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Oh for the joys of the British seaside, perfectly captured in what is widely considered a glorious gem of a song. Glover-Kind penned, besides the classic chorus, three verses with quite a cast of characters, including a certain ‘William Sykes the burglar’ who seems to have led the arranger Bill Thorp into a somewhat Dickensian train of thought.
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Oh for the joys of the British seaside, perfectly captured in what is widely considered a glorious gem of a song. Glover-Kind penned, besides the classic chorus, three verses with quite a cast of characters, including a certain ‘William Sykes the burglar’ who seems to have led the arranger Bill Thorp into a somewhat Dickensian train of thought.
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Biography
Biography
Thorp, Bill
Bill Thorp, born in 1952, started arranging music, while still at school, as a member of a folk group in which he played string bass. More experience followed with a college based acoustic folk-rock bank, playing violin, viola and piano, which went on to work professionally for two years. Later, in a varied career which included performing with string quartets at some of London's pizza restaurants, he was prompted to arrange music especially for that grouping and situation. Nowadays his playing career ranges from appearing on Renaissance, Baroque and Classical Violin with most of London's period instrument groups, to odd recording sessions on country and western fiddle.
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