"menstruation and the ""facts of life"", and they consider her to be a crusader for women's health issues in a day when women were poorly served by the medical establishment. The Lydia Pinkham House, located near her factory on Western Ave in Lynn, Massachusetts, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places September 25, 2012. In 1922, Lydia's daughter Aroline Pinkham Chase Gove founded the Lydia E. Pinkham Memorial Clinic in Salem, Massachusetts, to provide health services to young mothers and their children. The clinic has been controlled since 1990, by Stephen Nathan Doty, a fourth-generation descendant of Lydia,"
"almost exclusively as a trio under the name The Scaffold from 1964, Gorman, McGear and McGough performed a mixture of comic songs, comedy sketches and the poetry of McGough (as evidenced on their 1968 live album), and they released a number of singles and albums on Parlophone and EMI between 1966 and 1971, with several more on Island, Warner Bros. and Bronze thereafter. Their best known recording is ""Lily the Pink"" which topped the UK charts in 1968. The group also composed and sang the theme tune to the popular BBC TV comedy ""The Liver Birds"", which aired from 1969–1978."
"a stage name, so as not to appear to be riding his brother's coattails. After first dubbing himself ""Mike Blank"", he settled on ""Mike McGear"", ""gear"" being the Liverpudlian equivalent of ""fab"". The band was subsequently signed to Parlophone. The Scaffold recorded a number of UK hit singles between 1966 and 1974, the most successful being the 1968 Christmas number one single, ""Lily the Pink"". McCartney composed the band's next biggest hit, 1967's ""Thank U Very Much"". In 1968, he and McGough released a ""duo"" album (""McGough & McGear"") that included the usual Scaffold mix of lyrics, poems, and comedy."
"were: There were at least 3 ""best of"" albums and a single ""Love Is/Woo-Woo"". The best-known band to emerge was The Scaffold (1963–1974), which featured John Gorman, Mike McCartney (brother of Paul McCartney) and Roger McGough. Initially Adrian Henri was a member, when they were known as ""The Liverpool, One Fat Lady, All Electric Show"". (""One Fat Lady"" is the bingo term for 8, and they mostly lived in the Liverpool 8 district.) In December 1967 ""Thank U Very Much"" (sung with a Liverpool accent) reached number 4 in the charts. A year later ""Lily the Pink"" reached number 1."
"stem. Weekly charts Year-end charts The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead ""The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead"" is a song written by Andy Partridge of XTC for their 1992 album ""Nonsuch"". It was their second number one hit on the Modern Rock Tracks chart after ""Mayor of Simpleton"", and reached number 71 on the UK Singles Chart. The song tells the story of Peter Pumpkinhead, a man who comes to an unspecified town, ""spreading wisdom and cash around."" He is extremely popular with the public, but extremely unpopular with the government. In the end, he is nailed to wood by his enemies"
"18 in 1981. Despite several claims of a recent invention, numerous variants of the song exist with similar dances and lyrics dating back to the 17th century. One of the earlier variants, with a very similar dance to the modern one, is found in Robert Chambers' ""Popular Rhymes of Scotland"" from 1826; the words there are given as: A later variant of this song is the Shaker song ""Hinkum-Booby"", which had more similar lyrics to the modern song and was published in Edward Deming Andrews' ""A gift to be simple"" in 1940: (p. 42). A version known as ""Ugly Mug"""
"Cook, of Eastbridge, Suffolk""), but this informant has never apparently been encountered by any other collector. Lloyd's claims have led to the current state of confusion; few modern singers know that the ""werefox"" interpretation of the ballad is not traditional. Lloyd's reworkings are certainly more interesting to the modern listener than the simple and moralistic original ballads, and have gained far greater interest from singers and songwriters; his versions of ""Reynardine"" have served as inspiration for many additional modern reworkings. Modern versions of the song are performed on the following albums: Reynardine Reynardine is a traditional old English ballad (Roud"
"period living in France, he returned as Artistic Director for the ""Theatre on the Steps"" in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England. He appeared on the Tiswas Reunited show on ITV1 on 16 June 2007. Also in 2007 he announced plans to establish a Wirral Academy of the Arts at Birkenhead Park. John Gorman (entertainer) John Gorman (born 4 January 1936 in Birkenhead, Cheshire), is an English comedian, vocalist and comedy musician. After grammar school, Gorman worked as a Telecommunications Engineer. He was the founder of the comedy music group The Scaffold, best known for their 1967 hit single ""Lily the Pink"", and"
