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Tweets for September 2016

Gorging Jack and Little Billee

The case for the defence.

Wallace Beery as Barnacle Bill the sailor.

Will Kemp Morris-danced from London to Norwich

But unfortunately he probably won’t figure in the results of the Singing Organ-Grinder’s historical explorations into English popular song.

Will Kemp underway from London to Norwich in 1600, with Thomas Slye on pipe and tabor, but without an organ grinder, because the technology wasn't there.

London’s River Lea and Waltham Forest in Drayton’s 1622 Poly-Olbion

Now you see ’em, now you don’t.

Olympic Park with the River Lea in 2012, before the Singing Organ-Grinder arrived.

Tweets for August 2016

Selling well off the top of the street organ in London

Clarence Day’s This Simian World.

Tweets for July 2016

Tweets for June 2016

Tweets for May 2016

Sog = Singing Organ-Grinder

Acronym of constant sorrow.

German organ grinder spots London rival.

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