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He used to play mouth organ
in a folk club they called the lady
jane
all the sounds as his friends and he would holler
songs of love and songs of pain
there wasn't much that he could use his time for
so he used to practice everyday
and play the mouth organ the blues and hard luck
someday soon I'm gonna break away
he used to listen to the bells of st marys
as they would echo through those early days
and sometimes even now he thinks that he still hears them
although they're but a thousand miles away
and so he came into this crazy business
and do you know the stars all fell his way
and he became another rock and roll troubador
and threw the mouth organ far away
and so he listens to the bells of st marys
and so their echo haunts him every day
so clear that he could reach out and touch them
although they're but a thousand miles away
although they're but a thousand miles away
Havergal Brian Society http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/brian
in full WILLIAM HAVERGAL BRIAN (b. Jan. 29, 1876, Dresden, Staffordshire,
Eng.--d. Nov. 28, 1972, Shoreham,
Sussex), English musician and self-taught composer.
In his youth Brian played the violin, organ, piano, and cello. His chief love, however, came to be composition. Between the ages of 20 and 45, he wrote more than 100 songs and some dozen orchestral works, in addition to two cantatas and an opera, The Tigers (begun in 1916), considered a remarkably pointed satire on war.
Between World Wars I and II, Brian was a music journalist. Performances
of his music were infrequent from 1922 until the 1960s, when a growing
audience for his work developed. By then he had completed the vast lyric
drama Prometheus
Unbound, two concerti, four more operas, and 13 symphonies. His most
famous work, Gothic Symphony (1919-27; first performance 1961), requires
an orchestra of 200 performers and choirs of 400 to 600. Between 1959 and
1968--i.e., between the ages of 83 and 92--Brian wrote 20 more symphonies,
bringing the total to 33.
(from Ency. Britannica CD-ROM - temporary inclusion only)
Jim Hensen created the Muppets (Muppet Show) and all the puppets
for Sesame Street.
(check out http://vr.ncsa.uiuc.edu/BS/Muppets//muppets.html
for more details).
Jim Hensen spent some time in Shoreham in the last year of his life.
He then flew to New York where he died.
(from Jason Sutherland-Rowe)
Hubert Scott-Paine, (the boss of R. J. Mitchell at Supermarine, who designed the Spitfire), was born on
11 March 1890 in Shoreham and had a yacht in Stowe's Yard, before moving to Southampton.
1772-75, 1776-80
(Captain) Henry Roberts (from Shoreham) sailed with Captain Cook on HMS Resolution, and witnessed the death of Captain Cook, killed by natives in Hawaii in 1779.1794
Captain Henry Roberts (from Shoreham) was promoted to Captain and whilst in command of HMS Undaunted in the West Indies, he caught yellow fever and died in 1796.from
History of Shoreham
In the early 1920's the Prospect Film Company issued the following prospectus:
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