"The Ballad of the Cloak The Ballad of the Cloak, Or the Cloak's Knavery is an English Broadside ballad that dates back, roughly, to the last quarter of the 17th century. It is most often set to the popular tune, ""From Hunger and Cold, or Packington's Pound."" The ballad is most recognized by its opening lines, ""Come buy my new Ballet/ I hav't in my Wallet."" Extant copies of the ballad can be found at the Huntington Library, the Pepys Library, the British Library and the National Library of Scotland. The ballad describes the journey and circumstances that the cloak"
"The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead ""The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead"" is a song written by Andy Partridge of XTC for their 1992 album ""Nonsuch"". It was their second number one hit on the Modern Rock Tracks chart after ""Mayor of Simpleton"", and reached number 71 on the UK Singles Chart. The song tells the story of Peter Pumpkinhead, a man who comes to an unspecified town, ""spreading wisdom and cash around."" He is extremely popular with the public, but extremely unpopular with the government. In the end, he is nailed to wood by his enemies for ""being too good"". The"
"MacColl wrote in the notes to his 1956 album ""Classic Scots Ballads"": There is also some sarcasm in the lyrics with the line ""Now she's rewarded me well for my love"" to describe the object of the narrator's love choosing another man to marry. One verse in the song uses some imagery that many listeners struggle to interpret, referred to as ""the oldest riddle in Britain"". In Richard Farina's song ""Birmingham Sunday"", the verse is: On Pete Seeger's album ""Live in '65"", he asks the audience whether anyone knows the meaning of the verse. For her album that contained a"
"John Gorman (entertainer) John Gorman (born 4 January 1936 in Birkenhead, Cheshire), is an English comedian, vocalist and comedy musician. After grammar school, Gorman worked as a Telecommunications Engineer. He was the founder of the comedy music group The Scaffold, best known for their 1967 hit single ""Lily the Pink"", and its successor the band Grimms – the 'G' in Gorman providing the 'G' in Grimms. He also made a comedy musical album for DJM Records, ""Go Man Gorman"". During the 1970s he made brief film appearances in Frankie Howerd's medieval set farce ""Up the Chastity Belt"" (1971), ""Melody"" (1971),"
"collaborator from as far back as 1962, acting as musical director and arranger in a live setting throughout their career and playing on a large number of their releases. The Scaffold achieved Top 10 success in the UK with: In addition to the hit singles, The Scaffold's output included four albums: ""The Scaffold"" on Parlophone in 1968, ""L. the P."" on Parlophone in 1969, ""Fresh Liver"" on Island in 1973, and ""Sold Out"" on Warner Brothers in 1975. As a rule their early albums contained a higher ratio of live material and were less musically-driven than their singles, often focusing"
"band The Scaffold produced a version of Behan's song ""Liverpool Lou"" in 1974 which became a top 10 hit in the UK and spawned covers in various languages across Europe. On the original Scaffold pressing, the writing credits were incorrectly attributed to Paul McCartney who had produced the record on behalf of his brother Mike McGear; Behan advised the relevant authorities and had his rights to the song reinstated quickly receiving an apology from McCartney; Behan accepted McCartney's explanation that his mother had sung the song and he thought it was a traditional work. Later pressings of the song were"
"common motif found in both ballads and fairy tales, such as ""Soria Moria Castle"" and ""The Raven"". The magic ring is also found, with the same properties, in the ballad ""Bonny Bee Hom"". The ballad was published by William Motherwell in his ""Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern"" (Glasgow, 1827). It was collected in US, South England, Scotland, and Canada. This can be found on Bandoggs (now unobtainable) eponymous LP, and Maddy Prior's 1998 CD ""Flesh & Blood"" and 1999 live ""Ballads & Candles"". Hind Horn ""Hind Horn"" (Child 17, Roud 28) is a traditional English and Scottish folk ballad. Hind Horn"
"era. Lavender Hill has featured as a site location for many British TV shows, including ""On The Buses"" and ""The Sweeney"", in the 1970s. In 1967 the English group The Kinks recorded a whimsical song entitled ""Lavender Hill"" which may have been under consideration as a follow-up single to Waterloo Sunset, but was rejected in favour of Autumn Almanac. The song was eventually released in the U.S. in 1973 on ""The Great Lost Kinks Album"", and has been described as ""a southerner's counterpoint to the Beatles' Penny Lane"", despite the fact that the Kinks hailed from North London. Notable former"
"is very typical of the middle English period. As the song spread, it was adapted, modified and rewritten to the point that dozens of versions existed by the end of the 18th century, although only a few are typically sung nowadays. The references to the traditional English fair, ""Scarborough Fair"" and the refrain ""parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme"" date to 19th century versions and the refrain may have been borrowed from the ballad ""Riddles Wisely Expounded"", (Child Ballad #1), which has a similar plot. A number of older versions refer to locations other than Scarborough Fair, including Wittingham Fair, Cape"
