Ewan MacColl, A.L. Lloyd, Roy Harris - Bold Sportsmen All: Gamblers and Sporting Blades

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Ewan MacColl, A.L. Lloyd, Roy Harris

Bold Sportsmen All: Gamblers and Sporting Blades

1998

Topic
TSCD495
CD

Tracks:

1. Card Playing Song - Ewan MacColl (appears on other albums)

2. The Bold Gambling Boy - A.L. Lloyd (appears on other albums)

3. Gaelic Football - Ewan MacColl (appears on other albums)

4. Creeping Jane - A.L. Lloyd (appears on other albums)

5. Morrissey and the Russian Sailor - Ewan MacColl (appears on other albums)

6. The Cock Fight - A.L. Lloyd (appears on other albums)

7. The Sporting Races of Galway - Ewan MacColl (appears on other albums)

8. Sovay the Female Highwayman - A.L. Lloyd

9. Turpin Hero - Ewan MacColl (appears on other albums)

10. The Saucy Bold Robber - Roy Harris

11. Old Bob Ridley - A.L. Lloyd (appears on other albums)

12. Reynard the Fox - Ewan MacColl (appears on other albums)

13. Skewball - A.L. Lloyd (appears on other albums)

14. The Turpin - Sugar Ray Fight - Ewan MacColl (appears on other albums)

15. The Football Match - A.L. Lloyd (appears on other albums)

16. Govan Pool-Room Song - Ewan MacColl (appears on other albums)

17. Heenan and Sayers - A.L. Lloyd (appears on other albums)

Personnel:

Ewan MacColl, A.L. Lloyd, Roy Harris, vocals Steve Benbow, guitar
John Cole, harmonica
Peggy Seeger, guitar (1, 9)
Alf Edwards, concertina (8)
Dave Swarbrick, fiddle (8)
Martin Carthy, guitar (10)
Bobby Campbell, fiddle (10)

The CD is a reissue of Bold Sportsmen All and Gamblers and Sporting Blades.
Three additional tracks (8, 9 and 10) were added. These additional tracks are about highwaymen and not about sport, but as the booklet says "To these original recordings we have added tracks 8,9 & 10 from A.L.Lloyd, Ewan MacColl and Roy Harris and these broaden the original canvas a little, to include the once popular sport of highway robbery".
Track 8 is from A.L. Lloyd "First Person";
Track 9 is from Chorus From the Gallows;
Track 10 is from Roy Harris "Champions of Folly";

Related recordings:

Bold Sportsmen All (Topic 10T36)
Gamblers and Sporting Blades (Topic TOP71)
Champions and Sporting Blades (Riverside RLP 12-652)
Chorus From the Gallows (Topic 12T16)
Chorus From the Gallows (Topic TSCD502)

Available from Topic Records

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