Ewan MacColl - The English And Scottish Popular Ballads (Child Ballads), Vol.1

Home

1950s

1955

1956

John Ross' list

About this site

1956

(Untitled, with Isla Cameron and The Topic Singers)
Topic TRL 1

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

Scots Drinking Songs
Riverside RLP 12-605

Scots Street Songs
Riverside RLP 12-612

Scots Folk Songs
Riverside RLP 12-609

Alan Lomax and the Ramblers with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
Decca DFE 6367

Ewan MacColl

The English And Scottish Popular Ballads (Child Ballads), Vol.1

1961

Folkways
FG 3509
12-inch LP

Tracks:

1. Johnnie O'Breadisley (Johnie Cock, Child 114) (appears on other albums)

2. The Dowie Dens O'Yarrow (Child 214) (appears on other albums)

3. Lord Randall (Child 12) (appears on other albums)

4. Sir Patrick Spens (Child 58) (appears on other albums)

5. The Burning of Auchendoun (Child 183) (appears on other albums)

6. Oud Goodman (Our Gudeman, Child 274)

7. The Rantin Laddie (Child 240) (appears on other albums)

8. Bawbee Allan (Barbara Allen, Child 84) (appears on other albums)

9. The Brown Girl (Lord Thomas and Fair Annet, Child 73)

10. The Three Ravens (Child 26) (appears on other albums)

11. The Bonnie Earl O' Murray (Child 181) (appears on other albums)

12. The Battle of Harlaw (Child 163) (appears on other albums)

13. Thomas Rhymer (Thomas Rymour, Child 37) (appears on other albums)

Personnel:

Ewan MacColl, unaccompanied

Related recordings:

The English And Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol.2, F.J. Child Ballads (Folkways FG 3510)
The English And Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol.3, F.J. Child Ballads (Folkways FG 3511)

Digital download (mp3 or lossless) or a custom CD is available from Smithsonian Folkways