Author: Nanny Pat
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447218795
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Life for East End families like Pat's was always a struggle. She worked for years in Tate & Lyle's sugar factory while her husband Charlie took on two jobs so their growing family could survive. Until one day Charlie came home with a brilliant idea - they should take over The Rising Sun pub in Bromley-by-Bow. In this charming memoir Pat describes her years as a pub landlady and vividly evokes the East End community she served in the 1960s, the extraordinary characters she encountered and the changes that swept through society at that time. She also reveals why she and Charlie moved to Essex, and what it felt like to become a star of The Only Way is Essex in her seventies.
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Author: Ted Anthony
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781416539308
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Chasing the Rising Sun is the story of an American musical journey told by a prize-winning writer who traced one song in its many incarnations as it was carried across the world by some of the most famous singers of the twentieth century. Most people know the song "House of the Rising Sun" as 1960s rock by the British Invasion group the Animals, a ballad about a place in New Orleans -- a whorehouse or a prison or gambling joint that's been the ruin of many poor girls or boys. Bob Dylan did a version and Frijid Pink cut a hard-rocking rendition. But that barely scratches the surface; few songs have traveled a journey as intricate as "House of the Rising Sun." The rise of the song in this country and the launch of its world travels can be traced to Georgia Turner, a poor, sixteen-year-old daughter of a miner living in Middlesboro, Kentucky, in 1937 when the young folk-music collector Alan Lomax, on a trip collecting field recordings, captured her voice singing "The Rising Sun Blues." Lomax deposited the song in the Library of Congress and included it in the 1941 book Our Singing Country. In short order, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, and Josh White learned the song and each recorded it. From there it began to move to the planet's farthest corners. Today, hundreds of artists have recorded "House of the Rising Sun," and it can be heard in the most diverse of places -- Chinese karaoke bars, Gatorade ads, and as a ring tone on cell phones. Anthony began his search in New Orleans, where he met Eric Burdon of the Animals. He traveled to the Appalachians -- to eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina -- to scour the mountains for the song's beginnings. He found Homer Callahan, who learned it in the mountains during a corn shucking; he discovered connections to Clarence "Tom" Ashley, who traveled as a performer in a 1920s medicine show. He went to Daisy, Kentucky, to visit the family of the late high-lonesome singer Roscoe Holcomb, and finally back to Bourbon Street to see if there really was a House of the Rising Sun. He interviewed scores of singers who performed the song. Through his own journey he discovered how American traditions survived and prospered -- and how a piece of culture moves through the modern world, propelled by technology and globalization and recorded sound.
Author: American Guernsey Cattle Club
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1418
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Author: Patricia Brooker
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ISBN: 9781471336867
Category : East End (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Pat worked for years in a sugar factory while her husband Charlie took on two jobs so their growing family could survive. One day Charlie suggested they should take over The Rising Sun pub in Bromley-by-Bow. In this charming memoir Pat describes her years as the pub landlady with the famous red beehive. Vividly evoking the colourful East End community in the 1960s, Pat captures the changes that swept through society at that time. She also reveals why she and Charlie moved to Essex, and what it felt like to become one of the stars of The Only Way is Essex.
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Author: Blair Worden
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300066937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Blair Worden reconstructs the dramatic events amidst which the Arcadia was composed and shows for the first time how profound is their presence in it. The Queen's failure to resist the Catholic advance at home and abroad, and her apparent resolve to marry the Catholic heir to the French throne, seemed likely to bring tyranny and persecution to England.
Author: Canadian Ayrshire Breeders' Association
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Category : Ayrshire cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Author: United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Author: Robert Schrage
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738543086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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An illustrated journey along the Ohio River offers photographic images of this dynamic and important American waterway, including riverfront cities, commerce, industry, natural and scenic wonders, and more, from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Louisville, Kentucky. Original.