"The Legend of Xanadu ""The Legend of Xanadu"" is a single by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich that reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in 1968, and was the group's biggest hit. As with many of their singles, it was written by songwriters Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, and like many of the group's recordings, it features novelty elements — in this case a trumpet section and the distinctive sound of a whip cracking in the chorus. The musical accompaniment was directed by John Gregory. Side one Side two The song was recorded by the Fall"
"Parlophone records in 1966. The Scaffold performed a mixture of comic songs, comedy sketches and the poetry of McGough. The group scored several hit records, reaching number one in the UK Singles Chart in 1968 with their version of ""Lily the Pink"". McGough wrote the lyrics for many of the group's songs and also recorded the musical comedy/poetry album ""McGough and McGear"". In 1971 ""Grimms"" was formed, originally as a merger of the Scaffold, the Bonzo Dog Band and the Liverpool Scene. Group member Neil Innes said about the formation of the group: ""I don't know what attracted the Scaffold"
"Cushie Butterfield ""Cushie Butterfield"" is a famous Geordie folk song written in the 19th century by Geordie Ridley, in the style of the music hall popular in the day. It is regarded by many as the second unofficial anthem of Tyneside after Blaydon Races. This now famous local piece pokes fun at one of the many (at the time) whitening-stone sellers. The stone, made of baked clay (or ""yella clay"") was used to clean and decorate the stone steps leading up to the front door of the many terrace houses in the area (The material, or similar, was in common"
"The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde ""The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde"" is a song recorded by the British rhythm and blues singer Georgie Fame. Released as a single, the song reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 24 January 1968, remaining for one week. The song reached number seven in the United States later the same year. The song was written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander. Fame recorded the song after seeing the then controversial gangster film ""Bonnie and Clyde"", now considered a classic, starring Warren Beatty (as Clyde Barrow) and Faye Dunaway (as Bonnie Parker)."
"The Scaffold The Scaffold were a comedy, poetry and music trio from Liverpool, England, consisting of musical performer Mike McGear (real name Peter Michael McCartney, the brother of Paul McCartney), poet Roger McGough and comic entertainer John Gorman. From as early as 1962 the members of The Scaffold were part of a performing revue group known as The Liverpool One Fat Lady All Electric Show. (""One Fat Lady"" is the bingo term for 8 and the performers mostly lived in the Liverpool 8 district.) McGough's fellow Liverpool poet Adrian Henri was also a founder member of this early configuration. Working"
"Sings the Ballads of the True West Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West is a conceptual double album and the 22nd overall album released by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1965 (see 1965 in music). Covering twenty individual songs, the album, as its title suggests, contains various ballads and other songs on topics related to the history of the American Old West. This includes Carl Perkins' ""The Ballad of Boot Hill"", ""Streets of Laredo"", and the sole single from the album, ""Mr. Garfield"", describing the shock of the population after the assassination of"
"1968 album ""Flights of Fantasy"") and Andre Kostelanetz (on his 1968 album ""For the Young at Heart""). The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde ""The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde"" is a song recorded by the British rhythm and blues singer Georgie Fame. Released as a single, the song reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 24 January 1968, remaining for one week. The song reached number seven in the United States later the same year. The song was written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander. Fame recorded the song after seeing the then controversial gangster film ""Bonnie and"
"John Brand's ""Observations on Popular Antiquities"" on Lincolnshire with the lyric: One of the earliest versions to extend this was published, with variations, in Michael Aislabie Denham's ""Proverbs and Popular Saying of the Seasons"" (London, 1846) On occasion, jackdaws, crows and other Corvidae are associated with the rhyme, particularly in America where magpies are less common. A version of the rhyme became familiar to many UK children when it became the theme tune of an ITV children's TV show called ""Magpie"", which ran from 1968 to 1980. The popularity of this version is thought to have displaced the many regional"
