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1971
Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger
Singing The Fishing
1999
Topic
TSCD 803
CD
Tracks:
1. Up Jumped The Herring, The King Of The Sea...
2. Come All You Gallant Fishermen...
3. It's Up With The Dawn...
4. Years Ago, You Started Very Young...
5. I Started To Go To The Sea In 1892...
6. So It's Off With A Boiler Full Of Steam...
7. When The Wind Is Freshening...
8. What Shall It Profit A Fisherman...
9. It's Busk Ye, My Lads, Get You Up On The Deck...
10. There's No Feeling Like Coming Into Harbour...
11. Came A'ye Fisher Lassies...
12. Up Jumped The Herring...
13. Cwa, Ye Herring Fisherman...
14. A' The Week Your Man's Away...
15. Wi' Our Nets And Gear...
16. Our Ships Are Small...
Personnel:
Singers: Ian Campbell, John Clarence, A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Elizabeth Stewart, Jane Stewart
Chorus: Martin Marshall, Gordon McCulloch, John O'Reilly, David Phillips, Jack Thomas, J.R.S. Wright
Jim Bray: double bass
Fitzroy Coleman: guitar
Alf Edwards: English concertina
Kay Graham: fiddle
Peggy Seeger: autoharp, guitar, mandolin, 5-string banjo
Bruce Turner: clarinet, alto saxophone

A radio-ballad (no.3) about Britain's herring fishing communities
Related recordings:
The Ballad Of John Axon (Topic TSCD 801)
Song Of A Road (Topic TSCD 802)
The Big Hewer (Topic TSCD 804)
The Body Blow (Topic TSCD 805)
On The Edge (Topic TSCD 806)
The Fight Game (Topic TSCD 807)
The Travelling People (Topic TSCD 808)
Singing The Fishing (Argo DA 142)
Available from Topic Records