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1959
Various Artists
Poetry And Song, Vol.4
1967
Argo
DA 53
12-inch LP
Tracks:
 
Side One
 
Band 1
1. Shoals of Herring (Ewan MacColl) - Ewan MacColl vocal, with instrumental ensemble (appears on other albums)
 
Band 2
2. Words (Edward Thomas) - Michael Hordern
3. Things Men Have Made (D.H. Lawrence) - Patrick Wymark
4. The Scribe (Walter de la Mare) - Gary Watson
5. Fragile Things (Elizabeth du Preez) - Prunella Scales
6. Swift Things are Beautiful (Elizabeth Coatsworth) - Barbara Jefford
7. Pied Beauty (G.M. Hopkins) - Prunella Scales
8. Warning to Children (Robert Graves) - Tony Church
 
Band 3
9. John Barleycorn (Unknown) - Terry Yarnell unaccompanied (appears on other albums)
10. Summer (Christine Rossetti) - Prunella Scales
11. An August Midnight (Thomas Hardy) - Michael Hordern
12. Design (Robert Frost) - Patrick Wymark
13. Scarborough Fair (Unknown) - Frankie Armstrong with Sandra Kerr (appears on other albums)
 
Band 4
14. Apples (Laurie Lee) - Laurie Lee
15. The Gairdener Chyld (Unknown) - Ewan MacColl (appears on other albums)
16. Country Letter (John Clare) - Gary Watson
 
Side Two
 
Band 1
17. The Fitter’s Song (Ewan MacColl) - Ewan MacColl vocal, with guitar and chorus (appears on other albums)
18. Morning Express (Siegfried Sassoon) - Tony Church
19. The Wabash Cannonball (Unknown) - Tom Paley vocal, with chorus and instrumental ensemble
20. To a Locomotive in Winter (Walt Whitman) - Tony Church
21. Tay Bridge Disaster (William McGonagall) - Ewan MacColl
 
Band 2
22. I Ride an Old Paint (Unknown) - Tom Paley vocal, with guitar
23. Tarantella (Hilaire Belloc) - Patrick Wymark
24. Home Thoughts from Abroad (Robert Browning) - Michael Hordern
25. From The Old Vicarage, Grantchester (Rupert Brooke) - Gary Watson
26. Farewell to Tarwathie (Unknown) - Ewan MacColl vocal, with instrumental ensemble (appears on other albums)
27. Adlestrop (Edward Thomas) - Patrick Wymark
 
Band 3
28. From Peter Grimes (George Crabbe) - Richard Johnson
29. The Water of Tyne (Unknown) - Ewan MacColl
Related recordings:
Poetry And Song, Vol.1 (Argo DA 50)
Poetry And Song, Vol.2 (Argo DA 51)
Poetry And Song, Vol.3 (Argo DA 52)
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.