FTX 093 - ROCKET ALONG
FAMOUS FOLKSINGERS IN THE FIFTIES

What brought about the British Folksong Revival in the 1950s? The early collectors scoured the countryside with the first tape recorders and on the radio, for the very first time, listeners heard traditional performers and singing unaccompanied (no more than two verses permitted). Then with the first city performers the first use of guitars, banjos and percussion accompaniment. For this, Peter set up a studio at Cecil Sharp House and, after the buses stopped running in Regents Park Road, he recorded the best of London singers through the night. He took the tapes to George Martin at Abbey Road, John Marshall designed the covers, and three LPs were published: Rocket Along, Jug of Punch and Pinch of Salt. FOOTNOTE: Recent so-called historians have been declaring that the English Folk Dance And Song Society played no part in the Post-War Revival. On the contrary they were leading the revival.

1. SPACE GIRL (McColl) Shirley Collins with Jimmie Macgregor (gtr), Robin Hall (drums) and Vic Pitt (bass) - 2'17"

2. THEY'VE GONE AND CLOSED OUR RAILWAY (King) Steve Benbow (v/gtr) with chorus & VP (bass) - 3'25"

3. THE WEE MAGIC STANE (McEvoy) Isabel Sutherland with Perry Friedman (banjo) - 3'59"

4. NANCY WHISKY Jimmie Macgregor (v/gtr)with SC, Shirley Bland & VP (bs) - 1'49"

5. COSHER BAILEY Eddis Thomas with SB (v/gtr) & JM (v/mandolin) - 3'51"

6. THE FIREMAN'S NOT FOR ME (McColl) Shirley Bland with JM (v/gtr) - 1'50"

7. SMITHFIELD MARKET BURNING (Dallas) Fred Dallas (v/gtr) with PF (banjo)- 2'04"

8. THE BEGGAR WENCH (Stewart) Isabel Sutherland with PF (banjo) - 3'23"

9. DARK AS A DUNGEON (Travis) Steve Benbow (v/gtr) with SB & JM (gtr) - 3'08"

10. THE BLEACHER LASSIE Isabel Sutherland with PF (banjo) - 3'47"

11. BRIAN O LINN Seamus Ennis (v/whistle) with JM (mand) & PF (banjo) - 2'06"

12. THE CONSCRIPT'S FAREWELL Betty & Fred Dallas (gtr) with PF (banjo) - 2'30"

13. ON A BRITISH SUBMARINE Cyril Tawney (v/gtr) JM (m) chorus & VP (b) - 3'23"

14. LONG YEARS AGO (Hasted) Shirley Collins with SE (whi) & PF (banjo) - 2'42"

15. ARBROATH LIFEBOAT TRAGEDY Fred Dallas (unaccompanied) - 2'50"

16. THE LICHT BOB'S LASSIE Isabel Sutherland with PF (banjo) - 2'48"

17. HENRY MARTIN Jimmie Macgregor (v/gtr) with VP (bs) - 3'10"

18. FOOTBALL CRAZY Seamus Ennis (v/whi) SB (gtr) chorus & VP (bs) - 2'21"

19. HIGHER GERMANIE Shirley Collins with SE (whistle) & PF (banjo) - 2'58"

20. TOM'S GONE TO HILO Cyril Tawney (v/gtr) - 3'26"

21. GRAT FOR GRUEL Jimmie Macgregor (v/gtr) SE (whi) PF (ba) & VP (bs) - 1'42"

22. A HORSE NAMED BILL Shirley Collins SE (whistle) & PF (banjo) - 1'46"

23. THE MARY ANN McHUGH (French) Seamus Ennis unaccompanied - 3'03"

24. THE HANDSOME CABIN BOY Isabel Sutherland with PF (banjo) - 3'24"

25. BOLD ROBINSON Frank Purslow with PF (banjo) - 3'11"

26. THE ROBINSON-TURPIN FIGHT Steve Benbow (v/gtr) PF (b) & VP (b) - 2'36"

27. RATCLIFFE HIGHWAY Frank Purslow with PF (banjo) - 2'56"

28. FINE GIRL YOU ARE Seamus Ennis with chorus & PF (banjo) - 1'43"

Recorded and edited by Peter Kennedy, London 1960.

