SCAN TESTER: I Never Played To Many Posh Dances- 2 x LP
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SCAN TESTERI Never Played To Many Posh Dances (Topic 2-12T455/6) Vinyl double LP 1990
EX = Excellent
Lewis (Scan) Tester - 1887 to 1972 - of Horsted Keynes, Sussex, was the best known traditional anglo-german concertina player around the folk scene in the '6Os and early '70s. He also played bandoneon, melodeon, tambourine and fiddle - a favourite instrument for many years until rheumatism took its toll - and was an extremely fine, if infrequent, singer. He provided the music at The Stone Quarry pub at Chelwood Gate almost every weekend for over forty years, but his life in music spanned an incredible 75 years or more. By the age of eight he was out pubbing with elder brother and multi-instrumentalist, Trayton. He worked with numerous different partners at virtually every sort of social function where music was required - harvest suppers, weddings, servants' parties, club days and, inevitably, the pubs. After the Great War he organised what he called his jazz band 3, Tester's Imperial, consisting of himself on fiddle, his wife Sarah on drums, his daughter Daisy on piano and younger brother Will on bandoneon or clarinet. He hired rooms in neighbouring pubs and taught all the dances - the Lancers, Gallop, Alberts, Quadrilles, schottisches, polkas, Waltz Vienna etc. - before the dance proper started. They picked up the likes of the one-step, fox-trot and Charleston from the local 'posh' dances and the latest tunes from records and radio, though their musical style was little removed from what he had heard in his youth. These recordings were made in the 1950s and 60s, and were released to accompany the book of the same name.
Tracks: Scan Tester: Polka / The Reel / Waltz - The Man in the Moon / Pretty Little Dear / Waltz / Polka / Schottische / Lakes of Coalflin / Polka / Polka - Not for Joe / Nutley Waltz / Schottische / Stepdance / While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks by Night / Barbara Allen / Schottische / Jig - The Irish Washerwoman / Waltz / The Waltz Vienna or The Step Waltz / Schottische / Stepdance / Stepdance. Scan Tester, Reg Hall, Daisy Sherlock: The Broom Dance / Polka - Jenny Lind / The Indian Polka / Onestep - Down on the Farm / Waltz. Scan and Will Tester: No.2 Stepdance / Schottische. Bob Keightley, Steve Pennells, Reg Hall, Scan Tester, Paul Gross, Bob Davenport: Polka - The Girl I Left Behind Me or Brighton Camp. Art Winter, Hilary Burgess, Will Tester: Wearing of the Green. Bill Gorringe: See Me Dance the Polka / The Heel and Toe Polka / Stepdance / Schottische / Polka. Scan Tester, Will Tester, Bill Agate: Stepdance. Jack Norris: Brook Street Polka. Scan Tester, Bill McMahon, Mervyn Plunkett: Stepdance - The Monkey Hornpipe. Bob Keightley, Scan Tester, Jack Norris, Reg Hall, Bill McMahon, Mervyn Plunkett: Marches - Scotland the Brave, The Happy Wanderer.Walter Bulwer , Scan Tester, Reg Hall, Daisy Bulwer: The Heel and Toes Polka / Soldier's Joy.Reg Hall and Scan Tester: Polka / Polkas - La Russe, McCusker's, Jenny Lind, Goodnight, Ladies.
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