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England [sound recording]
Title:
England [sound recording]
JLCTITLE245:
[sound recording] / [compiled and edited by Alan Lomax].
Edition:
New ed. / edited by Peter Kennedy.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Rounder, p1998.
Physical Description:
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9785555613912
Series Title:
World library of folk and primitive music ; v. 1

The Alan Lomax collection
General Note:
Originally released as English folk songs by Columbia, ca. 1955, as part of the Columbia world library of folk & primitive music.

Compact disc.

Program notes by Bob Copper and from the original LP by Lomax and Peter Kennedy, and texts ([36] p. : ill.) inserted in container.
Event Note:
Recorded by Alan Lomax, 1951, and by others for the BBC, ca. 1937-1951.
Contents:
Haul on the bowlin' (Stanley Slade with male chorus) -- A' roving (Stanley Slade with male chorus) -- Earsdon sword dancers (Royal Earsdon Team with Jimmy McKay, fiddle) -- My bonny lad (Isla Cameron) -- The contented country lad (Jim and Bob Copper) -- The turmont [i.e. turmut] hoer's song (Fred Perrier with accordion and villagers) -- Up the sides and down the middle (Bert Pidgeon, melodeon; Alfie Tuck, riddle drum) -- The threshing machine (Jim Copper) -- Quarrymen's chant and song (Tom Tewkesbury and quarrymen) -- The four loom weaver (Ewan MacColl) -- Fourpence a day (Ewan MacColl) -- The rigs of the time ("Charger" Salmons and friends) -- The Redesdale hornpipe (Jack Armstrong, Northumbrian small-pipes) -- Corn rigs (Jack Armstrong's Barnstormer's Band) -- The wassail song (Phil Tanner) -- The Symondsbury & Eype mummer's play -- The Padstow May songs & hobby horse music -- The seven step polka (the Haymakers Village Barn Dance Band) -- Brigg Fair (Isla Cameron) -- The sweet primroses (Phil Tanner) -- Died for love (Isla Cameron) -- Country gardens (William Kimber, anglo concertina) -- Polly Vaughan (A.L. Lloyd) -- Singing games and rhymes (group of Sidbury children) -- The prickle holly bush (Walter Lucas and villagers) -- Richard of Taunton Dean (Mrs. (Aunt Fanny) Rumble) -- The mallard (Bunny Palmer) -- The false hearted knight (Jumbo Brightwell) -- Old daddy fox (Cyrill Biddick with accordion and chorus) -- The gower reel (Phil Tanner, mouth music).
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