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1957
Various Artists
Poetry And Song, Vol.5
1967
Argo
DA 54
12-inch LP
Tracks:
 
Side One
 
Band 1
1. Pike (Ted Hughes) - Tony Church
2. The Thrush (Kevin Crossley-Holland) - Peter Orr
3. The New-come Nightingale (John Clare) - Gary Watson
4. The Bat (Ruth Pitter) - Barbara Jefford
5. The Snail (James Reeves) - Prunella Scales
6. Old Shellover (Walter de la Mare) - Barbara Jefford
7. Considering the Snail (Thom Gunn) - Tony Church
 
Band 2
8. On a Cat Ageing (Alexander Gray) - Barbara Jefford
9. The Cat (W.H. Davies) - Michael Hordern
10. Man and Beast (Clifford Dyment) - Tony Church
11. A Cat (Edward Thomas) - Peter Orr
 
Band 3
12. 2 & 1 are a Problem (Ogden Nash) - Tony Church
13. The Crocodile (Unknown) - Peggy Seeger and chorus
14. The Python (Hilaire Belloc) - Prunella Scales
15. The Termite (Ogden Nash) - Patrick Wymark
16. Tugboat Tommy (Michael Thompson) - Gary Watson
17. Notting Hill Polka (W. Bridges-Adams) - Prunella Scales
 
Band 4
18. Morgan (Edward Harrington) - William Squire
19. Shameful Death (William Morris) - Michael Hordern
20. Pretty Boy Floyd (Woody Guthrie) - Tom Paley
21. Katharine Jaffray (Unknown) - Ewan MacColl unaccompanied
 
Side Two
 
Band 1
22. La Belle Dame Sans Merci (John Keats) - Michael Hordern
23. Allison Gross (Unknown) - Ewan MacColl unaccompanied
24. A Spriting Go We (John Jeffere) - Barbara Jefford
25. Lullaby (From: A Midsummer Night’s Dream) - Argo
26. Traveller’s Curse after Misdirection (Robert Graves) - William Squire
27. The Curse (J.M. Synge) - Tony Church
28. A Witch (Robert Barnes) - Patrick Wymark
 
Band 2
29. The Listeners (Walter de la Mare) - Patrick Wymark
30. Kubla Khan (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) - Richard Johnson
 
Band 3
31. James Whaland (Unknown) - Peggy Seeger
32. The Old Ships (James Elroy Flecker) - Gary Watson
33. The Smuggler (Unknown) - Frankie Armstrong unaccompanied
34. Cardigan Bay (John Masefield) - Richard Johnson
35. Blow Boys, Blow (Unknown) - Terry Yarnell (appears on other albums)
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.4 (Argo DA 53)
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.