Treorchy II 12/53

Interviews with and songs sung by former miners at the Miner's Club in Treorchy.

A joke about two miners (I)

Interview with Tom Thomas about miners' entertainment and broadside ballads

Yr Eneth Ga'dd Ei Gwrthod (The Rejected Maiden)

Interview with Tom Thomas about broadsheet peddlers

The Little Golden Ring

Daisy, Daisy

Unidentified Welsh ballad

Interview with Tom Thomas about an unidentified Welsh ballad

Story of two working men and stiff coal

A joke about a collier looking for work

Two stories of Benny Baish

Story of the two brothers and the Jew

Story of the workers and the sardines

Story of the Treorchy barber and Saturday night shavings (Catchin' All Right)

Story of the Treorchy barber and Saturday night shavings (Laughin' Or Cryin')

Story of the Treorchy barber and Saturday night shavings (American Theology)

Interview with Tom Thomas about entertainment, the church, and Ted Ebley's theater company

Interview with Tom Thomas about Ted Ebley's theater

Interview with Tom Thomas about the old-time ministers, secular songs, and religious change in Treorchy

Interview with Tom Thomas and Gomer Williams about W. B. Thomas, Benny Baish, and the old characters

Interview with Tom Thomas about W. B. Thomas (fragment)

Interview with Tom Thomas about the good old days

Interview with Tom Thomas about mining pay and pea soup

Interview with Tom Thomas about miner boys

Interview with Tom Thomas about Georgie the miner boy

Interview with Tom Thomas and Gomer Williams about cutting a low seam

Interview with Tom Thomas, Gomer Williams, and unidentified men about fear in the mines

Interview with Tom Thomas about miners' strikes

Interview with Tom Thomas about ekeing out a living

Interview with Tom Thomas and Gomer Williams about blacklegs

A joke about John Edwards and sprags

A joke about two miners (II)

Interview with Tom Thomas about In Steps I Father Christmas, a children's pageant

Cartref (Home)

Cwm Rhondda (Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah) (false start)

Cwm Rhondda (Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah) (part 1)

Cwm Rhondda (Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah) (part 2)

Unidentified hymn

Interview with John S. Edwards about working in the mines around the Rhondda

Interview with John S. Edwards about his nickname, stallion fights, and Salvation Army chapters in the Rhondda

Ton y botl (Tune In A Bottle)

Interview with David John Davies, John Edwards, John S. Edwards, and Gomer Williams about mining songs and Benny Baish stories

Sospan fach (The Little Saucepan)

Talk/ambience

Hogyn Amaethwr (The Farmer's Boy)

Old Tipperary Workman (fragment)

Interview with John Rowlands about Old Tipperary Workman

Interview with David John Davies and John Edwards about mining conditions and dangers

The Best Little Door Boy

Interview with John Rowlands, Tom Thomas, and Gomer Williams about working as a door boy in the mines, injuries in mining accidents, and blacklegs

Interview with Gomer Williams about a child worker's schedule

A joke about two miners (I)

Interview with Tom Thomas and Gomer Williams about singing school, black lung, and compensation for miners

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