• Cyril Tawney (12 October 1930 – 21 April 2005) was an English singer-songwriter and a proponent of the traditional songs of the Southwest of England (The...
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  • Tawney is a surname that refers to: C. H. Tawney (1837–1922), English educator and translator Cyril Tawney (1930–2005), English singer and songwriter James...
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  • Songs by John Lomax and his son, Alan. English folksinger and songwriter Cyril Tawney, while serving in the Royal Navy aboard the HMS Indefatigable, found...
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  • a noun and as an adjective for the local accent and dialect. In 1987 Cyril Tawney, in his book Grey Funnel Lines, described its meaning as "a person from...
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  • Cold Wind Blows, a 1966 UK album and title track composed and sung by Cyril Tawney, Matt McGinn, Johnny Handle and Alasdair Clayre "Cold Wind Blows", song...
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    in 1952). It was also recorded in several albums of sea shanties, by Cyril Tawney, Bob Roberts and others. A brief extract was performed by the Beatles...
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  • translated from Gaelic. Music by Johnny Moynihan. "The Grey Funnel Line" (Cyril Tawney) A description of the daily life of a sailor in the Royal Navy (often...
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  • The Devonport marines are still associated with the song Oggie Man by Cyril Tawney which they generally sing at public displays. Tin-miners' wives or pasty...
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  • Jones and Bob Thomas, Children in Need (1987) Oysterband, Ride (1989) Cyril Tawney, Sailor's Delight (1990) 97th Regimental String Band, Brass Mounted Army:...
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  • presents a speculative source for a song to be written at about that time. Cyril Tawney recorded Timothy Walsh singing "Sylvia" in 1960. It appeared on the album...
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  • 10. "Fugue III" Lynch, Lynch, Peat, MacDiarmada 2:05 11. "On a Monday Morning" Cyril Tawney 5:12 12. "The Turn" Daragh Lynch 12:58 Total length: 70:24...
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  • "Percy's Song," a "That's All Right" (Arthur Crudup)/"Sally Free and Easy" (Cyril Tawney) medley and "East Laredo Blues" were released in 2013 on the 1963 entry...
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    Oh my Lord, it's full of mice. In 1959 the English singer-songwriter Cyril Tawney wrote a nostalgic song called "The Oggie Man". The song tells of the...
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  • Stan Robinson. Country Joe McDonald on Thinking of Woody Guthrie 1969 Cyril Tawney on The Song Goes On 2007 USS Reuben James (DD-245) Klein, Joe (1980)...
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  • royalties, into the early 1980s. The album opens with their version of Cyril Tawney's song of a sailor's lost love: "Sally Free and Easy". Unlike its usual...
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    Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse What's Shakin' 1966 various artists: Cyril Tawney, Matt McGinn, Johnny Handle and Alasdair Clayre A Cold Wind Blows Elektra...
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  • Collaboration – A. L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Louis Killen, Ian Campbell, Cyril Tawney, Sam Larner and Harry H. Corbett Blow the Man Down (EP) (1956) Collaboration –...
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    the original on 23 July 2021. Retrieved 27 October 2009. Routledge, Cyril Tawney; Kegan Paul (1987). Grey Funnel Lines: Traditional Song & Verse of the...
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  • pneumonia. Cliff Montgomery, 94, American gridiron football player. Cyril Tawney, 74, British songwriter and folksinger. Wayne S. Vucinich, 91, American...
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  • rooted in the English folk tradition, such as sea shanties written by Cyril Tawney, of which "Chicken on a Raft" was the most notable. In the late 1960s...
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  • 5:10 "Streets of Derry" (Traditional) – 7:32 "Sally Free and Easy" (Cyril Tawney) – 10:11 "Fool" (Boshell, David Costa) – 5:21 "Adam's Toon" (A. Della...
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    met regularly every week in the town's London Inn with singers such as Cyril Tawney and other local artists appearing, as well a number of local singers...
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  • A25 was a pilot's accident report. It features in The A25 Song, which Cyril Tawney in his book Grey Funnel Lines says probably originated in the early years...
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  • (overdose) Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist, 58 April 21 – Cyril Tawney, traditional singer, 74 April 23 – Robert Farnon, composer, arranger...
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  • First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (Ewan MacColl) "Sally Free and Easy" (Cyril Tawney; arranged by Jon Mark) "Sunny Goodge Street" (Donovan) "How Should I...
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  • Bleacher Lassie Of Kelvinhaugh (Trad. arr. Tabor) The Grey Funnel Line (Cyril Tawney) Le Vingt-Cinquième du Mois d'Octobre (Trad. arr. Tabor, Cutting, Emerson)...
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  • (Lead Belly) "Cocaine" (Reverend Gary Davis) "Sally Free and Easy" (Cyril Tawney) "Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair" (Traditional; arranged...
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  • Fred Jordan (5 January 1922 – 30 July 2002) Cyril Tawney (1930–2005) 2000: The Wood and the Wire (Fairport Convention) 2000: Dazzling Stranger (Bert Jansch)...
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  • big band singer, 86 28 March – Moura Lympany, pianist, 88 21 April – Cyril Tawney, traditional singer, 74 18 June – Basil Kirchin, drummer and composer...
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  • Carthy, Mike Waterson, Norma Waterson, June Tabor, Nic Jones, A.L. Lloyd, Cyril Tawney and Dave Swarbrick. It told the true story of the first transport ship...
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