1. SPACE GIRL - Ewan MacColl made this parody on "The Ghost Soldier Song" which was popular with American soldiers during the First World War

2. THEY'VE GONE AND CLOSED OUR RAILWAY - Peter King, artist-sculptor of Copthorne, Surrey wrote this parody on "This Old House" about the closing of their local "Bluebell and Primrose Line" by Dr Beeching in the 1950s.

3. THE WEE MAGIC STANE Composed by John McEvoy, this was the most popular of the many ballads at the time that were composed in Scotland about the stealing of the Destiny Stone from Westminster Abbey in 1952

4. NANCY WHISKY - ROUD#883 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #603 (11 variants) - GREIG FSNE 1909-14 #90 "The Dublin Weaver" 12v - SHARP Ms "Dicky Brandy" Single verse fragmednt from Bincombe, Somerset & 2 variants from Oxfordsh - GARDINER Ms 1907 (Hants) - HENRY SOP #745 "Long Cookstown" - ORD BB 1930 p372 (w/o) "The Calton Weaver" - McCOLL SS 1953 p134 from Hughie Martin, Glasgow - CHAPBOOK mag 3/4 p35 - SEEGER-McCOLL SI 1960 #36 p41 Hughie Martin, Shettleston, Glasgow "The CW" tune from Ewan's father, Jimmy Miller, Stirling - Hugh Shields: Eddie Butcher 1966 "Nancy's W" 10v/m (words in file) - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #279 p611 Billy Wells, Bampton, Oxfordsh 1952 -- Wm MATHIESON #010 rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35/ also rec by Alan Lomax 1951 - Hector CAMPBELL #056, Bell DUNCAN #263 rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 "The Dublin Weaver" - THE HIGHWAYMEN: UNITED ARTISTS ULP-1002 1962 - Noel MURPHY: FONTANA STL-5496 1969 - Hamish IMLACH: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-31 1973

5. COSHER BAILEY - ROUD#4830 - SPIN mag 3/2 p7 - RUGBY 1967 "Did you ever see?" - McCOLL SS 1953 ? - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #309 Woods "Was you ever see?" Tune: Welsh "Mochyn Du" ("The Black Pig") --- FOWKE Coll #80 Woody Lambe, Ontario, Canada 1963 -- Harry PRICE & chorus, rec by Peter Kennedy & Alan Lomax, Treorchy, S>Wales 1953 with talk about Trevithick by David DAVIES (with laughter): FOLKTRAX 511 - MANFRI WOOD rec by Peter Kennedy, Bala, Merionethsh, Wales 1954: FOLKTRAX 027 & 053 - Eddie HALL rec Dartington Ciderhouse 1974: CASS 60-0553 - Dominic BEHAN: DOBELL F-LEUT-4 1962 "Billy Graham" (parody) comp by Maurice Blythman - Roy GUEST & BENBOW Folk Four: SOCIETY SOC-919 1962

6. THE FIREMAN'S NOT FOR ME - Ewan McColl, as a playwright, was one of the first to realise the value of newly-made urban ballads to provide a link with the wealth of traditional poetry and music which folksong in Britain has to offer. Miners, lorry and engine-drivers take the place of shepherds, cowherds and ploughmen.

7. SMITHFIELD MARKET BURNING. A ballad-sheet of this composition by Fred Dallas was on sale within ten days of the serious fire which destroyed London's famous meat market in January 1958.

8. THE BEGGAR WENCH - ROUD#2153 - A Collection of Old Ballads London 1723 - LOGAN 1869 "The Merchant's Son & BW of Hull" - CHRISTIE 2 1876 p122 "The MS & BW of Wales" 1v/m (the rest "unsuited to the collection") Banffsh - GREIG-DUNCAN 2 p394 7var - TOCHER 15 1974 p272-3 Strachan -- John STRACHAN rec by Alan Lomax & Hamish Henderson, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire 1951: FOLKTRAX 066/ ROUNDER 82161-1835-2 2002 "The MS" - Davie STEWART (voc/acc) rec by Peter Kennedy Dundee, Angus 1956: CAEDMON TC- 1143/ TOPIC 12-T-158 & 293 1978/ TSCD-663 1998 "The MS"/ FOLKTRAX 031/ SAYDISC SDL-407 1994/ ROUNDER 11661-1778-2 publ 2000 - Jimmy McBEATH rec by PK & Sean Davies 1964: TOPIC 12-T-173 1967 - Archie FISHER: TRANSATLANTIC XTRA-1070 1968 - Norman KENNEDY: TOPIC 12-TS-178 1968

