{"id":26063,"date":"2025-02-09T10:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T10:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=26063"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:53:16","slug":"wilson-joe-1841","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/wilson-joe-1841\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson,  Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"285\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/folksongandmusichall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/joe-wilson-1.jpg?resize=285%2C431&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26147 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/folksongandmusichall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/joe-wilson-1.jpg?w=285&amp;ssl=1 285w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/folksongandmusichall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/joe-wilson-1.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 85vw, 285px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe Wilson (1841-75) was a star of the Tyneside Music Halls, who wrote and performed song in the local Geordie dialect. His father and mother were a cabinet maker and bonnet-maker, and at age 14 Joe became a compositor at a Newcastle printers. As a youngster he sang and wrote songs for his own amusement, publishing his first song book aged 17. Like many others he started his performing life as a semi-professional at local free-and-easies, before his professional debut in 1864 at what would soon be called The Oxford Music Hall in Newcastle. He performed almost exclusively in northeast England. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Songs written by Joe Wilson which have been collected from traditional singers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/aw-wish-yor-muther-wad-cum\/\">&nbsp;Aw wish yor Muther wad cum<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/keep-your-feet-still-geordie-hinney\/\">Keep your feet still Geordie hinney<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/lass-that-leeves-next-door\/\">The Lass that leeves next door<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/row-upon-the-stairs-the\/\">The row upon the stairs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other songs which featured in his repertoire:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/ben-battle-faithless-nelly-gray\/\">Ben Battle \/ Faithless Nelly Gray<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dave Harker (2017), The Gallowgate Lad- Joe Wilson&#8217;s Life and Songs, Wisecrack publications.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The songs of the people: Tyneside selection Newcastle Evening Chronicle&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;23 Nov 1885<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lyrics: Thomas and George Allan (1891)&nbsp;<em>Allan\u2019s illustrated edition of Tyneside songs and readings<\/em>&nbsp;[<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/allansillustrat00firgoog\/page\/514\/mode\/1up?q=%22geordy+black%22\">archive.org<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>British Newspaper Archive:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk\/viewer\/BL\/0000726\/18851123\/122\/0005?browse=true\">Newcastle Evening Chronicle&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp; 23 Nov 1885<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26063?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/folksongandmusichall.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png?w=840\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Wilson (1841-75) was a star of the Tyneside Music Halls, who wrote and performed song in the local Geordie dialect. His father and mother were a cabinet maker and bonnet-maker, and at age 14 Joe became a compositor at a Newcastle printers. As a youngster he sang and wrote songs for his own amusement, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/wilson-joe-1841\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wilson,  Joe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26063","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-writers"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wilson, Joe - FOLK SONG AND MUSIC HALL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/wilson-joe-1841\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wilson, Joe - FOLK SONG AND MUSIC HALL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Joe Wilson (1841-75) was a star of the Tyneside Music Halls, who wrote and performed song in the local Geordie dialect. 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