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Derbyshire Heritage: Music and Musicians
In the first in the Derbyshire Heritage series we’re profiling Musicians through the ages that have associations with Derbyshire and Derby City. Derbyshire is a vibrant county and is home to many fantastic contemporary musicians, so it will perhaps be no surprise to read that some of the greatest (and the ridiculously famous!) musicians have composed in, taken inspiration from or have heralded from the County.
In the beginning there was Handel
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The ruins of Calwich Abbey where Handel stayed with his friend,
Bernard Granville of Calwich
Image reproduced courtesy of Peak and Fell Walking |
What better point in time to start than in the 18th century with George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) who was a regular visitor to the River Dove area of Derbyshire? He is known to have been a frequent visitor to Calwich Abbey, at Ellastone.
Ellastone is a small village near Ashbourne on the Derbyshire border in Staffordshire. Handel’s good friend Bernard Granville of Calwich (to whom Handel bequeathed two Rembrandts upon his death in 1759) lived at the Abbey.
Reputedly, he took inspiration from this setting when composing ‘Messiah’ and ‘Water Music’. According to many sources, he wrote ‘Messiah’ in 24 days whilst staying at the Abbey in 1741 – the first performance of which was the following year in Dublin – and he is thought to have composed ‘Water Music’ in the Pavilion pictured below.
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The Pavilion where Handel reputedly composed 'Water Music'
Image reproduced courtesy of Peak and Fell Walking |
Homemade fiddles and homegrown tunes
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Wandering Minstrel Singing Sam
Image reproduced courtesy of Derby Local Studies Library |
In a less austere form, music has always played a part in the lives of villages and towns around Derbyshire. A wandering minstrel called Singing Sam (pictured) lived approximately 250 years ago. He would perform his own compositions to the tunes he could scrape from a homemade fiddle!
Singing Sam appears as an illustration in a fascinating book called ‘The ballads & songs of Derbyshire’ edited by Llewellyn Jewitt (1816-1866) and published in 1867. This book details over 50 ballads originating from Derbyshire and can be read online here.
The compositions are presented as lyrics, some with musical scores also, and with a brief history of the origins of the ballad and the composer. With song titles such as 'The Derby Ram’, ‘The Humours of Hayfield Fair’, ‘The Drunken Butcher of Tideswell’, ‘Little John’s End’, 'Squire Vernon’s Fox Chace’, 'Old Nun’s Green’; and composers such as Sir Aston Cokain of Ashbourne, Eliza Cooke, Humphrey Brereton, Richard Howitt, Tom Handford (blacksmith) and James Bannard ‘Wandering Poet in his 74th year’; it is a fine example of music originating from all walks of life and how the music reflected various aspects of living in Derbyshire from the nobility to wandering minstrel.
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Of particular interest, turn to page 145 for 'Derbyshire Men’ (first published 1864). It is a ballad by Mr Walter Kirkland that commences with the well known old Derbyshire saying that is often appropriated by other counties.
“I’ Darbyshire who’re born and bred,
Are strong i’ th’ arm, bu’ weak i' th’ head;”
And for pure place-name checks, turn to page 266 for
'The Beggar’s Ramble’, which in the quest for ‘the nearest
road unto the beggar’s wells’ takes the reader on a journey through the entire county.
‘Thomas Ford's Ballads: A Facsimile Reprint of a Collection of
Ballads First Published as Broadsheets by
Thomas Ford of Chesterfield’ is also a treasure trove
of traditional music from Derbyshire.
There is also an
interesting forum thread
where the question posed is ‘What songs are Native to Derbyshire?’ that has dozens of answers
suggesting many songtitles such as '
The Giant Ram of Derby', '
The Cow in't Gate' (Tideswell), ‘
Winster Gallop’ and ‘
Tip O' Derwent’.
The thread also references one
George Fradley of Cubley, Derbyshire, a folk singer
who’s repertoire included ‘
The Squire of Tamworth’ and ‘
It’s nowt t’do wi me!’
Many of the
traditional folk music groups still practicing in Derbyshire
carry on these traditions even today and
carol singing is a well known form of public singing that
remains as popular today as it ever was.
