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2008
Various Artists
Poetry And Song, Vol.1
1967
Argo
DA 50
12-inch LP
Tracks:
 
Side One
 
Band 1
1. Passing T’ien Men (Po Chu-i) - Patrick Wymark
2. Upon Westminster Bridge (William Wordsworth) - Richard Johnson
3. Nature (Gillian Wallington) - Prunella Scales
4. If I had a hammer (Pete Seeger/Lee Hays) - Peggy Seeger vocals, with chorus and guitar
5. Leisure (W.H. Davies) - William Squire
6. Thrushes (Humbert Wolfe) - Prunella Scales
7. The Lark in the Morn (Unknown) - Frankie Armstrong unaccompanied
 
Band 2
8. A Minor Bird (Robert Frost) - Patrick Wymark
9. Spring Comes (John Clare) - Gary Watson
10. Salford Maypole Song (Unknown) - Ewan MacColl unaccompanied
 
Band 3
11. A Widow’s Weeds (Walter de la Mare) - Prunella Scales
12. Inversnaid (Gerald Manley Hopkins) - Barbara Jefford
13. Black Jack Davy (Unknown) - Peggy Seeger vocals, with banjo accompaniment (appears on other albums)
14. Weathers (Thomas Hardy) - Michael Hordern
15. A Hot Day (A.S.J. Tessimond) - Barbara Jefford
16. Rich Days (W.H. Davies) - William Squire
 
Band 4
17. Prelude (J.M. Synge) - Eamon Keane
18. The Lake Isle of Innisfree (W.B. Yeats) - Eamon Keane
19. Hot Asphalt (Ewan MacColl) - Paul Lenihan with chorus and instrumental ensemble (appears on other albums)
20. On the Bromielaw Quay (Unknown) - Eamon Keane
21. The Londoner in the Country (Richard Church) - Tony Church
 
Side Two
 
Band 1
22. Puffing Billy (Christopher Hassall) - Peter Orr
23. Poor Paddy (Unknown) - Paul Lenihan
24. Night Mail (W.H. Auden) - Patrick Wymark
25. The Bridge (J. Redwood Anderson) - Tony Church
26. Fireman’s Calypso (Ewan MacColl) - Ted Culver vocals, with guitar accompaniment
 
Band 2
27. Henry King (Hilaire Belloc) - Patrick Wymark
28. A Cautionary Tale (J.A. Lindon) - Patrick Wymark
29. In the dark, dark world (Unknown) - Prunella Scales
30. Polka (Edith Sitwell) - Prunella Scales
31. Musician’s Lament (David Mowbray) - Prunella Scales
32. Diddling (James Reeves) - Michael Hordern
 
Band 3
33. Old Blue (Unknown) - Peggy Seeger vocals, with banjo accompaniment
34. The Giraffe (Geoffrey Dearmer) - Patrick Wymark
35. The Porcupine (Ogden Nash) - Tony Church
36. Skewball (Unknown) - A.L. Lloyd vocals, with guitar accompaniment (appears on other albums)
37. Lament for a Loved Horse (Elizabeth du Preez) - Prunella Scales
38. Poor Old Man (Unknown) - Terry Yarnell vocals, with chorus and concertina
39. To a Butterfly (William Wordsworth) - Barbara Jefford
40. Butterflies (Clive Sansom) - Gary Watson
Related recordings:
Poetry And Song, Vol.2 (Argo DA 51)
Poetry And Song, Vol.3 (Argo DA 52)
Poetry And Song, Vol.4 (Argo DA 53)
Poetry And Song, Vol.5 (Argo DA 54)
Poetry And Song, Vol.6 (Argo DA 55)
Poetry And Song, Vol.7 (Argo DA 56)
Poetry And Song, Vol.8 (Argo DA 57)
Poetry And Song, Vol.9 (Argo DA 58)
Poetry And Song, Vol.10 (Argo DA 59)
Poetry And Song, Vol.11 (Argo DA 60)
Poetry And Song, Vol.12 (Argo DA 61)
Poetry And Song, Vol.13 (Argo DA 62)
Poetry And Song, Vol.14 (Argo DA 63)
Thanks to Quentin Kean for the information from his Argo catalogue site.