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Poetry And Song, Vol.8
1967
Argo
DA 57
12-inch LP
Tracks:
 
Side One
 
Band 1
1. Tottie (Sims) - Terry Yarnell vocal, guitar (appears on other albums)
2. To Be Or Not To Be (anon) - Laurie Lee
3. The Rolling English Road (Chesterton) - Richard Johnson
 
Band 2
4. Cats (Tessimond) - Gary Watson
5. A Narrow Fellow in the Grass (Emily Dickinson) - Barbara Jefford
6. Snake (Lawrence) - William Squire
 
Band 3
7. A Considerable Speck (Frost) - Patrick Wymark
8. They Say Love Rules the World (Abbott) - Richard Johnson
9. From Windsor Forest (Pope) - Gary Watson
10. On Finding Racks of Butterflies (Prentice) - Richard Johnson
11. Butterfly (Shigeji) - William Squire
 
Band 4
12. The Caged Bird in Springtime (Kirkup) - William Squire
13. How to Paint the Portrait of a Bird (Prevert) - Richard Johnson
14. Freedom (Griggs) - Prunella Scales
15. The Thing (Roethke) - William Squire
 
Side Two
 
Band 1
16. To the Cuckoo (Wordsworth) - Tony Church
17. The Pettichap’s Nest (Clare) - Gary Watson
18. A Blackbird Singing (R.S. Thomas) - William Squire
19. Proud Songsters (Hardy) - Prunella Scales
20. The Bird Song (anon) - Prunella Scales
21. The Bird (George Macbeth) - Peter Orr
 
Band 2
22. Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? (Hardy) - Barbara Jefford
23. Barbara Allen (anon trad) - Ewan MacColl unaccompanied (appears on other albums)
24. I Pass By In Silence (Clare) - Gary Watson
25. Passing By (anon) - William Squire
26. To Mistress Margaret Hussey (Skelton) - Laurie Lee
 
Band 3
27. True Thomas (anon trad) - Ewan MacColl unaccompanied
 
Band 4
28. John Riley (anon trad) - Peggy Seeger, vocal and dulcimer
 
Band 5
29. The Baron O’ Brackley (anon trad) - Ewan MacColl unaccompanied (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.5 (Argo DA 54)
Poetry And Song, Vol.6 (Argo DA 55)
Poetry And Song, Vol.7 (Argo DA 56)
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.