Carols often would emerge in the ‘folk style’ and there are many highly localised carols that have lived on into modern times and greater fame. From the Peak, there are many examples of local composers of carols including George Dawson (1840-1899), an Eyam shoemaker, who rewrote a tune for ‘ Hark, the Herald Angels Sing’; Richard Furness (1797-1857), a school-teacher and poet from Eyam, who wrote over 30 carols; and William Newton (1750-1830), ‘the Minstrel of the Peak’, who wrote a Christmas hymn in 1797.
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Tideswell's Samuel 'Singer' Slack
Photograph supplied by: Bygonederbyshire website |
Morris Dancing – strictly speaking a ‘dance’ artform, but one that is inextricably linked with the music to which it is danced – was also a popular form of entertainment where troupes would perform on public holidays and at other gatherings. Morris Dancing has enjoyed a revival in recent years where numerous Morris troupes have reformed and gather to perform this traditional form of dance to folk music.
In the late 1700s and early 1800s, popular music was performed, often in public houses by
Catch and Glee Clubs . One singer of note in the
Tideswell Catch and Glee Club was
Samuel ‘Singer’ Slack (1757 - 1822), who was ‘
discovered’ by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and who performed for King George III at Windsor.
He possessed a magnificent bass voice and, as a younger man, he competed for a place in the
College Choir at Cambridge. However, his ambitions had evidently left him later in life; when
he was eventually invited to lead the choir in Westminster Abbey, he declined the offer, stating
that he preferred to continue to sing with his friends in his home village.
All that glitters is not gold
Many people would associate Derbyshire – or at least life ‘up north’ – with
Brass or Silver Bands . And indeed Derbyshire has many
that are still playing music and performing today. Typically associated with being a working
class artform, brass/silver bands can be found in their traditional settings of fairs and church
services, accompanying carols and entertaining the local community to which they belong.
To name only a few of the very many are -
The Ashbourne Brass Band , established in 1861;
Darley Dale Brass Band , established in 1890;
Ilkeston Brass Band , established 1920s;
Creswell Colliery Brass Band , established 1899;
Whaley Bridge Brass Band , founded 1865; and
Killamarsh Silver Band , established 1887.
The 1800s: G&S, an English Stradivari and taking the waters in the spas of Derbyshire
Gilbert and Sullivan now have an established home in Buxton
with the largest International G&S Festival taking place every summer.
However, the work of
Sir Arthur Sullivan is even more intertwined with Derbyshire
than it just playing host to their operas. On parting ways with W.S. Gilbert, Sullivan
composed an operetta based on the elopement of Dorothy Vernon (of the Vernon family of Haddon
Hall). He wrote the operetta in collaboration with playwright
Sydney Grundy in the Autumn of 1891 and it was called
‘Haddon Hall’ . The first night of
‘Haddon Hall’ took place at the Savoy Theatre on September
24, 1892 conducted by Sullivan himself.
Sullivan also visited
Doveridge Hall as the guest of brewer
Samuel Allsopp, the 2nd Baron Hindlip in November 1888.
Arthur Richardson was born in Staveley in 1882 and was
internationally renowned for developing the design of a viola which gained him the reputation of
being an ‘English Stradivari’. He worked with viola player Lionel Tertis to try and create ‘
the ideal viola’ in the mid 1930s.
Walter Thomas Cooper , better known as
Gaze Cooper (1895-1935) was born in Long Eaton,
Derbyshire. He founded and conducted what was to become the
Nottingham Symphony Orchestra for 26 years and he taught at
the
Midland Conservatory of Music. He was also a prolific
composer and his portfolio included 8 symphonies, 4 piano concertos, 2 ballets, an opera and a
number of concertos for a variety of instruments including violin, oboe and viola. He also
produced many other works, songs and chamber music.
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Old Assembly Rooms frontage in Market Place, Derby prior to the fire that destroyed
the building
Photograph supplied by: Derby Choral Union |
The
Derby Choral Union was founded in 1866, following the opening of
the Market Hall in Derby with a performance of Handel’s
‘Messiah’ in 1866. The event was so successful
that a society was formed (officially 22nd June 1866) and the Derby Choral Union was born. The DCU
is still going strong today
Their first practice was 21st Sept 1866 in the Bag Lane School Room, but they soon moved
their rehearsals to the old
Assembly Rooms (pictured). This frontage shown in the picture shows it in
situ in the Market Place in Derby. It has a new home at Crich Tramway Museum following a fire
that forced the demolition of the old building.
