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	Glossary: skiffle
		All that was needed was a Spanish guitar, a snare drum, a stand-up bass made from a broom handle attached to an empty tea-chest, and two chords.
		Skiffle held an additional appeal for Van, because Donegan was popularizing the strange music that his father had been listening to for many years.
		Lonnie Donegan's skiffle music was very influential on younger musicians who would become prominent in the music world in the years to come.
	www.harbour.sfu.ca /~hayward/van/glossary/skiffle.html (798 words)

	The Skiffle Methodology Home Page
		The Skiffle Methodology is probably the most electrifying concept to hit the business world this century.
		Skiffle will drastically improve your business, it will do this via simplicity and clarity.
		Soon to be available in it's second edition, Skiffle Methodology is a revised and improved tome which has been expanded to cover numerous real life worked examples.
	www.skiffle.org.uk (213 words)

	Skiffle Information
		Skiffle is a type of folk music with a jazz and blues influence, usually using homemade or improvised instruments such as the washboard, tea chest bass, kazoo, cigar-box fiddle, comb and paper, and so forth, as well as more conventional instruments such as acoustic guitar and banjo.
		Skiffle's roots are also found in the jazz bands of the 1940s and 1950s.
		Skiffle became extremely popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Skiffle (465 words)

	Junia Regrello of Skiffle Bunch Speaks out on orchestra's ninth placing in the Panorama semi-finals - Trinidad and ...
		According to Regrello, his main concern now is for the very young members of Skiffle Bunch, and what it [the official results] could do to them, along with the impact of the overall situation on the wider steelband community, especially in the southern region.
		Skiffle Bunch has made it to final night for the past few years, and for 2007 had retained the very skilled and savvy Ken 'Professor' Philmore to be their arranger of the Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe composition Sharin' Licks.
		While Skiffle Bunch may be out of the final night competition preparation frenzy, as Alderman in the San Fernando City Council, Regrello continues to be busy with his involvement in readying the Skinner Park venue for the February 17 competition.
	www.panonthenet.com /tnt/2007/interviews/skiffle_postsemi.htm (859 words)

	Skiffle - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Skiffle was the response of poor British kids to American rock and roll.
		A typical skiffle band's collection of instruments would consist of a rattlesnake that felt threatened, washtub bass, a bathtub tympani, a concert cello played under the chin like a violin, a jug, a Jews harp, a 12-string electric banjo, and whatever rock and roll records the guys owned.
		Meanwhile, a second faction of skiffle players left behind their records altogeher and limited themselves to the other instruments.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Skiffle (283 words)

	SKIFFLE SESSIONS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Skiffle is the pre-rock British folk music that's been described as a sort of jug-band, rent-party music -- it's a rag-tag, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink genre that evolved in the hands of people who often didn't have much more than a kitchen sink.
		And so did Morrison, whose formative skiffle outfit was known as the Sputniks.
		The disc jovially mines all of skiffle's musical veins, including Dixieland jazz, American country and blues, and old English folk, in an appropriately loose setting.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/00/02/10/OTR/SKIFFLE_SESSIONS.html (180 words)

	The Ugly Dog Skiffle Combo. Skiffle Links
		Lonnie Donegan MBE, the King Of Skiffle and 'first real British pop superstar' was born on 29 April 1931 and celebrated his 50th year in the music business in 2001.
		Skiffle, Comedy, Folk and Rock 'n' Roll with their influences stretching from Lonnie Donnegan and Woody Guthrie through to the Beatles.
		The Mosam Skiffle Train" consists of five musicians who practically all were caught up in the skiffle rage of the fifties of the last century and now on the edge of the new millennium have again taken up their old passion.
	www.skiffledog.co.uk /_uglydog/static/skiffle_links.asp (982 words)

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		Although opinion is divided as to who first used the term 'skiffle', for those of us in the UK it was a particular type of music that emerged in the 1950's, and drew heavily on American Folk Music, Blues and Gospel.
		Skiffle sets were first used as fillers between sets for the various trad jazz bands of the time, and grew into a craze that was as big as the rock and roll craze that followed it.
		This was a brand new sound in the UK in 1954 and soon every town had several skiffle bands, using home made and long overlooked instruments - tea chest and wash tub basses, a washboard for rhythm, guitars, banjos, ukulele's, mandolin, kazoo - basically anything that anyone could lay their hands on.
	www.skiffle.co.uk /rrb/links.html (299 words)

