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The Self Storage Manager: A Practical Guide to Success
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92 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2012
About the author
Bob Copper
13 booksRobert (Bob) James Copper.
FROM: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obitu...
Bob Copper, who has died aged 89, was regarded as the patriarch of English folk song; he had proudly inherited a family legacy of traditional singing that could be traced back hundreds of years, and he continued it with such love and gusto that Copper family songs have sustained the folk music scene ever since.
In return he was revered by a folk movement strongly influenced by the family's unaccompanied close harmony singing.
Yet while he was known primarily for his folk singing - and he continued to sing with his customary ebullience into his final years - he was also a regular broadcaster and a respected author of books about rural Sussex life.
Copper had a lifelong love of Delta blues music which manifested itself in a public performance on his 85th birthday when he sang Divin' Duck Blues and Goin' Down To Brownsville at Lewes Folk Club. "I've always said," he commented at the end of his performance, "it takes a black man to really sing the blues... and tonight I've proved it."
Bob Copper was born at Rottingdean, near Brighton, on January 6 1915. He soon discovered what was expected of him. "When I was a boy," he said, "people would say, 'Young Copper in't it? Come up here and give us a song!' " Accustomed from birth to regular singing sessions at family gatherings and village events, the young Bob needed little persuasion.
His grandfather, "Brasser" Copper, a farm bailiff, was a well-known figure in Rottingdean, leading the singing with songs learned from his own grandfather.
In 1922, Brasser started to gather many of the family songs in book form, a process enthusiastically continued by Bob's father, Jim. It was this battered old book that the family gathered round whenever they made a public appearance.
In 1951 the Coppers came to national attention with a BBC radio broadcast to 15 million people on the live Sunday morning show Country Magazine, singing in a pub near Eastbourne. They achieved further fame the next year when they appeared with Bob's cousin, Ron, and uncle, John Copper, at an international folk festival at the Royal Albert Hall.
It was there that the public first saw them fussing over a tuning fork to establish the right note before launching into their unaccompanied harmonies. The American Alan Lomax and the Irishman Seamus Ennis were among those who made a beeline for the Copper family home on field-recording missions, and, after further radio broadcasts, Jim Copper featured on the cover of Radio Times; Bob himself subsequently worked for the BBC, travelling through Hampshire and Sussex collecting folk music for the archives.
"My cousin Ron and myself made a promise when we were young that we would keep the singing tradition of our family going," wrote Bob in 1971. Thus, with Bob singing treble, and Ron on bass harmonies, the Copper family tradition was gleefully rediscovered by the 1960s folk revival; and their simple country songs took on a new lease of life in the folk clubs springing up around Britain.
Songs such as Spencer The Rover, Claudy Banks, Thousands Or More, Sportsmen Arouse, Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy, Babes In The Wood and Come Write Me Down became the virtual heartbeat of the new British folk movement; and the unusual Copper harmonies were adopted by many of the new groups, inspiring, among others, Young Tradition, featuring Peter Bellamy.
Bob and Ron Copper were recorded by the English Folk Dance & Song Society; but it was the Leader label's landmark four-LP set A Song For Every Season, featuring narrations by Bob putting the songs into a social context, that launched them centre stage to a new generation of folk enthusiasts.
A Song For Every Season, Bob Copper's memoir of life at Rottingdean, won the 1971 Robert Pitman Literary Prize. Other publications included Songs & Southern Breezes (1973), describing his adventures collecting songs; and Early T
FROM: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obitu...
Bob Copper, who has died aged 89, was regarded as the patriarch of English folk song; he had proudly inherited a family legacy of traditional singing that could be traced back hundreds of years, and he continued it with such love and gusto that Copper family songs have sustained the folk music scene ever since.
In return he was revered by a folk movement strongly influenced by the family's unaccompanied close harmony singing.
Yet while he was known primarily for his folk singing - and he continued to sing with his customary ebullience into his final years - he was also a regular broadcaster and a respected author of books about rural Sussex life.
Copper had a lifelong love of Delta blues music which manifested itself in a public performance on his 85th birthday when he sang Divin' Duck Blues and Goin' Down To Brownsville at Lewes Folk Club. "I've always said," he commented at the end of his performance, "it takes a black man to really sing the blues... and tonight I've proved it."
Bob Copper was born at Rottingdean, near Brighton, on January 6 1915. He soon discovered what was expected of him. "When I was a boy," he said, "people would say, 'Young Copper in't it? Come up here and give us a song!' " Accustomed from birth to regular singing sessions at family gatherings and village events, the young Bob needed little persuasion.
His grandfather, "Brasser" Copper, a farm bailiff, was a well-known figure in Rottingdean, leading the singing with songs learned from his own grandfather.
In 1922, Brasser started to gather many of the family songs in book form, a process enthusiastically continued by Bob's father, Jim. It was this battered old book that the family gathered round whenever they made a public appearance.
In 1951 the Coppers came to national attention with a BBC radio broadcast to 15 million people on the live Sunday morning show Country Magazine, singing in a pub near Eastbourne. They achieved further fame the next year when they appeared with Bob's cousin, Ron, and uncle, John Copper, at an international folk festival at the Royal Albert Hall.
It was there that the public first saw them fussing over a tuning fork to establish the right note before launching into their unaccompanied harmonies. The American Alan Lomax and the Irishman Seamus Ennis were among those who made a beeline for the Copper family home on field-recording missions, and, after further radio broadcasts, Jim Copper featured on the cover of Radio Times; Bob himself subsequently worked for the BBC, travelling through Hampshire and Sussex collecting folk music for the archives.
"My cousin Ron and myself made a promise when we were young that we would keep the singing tradition of our family going," wrote Bob in 1971. Thus, with Bob singing treble, and Ron on bass harmonies, the Copper family tradition was gleefully rediscovered by the 1960s folk revival; and their simple country songs took on a new lease of life in the folk clubs springing up around Britain.
Songs such as Spencer The Rover, Claudy Banks, Thousands Or More, Sportsmen Arouse, Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy, Babes In The Wood and Come Write Me Down became the virtual heartbeat of the new British folk movement; and the unusual Copper harmonies were adopted by many of the new groups, inspiring, among others, Young Tradition, featuring Peter Bellamy.
Bob and Ron Copper were recorded by the English Folk Dance & Song Society; but it was the Leader label's landmark four-LP set A Song For Every Season, featuring narrations by Bob putting the songs into a social context, that launched them centre stage to a new generation of folk enthusiasts.
A Song For Every Season, Bob Copper's memoir of life at Rottingdean, won the 1971 Robert Pitman Literary Prize. Other publications included Songs & Southern Breezes (1973), describing his adventures collecting songs; and Early T
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