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Holey Ha’penny
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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, 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
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All tracks trad. except
Track 5 Billy Ballantine;
Track 29 Whinham