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You’re On Nipper!

You’re On Nipper! Dave Williams (1934-1997) Forest Tracks FT2CD 201 (2 CD-R, UK, 2003)

Mastered for CD, design, bookiet and song notes by Paul Marsh;
Photographs from the family album

Musicians

Dave Williams: vocals [1-3, 5-8, 10, 12-14, 16-17, 19-20, 22-24, 26-33, 35-41, 43-45, 47-51, 53-58], guitar [2-3, 10, 13-14, 22-24, 26, 28-33, 36-37, 41, 45, 48, 51, 55-58], melodeon [4, 6], mouth organ [9], melodeon [11, 15, 21, 25, 34, 39, 44, 46, 52], concertina [18], hammered dulcimer [42], treacle tin banjo [54];
Pete Mills: vocals [1, 16, 26, 30, 40, 57], guitar [26, 28, 30, 57];
Vic Wilton: vocals [1, 16, 26, 30, 40, 57], guitar [15, 25, 49], banjo [18, 23, 26, 28, 30, 33-34, 57];
Arthur Marshall: bones [11, 52];
Paul Marsh: mouth organ [15], triangle [34];
Albert Wilkins: spoons [15], dancing [21];
Stan Seaman: melodeon [18];
Alec Riglar: melodeon [18];
several friends: chorus [19-20, 53];
Black Glove Band (Ruth Askew: melodeon; …) [29, 45];
Davie Kettlewell: hammered dulcimer [42];
Ted Duckett: bones [46];
Bob Mills and others: chorus [54];
Jimmy Cooper: vocals [56], hammered dulcimer [56]

Tracks

CD 1

1. The Powder Monkey (Roud 1770) (3.24)
2. Three Lovely Lasses From Banyon (Roud 818; F/D 7:1381) (3.26)
3. Talkin’ Blues (2.22)
4. Ceilito Lindo waltz (0.59)
5. As I Went Down in the Valley to Pray (Roud 4928) (1.44)
6. The Grand Old Duke of York (Roud 742) (2.06)
7. He Was Saying Goodbye to His Horse (0.45)
8. The Lowlands of Holland (Roud 484; G/D 6:1116; Henry H180) (2.28)
9. Brahm’s Cradle Song (2.38)
10. American Patrol march (1.17)
11. Love Is Something If You Give It Away (Roud 36118) (1.29)
12. It’s Not Pleasant or Delightful (3.26)
13. Marilyn Monroe (2.43)
14. Gosport (4.58)
15. The Foggy Dew waltz (1.10)
16. Twankydillo (Roud 2409) (2.28)
17. Flutterby, Butterfly (2.15)
18. The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo / The Gay Gordons / Wi’ a 100 Pipers an’ All jigs (1.12)
19. The Mermaid (Roud 124; Child 289; G/D 1:27) (3.00)
20. No Sir, No (Roud 146) (3.55)
21. The Royal Oak Morris jig (1.39)
22. Pretty Saro (Roud 417) (2.01)
23. It’s Hard, Ain’t It Hard (Roud 11509) (1.40)
24. All Through the Beer (Roud 475; G/D 3:580) (1.37)
25. Blaydon Races / Oh Mr Porter jigs (3.30)
26. The Women of Leigh (Roud 3192) (1.21)
27. The Old Sow (Roud 1737; G/D 8:1661) (1.23)
28. Sweet Jane (Roud V5247) / The Reason Why I Wear the Kilt (Roud V22483) (1.03)
29. The Banks of the Ohio (Roud 157; Laws F5) (2.14)
30. The Oggie Song / The Blackbird (0.51)

CD 2

31. The Common Market (2.43)
32. Sheridan Fenwick (Roud 731) (3.32)
33. They’re Burning Down the House I Was Brung Up In (2.02)
34. My Grandfather’s Clock / Golden Slippers marches (3.16)
35. The Old Baby Farmer (Roud 2347) (3.18)
36. The Watercress Line (1.50)
37. Maids When You’re Young, Never Wed an Old Man (Roud 210) (2.40)
38. Blow the Candle Out (Roud 368; Laws P17; G/D 4:788) (2.30)
39. Rolling in the Dew (Roud 298; G/D 4:812) (2.46)
40. Widecombe Fair (Roud 137) (3.15)
41. If I Were a Blackbird (Roud 387; Henry H79) (3.41)
42. Soldier’s Joy reel (2.49)
43. Past Our House and Down to Eling poem (0.59)
44. Green Broom (Roud 379; G/D 5:950; Henry H147) (2.22)
45. Hang Me, Oh Hang Me (Roud 3416) (2.05)
46. The Oyster Girl jig (1.37)
47. The Streams of Lovely Nancy (Roud 688; Henry H520) (2.08)
48. Fire in the Fields (1.58)
49. Underneath the Spreading Chestnut Tree (Roud 24613) (0.53)
50. While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping (Roud 363) (1.13)
51. Where the Strawberries Used to Grow (1.34)
52. The Farmer’s Boy march (1.28)
53. The Owslebury Lads (Roud 17212) (2.48)
54. Knees Up, Mother Brown (Roud 23634) (0.40)
55. Remember Me (2.49)
56. Music Hall and Popular Song Medley: Daisy Bell / She Was One of the Early Birds / I’ll Be Your Sweetheart / If Those Lips Could Only Speak / I Don’t Work for a Living (5.11)
57. Flaming June (3.04)
58. The Woolston Ferry (3.04)

All tracks trad., all tracks arr. Dave Williams except
Track 9 Johannes Brahms;
Track 11 Frank White Meacham;
Track 12 words Mike Sadler, music trad.;
Track 13 words Sydney Carter, music Rory McEwen;
Track 14 Henry Man (1747-99);
Tracks 16, 30 trad. arr. Balladeers;
Track 17, 36, 43 Dave Williams;
Track 18a Gilbert;
Track 25a George ‘Geordie’ Ridley;
Track 25b words Thomas Le Brunn, music George Le Brunn;
Track 31, 51 Mike Sadler;
Track 34a James A. Bland (1879);
Track 34b Henry Clay Work (1876);
Track 42 trad. arr. Dave Williams, David Kettlewell;
Track 48 Tony Brode;
Track 49 Jimmy Kennedy, Tommie Connor, Hamilton Kennedy (1938);
Track 54 Bert Lee, Harris Weston

Track 3 unissued Forest Tracks recording, 1978;
Track 14 is from Hampshire: A Musical Portrait (Forest Tracks FT3014, 1979);
Track 31 unissued Forest Tracks recording, c. 1976;
Track 35, 46 are from First Tracks (Forest Tracks FT3001, 1973);
Track 36 is from So Ride With Me (Forest Tracks FT1013, 1978);
Tracks 39, 44, 48 are from Southern By-Ways (Forest Tracks FT3008, 1976);
Track 43 is from The Flour of the Forest (Forest Tracks FT1017, 1980);
Tracks 50, 53 are from Folk Songs From Hampshire (Forest Tracks FT2006, 1974);
Track 56 is from Jimmy Cooper Dulcimer Player (Forest Tracks FT3009, 1976)