9. DARK AS A DUNGEON - ROUD#6392 - LOMAX FSNA 1960 Merle Travis 3v "The Lure of the Mines" -- MAGPIES Band rec by Peter Kennedy, Derby 1963: FOLKTRAX 321 (tune only) - Geof DRAKE & Elwyn GRIFFITHS (guitar) rec by PK, London 1961: FOLKTRAX 511 "Billy the Pit Horse" - Hedy WEST (+ guitar): FONTANA FJL-505 1966 (M) - FONTANA STL- 5432 1967/ CASS-0482 - Alex CAMPBELL (with gtr & ch) BBC Radio 2 28/2/90 CASS-30-1039 --- Merle TRAVIS rec Hollywood, Calif c1946: Library of Congress LBC#8 "Songs of Labor & Livelihood"

10. THE BLEACHER LASSIE FRAE KELVINHAUGH - ROUD#3325 - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #1041 pp433-439 16var 9v/9m - ORD BB 1930 p77 7v w/o - McCOLL: SS 1953 p69 McBeath & others - BUCHAN 101ss 1962 p64 from McBeath/ Hamilton (9v) - CHAPBOOK vol 5 #2 p100 "Older version" coll by Pete Shepheard from John MacDonald (traveller) Perthshire Aug 1965 -- Willie MATHIESON, Aberdeenshire rec by Seamus Ennis 1952: BBC 18789 - Jean MATTHEWS rec by Seamus Ennis, Aberdeen 1952: FOLKTRAX 261 - Dave BURLAND: LEADER LER-2029 1971 - Gordeanna MacCULLOCH: TOPIC 12-TS-226 1973

11. BRIAN O LINN - ROUD#294 -"Ballott of Tomalin" c1557-8 - RITSON 1802 - Dublin Comic Songster 1841 - HALLIWELL 1842 (Blackletter broadside dated 1560) & 1849 p271 & NR 1842 #61 - MAIDMENT 1844-58 2var - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 p566 mentions Tom o' Lincoln 1690 - CHRISTIE TBA 1 1876 p192 "Tam o the Lin" - CHAMBERS SS 1829 p455 - HENRY SOP #480 (note about song)/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp52-3 10v 2var - WEHRMAN Bros nd p98 - BARING GOULD SOW (Rev Ed only) - B G Ms #200 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp181-2 #113 John Puffet, Lechlade, Gloucestersh - JFSS 8:33 1929 pp137-141 Gilchrist: Mrs Edmonson, Sunderland Point, Lancash 1910 (comments that it is a satire on the wild Scots & Irish)/ North Country Chorister 1802 "Tommy Linn" - O LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp30-31 - OPIE ODNR 1951 #413-5 - HAMER GGr 1973 pp73-4 Robert Brader, Scunthorpe, Lincolnsh 1967 "Old John Wallis" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #290 p644 Thomas Moran 1954 5v/m - WALES WWD 1976 p52 Sussex - PALMER EBECS 1979 pp187-8 Dave Hillery: Jack Beeforth, Wragby, Yorksh 1974 "Sedgefield Fair" ("Old Dickie Thompson") - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p61 Fred Hamer: Mr Todd, Chesterfield Derby 1960s - GARDHAM ERS 1982 p25 Lesley Smith & Ethel Grimsdale, Albrough, Yorksh 1972 "The Old Mare"/ p49 Maurice Ogg: J M Pennell, Coleby, Lincolnsh ("Somerby Wood" -nr Melton Mowbray, Leicestersh)/ p50 J Horsfall Turner: Yorksh Anthology (w/o) "Old John Blythe" - Folk Song Research 3/2 Sept 1984 Gardham (Song uses a variety of jig tunes incl "Lannigans Ball" "Laird o Cockpen" "Villikens" etc) - WALES BBR 1985 pp24-25 Mrs Minnie Wales, Horsham, Sussex --- SHARP FSSA #151 "Tom Bolynn" Eliza Pace, Hyden, Leslie Co Ky 1917/ Wm Morgan, Short Creek, Hyden 1917 - PTFS 6 1927 p235 - FLANDERS-BROWN Vt 1932 p178 "Old Tombolin" - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 3 pp231- 2 - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 p322 - LEACH Labr 1965 p272 -- Seamus ENNIS rec Dublin 1949: BBC 13770 from O Lochlainn/ FOLKTRAX 079 - Wally FULLER (gypsy) rec by PK, Laughton, Lewes, Sussex 1952: FOLKTRAX 140 "Briny-o-then" - Thomas MORAN rec by Seamus Ennis, Mohill, Co Leitrim 1954: FOLKTRAX 027/ SAYDISC CD SDL 411 1995 "Traditional Songs of Ireland" - Bill WILLIAMS rec by PK, Gloucester 1957 (1v): FOLKTRAX 415 - Tony WALES (with gtr): FOLKWAYS FG-3515 1957 (from his mother) - Dominic BEHAN: MAJOR MINOR SMM-LP-6 1967 - Robert BRADER, rec by Fred Hamer: VWML-003 (Cass) "Old John Wallis"

