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Firstly, Many Happy Returns to The Parson And The Songmen as it celebrates its Second Birthday with its Fiftieth Episode!

In this special episode Mike tells the story of how a song collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould made it into the British pop charts and peaked at No.3 no less!! What the Reverend Gentleman would have thought of Elvis (No.1), The Drifters (No.2) and Cliff Richard (No.4) who surrounded him at the top of the chart we will never know, but I bet he would have been chuffed that one of 'his songs' had reached such a huge audience.

Well, here's to the next fifty episodes of The Parson and the Songmen.

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Simon Mayor, ace mandolinist: mandolin.co.uk

Mike O'Connor, musicologist and musician: http://www.lyngham.co.uk/

Barbara Griggs, Cornish-based Harpist: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857

Pete Coe, One Man Folk Industry: https://petecoe.co.uk/

Matt Thomas, local historian and Hawker Enthusiast - Outreach Officer, Castle Heritage Centre, Bude: https://www.thecastlebude.co.uk/