DCUs first public performance was at the Corn Exchange in Derby in 1867 (Handel’s oratorio ‘
Judas Maccabaeus’). Other performances followed -
Vaughan Williams conducted the Derby Choral Union at the
Drill Hall in 1926 in his own composition
‘Sea Symphony’; they performed at Central Hall in Exchange
Street for 20 years, of which there are two reviews reproduced from the Derby Evening Telegraph
from
1944 and
1947; the King’s Hall in Queen Street hosted many of their performances for
over 40 years, including one in 1970 with the
Halle Choir. There are many others too numerous to mention.
Derbyshire had a Georgian and Victorian heyday in terms of attracting spa visitors to both
Smedley’s Hydro and Buxton Spa. All kinds of celebrities of the day came to stay at
Smedley’s Hydro , including
Sir Thomas Beecham, the conductor;
Ivor Novello, composer;
Sir Henry Lauder, singer, actor and comedian;
George Robey, music-hall star;
Noel Coward, singer and composer amongst other
talents. Smedley’s also had in-house musicians playing in the lounge for the entertainment of
guests. One pianist,
Violet Carson, was to find greater fame later in life as
Ena Sharples in Coronation Street!
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Smedley's Hydro in Matlock (now Derbyshire County Council's Head
Office)
Photographer: Robert Steadman |
Gig lists of yesteryears
We rush forward to the 20th Century, of which there are many rich pickings of great performers
and great performances that have taken place here.
Louis Armstrong came in 1933 to Derby and played at
what was then called the Central Hall on Albert Street.
Duke Ellington (then an unknown jazz musician) played to a
tiny audience in 1948 at the Buxton Pavillion.
The Walker Brothers also commenced a 10-date UK tour at
Buxton Pavillion.
The Beatles sold out at Buxton Pavillion in 1965 .
The Rolling Stones played in the club now known as Zanzibar
in Derby on 11th October 1962. Derby also hosted
The Who, Pink Floyd - complete with
Syd Barrett - and the
Yardbirds in the 1960s. In the 70s, gracing the town with
their sounds were
Genesis - with
Peter Gabriel -
Hawkwind and
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown .
Punk hit Derby’s Cleopatra’s in 1976 when the
Sex Pistols visited town. They caused so much chaos
that a second gig planned for later that year was cancelled after they played a mischievous trick
on local councilors. Promised a preview, councilors waited for more than two hours in an empty
auditorium. Enraged, they called the subsequent gig off.
In the 80s Derby saw
The Stranglers, U2 and
The Smiths, Slade, Shakin' Stevens and
Bonnie Tyler, Primal Scream, Human League, Toyah and
Gary Numan, Bauhaus, The Fall and
Joy Division.
Ian Curtis, singer in Joy Division (and from Macclesfield),
committed suicide only days after the band’s gig at Derby's Ajanta club.
In the 90s,
Oasis played Derby twice in one year. Both gigs were at the
former Wherehouse on Friargate. Their first gig, in November 1993, was as the support act for the
BMX Bandits. The crowd liked them so much that they came
back just six months later as the main headliners.
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Homegrown talent
Of course these are all bands that have visited to play gigs to the people of Derby and
Derbyshire, but the County has also given the music world many stars itself.
Ronald Binge, composer, was born in Derby in 1910. He
worked with Mantovani through the Second World War (whilst also signed up for his war
service!). When Noel Coward invited Mantovani to play for his musical, ‘Pacific 1860’, Binge
joined him at Mantovani’s request and so he orchestrated the show.
Influenced by the acoustic sound of choirs and church music, Binge wrote orchestral
arrangements for large orchestras (45 instruments were required to produce his creation) to attempt
to recreate the depth of sound. And so, Binge helped to create what is known as the
Mantovani sound – and in so doing, made Mantovani a
multi-millionaire.
Binge’s best known melody is ‘
Elizabethan Serenade’, but he might also be known to some
radio enthusiasts of the shipping forecast for the tune
‘Sailing By’ that introduced this broadcast. He died
in 1979 and a plaque to commemorate him can be found in the foyer of Derby Assembly Rooms.
Captain Pugwash might not spring immediately to mind when
discussing composers, musicians and other arty types… but someone had to create the theme
tune!