12. THE CONSCRIPT'S FAREWELL The oft-repeated theme of British folklsong: "Remember me ten thousand miles away", referring to transportation to Vasn Dieman's Land (Tasmania) or Australia, is here brought up-to-date by Fred and Betty Dallas.

13. ON A BRITISH SUBMARINE (also titled "The Cheering of the Queen") -- Cyril TAWNEY with YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-28 1972

14. LONG YEARS AGO (THE SAILOR'S BRIDE) - LAWS #K-10 ABBB 1957 p145 "The Saillor and his Bride" - ROUD#274 --- RANDOLPH OFS 1946 4 pp268-9 Missouri 1937/9 "My Lovely Sailor Boy"

15. THE ARBROATH LIFEBOAT TRAGEDY Using new or familiar tunes for new words, Dallas has composed ballads on nearly every type of theme. He particularly excels in this type of epic-style or heroic ballad in which he uses an almost recitative voice effecting the most direct method of up-to-the-minute news reportage.

16. THE LICHT BOB'S (or LEABOY'S) LASSIE - ROUD#1645 - GREIG-DUNCAN vol4 1990 #725 p37 (8var) "Ploughboy's Lassie" "Rob's Lassie" - GREIG-DUNCAN vol6 1995 #1082 pp15-16 (3var 3v/2m) "I'm a done, Johnny noo" - GREIG FSNE 1906-14 (w/o) #138, 140, 143, & 145 "The Leaboy's or Lingboo's Lassie" - BUCHAN 101SS 1962 Willie Mathieson collated with Greig FSNE - FMJ 1:2 1966 pp71-2 Duncan Ms T#201 Mrs Gillespie 1906 "Light Bob's Honey" - FMJ 1967 p267 "Jess MacPharlane" (further note to Duncan Coll) - HOLLOWAY-BLACK 1975 p201 "Harry Newell" --- FLANDERS-BROWN Vt 1932 p123 "Katy Cruel" -- Willie MATHIESON rec by Alan Lomax 1951 (3v only) - Jean WARD: ARGO ZFB-29 1971 "The Soldier's Fancy"

