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1957
Row Bullies Row
Topic 8T7
The Blackball Line
Topic 8T8
Singing Sailors
Wattle C5
Shanties & Fo'c'sle Songs
Wattle C6
Shuttle & Cage
Topic 10T13
Bless 'Em All and other British Army Songs
Riverside RLP 12-642
Bad Lads And Hard Cases
Riverside RLP 12-632
Thar She Blows!
Riverside RLP 12-635
Matching Songs Of The British Isles And America
Riverside RLP 12-637
Convicts and Currency Lads
Wattle B2
Chants de Marins Anglais No 1
Le Chante du Monde LDY 4155
Chants de Marins Anglais No 2
Le Chante du Monde LDY 4157
Ewan MacColl
Ballads
2009
Topic
TSCD576D
2CD
Tracks:
Disc 1
1. The Cruel Mother (Child #20)
(appears on other albums)
2. Johnnie O'Breadisley (Child #114, Johnie Cock)
(appears on other albums)
3. Lang Johnnie More (Child #251)
(appears on other albums)
4. Jock the Leg (Child #282, Jock the Leg and the Merry Merchant)
(appears on other albums)
5. Hughie the Graeme (Child #191)
(appears on other albums)
6. The Douglas Tragedy (Child #7, Earl Brand)
(appears on other albums)
7. The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow (Child #214)
(appears on other albums)
8. Captain Ward and the Rainbow (Child #287)
(appears on other albums)
9. Clyde's Water (Child #216, The Mother's Malison)
(appears on other albums)
10. The Crafty Farmer (Child #283)
(appears on other albums)
11. Lord Gregory (Child #76, The Lass of Loch Royal)
(appears on other albums)
12. Gil Morice (Child #83, Child Maurice)
(appears on other albums)
13. My Son David (Child #13, Edward)
(appears on other albums)
14. The Battle of Harlaw (Child #163)
(appears on other albums)
15. The Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie (Child #199)
(appears on other albums)
Disc 2
16. The Rantin Laddie (Child #240)
(appears on other albums)
17. The Earl of Aboyne (Child #235)
(appears on other albums)
18. The Cooper O'Fife (Child #277, The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin)
(appears on other albums)
19. Captain Wedderburn's Courtship (Child #46)
(appears on other albums)
20. The Jolly Beggar (Child #279)
(appears on other albums)
21. The Beggar Laddie (Child #280)
(appears on other albums)
22. Our Goodman (Child #274)
(appears on other albums)
23. The Laird o' Drum (Child #236)
(appears on other albums)
24. The Broomfield Hill (Child #43)
(appears on other albums)
25. Get Up and Bar the Door (Child #275)
(appears on other albums)
26. Hind Horn (Child #17)
(appears on other albums)
27. The Trooper and the Maid (Child #299)
(appears on other albums)
28. Amang the Blue Flowers and the Yellow (Child #25, Willie's Lyke-Wake)
(appears on other albums)
29. The Keach in the Creel (Child #281)
(appears on other albums)
A partial reissue of "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads" (see related records section)
Related recordings:
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume I (Riverside RLP 12-621/622)
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume II (Riverside RLP 12-623/624)
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume III (Riverside RLP 12-625/626)
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume IV (Riverside RLP 12-627/628)
Great British Ballads Not Included in the Child Collection (Riverside RLP 12-629)
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 1 (Washington WLP 715)
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 2 (Washington WLP 716)
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 3 (Washington WLP 717)
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 4 (Washington WLP 718)
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 5 (Washington WLP 719)
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 6 (Washington WLP 720)
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 7 (Washington WLP 721)
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 8 (Washington WLP 722)
Great British Ballads Not Included in the Child Collection (Washington WLP 723)
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