"""Filter"", consisting of versions of songs by Nirvana, Marianne Faithfull, Radiohead and The Velvet Underground, has been played at a bus station and at a Tesco supermarket. Her 1999 work ""The Internationale"" consists of a solo a cappella version of the revolutionary song. She sings the Irish ballad ""The Lass of Aughrim"" in her 2000 work, ""The Dead"". In her 2003 work, ""Sunset Song"", she sings the male and female parts of the 19th-century American folk ballad ""Banks of the Ohio"", with the volume level changing according to light levels. She used a vibraphone for her 2009 piece, ""You are"
"one of the most remarkable tales and one of the most impressive and beautiful ballads of the European continent. The Suffolk Miracle The Suffolk Miracle is Child ballad 272 and is listed as #246 in the Roud Folk Song Index. Versions of the ballad have been collected from traditional singers in England, Ireland and North America. The song is also known as ""The Holland Handkerchief"" and sometimes as ""The Lover's Ghost"". A young woman from a wealthy or land-owning family comes to love a young commoner, so her father sends her away. Whilst in exile, the maid wakes one night"
"In early 1971 The Scaffold provided some catchy tunes for inclusion in a television publicity campaign heralding the introduction of decimal currency to the UK. In this series of informative five-minute programmes, titled ""Decimal Five"" and shown on BBC1, their songs included such relevant lyrics as ""Give more, get change"" and ""Use your old coppers in sixpenny lots"". In the same year, in order to broaden their musical palate further the trio and erstwhile collaborator Andy Roberts merged into the expanded line-up of Grimms with performers such as Neil Innes, Vivian Stanshall and Zoot Money, alongside McGough's fellow Liverpool poets"
"Folk Songs"" the story was probably not new even then. The English romantic poet, John Keats, adapted the story into a poem called Isabella, or the Pot of Basil. Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt illustrated Keats's poem in his painting, ""Isabella and the Pot of Basil"", in 1868. Many musicians have recorded the song, including, using the title ""Bruton Town"": Using the title ""Bramble Briar"": The Bramble Briar ""The Bramble Briar"", ""The Merchant's Daughter"" or ""In Bruton Town"" (Roud 18; Laws M32) is a traditional English folk murder ballad that tells the story of how two brothers murder a servant"
"one of three known Pink Floyd songs to refer to an eiderdown, (better known to Americans as a comforter). The other two songs are ""Julia Dream"", the B-side to a 1968 single, and ""A Pillow of Winds"" from the ""Meddle"" album. A live version of ""Flaming"" (at that time known as ""Snowing"") was played in London's All Saints Hall in 1966. A live version of the song, with Gilmour in Barrett's place, was shown on French television. The song opened with a slide whistle played by bassist Roger Waters. Flaming (song) ""Flaming"" (formerly titled ""Snowing"") is a song by English"
"Adrian Henri and Brian Patten. Innes and Stanshall can also be heard contributing to The Scaffold's final release for Parlophone, ""Do The Albert"", which also featured Keith Moon and Les Harvey. In 1972, the group made a half hour musical movie entitled ""Plod"" based on an earlier stage production that centred around Gorman's long-running ""P.C. Plod"" character. The film was made on location in Liverpool, and included boys from the Liverpool Institute High School, earlier attended by the McCartney brothers and Beatle George Harrison. McGear also released his first solo album, ""Woman"" with some of the musical performers from Grimms,"
"The Suffolk Miracle The Suffolk Miracle is Child ballad 272 and is listed as #246 in the Roud Folk Song Index. Versions of the ballad have been collected from traditional singers in England, Ireland and North America. The song is also known as ""The Holland Handkerchief"" and sometimes as ""The Lover's Ghost"". A young woman from a wealthy or land-owning family comes to love a young commoner, so her father sends her away. Whilst in exile, the maid wakes one night to find her lover at her window mounted upon a fine horse. They go out riding together until the"
"on their 1960 LP ""Chorus from the Gallows"", The Young Tradition, Shirley Collins and the Albion Band, and The Demon Barbers on their CD ""Uncut"". Van Diemen's Land (folk song) Van Diemen's Land or Henry the Poacher, Young Henry's Downfall, Beware Young Men (Roud 221). is an English transportation ballad. It was widely published in broadsides during the 19th century, and was collected from traditional singers in England during the twentieth century. It has been recorded by many singers influenced by the British folk revival. It is a cautionary tale describing the fate of a man convicted of poaching and"