17. HENRY MARTIN - CHILD Ballad #(167)/ #250 "Henry Martyn" (5var) incl one called "Andrew Bartin" - ROUD#104 - KIDSON TT 1891 pp29-32 Wm Cheetham, Horsforth, Yorksh & Flamborough, Yorksh (notes on song) - BARING GOULD SOW 1898 - SHARP- MARSON FSSS 1904 2 pp6-9 Lucy White, Hambridge, Som - BROADWOOD ETSC 1908 pp30-31 & p117 Henry Burstow, Horsham, Sussex 1893 (notes on song & singer) "Salt Seas" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 pp184-192 - JFSS 1:2 1900 p44 Lucy Broadwood: Sussex (m/o) - JFSS 1:4 1902 pp162-3 - JFSS 2:4 (15) 1910 pp92-93 Priscilla Wyatt-Edgell: Mr Venton, Pynes, Exeter, Devon 1908 - JFSS 4:17 1913 pp301-3 Butterworth: Mr Hillman, Shoreham, Sussex/ RVW: Mr Verrall, Horsham & Mr Miles, Rusper, Sussex 1v/m/ Mr Miles, Rusper, Sussex 1908 (m/o)/ Hammond: Joseph Taunton, Corscombe, Dorset (m/o) - GRAINGER Ms #369 Septimus Lowe, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1908 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 pp78-9 James Shilton, Lechlade, Gloucestersh & Ms #117 Henry Shilton (w/o) - KIDSON FSNC 1927 - JFSS 8:34 1930 pp182-6 Hammond: William Bartlett, Wimborne, Dorset (m/o)/ J Pomeroy, Bridport, Dorset (m/o)/ Kidson TT (1v/m) - SEEGER- McCOLL SI 1960 #47 p54 Sam Larner (with corrected text) "Lofty Tall Ship" - ED&S 38:1 1976 Gwilym Davies: Jack Oakley, Steep, Hampsh 1973 6v/m "H Morton" - PALMER EBB 1980 #57 pp131-2 Phil Tanner 1937 (by permission of FOLKTRAX) "Young HM" --- SHARP FSSA 1917 ii #6 - McKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp61 & p394 "Bolender M" - BARRY Maine 1929 - EDDY Ohio 1939 - FLANDERS & OLNEY 1953 Ballads Migrant in New England pp.72-74 - FLANDERS Ancient Ballads Traditionally Sung in New England #4 pp5-44 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp177-8 "Andrew Bardeen" - DAVIS Va 1960 - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 pp32-33 - KARPELES FSN 1971 p103-6 Jos C Jackman, Patrick Bishop & John Neville Nfl 1929-30 - PETERS FSOW 1977 pp107-8 -- Phil TANNER rec by Maud Karpeles, Gower, S Wales 1937: FOLKTRAX 057 - Bob ROBERTS (unacc) rec by PK, Ipswich, Suffolk, 1953: FOLKTRAX 047 "Bold HM" - Sam LARNER rec by Philip Donellan, Winterton, Norfolk 1958: FOLKTRAX 139 "The Lofty Tall Ship" - A L LLOYD: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-627 1956 Butterworth, Sussex - Tony WALES (with gtr): FOLKWAYS FG-3515 1957 (from C.Potter) - Bert JANSCH: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-143 1966- Cyril TAWNEY POLYDOR Special 236- 577 1969 (Devon from JFSS) - Tom GILFELLON: LEADER LER-2079 1972 - John WRIGHT: TOPIC 12-TS-348 1978 from Tanner --- Warde H FORD, rec Calif 1938: AAFS L57

18. FOOTBALL CRAZY - Song about Irish Gaelic Football (in which 50 points are awarded for a goal) collected by Seamus Ennis from Paddy Cronin in East Kerry 1949 (assigned to Folktrax 1957) - EFDS Publ: Folksong Today #2 1969 p6 -- Seamus ENNIS rec Dublin 20/9/49: BBC 13775/ rec by Peter Kennedy 1958: FOLKTRAX 079 - Robin HALL & Jimmie MacGREGOR: COLLECTOR JDS-3 1958 (45 EP) their own adaptation to Scotland - Barmulloch Primary Schoolchildren rec Beamish, Co Durham: TOPIC 12-TS-226 1973

19. HIGHER GERMANIE - ROUD#904 - JOYCE AIM 1873 #93 - CHRISTIE GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p256 4var - SHARP-MARSON FSS 1904 1 pp42-3 Mrs Lock (notes on song) - - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #131 pp509-10 - JFSS 2:6 1905 pp25-6 Sharp: Mrs Lock - JFSS 7 1923 pp10-11 Moeran: Robert Miller, Sutton, Norfolk 1921 - WILLIAMS #447 David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wiltsh (w/o) - KIDSON GEF 1926 pp82-83 - ORD BB 1930 p359 "Wars of Germany" comp W Motherwell & p360 "In Low Germanie" by Alan Cunningham - TOCHER 1 p30 Ethel Findlater, Orkney - PALMER RVW 1983 pp140-1 Mr Flint West Grinstead Sussex 1908 - FMJ 1992 pp346-7 Grainger #328: Archer "Daddy" Lane, Winchcombe Workhouse, Gloucestersh 1908 - CROININ 2000 #68 p-120-2 (6vv) --- PEACOCK SNO 1965 3 p679 -- Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Seamus Ennis, Macroom, Cork 1952: BBC 19025/ FOLKTRAX 160 - Phoebe SMITH (gypsy) rec by PK, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1956: FOLKTRAX 100 & 518/ SAYDISC SDL-407 1994/ TOPIC 12-T-193 1970/ TSCD 600

