Please see the introduction section of the video for information about Sam Bennett.

You can hear Sam Bennet singing several traditional ballads online, including
“Barbara Allen” https://www.vwml.org/record/VWMLSongI...,
“Lord Lovel” https://www.vwml.org/record/VWMLSongI... and
“Lord Bateman” https://www.vwml.org/record/VWMLSongI... .

I uploaded his 1950 performance of “Blow away the Morning Dew” (Child 112) on my second channel    • Blow Away the Morning Dew  -  Sam Ben...  . Here is the full recording of Sam Bennett singing to Peter Kennedy in 1950 https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-tradit...

This is the official website of the Ilmington Morris Men http://ilmingtonmorrismen.org.uk/ and this link is the full video of the dance shown at 5:18    • Ilmington Morris Men - 'a dance for Sam'  

This short video shows Ilmington in the 1930s, including a clip of Ilmington choir    • 1930s UK Countryside, Village of Ilmi...  


0:00 Introduction
0:45 "Pop Goes the Weasel"
1:35 Morris dancing demonstration - "Princess Royal"
2:09 "Constant Billy"
5:00 Ilmington today

I added artificial colour with an automatic online tool, and improved the audio to remove background noise. The technology is of course not completely accurate. For example, we can assume that at 1:37 he is wearing blue and yellow as in the image on the right.


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