Whatamess
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Posted At: 01/02/2010 10:40:39
I was watching Lark Rise to Candleford last night and they were singing a song, while they were cutting the corn, which I learnt at school from a radio programme. We had Singing Together and Rhythm and Melody, one I think was Monday and one on Thursday.
We also listened to a nature programme with two characters called Mr. Collins and Tony and the book that went with it was full of beautiful glossy pictures of birds and animals.
Does anyone else remember these programmes?
Nora
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old bird
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Posted At: 01/02/2010 12:47:30
I think our radio programme was on a Friday and was Time and Tune
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Whatamess
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Posted At: 01/02/2010 15:36:14
I remember that one too. I think that was for the younger ones, wasn't it? The ones I mentioned before were for 3rd and 4th year juniors (at least that's what they were called then - I think it's something like year 6 or something now isn't it?)
Nora
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ukquilter
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Posted At: 01/02/2010 19:12:23
We danced to music in Infants School, and the best moment of my Junior school life was listening to 'The Eagle of the Ninth' by Rosemary Sutcliffe in instalments in 1958/9.
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Raphael1
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Posted At: 05/02/2010 09:48:23
The ones I heard in the upper junior classes, Whatamess, were 'Singing Together' and 'Rhythm and Melody'. The latter introduced us to listening for certain instruments and for melodies and themes in instrumental music.
The nature books were too expensive for people at the schools I mainly attended from 5-11 as they were half a crown per term. I saw them when I briefly attended top infants at a school on a council estate. They were in full colour, glossy and very attractive for those days (late forties and early fifties).
Everyone there seemed to have one, and I was able to share. But the children there, though they had the coveted glossy booklets, could not read very well. I remember that the teachers didn't at first believe I had read all six of the Beacon Readers, precursors to 'Janet and John', in under two years! They were strange books about a man calle 'Old Lob' who was a farmer, I believe, and went to market. But in real life we called old men 'Mr. -------' not 'Old -----'.
Somewhere along the line there was 'Time and Tune'. I think it was the younger children's version of 'Rhythm and Melody'.
In Infants and early juniors we pushed the tables to the sides of the room, stripped to our vests and knickers and danced and acted to 'Music and Movement', which was a great programme, allowing imaginative and adventurous movement indoors in cramped, over-filled classrooms whatever the weather. We loved coming in from playtime for this programme.
It was at the time in 1952 when we were waiting for this programme to begin that solemn music came on and the death was announced of King George VI. We got dressed and put the tables back and were sad for him as well as for the lost pleasure of the lesson, though we wouldn't have ignored what had happened. King George was rather beloved for his war presence in bombed-out London and for taking up the reins of office even though he hadn't been brought up to it and had a stammer to overcome.
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Valerie Jackson-Powell
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Posted At: 24/02/2010 18:45:16
I do remember our class went into the hall to listen to Music and Movement and we would dance around and listen to the instructions for the different movements. There was another programme where we had song books and I can still remember some of the songs - Oh No John. The Raggle Taggle Gypsies Oh. Michael Finnegan. I still know the words, but can't think of the other songs.
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ukquilter
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Posted At: 24/02/2010 19:08:00
I remember all those songs - there was even a piece on the radio a few months ago about that programme, and I felt very nostalgic. However, I was shocked by how posh the singers were.
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Whatamess
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Posted At: 25/02/2010 07:06:35
I do remember our class went into the hall to listen to Music and Movement and we would dance around and listen to the instructions for the different movements. There was another programme where we had song books and I can still remember some of the songs - Oh No John. The Raggle Taggle Gypsies Oh. Michael Finnegan. I still know the words, but can't think of the other songs.
That would probably have been Singing Together. My mother was a teacher and she's still got some of the song books hidden away somewhere.
Weren't all the voices posh in those days though? If you see old TV programmes they all had that BBC accent which sounds so false now.
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BROOKE3
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Posted At: 03/03/2010 16:48:35
Music and Movement I remember from my first primary school...being a tree  |
CeeCee
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Posted At: 03/03/2010 17:29:59
We never had radio at my village school. The radio was always on and I did all of my avid listening at home.
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poet
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Posted At: 04/03/2010 17:05:28
I remember Music and Movement, but I also remember 'Singing Together' a programme where we learned and sang songs together in class, practising with the man on the radio. We sang a version of Cargoes set to music, 'Riding on a Donkey' and 'Old Farmer Bourne'. We never had books to go with the programme.
Does anyone remember a nature programme where a little boy accompanied his grandfather [or other adult male] on nature rambles and the adult explained what was happening in the natural world? It had bits of comedy in it but was really a serious programme.
Annie
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blogfanatic2008
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Posted At: 09/03/2010 09:44:19
I remember "Singing Together" from before I went to primary school because I remember my mother, who was a teacher, bringing the book home from school, and the song I remember learning to sing was "Linden Lea." I liked it because it reminded me of my dad who was called Lyndon (different spelling) and I thought I was singing about him, but of course it was lime trees! I also remember "Listen With Mother" that we used to listen to in the infants school. I can't hear it now without getting over-emotional. |
BoringBear
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Posted At: 09/03/2010 13:46:41
I don't remember Singing Together or Music and Movement, but I do remember this:
Monday 12 January 1948
HOME SERVICE
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11.00 For the Schools: Singing Together;
11.20 How Things Began;
I used to really enjoy How Things Began. We had a wonderful history teacher at the time.
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ukquilter
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Posted At: 09/03/2010 18:56:22
I also adored Linden Lea. I think it was in the song book we used in our Music lessons. Let other folk make money faster, in the ........ and there I've forgotten the next bit.
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poet
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Posted At: 09/03/2010 20:27:52
Let other folk make money faster
In the air of dark roomed towns
I do not dread a peevish master
Though no man may heed my frowns
For I be free to go abroad
Or take again my homeward road
To where for me the apple tree
Do lean down low in Linden Lea...
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