"The Cradley Heath Song" (Woodall) - Bev Pegg (Improved Photos Version)

“The Cradley Heath Song” (Woodall) - Bev Pegg (Improved photos version)
Performed by Bev Pegg
Track taken from Bev’s 2013 album
“All Sorts of Stuff”
Beaujangle DB0022/2
Bev - vocal / guitar / mandolin plays alongside a bunch of top UK musicians on this album including Maurice Hipkiss - pedal steel guitar, Ken Freeman - piano and contributions also from Harry Rowlands - bass guitar and Ken Wright - drums.
Note from Bev:
“The Cradley Heath Song” according to Brian Clift was written by George “Woodie” Woodall with a bit of assistance from Johnny Tordoff during the early 1970s. Brian Clift sang and recorded it as part of “The Black Country Night Out Show” on Volume 2 of an LP of the same name which was released on the Broadside Label BRO 122 during 1977.
A good friend of our family, Tommy Mundon was one of the stars of this great “Black Country Night Out Show”. I went along to the Robin Hood Inn at Merry Hill with a crowd to see the show for the first time. I can recall Brian Clift singing his version of “The Cradley Heath Song” which I fell in love with after hearing it. All of the local places where I was working were mentioned in the song and it became dear and personal to me immediately.
Time went by and Brian decided to cease gigging, consequently the song was not heard so often. Around that time, I was doing quite a few local gigs and decided to include in in my own act, making sure that I gave Brian and Woodie a mention before singing it.
During 2007, I decided to include the song on an album of mine “All Sorts of Stuff”. This was deleted and re-released in 2013. Before doing so, I spoke to Brian in order to learn more details of the song from him and get his permission to record it which he happily gave me.
Sometime later during 2010, after realising that songs with a few still pictures attached could be put on KZbin, for others to see and hear, I did a very basic and not well thought out version and posted it on KZbin. Over the years after viewing it a few times, I began to get irritated by seeing parts of it that I should have made a better job of.
Even though it was not well produced, it has nevertheless had about 17,000 views over the past ten years. Anyway, I have slightly better editing facilities these days plus ideas of how I’d wish I’d done it originally. Consequently, the desire to improve my version has resulted in this better, in my opinion, video. The audio part is still the same, but with the larger collection of appropriate Cradley Heath pictures that I currently possess I will feel more content to have added this new version. It is not vastly different or spectacular, but maybe more subtle or whatever. I’m leaving the original 2010 video on KZbin however in case anyone still prefers it.
Thanks are due to the various photographers, artists, and owners for the pictures that have been used for this short video.

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Love it Bev