Cilla Black OBE

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Cilla Black passed away August 1st. I always felt there was a resemblance between Grandma's Song and Cilla's Liverpool Lullaby - the latter perhaps sung by Grandma as a young mother, many years before. In any event, I think both songs capture the bleak prospects of young working class mothers in those days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mwPuardvZU

Judy Collins also covered this old folk song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0uVREU9P08 (this one has evocative photos)

It was written by Stan Kelly-Bootle (1929 – 16 April 2014), who earned the first postgraduate degree in computer science in 1954, and went on to a successful business, academic and folk music career:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAPwpnvu1i0#t=15