	1950's British TV and Radio Snippets - Skiffle
		Skiffle was a short lived phenomenon, however it was probably the first time British youth had brought about a sea change in popular music - Skiffle although derivative was a wholly UK inspired revival.
		Skiffle evolved from out of the poor US underclass, its main influences were to include blues, spirituals, barrelhouse, and the work song tradition.
		Skiffle possessed a slow fuse… but it has to be appreciated there was a gigantic bomb attached to it.
	www.whirligig-tv.co.uk /tv/memories/snippets/snippets43.htm (1161 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Lonnie Donegan: Skiffle king
		Donegan's enthusiastic espousal of skiffle, blues, gospel and American folk music was instrumental in igniting the 1960s British blues revival.
		During the early 1950s skiffle, with its guitar-driven rhythm, tea-chest basses and washboard percussion, was hugely popular and Lonnie Donegan was its biggest star, notching-up 28 top-30 hits.
		The accessible nature of skiffle led to an explosion in guitar sales, from a mere 5000 in 1950 to 250,000 in 1957.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/1973037.stm (685 words)

	Van Morrison : The Skiffle Sessions: Live in Belfast 1998 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Van Morrison probably chose to give a pair of skiffle concerts in November, 1998 not because he was nostalgic, but because he has genuine love for this music.
		Some might say that this multifaceted approach to skiffle is revisionism, but it isn't; skiffle itself was a hybrid, drawing from all sorts of American roots music but given an endearing twist by idealist British musicians, who loved the American myth as much as the music.
		Really, there's no reason why a skiffle album released in 2000 should be as irresistible as this, but Morrison, Donegan, and Barber bring such heart and love to this music that it's hard not to be charmed.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,931969,00.html (461 words)

	Skiffle Bunch Steelband (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Skiffle Bunch did not compete in the Ensemble category, the finals for which were held at The Grand Stand, Queens Park Savannah, Port of Spain on Friday October 20th 2000.
		Skiffle Bunch chose Ken Professor Philmore's Pan by Storm, a calypso which was arranged for the band by Len Boogsie Sharpe.
		Skiffle Bunch were the first steelband to register a hat-trick in local competition by being the biannual Steelbands Music Festival Winners for 1984, 1986 and 1988.
	www.seetobago.com /trinidad/pan/profiles/pro111a.htm (964 words)

	Skiffle Downloads - Download Skiffle Music - Download Skiffle MP3s
		Although the term Skiffle was originally used in the U.S. in the 1930s to describe mixtures of blues, boogie woogie, and other popular fl music, the skiffle revival of the...
		The name "skiffle" was hung on this music as a way of referring to it on the group's posters.
		By mid-1958, however, skiffle was waning rapidly as a commercial sound, but Donegan continued to appear on the charts right into 1962.
	www.mp3.com /genre/231/subgenre.html (3503 words)

	People's Weekly World - Skiffle musician inspired Lennon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Skiffle music, which Donegan introduced to Britain in the 1950s, was a mixture of styles that traced its roots to 1920s America, blending jug band, acoustic, folk, blues and country and western styles.
		Skiffle was simple and cheap, apparently within the ability of anyone, regardless of musical talent.
		A year later, Lennon’s skiffle group, The Quarrymen, was playing at a church fete near Liverpool when 15-year-old Paul McCartney introduced himself.
	www.pww.org /article/articleprint/2310 (401 words)

	The Mosam Skiffle Train Band Biography
		The term skiffle appears for the first time around the nineteen hundreds in the poorer sections of northerly cities in the United States.
		"The Mosam Skiffle Train" consists of five musicians who practically all were caught up in the skiffle rage of the fifties of the last century and now on the edge of the new millennium have again taken up their old passion.
		Beside his membership of The Mosam Skiffle Train, he also plays drums in “Scala”, the first Maastricht Accordion Society, is musically active in several two-piece bands, playing the regional party-circuit and always creating a wonderful atmosphere with their interpretation of the traditional Southern repertoire.
	mosamskiffle.tripod.com /bio.htm (862 words)

	The Skiffle Sessions: Live in Belfast 1998 - Van Morrison - Music Reviews
		Van Morrison probably chose to give a pair of skiffle concerts in November, 1998 not because he was nostalgic, but because he has genuine love for this music.
		Some might say that this multifaceted approach to skiffle is revisionism, but it isn't; skiffle itself was a hybrid, drawing from all sorts of American roots music but given an endearing twist by idealist British musicians, who loved the American myth as much as the music.
		Really, there's no reason why a skiffle album released in 2000 should be as irresistible as this, but Morrison, Donegan, and Barber bring such heart and love to this music that it's hard not to be charmed.
	www.mp3.com /albums/397601/reviews.html (675 words)

