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shewhomustEarlier this week, poliphilo was musing about songs learned in childhood; so the subject was already in my mind when I read The Guardian's obituary for Shirley Abicair.
After my previous post, I hesitate over writing "I remember..." but The Guardian confirms that I would have heard her Little Boy Fishing on Children's Favourites; and I must also have seen her on Crackerjack, because I have a visual memory of her: she had a zither. Is that why I remember her with affection? That seems reasonable; and although my memory doesn't say this, every scrap of folk music on the BBC should be treasured, and she falls into that category.
But I had no idea of anything she might have done after the very early 60s, and was quite surprised to learn of some of her later recordings. The Guardian provides lnks to YouTube, as well as to her Desert Island Discs (luxury item: a case of avocado pears).
poliphilo was musing about songs learned in childhood; so the subject was already in my mind when I read The Guardian's obituary for Shirley Abicair. After my previous post, I hesitate over writing "I remember..." but The Guardian confirms that I would have heard her Little Boy Fishing on Children's Favourites; and I must also have seen her on Crackerjack, because I have a visual memory of her: she had a zither. Is that why I remember her with affection? That seems reasonable; and although my memory doesn't say this, every scrap of folk music on the BBC should be treasured, and she falls into that category.
But I had no idea of anything she might have done after the very early 60s, and was quite surprised to learn of some of her later recordings. The Guardian provides lnks to YouTube, as well as to her Desert Island Discs (luxury item: a case of avocado pears).