Captain Pugwash’s jaunty theme was composed by
Jonny Pearson , born in Chesterfield in 1925. He was
also responsible for bringing the theme tunes of television series
3-2-1, All Creatures Great and Small, Mary Mungo &
Midge and the
ITN News at Ten to our ears.
In the mid 50s,
Dave Darby the Authentic Singing Cowboy “direct from
Ontario, Canada” was in actual fact a milkman from Chesterfield who’d never left the country.
David Harry Atkin (1927-1996) from Old Whittington was known
as the `Singing Cowboy’ , and later in his career that spanned 5 decades he became
David H.Lee touring with his band `
The Leemen’, appearing with Roy Orbison at the Manchester
Odeon in 1968. Later in his career he worked as a musician on the Yorkshire Television series
`The Darling Buds of May’ starring David Jason. After
much globe-trotting and a glittering career in music and composing he returned to Chesterfield in
1985 a sick and disabled man. Here he became
Chairman of the Derbyshire Coalition for the Disabled, and
teamed up with disabled keyboard wizard
Keith Newton to form the duo
`Newton & Lee’.
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Buxton, birthplace of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Dave Lee Travis and Lloyd
Cole
Photographer: Deborah Porter |
Campbell Burnap, (1938-2008) jazz trombonist and
singer (broadcaster and cricket fan) was born in Derby and later in childhood lived near
Belper. He left the UK at age 19 and his wanderlust saw him touring the World playing to
audiences and, in 1980, he joined Acker Bilk on a tour of Australia. Later in the 1980s he
became a jazz presenter on Radio 2 and also broadcast on BBC World Service and Jazz FM.
Tenuous as it is musically,
Tim Brooke-Taylor , born in 1940 in Buxton, had a very brief
‘musical’ career when he appeared with The Goodies on Top of the Pops with their song
‘Funky Gibbon’. Other ‘recordings’ are
The New Goodies LP; The Goodies' Beastly Record; The Least Worst of Hello Cheeky; The Seedy
Sounds of Hello Cheeky.
Kevin Coyne, musician, singer, composer, film-maker, and a
writer of lyrics, stories and poems, was born in 1944 in Derby and died in Germany in 2004. He
trained as an artist and in his later career devoted more time to painting, but first his career
steered him towards music and the Blues. He signed his first record contract in 1968 and was
touted often by John Peel who released Coyne’s work on his Dandelion Records label. He turned
down the offer to replace Jim Morrison in The Doors and was one of the first artists to be signed
to the Virgin label. Fans of Coyne include John Lydon, Sting, Will Oldham and the Mekons.
In 1944 in Matlock, lead and rhythm guitarist
Mick Green was born (died 2010). He played for most of his
career with his band
Jonny Kidd and the Pirates (later just ‘
The Pirates’), but he is also credited with influencing rock
and roll with his uniquely developed aggressive sound. He has been cited as directly
influencing great guitarists such as Pete Townshend and Wilko Johnson and thus changing the shape
of English rock and roll. Green’s songs appear on Dr Feelgood’s albums (‘Oyeh!’ on ‘
Down by the Jetty’; ‘
Going Back Home’ on ‘
Malpractice’) and he has played with artists such as Bryan
Ferry, Paul McCartney and Van Morrison.
Dave Lee Travis might not spring immediately to mind in a
discussion about music! But DLT, ex-graphic designer, ex-Radio Caroline and ex-Radio 1
presenter (and ‘Pipe Smoker of the Year 1982’, no less) hails from Buxton – born there in 1945.
Born in Derby in 1949 (died 2002),
Roy Hollingworth, was a singer, composer and
guitarist. Compared to Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen, he was admired by the music industry and
was a friend to rock’s greatest artists. As a former reporter with the Derby Evening
Telegraph, he combined his gift for writing with his love of music and became a feature
writer for Melody Maker in 1970. As a writer for MM,
he was one of the last people to interview Jimi Hendrix before he died and is remembered for his
review of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon which he described as ‘diabolically uninteresting’.
His scoops for MM include the split of The Kinks, the discord within the Faces and the
tracking down of David Bowie, at a time when David Bowie preferred not to be found!