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		The finale showed his skiffle army stretched across the stage, seven guitarists scrubbing hard, dressed to a man in jeans, check shirts and gym shoes, led by Chas with his fine beard and manly smile.
		But for us in the junior school, skiffle was an excuse for a knees-up in our grey shorts, a way to enjoy the excitement of Bill Haley-style rock 'n' roll without the expense of electric guitars, saxophones and Scotch plaid dinnerjackets.
		Chas provides an A-Z of skiffle groups, their histories and discographies, plus a chapter on pseudo-skiffle (Don Lang and His Frantic Five and Billy Cotton) as well as a complete list of the 50 groups who competed in the National Skiffle Contest of 1958.
	www.picklehead.com /ian/ian_oldie.html (1261 words)

	Skiffle Basics quiz -- free game
		One man was the driving force behind the skiffle sensation, remaining a major star long after it was over.
		Although skiffle had very little success in the US and very few of its stars were female, one woman broke both these stereotypes, taking "Freight Train" into the Top 40 in the US and the UK Top 10.
		The "traditional " skiffle bass was made with a broom handle for a neck and washing-line cord for a string.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=202459&origin= (367 words)

	CMT.com : Vipers Skiffle Group : Biography
		And their version of "Cumberland Gap" is a genuinely exciting record, and maybe the most exciting to come out of the whole skiffle boom, even in the face of Donegan's competing version.
		The Vipers dropped the "Skiffle Group" designation from their name on posters, and by May of 1958, their records had taken a sharp right turn into popular music.
		Whyton and Booker, however, were among the most accomplished musicians on the skiffle scene, and their treatment of traditional American material is intense and often spellbinding.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/vipers_skiffle_group/bio.jhtml (1000 words)

	Vipers Skiffle Group
		Skiffle- with its image of washboards and bass instruments fashioned from tea chests, is also now sometimes dismissed as a crude forerunner to British rock and roll.
		In fact, despite its rustic image, a lot of early skiffle was also quite sophisticated and was played by skillful jazz musicians.
		However, by the end of 1957, the Vipers were already in steep decline while Lonnie Donegan went on to become acknowledged 'king' of the skiffle genre- a fact that frustrated Whyton.
	www.45-rpm.org.uk /dirv/vipers.htm (384 words)

	www.myspace.com/skifflesymphony
		That was how the road was paved for the current Skiffle line-up, which is listed on our Band Members area.
		Skiffle music is a blend of several styles, using an assortment of homemade instruments.
		Just about anything could be skiffle if you play it on a washboard, a gut-bucket, a jug, or anything you can find around the house.
	myspace.com /skifflesymphony (924 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| 'Skiffle king' Donegan dies
		The Glasgow-born singer was midway through a UK tour after recovering from a heart operation earlier this year and was due to play a concert in Stoke, Staffordshire, on Monday.
		He said the skiffle movement, of which Donegan was at the forefront, helped a generation realise they could make music themselves.
		His skiffle music was a mixture of folk, jazz, gospel and the blues.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/2400229.stm (548 words)

	The Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group - Mersey Beat
		A skiffle group who formed in 1957 when Ritchie Starkey was working as an apprentice at H.Hunt and Sons.
		Their nearest approach to a group uniform consisted of shirts in the same colour as their bootlace ties.
		The group was also to enjoy a residency at the Boys' Club meetings at the Florence Institute in Dingle.
	triumphpc.com /mersey-beat/a-z/eddie-clayton.shtml (443 words)

	Lonnie Donegan and His Skiffle Group Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lost John was a minor hit on the USA charts in the same year.
		In later years, the UK's first pop superstar suffered heart attacks but the "King of Skiffle" continued to work.
		He recorded an album titled Skiffle Sessions: Live In Belfast with his friend Van Morrison as late as 2000.
	www.tsimon.com /donegan.htm (548 words)

	www.myspace.com/skifflesymphony
		Skiffle music is a blend of several styles, using an assortment of homemade instruments.
		Just about anything could be skiffle if you play it on a washboard, a gut-bucket, a jug, or anything you can find around the house.
		What a trip to be in Sonoma County and be on the same bill together after our humble days with the early Skiffle lineup.
	www.myspace.com /skifflesymphony (1129 words)

	PopMatters \| Columns \| Simon Warner \| Anglo Visions \| Skiffle and the English "Elvis"
		Questions about the skiffle's Anglo incarnation and Donegan's role in it are certain to be on the agenda of "Here's the Way We Play It", a day-long event at the city's Bluecoat Gallery.
		Skiffle, a do-it-yourself music style that pre-dated punk by more than 20 years, became a major craze, spawning other hit acts — Chas McDevitt and Nancy Whiskey, most famously — and encouraging hundreds of teenagers to form bedroom bands and hold garage rehearsals.
		At the conference, my paper on skiffle's absence from one of the acclaimed novels of the time, Colin MacInnes' Absolute Beginners, reflects the way even contemporary accounts were not always willing to placer Donegan's feats at the centre of the story.
	www.popmatters.com /columns/warner/030709.shtml (1155 words)

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