George Guthrie (born 1842, in Newcastle) moved away from the town eastwards towards the coast, and worked as a blacksmith in Wallsend and Sunderland. [1] [2]
He came to the attention of Joe Wilson, the great Music Hall performer, who said that many of Guthrie’s songs had considerable merit, and were much to be admired.
One of his songs "Heh ye seen wor Cuddy" sung to the tune of "The King of the Cannibal Islands" appears on page 13 of J. W. Swanston’s The Tyneside Songster [3] and page 518 of Thomas Allan’s illustrated edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings.
Thomas Allan was an English collector of songs and a music publisher from Newcastle upon Tyne who played a major part in the recording of the music of the day.
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John Leonard was a Tyneside radical poet and songwriter of the early 19th century. His only dialect song was "Winlaton Hopping".
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Matthew C. James was a Tyneside marine draughtsman, naval architect and manager, who wrote songs and poems in the local Geordie dialect as a side-line and as a hobby.
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Robert Elliott was a mid to late 19th century miner and poet. He was from Choppington, Northumberland.
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