…and this is why we love live music…
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Saw them 2 nights after this.
Hadn’t heard of them til they were on the old grey
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Prairie Prince was one of THE drummers of the era.
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Not YouTube but this is magnificent if you like a bit of Reb folk.
Summer holidays of my yoof in the early 70s , evenings were spent in pubs in rural Kerry where everyone did a ‘turn’ They weren’t all rebel songs, by any means, but a lot were.
Half the stuff that I heard years later from The Dubliners and Planxty I first heard as a 14 year old from some old farmer who was probably old enough to remember the uprisings.
If I mentioned him a few days later (some of them had great voices) my Mum or my aunt armed with a mastermind’s knowledge of local historical genealogy would explain how I was related to them through some second cousin’s grandmother,
It seemed to be extremely important to know all this!
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You’ll know this one then. Probably your cousins cousins nephew!
Very rarely any instruments, and never as loud as those , songs were nearly always unaccompanied and often love songs or humorous
This is closer to the style of my memories, (I scrolled down from the page you posted)
Leisure Process - A Way You’ll Never Be
Gary Barnacle played on so many songs. Rushent produced this:
Seeing Kamala is a Roy Ayers fan,thought I’d refund this. At Ronnie Scott’s. Would have been great to witness
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Very early Benefits gig, and their first in That London.
Skip through to Traitors at around 32 minutes if you don’t fancy the whole thing.
Some wobble and levene
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Brilliant vocals.
From the crowd for sure
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Meh !
How fucking good is this - the end credits theme to Mary, Mungo and Mitch
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Distilled essence of 1970s - the cheerful bit when everyone was still coming down off the 1960s and before Thatcher enshittened everything 
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The opening credits of Mart, Mungo & Mitchell came up on YouTube and it included the end credit theme but by feck me it caught me on the hop hard.
Amazing how something so simple can cause such an emotional reaction - I think the clincher was when Richard Baker starts narrating.
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Nope, don’t recognise it at all, and only have a vague recollection of the prog.
Just googled
First episode date: 7 October 1969
No. of episodes: 13
Final episode date: 30 December 1969
I had started ‘senior’ school by then
Ah too hip by then to watch kids tv 