20. TOM'S GONE TO HILO - ROUD#481 - BULLEN-ARNOLD 1914 #23 p22 - SHARP 1914 #59-60 p64 2var by John Short, Watchet Somerset - JFSS 3:12 1908 pp239-40 Grainger: Charles Rosher, Chelsea, London 1907 (#204) & John Perring, Dartmouth, Devon 1908 (#401) - SHAY 1925 p83 words only - HUGILL 1961 pp261-4 - see also JOHNNY COME DOWN TO HILO - ED&S mag 42/2 1980 Roy Palmer (ROBINSON "The Bellman" 1917) -- (a) Rees Baldwin, Barry (b) Alex Henderson, Dundee (c) J.S.Scott, London (cry at end) rec by James M Carpenter, c1928: FOLKTRAX-141 "John's gone to Hilo" (6 shanteymen rec by Carpenter) - Stanley SLADE rec by Peter Kennedy, Bristol 1950:BBC 17604/ FOLKTRAX 207 (1v only) - Bob DAVENPORT & group: TOPIC 12-T-2110 1964

21. GRAT FOR GRUEL - ROUD#935 - TOCHER 12 1973 p149 - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #202 p459 -- Jimmy Mc BEATH rec by Alan Lomax, Elgin, Moraysh 1951: FOLKTRAX 019 & 060/ TOPIC 12-T-173 1967/ EMBER FA-2055 1968

22. A HORSE NAMED BILL - ROUD#6674 - SANDBURG AS pp340-1 - LOMAX FSNA p135

23. THE MARY ANN McHUGH Learned orally and sung in traditional unaccompanied style, this song, like "Phil the Fluter's ball" and "The Star of the County Down" and many other wonderful traditional-style Irish songs was composed and sung by the late Percy French with tenor banjo. Set to the tune of "Limerick is beautiful" it is modelled on traditional canal-boat songs such as "The Cruise of the Calabar" and the popular "Irish Rover"

24. THE HANDSOME (or FEMALE) CABIN BOY - LAWS #N-13 ABBB 1957 p208 - ROUD#239 - BSs altern title: "The Row among the Sailors" - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p486 (3var) "HCB" - ORD BB 1830 p160 8v (w/o) "HCB" - HAGGARD IWBN 1935 p148 Norfolk (w/o) - KARPELES CSC 1974 #217 pp80-81 Susan Williams, Haselbury Plucknett, Somerset 1905/ Robert Parish, Exford, Som 1906 - PURSLOW MB 1965 p32 Gardiner: Wm Hill, Catherington, Hampsh 1908 - DUNN FOS 1980 p79 Bob Hart, Blaxhall, Suffolk 1974 - PALMER OBSS 1986 #97 p202 John Clare Ms - PORTER-GOWER 1995 pp157-8 7v from Jeannie Robertson --- EDDY Ohio 1939 - GARDNER-CHICKERING BSSN 1939 pp399-400 - PEACOCK SNO 1965 1 pp280-1 -- James FORMAN, rec Leith & Jimmy CRONIN rec London (shantymen) by James M Carpenter c1928: FOLKTRAX 141 - Cecilia COSTELLO rec by PK, Birmingham 1951: FOLKTRAX 098 "The HCB" - Charlie WILLS rec by PK, Bridport, Dorset 1952: FOLKTRAX 097 & 512 - Jeannie ROBERTSON of Aberdeen rec by PK, London 1953: FOLKTRAX 186/ rec by Alan Lomax, London 1953: ROUNDER 11661-1720-2 1998 - Ewan MacCOLL (+ conc): TOPIC 12-TPS-205 1966 - Bob HART rec by Tony Engle, Snape, Suffolk: TOPIC 12-TS-225 1973/ TSCD-662 - SWEENEY'S MEN: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-37 1976 (from Bert Lloyd) - Walter PARDON Knapton, Norfolk: LEADER LED-2111

