny Connors, 2 Conneeleys.
Jimmy Shand	Bluebell Polka, Primrose Polka, Whistling Rufus, A Rosebud by my early walk/I lo'ed nae a lassie but ane/Lord Rannoch.
Alistair Hulett & Dave Swarbrick	Red Clydesiders, The Lassies of Neilston, Mrs Barbour's Army, Don't Sign Up For The War.... “A bayonet is a weapon with a working class man at either end”. John McLean
Michael Sheen	When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead.
Jasper Britton	Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen.
Michael Sheen	The General by Siegfried Sassoon.

Highlights of my week

Having a local council worker tell me that she only wants to hear good things about the area. So I gave her a glass of prussic acid and told her that the glass is half full....

And in another shire not a thousand miles away an elderly woman tells me that "I have been treated for the chemical smoke over 24 times, provided doctors certificates and still they say no proof where the smoke/chemical is coming from?  I will need to have a horticulturalist test my dead plants." 

They are her local Council, EPA, State Health Service, State Police and now Federal Human Rights Commissioner responsible for the rights of the elderly. That they have all washed their hands of the matter saying it is a private matter for her to prove that a neighbour is subjecting her to toxic gasses or that Australian law does not cover the matter is unacceptable. I wonder what would happen if the same occurred to them?

Research on the internet identifies that equipment exists to test for these gasses but has not been used to monitor what gasses are coming into her property. Nor have medical certificates been asked for or examined. Will it not occur until the coroner's inquest? 

The whole issue has either been handled with all the finesse and intelligence of the clowns in a back-block's one ring circus or with all the efficiency and odour of corrupt cover up.

Isn't it time that someone, like the UN Human Rights Commission held Australia and these people to account? Isn't it time the citizens demanded that they receive accountability, value and protection through the expenditure of their hard earned tax payments?

Other than the current number of people affected, this has no significant difference in outcome than the systemic genocide implemented during Pol Pot and Hitler's regimes. Eventually this woman could die as a result of these poisonous emissions entering her property and affecting her physical and mental health.

You can listen to Rjn reading AlfredNoyes'

 “Daddy fell into the Pond” on SoundCloud.

Have a ffffolking good week.

Next Week English Theme

Date: 04/11/2012 Australian

The Gypsy Jack Boggle Show

© Rjn 2012

Theme: Australian

Date: 04/11/2012

Artiste:	Title:
The Spinners	The Family of Man.
The Beanies	Jim Jones, Donald of Glencoe (Collected from Mary Byrnes ), Wallaby Track.
Lazy Harry (Beechworth)	The Kellys, Stringy Bark Creek, Dance Set, Farewell to Greta, Edward Kelly.
Anonymous Koori	Boomerang, Kipara, Spirit Chant.
Chris Fraser	Mrs Wilson, Miss You, One of Those Nights, Fire Before the Storm.
Harry Robertson	Casting Off, Processing the Whale, Blubber Laddie, Wee Pot Stove, Queensland Whalers.
Fred Smith	Independence Park, Radio Bougainville, Rolling Thunder, Imogen Parker.
Alan Scott	Patsy Fagan, St Peter (H.Lawson), The Shearer's Dream.
Keith McKenry	The Fire at Ross's farm, Pearce, The Pop Festival.
Ecopella	500 Years On, Living In One World, Murrumbidgee Water.
Cocky's Joy	The Swaggies Have all Waltzed Matilda Away, Bert Jamieson Set, Ethnic Cleansing.
John Dengate	Song of Childhood, The Battle of Castle Hill.
Judy Pinder	The Parting Glass.

This weeks comment: 

What do I think of professional journalists who are deemed award winners at their places of learning who cannot get off their backsides and investigate in the field to obtain the news or public opinion but expect it to be emailed to them?

Particularly when the said journalist further compounded their unprofessional behaviour by displaying a degree of parochialism that would embarass even the most rabid cleric in his local parish.

What has occurred appears to be a training or parochialism that will not allow Australian university trained brain understand that a failure to create protective law within Australia means that the absence of protection in Melbourne or Sydney results in as much if not more in risk occurring in backwaters like the Wimmera. 

What a load of unprofessional knuckle shuffling nonsense. And the newspaper owners think that the public will pay to purchase such newspapers. Come back John Pilger, "all is forgiven" you are needed to further expose/improve the quality of the local training and selective reporting.

Tune in or chew your own ears off.

Next Sunday Celtic theme.