Nadia Cattouse : The Man For All Colours

In 1967, the BBC television series Songs Of Grief And Glory sought to discover what folk-style songs its viewers were writing, and so provided the series for people to send in their material. It proved very successful and a panel of judges including Sidney Carter judged the best for each week - 6 weeks altogether, with a final program to pick the overall winner from those.

This was the winning song of the series, written by Nick Parry Jones of London. Apart from another recording by Irish group The Pattersons in 1969, it doesn't seem to have become a popular part of anyone's repertoire, so it deserved to be remembered in a humble YouTube video anyway!

Performers on the series and album were Nadia Cattouse and Robin Hall & Jimmie Macgregor. Nadia Evadne Cattouse (born 2 November 1924 in Belize City, British Honduras) is an actress, singer and songwriter, based in Britain since the 1950s.

She is best known for her acting roles in many British television programmes including Play for Today, Crown Court, Dixon of Dock Green and Johnny Jarvis. As a singer in the 1960s she performed at Les Cousins folk and blues club in Greek Street, London, and appeared on television programs including the BBC’s Sing Along and Hootenanny.

On the folk scene she was a contemporary of Julie Felix and Fairport Convention, and was called by Melody Maker "one of the giants of the folk-song revival in Britain". Her album Earth Mother (1970) was partly recorded at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival. Among other compilations, Cattouse features on Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up (2005), singing "Long Time Boy", and on the 1972 album Club Folk 2 (Peg Records PS3), singing "B. C. People" and "All Around My Grandmother's Floor".

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