Ewan MacColl - Bless 'Em All and other British Army Songs

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1959

Streets Of Song
Topic 12T41

The Singing Streets: Childhood Memories of Ireland and Scotland
Folkways FW08501

Songs Against the Bomb
Topic 12001

Songs Of Robert Burns
Folkways FW 8758

Classic Scots Ballads
Tradition TLP 1015

Ewan MacColl

Bless 'Em All and other British Army Songs

1957

Riverside
RLP 12-642
12-inch LP

Tracks:

1. Bless 'Em All (appears on other albums)

2. Tell Me Boys Have You Any Complaints (appears on other albums)

3. The Dying Soldier (appears on other albums)

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

5. The Trooper Cut Down in His Prime (appears on other albums)

6. Hand Me Down Me Petticoat (appears on other albums)

7. All You Maidens Sweet and Kind (appears on other albums)

8. Columbo (appears on other albums)

9. Seven Years In the Sand (appears on other albums)

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

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

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

13. Browned Off (appears on other albums)

14. McKaffery (appears on other albums)

15. The Fortress Song (appears on other albums)

16. The D Day Dodgers (appears on other albums)

17. On the Move (appears on other albums)

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

Personnel:

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

Related recordings:

Barrack Room Ballads (Topic 10T26)
Bundook Ballads (Topic 12T130)
British Army Songs (Washington WLP 711)

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