Can anyone remember those old music/singing resources used in English Primary schools in the 70s? ?
I was teaching in primary schools in the 70’s and can remember that we used programmes from the BBC such as “Singing Together” introduced by Douglas Coombes. Each term booklets were bought from the BBC for the children to sing and play percussion instruments to. In the Autumn term there was usually a series of songs which could be used as the basis of an end of term pantomime. (I remember my classes producing Aladdin.) We also used the Oxford Songbooks – one for each primary year-each containing collections of classical songs (by Mozart, Schubert, etc) and folk songs of the countries of Britain and Europe. Later, we used such books as Okki-Tokki-Unga, Apusskidu and Someone’s Singing as reliable sources of lively, fun songs.
