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Radio Ballads
Various Artists
Poetry And Song, Vol.12
1967
Argo
DA 61
12-inch LP
Tracks:
 
Side One
 
Band 1
1. A Peasant (R.S. Thomas) - William Squire
2. A Happy Life (Shakespeare) - Michael Hordern
3. The Poplar Field (William Cowper) - Peter Orr
4. Binsey Poplars (G.M. Hopkins) - Michael Hordern
5. The Unsafe Elm (Christopher Hassall) - Peter Orr
6. Throwing a Tree (Thomas Hardy) - Barbara Jefford
 
Band 2
7. Mending Wall (Robert Frost) - Patrick Wymark
8. Edom O’Gordon (Trad) - Ewan MacColl unaccompanied (appears on other albums)
 
Band 3
9. Song on the Victory of Agincourt (A Ballad) - Ewan MacColl plus Critics Group chorus
10. The Enemies (Elizabeth Jennings) - Barbara Jefford
11. The Castle (Edwin Muir) - Peter Orr
12. A Lament for Flodden (Jean Elliott) - Helen Campbell unaccompanied
 
Side Two
 
Band 1
13. The Eve of Waterloo (Lord Byron) - Richard Johnson
14. The Recruited Collier (A folk song) - Frankie Armstrong unaccompanied
15. Drummer Hodge (Thomas Hardy) - Richard Johnson
16. The Misfit (C. Day Lewis) - Michael Hordern
17. In Memoriam (Edward Thomas) - William Squire
18. Six Young Men (Ted Hughes) - Ewan MacColl
 
Band 2
19. Memorial Tablet (Siegfried Sassoon) - Patrick Wymark
20. The Night is Chilly but not Dark (F.L. Lucas) - Gary Watson
21. Anthem for Doomed Youth (Wilfred Owen) - Richard Johnson
22. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (W.B. Yeats) - Eamon Keane
23. Fifty Faggots (Edward Thomas) - William Squire
 
Band 3
24. All Day It Has Rained (Alun Lewis) - William Squire
25. Naming of Parts (Henry Reed) - Richard Johnson
26. The Three Ravens (A folk song) - Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger (appears on other albums)
27. Hialmar (Roy Campbell) - Peter Orr
28. Embassy (W.H. Auden) - Michael Hordern
29. Next To Of Course God (E.E. Cummings) - Tony Church
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.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.13 (Argo DA 62)
Poetry And Song, Vol.14 (Argo DA 63)
Thanks to Quentin Kean for the information from his Argo catalogue site.