Talk:Sosban Fach

Incompatibility

The Welsh in this article does not agree with http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosban_Fach . 94.30.84.71 (talk) 21:35, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Moved from article

The below entry was moved from the article as it is written in an unencyclopedic tone and is original research. Worth investigating though. FruitMonkey (talk) 10:52, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

The press cutting below has been in our family since the 1930's. Johnny Noakes's son Edmund George Noakes was my late grandfather. The date this collaboration between Johnny Noakes and Mr Rees would be around 1884.

"Quite recently, it was established beyond doubt that, SOSPAN FACH, Llanelly’s now famous war-song, and a ditty, which is invariably sung at sporting events in the Principality where Welshmen gathered together, was sung for the first time at Johnny Noakes Theatre. This is the true story as it came from a Llanelly women, who does not want to be named. “Over 40 years ago, she said, a man named Mr Noakes owned a wooden theatre in the vicinity of the site now occupied by Llanelly Town Hall, where theatrical companies performed. One day Noakes entered the York Hotel close at hand and talked with Mr Owen Rees of Lakeland road, who carried on a drapery business in London”. “I knew them both well, and as Mr Rees composed verses, Mr Noakes asked him in my presence, “Can’t you write something catchy as a popular number for a pantomime, to be produced at my theatre?” Mr Rees while still at the Hotel, wrote the first verse Sospan Fach, and it was sung for the first time in the pantomime at the Noakes theatre in Llanelly, therefore welsh history owes it to Mr Noakes’s travelling theatre." Ref: Llanelly Guardian 24 December 1934 & Llanelly Community Heritage LCH0296