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Description: | Comic song describing the adventures of Jack Hume.This song is typical of the farcical nature of popular entertainment. These type of nonsensical comic songs would have been issued throughout the north-east and the rest of Britain almost always written in the vernacular.'Permanent yeast' was written by James Morrison. Morrison was born in the Groat Market about the year 1800. He worked as an apprentice painter before making his living as a journeyman. Around 1830 he moved to Edinburgh and little is known of his life after this date. His two songs, 'Burdon's Address' and 'Newcastle Noodles' were popular in their day, but were of temporary interest and Morrison is now less well known. This song is part of the John Bell Collection. ; A collection of broadsheets on various subjects, with accompanying press cuttings and manuscript notes in the hand of John Bell. | Publisher: | Marshall Newcastle upon Tyne | Rights holder: | rights holder : Newcastle University | Subjects: | comedy & yeast local characters and strange events | Temporal: | start=1801;end=1840; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:N0100601 | Go to resource |
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