25. BOLD ROBINSON BOLD ROBINSON - ROUD#2411 - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) "Young Tyler" - Sharp Ms has frag from Wm Spearing - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #277 pp252-3 Wm Stokes, Chew Stoke, Somerset 1908/ Mrs Pike, Somerton, Somerset 1906 1v/m -- Dave & Toni ARTHUR: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-154 1967

26. THE ROBINSON-TURPIN FIGHT took place July 10th 1951. Ewan MacColl claims he obtained the words in the form of an epic poem from a Soho street gambler in 1953. "Through a street photographer, Lazar Copeland, I was introduced to "The Professor", who is something of a pundit in the small off-white world in which he moves. The original was extremely long and cast in 12-line stanzas and couldn't have been sung. I liked the use of the trade terminology so I recast it in "Come-all-ye" form and put a tune to it".

27. RATCLIFFE HIGHWAY - ROUD#598 - MAYHEW London Labour 4 p228-9 has descr of dancing houses on The Highway' (Full text in Word file) - Sharp Ms "Rambling through Wapping" - JFSS 2:8 1906 p172 RVW: Mrs Howard, Kings Lynn, Norfolk 1905 - WILLIAMS #353 'Wassail' Harvey, Cricklade, Wiltsh (w/o) "Down RH" - SPIN 3/1 p11 Hugill - HUGILL 1961 p200 & 1969 p211-3 - DUBLINERS SONGBOOK p50 - PURSLOW CL 1972 p75 Gardiner: Isaac Hobbes, Micheldever, Hampsh 1906 - PALMER EBBB 1980 #75 pp1590160 Keith Summmers: Jimmy Knights, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1978 - PALMER 1986 OBSS #94 p197 Gilchrist Ms --- HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 p263 ships log 1847 (w/o) "Down Wapping" -- (a) John FERRIES, South Shields, Durham & (b) Jimmy Cronin, London rec by James M Carpenter c1928: FOLKTRAX 142 - Jim BALDRY rec by PK, Melton, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1956: FOLKTRAX 515 - Stan HUGILL rec London 1954: FOLKTRAX 035 - Frank PURSLOW with Perry FRIEDMAN (banjo) rec by PK, London: EMI CLP-1327 1960/ FOLKTRAX 093 - Jim O CONNOR & London CRITICS Group: ARGO ZFB-61 1967 - THE YOUNG TRADITION: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-SAM-30 1973 - Jimmy KNIGHTS rec by Keith Summers, Woodbridge, Suffolk: TOPIC 12TS-375 1978/ rec by Neil Lanham: NL-02 1995 CASS 1358

28. FINE GIRL YOU ARE - ROUD#165 - BARING GOULD SOW #38 "The Sailor's Farewell" words slightly re-written - LEWIS Flint 1914 p38 "Lovely Nancy" - JFSS 1 p24 Kate Lee from Coppers Sussex "Adieu sweet lovely Nancy" - JFSS 30 p309 Tune from Isle of Man - JFSS 32 p96 Cornwall "Whisky you're my darling" - HUGILL 1961 p431 (2var) - PURSLOW MB 1965 p85 Gardiner 1905 "Swansea Town" - O'LOCHLAINN MISB 1965 #97 p192 "The Holy Ground" - FOLK SONG TODAY 2 1969 - PALMER OBSS 1986 #125 p252 Holy Ground (source not disclosed) - see ADIEU MY LOVELY NANCY - FAREWELL MY DEAREST NANCY - IN CAMPBELL TOWN ONCE MORE (McCalmans parody of "Fine Girl you are") --- PEACOCK NFL 1965 p677 "Goodbye my lovely Annie" - DOERFLINGER Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman 1972 pp152-5 -- Seamus ENNIS (unacc) in AS I ROVED OUT "Collector's" Radio prog 1956: FOLKTRAX 257/ rec by PK, London 1956: FOLKTRAX 512 "Lovely Dinah" "Fine girl you are" - Stan HUGILL with York & Albany" Crew & Geof ROSE (acc) rec by PK, London: FOLKTRAX 035 "(Old) Swansea Town" - Dominic BEHAN: DOBELL F- LEUT-4 1962 - THE FONTANAS: PICKWICK Allegro ALL-868 1967 "The Holy Ground" - Roy HARRIS (Voc/fid) TOPIC 12-TS-232 1973 "Poor Jolly Sailor Lads"