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Holey Ha’penny
Holey Ha’penny Topic Records 12T283 (LP, UK, 1976) |
Originally recorded for the BBC by Peter Kennedy in June and July 1954
except tracks 1 and 16 recorded 1929 for EMI;
Produced by Tony Engle;
Front cover pictures:
(1) The Piping Jockey or A Cumberland Race;
(2) Festivity on Allan’s admission into the Class of Minstrels;
taken from The Life of Jamie Allan in the collection of the
Society of Antiquaries, Bagpipe Museum, The Black Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne
Musicians
Tom Clough: Northumbrian pipes
(4.1.29)
[1, 16];
Willy Taylor: melodeon, fiddle
(Warenford, Northumberland, 7.6.54)
[20-22];
Bob Clark: Jew’s Harp
(Whittingham, Northumberland, 9.6.54)
[19];
Ned Pearson: fiddle
(Cambo, Morpeth, 16.6.54)
[6-9, 27-29];
Jake Hutton: fiddle
(Bewcastle Fells, Cumberland, 30.6.54)
[15];
Tom Hunter: fiddle
(Bewcastle Fells, Cumberland, 30.6.54)
[2, 15];
Billy Ballantine: piccolo
(Bewcastle Fells, Cumberland, 30.6.54; Haydon Bridge, Northumberland, 6.7.54; Wark, Northumberland, 29.6.54)
[2, 4-5, 15, 17-18, 24-26];
Adam Grey: fiddle
(Barden Mill, Northumberland, 1.7.54)
[12-14];
John Hepple: pipes
(Haltwhistle, Northumberland, 1.7.54)
[23, 31];
George Hepple: fiddle
(Haltwhistle, Northumberland, 1.7.54)
[23, 30-31];
Jimmy Hunter: mouth organ
(Haydon Bridge, Northumberland, 6.7.54)
[17-18];
Jim Rutherford: fiddle
(Otterburn, Northumberland, 8.7.54)
[3];
Joe Hutton: pipes
(Stuart Shields, Otterburn, Northumberland, 11.7.54)
[10-11]
Tracks
Side 1
- [TC] Ho’ley Ha’penny / Elsie Marley (2.45)
- [TH, BB] The Gilsland Hornpipe (1.15)
- [JR] Morpeth Rant (1.14)
- [BB] Proudlocks Hornpipe (1.10)
- [BB] Billy Ballantine’s Reel (1.46)
- [NP] Father’s Polka (1.00)
- [NP] Schottische (1.00)
- [NP] Varsoviana (Old and New) (2.30)
- [NP] Highland Laddie (1.07)
- [JoeH] My Lodging Is on Cold Ground / Bonnie Dundee (1.58)
- [JoeH] Roxburgh Castle / Devil Among the Tailors (1.13)
- [AG] The Roman Wall (1.07)
- [AG] Tom Hepple’s Polka (The Girl with the Blue Dress On) (1.17)
- [AG] The Tow House Polka (1.57)
- [JakeH, TH, BB] The Kielder Schottische (1.40)
- [TC] The Keel Row (with variations) (2.45)
Side 2
- [BB, JimH] Schottische (0.58)
- [BB, JimH] My Lodging’s on Cold Ground / Blow the Wind Southernly (1.44)
- [BC] Corn Rigs / The Manchester Hornpipe (1.20)
- [WT] The Linehope Lope (1.18)
- [WT] Willie Taylor’s Polka (1.19)
- [WT] Nae Good Luck - jig (0.50)
- [JohnH, GH] Whittingham Green Lane / Ward’s Brae (2.30)
- [BB] Bonny North Tyne (1.45)
- [BB] Mosstrooper’s Polka (1.48)
- [BB] The Coquet Reel (1.22)
- [NP] Head and Toe Polka (1.00)
- [NP] The Pin Reel - jig (1.02)
- [NP] Cambo March (1.17)
- [GH] The Ferry Boat (1.32)
- [JohnH, GH] Malorca / Herd on the Hill / Devil Among the Tailors (2.30)
All tracks trad. except
Track 5 Billy Ballantine;
Track 29 Whinham