From a midnight folk concert recorded in London in May 1963
Supervised by Wally Whyton;
Produced by Hugh Mendl;
Recording engineers: Mike Savage, Gus Dudgeon

Musicians

Alex Campbell: vocals, guitar [1];
Martin Carthy: vocals, guitar [2, 4, 7];
Louis Killen: vocals, guitar, melodeon [3, 8, 10, 12];
Bob Davenport: vocals [5];
Redd Sullivan: vocals, guitar [2, 6];
Nigel Denver: vocals, guitar [9, 11]

Tracks

Side 1

1. [AC] Barnyards of Delgaty (Roud 2136; G/D 3:347) (3.54)
2. [MC, RS] End of Me Old Cigar (Roud 17697) (1.31)
3. [LK] Cruising Round Yarmouth (Roud 2432) (3.40)
4. [MC] Girls (2.51)
5. [BD] Little Chance (Roud 3485) (3.51)
6. [RS] Not Today (2.31)
7. [MC] Your Baby ’as Gorn Dahn the Plug ’Ole (Roud 19810) (1.42)

Side 2

8. [LK] Pleasant and Delightful (Roud 660; Laws O30; TYG 51) (4.08)
9. [ND] Baron o’ Brackley (Roud 4017; Child 203; G/D 2:234) (4.17)
10. [LK] The Leaving of Liverpool (Roud 9435) (5.41)
11. [ND] Friendless Mary (Roud 2580) (2.21)
12. [LK] Wild Rover (Roud 1173; G/D 7:1480) (2.48)

Track 1 arr. Alex Campbell;
Track 2 Weston;
Tracks 3, 8, 11, 12 collected by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger;
Track 4 G. & T. Linch;
Track 5 Bob Davenport, Jack Elliott (of Birtley);
Track 6 John Hasted;
Track 7 Jack Spade;
Track 9 arr. Nigel Denver;
Track 10 William M. Doerflinger, arr. Louis Killen;

Notes

In May 1963, Decca gathered together London folkies for an all-night “hootenanny” in their studios which resulted in this LP and the EPs The Thamesiders and Davy Graham and Sea Shanties.

On this LP, Martin Carthy made his first solo recording singing Your Baby ’as Gorn Dahn the Plug’ole - later revived by Cream - and Girls. Martin also sings End of Me Old Cigar in a duet with Redd Sullivan.

From a midnight folk concert recorded in London in May 1963
Supervised by Wally Whyton;
Produced by Hugh Mendl;
Recording engineers: Mike Savage, Gus Dudgeon

Musicians

The Thamesiders [1-2]:
  Martin Carthy, Marian Gray: vocals, guitars;
  Pete Maynard: vocals, bass;

Davy Graham: guitar [3-4]

Tracks

Side 1: The Thamesiders

1. Wimoweh [Campbell, Solomon Linda]
2. Who Rolled the Stone Away? [arr. Thamesiders]

Side 2: Davy Graham

3. She Moves Through the Fair (Roud 861; Henry H141)
4. Mustapha [arr. Graham]

An excerpt of Wimoweh has been included in The Carthy Chronicles.
Davy Graham’s She Moves Through the Fair has been reissued on The Electric Muse and The New Electric Muse.

Notes

The Thameside Four originally comprised Redd Sullivan, Pete Maynard, Marian Gray and Long John Baldry. They performed skiffle music at The Thameside, a restaurant on London’s South Bank which gave the band its name. They recorded an EP The Thameside Four (F-EP 1) on the 77 Records Label. In 1961, after Baldry’s departure, budding actor Martin Carthy joined and the band also became known as the Thamesiders. In May 1963, Decca gathered them together with other London folkies for an all-night “hootenanny” in the studios which resulted in this EP (according to Karl Dallas’ notes for The Electric Muse) and the LP Hootenanny in London.

Later, Pete Maynard and Marian Gray worked as a duo under the title Pete and Marian Gray which is an unusual example (for the period) of husband and wife duo using the wife’s name.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Kevin Sheils and Alistair Banfield for the fun details.

From a midnight folk concert recorded in London in May 1963
Supervised by Wally Whyton;
Produced by Hugh Mendl;
Recording engineers: Mike Savage, Gus Dudgeon

Musicians

Louis Killen: vocals, guitar, melodeon [1, 3];
Bob Davenport: vocals [4];
Redd Sullivan: vocals, guitar [2]

Tracks

Side 1

1. [LK] Ranzo (Roud 3282)
2. [RS] Stormalong (Roud 216)

Side 2

3. [LK] Blow Ye Bully Boys
4. [BD] Sally Rackett (Roud 395)