Ewan MacColl with Peggy Seeger - Barrack Room Ballads

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(Untitled, with Isla Cameron and The Topic Singers)
Topic TRL 1

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume I
Riverside RLP 12-621/622

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume II
Riverside RLP 12-623/624

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume III
Riverside RLP 12-625/626

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume IV
Riverside RLP 12-627/628

Great British Ballads Not Included in the Child Collection
Riverside RLP 12-629

Scots Drinking Songs
Riverside RLP 12-605

Scots Street Songs
Riverside RLP 12-612

Scots Folk Songs
Riverside RLP 12-609

Alan Lomax and the Ramblers with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
Decca DFE 6367

Ewan MacColl with Peggy Seeger

Barrack Room Ballads

1958

Topic
10T26
10-inch LP

Tracks:

1. Join the British Army (appears on other albums)

2. The Ghost Army of Korea (appears on other albums)

3. The Ballad of Wadi Maktilla (appears on other albums)

4. The Young Trooper Cut Down in his Prime (appears on other albums)

5. Bless 'em All (appears on other albums)

6. Any Complaints (appears on other albums)

7. The Second Front Song (appears on other albums)

8. Seven Years in the Sand (appears on other albums)

9. Farewell to Sicily (appears on other albums)

10. Browned off (appears on other albums)

11. When this Ruddy War is Over (appears on other albums)

Personnel:

Peggy Seeger, banjo and guitar
Jimmy MacGregor, guitar
John Cole, harmonica

Related recordings:

Bundook Ballads (Topic 12T130)
Bless 'Em All and other British Army Songs (Riverside RLP 12-642)
British Army Songs (Washington WLP 711)

Thanks to Nick Guida for the information from his Jimmy MacGregor's discography.