Walter Pardon was an English carpenter, folk singer and recording artist from Knapton, Norfolk, England.
16 Facts About Walter Pardon
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Walter Pardon learned songs and tunes from older members of his family and remembered and performed them at a time when most people of his generation were uninterested in traditional music.
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Walter Pardon was then able to pass his songs and tunes on to a new generation of folk music collectors and performers.
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Walter William Pardon was born and brought up in the cottage in Knapton where his mother, Emily, was born in 1874.
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Walter Pardon was an only child from a family in which most men were farm workers.
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Walter Pardon was apprenticed to a carpenter at the age of 14, and worked in that trade all his life.
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Walter Pardon spent four years in the army at Aldershot during the Second World War, still working as a carpenter.
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Walter Pardon was interviewed and recorded by folk enthusiasts, including Karl Dallas, before his first record was released.
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Billy could not do this as he had lost the use of some of his fingers so Walter Pardon had to do it.
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Walter Pardon appeared at folk clubs and festivals and was invited by A L Lloyd to join a group of English singers attending the American Bicentennial celebrations in 1976.
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Walter Pardon's father died in 1957, and Walter Pardon lived alone in the cottage from then on.
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Walter Pardon is said to have known at least 182 songs.
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Walter Pardon learned some songs from records that he listened to using a wind-up gramophone.
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Walter Pardon is one of four 'traditional' singers, with overlapping lifetimes, compared in a 2005 doctoral thesis by David Hillery.
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Hillery states that as Walter Pardon learned most of his songs from his family, and did not sing in pubs or elsewhere in public until he was taken up by the folk revival movement, his opportunities to learn new songs up until he was taken up would have been limited to radio, his record collection, and television.
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Walter Pardon asserts that such 'idiosyncrasies' are not always successful, especially if over-used.