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1957
Row Bullies Row
Topic 8T7
The Blackball Line
Topic 8T8
Singing Sailors
Wattle C5
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Wattle C6
Shuttle & Cage
Topic 10T13
Bless 'Em All and other British Army Songs
Riverside RLP 12-642
Bad Lads And Hard Cases
Riverside RLP 12-632
Thar She Blows!
Riverside RLP 12-635
Matching Songs Of The British Isles And America
Riverside RLP 12-637
Convicts and Currency Lads
Wattle B2
Chants de Marins Anglais No 1
Le Chante du Monde LDY 4155
Chants de Marins Anglais No 2
Le Chante du Monde LDY 4157
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd
Blow Boys Blow
1967
Transatlantic
XTRA 1052
12-inch LP
Tracks:
1. Row Bullies Row
(appears on other albums)
2. Paddy Doyle
(appears on other albums)
3. Wild Goose Shanty
(appears on other albums)
4. While Cruising Around Yarmouth
(appears on other albums)
5. Old Billy Riley
(appears on other albums)
6. Handsome Cabin Boy
(appears on other albums)
7. South Australia
(appears on other albums)
8. Blow Boys Blow
(appears on other albums)
9. Whup Jamboree
(appears on other albums)
10. Banks of Newfoundland
(appears on other albums)
11. Whiskey Johnny
(appears on other albums)
12. Do Me Ama
(appears on other albums)
13. Jack Tar
(appears on other albums)
14. Paddy West
(appears on other albums)
15. Haul on the Bowline
(appears on other albums)
16. A Hundred Years Ago
(appears on other albums)
Personnel:
Ewan MacColl, vocals (1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15), chorus (3, 5, 7, 9, 14, 16) A.L. Lloyd, vocals (2, 3, 5-7, 9, 12, 14, 16), chorus (1, 4, 8, 10, 11, 15)
Alf Edwards, concertina
Ralph Rinzler, guitar, banjo and mandolin
Steve Benbow, guitar
Reissued on CD by Tradition Records in 1996:
Blow Boys Blow
and Empire Musicwerks in 2006:
Blow Boys Blow
Related recordings:
Blow Boys Blow (Tradition TLP 1026)
Blow Boys Blow (Tradition TCD 1024)
Blow Boys Blow (Empire Musicwerks)
CD reissue is available in some online shops