Sydney Carter - 4 songs

Sydney Carter (1915-2004) is famous for his popular religious songs Lord of the Dance and One More Step.
These four are among his lesser-known compositions, and were broadcast on British ABC TV's Hullabaloo folk music series, on separate dates between October and December 1963. The presenter is Alex McEwen.
The songs are mostly topical, but sixty years later those topics, naturally, are historical curiosities - as indeed is Carter's style. Younger viewers (anyone under 60...) may therefore benefit from some explanation of the background:
0:25 Say Who Your Are, Love, and Not Hello. The perils of using the public telephone boxes of the time, with their "A and B button" phones. www.1900s.org.uk/1940s50s-pub...
2:15 Down Below. A parody of the "industrial" folk song movement exemplified by 1963's Iron Muse LP en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iro...
4:28 The Man with the Microphone. The eternal topic of commercial exploitation of amateur performers and composers of all kinds. The folky refrain namechecks Peter Paul and Mary and Burl Ives as nonsense syllables. (PP&M had been guests on the program a few weeks before.)
6:32 Elections Ahead. Refers to the TV programme That Was The Week That Was - the first example of satirical TV, lampooning politicians - and threats at the time to take it off air as elections approached.

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At age 20 I had a gap year in England-1964-1965-and spent much of it in London’s folk clubs. I saw Sydney Carter perform many times, often in pubs, where the folk club was either in the cellar or upstairs. He rarely sang his religious songs; more likely it would be about trying to give up smoking, proper behavior in shared housing, or the delights to be found in the London sewers. He’d often hold a glass pint of beer at his belt buckle at the same time.
Such a sweet man!