Tracie Young (born in Derby 1965) was discovered by Paul
Weller when she responded to his advert in Smash Hits in his quest to find a female vocalist for
band ‘The Questions’. She also provided backing vocals on The Jam’s
‘Beat Surrender’ single in 1982 and she appeared on Top of
the Pops to promote the single, which became a number one hit. She was also voted "Most
Fanciable Female" in Smash Hits 1983 readers' poll!
In a round up of popstars of recent yesteryears are Buxton’s
Lloyd Cole of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. Lloyd was
born in Buxton in 1961 and grew up in Chapel-en-le-Frith, attending school in New Mills .
Mark Shaw of Then Jerico was born in 1961 in Chesterfield .
Ex-depressive and recently revitalised frontman of The Specials, Fun Boy Three, The
Colourfield and many modern morphing incarnations is
Terry Hall, who now lives with his family in Glossop.
Pete Dodd (guitarist and vocalist) and
Jon Podgorski (drummer) of the Thompson Twins (formed in
1977 in Sheffield) live in Chesterfield. Dodd works as a freelance journalist .
Simon Friend of The Levellers was educated at Repton School
(1980-85). Also schooled at Repton were
Jonathan Harvey (composer) and
Martin How (composer).
Ben Ottewell (vocals/guitar) from Indie band Gomez is
from Matlock Bath. The band members met whilst studying at University (both Ottewell and Ball
were studying Law at Sheffield University).
Sam Genders from Tuung - an experimental folk band - is also from Matlock
Bath
And can anyone remember ‘
Strawberry Fields Forever’ by Derby’s own
Candy Flip, or
White Town? Both bands from Derby achieved top
charting hits – White Town went in straight at number one on release in 1996 with ‘
Your Woman’ and Candy Flip’s ‘
Strawberry Fields Forever’ hit number 3 in 1990.
Less successful but just as important on the gigging scene in Derby
and Derbyshire were the scores of bands that played hundreds, thousands of gigs in the County.
Derby scenesters might want to
add to this list
perhaps?
Anti Pasti, Avoid, Cable, Gorrilla, The Beekeepers, Gaia, You Judas, The Almanacs, The
Millers, Johnny Domino, Peru, Twinkie, Cato, Plans & Apologies, Ten Benson...
A contemporary popstar still plying his trade is
James Morrison , who was discovered in Derby’s Ryan’s Bar on
an open mic night. He debuted with his album ‘
Undiscovered’ in 2006 topping the UK charts in its first
week of release.
And finally, for contemporary songs composed in the folk style?
Chesterfield and Derby County Football chants are captured
here;
http://www.fanchants.com/football-team/derby_county/
http://www.fanchants.com/football-team/chesterfield/
Get involved
- Check out our round up of contemporary musicians from Derbyshire. A small selection of the very many diverse talents in the County
- We've compiled a Google Map of Musicians mentioned in this article in ‘ at-a-glance’ form. If you know of others, add them to the map.
- We've also got a thread on our Facebook fan pages to carry on the discussion about all things musical.
- If you have information that we haven’t included here, then let us know! Similarly, if you consider yourself the expert on a particular subject, or you simply fancy writing up and getting some information published for this series, then get in touch by email at: dap@artsderbyshire.org.uk
Other Google Maps and Heritage articles in this series;
Others to come in this series;
- People
- Derwent Valley World Heritage Site
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Deborah Porter, Bygonederbyshire, Sharon
Stevens-Cash, Carole Crompton, Peak and Fell Walking, The Derby Local Studies
Library and Robert Steadman for picture contributions to this series.
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http://www.theaa.com/walks/ellastone-and-itsfictional-past-420985 although other sources
have it that the piece was written elsewhere
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http://www.freewebs.com/creswellband/
http://whaleybridgeband.web.officelive.com/History.aspx
http://www.killamarshsilverband.org.uk/
http://bygonederbyshire.co.uk/articles/Sullivan_operetta_inspired_by_Haddon_Hall_scandal
http://www.soundjunction.org/theviolaabriefhistory.aspa?NodeID=1
http://website.lineone.net/~bryngraves//sado_cfieldpeople.htm
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http://www.lloydcole.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_Jerico
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Twins
http://www.answers.com/topic/gomez-band
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Flip
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http://bygonederbyshire.co.uk/articles/No_other_venue_like_The_Talk
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