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The New Briton Gazette Volume 1

Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger: The New Briton Gazette Volume 1 (Folkways FW 8758)

The New Briton Gazette Volume 1
Contemporary British Songs Written and Sung by
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger

Folkways FW 8732 (LP, USA, 1960)
Smithsonian Folkways FW08732 (CD/DL, USA, ca.2004)

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Album cover design by Ronald Clyne

Liner notes (PDF) at Smithsonian Global Sound

Musicians

Ewan MacColl: vocals;
Peggy Seeger: bocals

Tracks

Side 1

  1. Come Fill Up Your Glasses (4.18)
  2. Ballad of the Carpenter (4.54)
  3. The Ballad of Springhill (3.55)
  4. The Lifeboat Mona (4.29)
  5. The Trafford Road Ballad (2.19)
  6. The Fireman’s Not for Me (1.45)
  7. The Lag’s Song (2.48)

Side 2

  1. The Crooked Cross (2.19)
  2. There’s Better Things to Do (2.35)
  3. Brother, Won’t You Join in the Line (2.40)
  4. The Space Girl’s Song (3.16)
  5. Come All You Gallant Colliers (2.24)
  6. Come Me Little Son (3.32)
  7. The Fitter’s Song (1.49)
  8. The Exile Song (1.28)

Track 1 words Peggy Seeger, tune trad.;
Track 2, 5-6, 15 Ewan MacColl;
Track 3 words Peggy Seeger, Ewan MacColl, music Peggy Seeger;
Track 4, 8 Peggy Seeger;
Track 9 words Peggy Seeger, tune trad. There’s Better Things;
Track 10 words Ewan MacColl, tune trad. American;
Track 11 words Peggy Seeger, Ewan MacColl, tune trad. American Ghost Soldier;
Track 12 words Ewan MacColl, tune Morrissey and the Russian Sailor;
Track 13 words Ewan MacColl, tune Come All Ye Tramps and Hawkers;
Track 14 words Ewan MacColl, tune The Castlereagh River