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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 & Peggy Seeger
New Briton Gazette, Vol. 1
1960
Folkways
FW 8732
12-inch LP
Tracks:
1. Come Fill Up Your Glasses
2. Ballad of the Carpenter
3. The Ballad of Springhill
(appears on other albums)
4. The Lifeboat Mona
5. The Trafford Road Ballad
6. The Fireman's Not for Me
(appears on other albums)
7. When I Was a Young Lad
8. The Crooked Cross
(appears on other albums)
9. There's Better Things to Do
10. Brother, Won't You Join in the Line
(appears on other albums)
11. The Space Girl's Song
12. Come All You Gallant Colliers
13. Come Me Little Son
(appears on other albums)
14. The Fitter's Song
(appears on other albums)
15. The Exile Song
Contemporary British songs composed and sung by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
Related recordings:
New Briton Gazette, Vol. 2 (Folkways FW 8734)
Digital download (mp3 or lossless) or a custom CD is available from
Smithsonian Folkways