Various Artists - Sea Songs And Shanties. Topic Sampler No 7

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Blood And Roses, Vol.3
Blackthorne ESB 81

From Where I Stand
Folkways FW 8563

Various Artists

Sea Songs And Shanties. Topic Sampler No 7

1971?

Topic
TPS 205
12-inch LP

Tracks:

1. Blood Red Roses - A.L Lloyd & chorus (appears on other albums)

2. The Blackball Line - Ewan MacColl & chorus (appears on other albums)

3. Maggie May - Stan Kelly

4. The Plains of Mexico - The Watersons

5. The Dreadnought - Ewan MacColl acc. Alf Edwards (appears on other albums)

6. Reuben Ranzo - A.L. Lloyd & chorus (appears on other albums)

7. Lowlands Low - Ian Campbell with chorus acc. Dave Swarbrick, fiddle (appears on other albums)

8. Do Me Ama - A.L. Lloyd acc. Alf Edwards (appears on other albums)

9. Boston Harbour - The Watersons

10. Blow the Man Down - Harry H. Corbett & chorus (appears on other albums)

11. The Handsome Cabin Boy - Ewan MacColl acc. Alf Edwards (appears on other albums)

12. Away, Haul Away - Stan Kelly

13. The Coast of Peru - A.L. Lloyd (appears on other albums)

14. All For Me Grog - The Watersons

15. The Greenland Whale Fishery - The Watersons (appears on other albums)

16. A Hundred Years Ago - A.L. Lloyd & chorus (appears on other albums)

17. Goodbye, Fare Thee Well - Louis Killen with chorus acc. Dave Swarbrick, fiddle (appears on other albums)

Tracks 1, 5, 10, 13 from The Singing Sailor;
Tracks 2, 6, 8, 11, 16 from The Blackball Line;
Tracks 3, 12 from Stan Kelly "Liverpool Packet" (TOP27, 1958)
Tracks 4, 14 from The Watersons "The Watersons" (12T142, 1966)
Tracks 7, 17 from "Farewell Nancy. Sea Songs and Shanties" (12T110, 1964)
Tracks 9, 15 from "New Voices" (12T125, 1965)

Related recordings:

The Singing Sailor (Topic TRL3)
The Blackball Line (Topic 8T8)

Thanks to Reinhard Zierke for the information from his extensive A.L.Lloyd's discography.