Michael Hebbert was the pub musician from the Rampin’ Cat pub in Wallingford and played his “Portable Pub Piano”, a rare Jeffrey Duet System concertina.

Recorded at Livingston Studios, Barnet, London in October 1976;
Engineer Nic Kinsey;
Produced by Neil Wayne;
Design by Sue Dransfield

Musicians

Michael Hebbert: Jeffries duet concertina;
Andrew Frank: vocals;
Rod Stradling: melodeon;
Danny Stradling: tambourine;
Steve Bentley: fiddle, washboard;
John Tams: banjo, nuts

Tracks

Side 1

1. Medley: Logan Water / Orkney Rope Waltz / Pete’s Peerie Boat / Alber’s Hornpipe (5.07)
2. Gathering Codpieces (1.38)
3. I do Like to Be Beside the Seaside (3.22)
4. My Old Dutch (3.33)
5. Icicle Joe, the Eskimo (2.03)
6. The Spaniard That Blighted My Life (1.16)
7. The Quaker’s Wife (1.54)
8. Medley: Auld Donald / Merry Month of May / Untitled / Off to Charleston (4.30)

Side 2

9. The Sunny Side of the Street (3.15)
10. Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime? (3.52)
11. The Dambusters’ March (2.57)
12. The Indian Queen (1.45)
13. They Wanted a Songbird in Heaven, So God Took Caruso Away (2.04)
14. Allan Water (2.52)
15. Medley: Star of the County Down / The American Boot-Dance / Jenny Lind Polka (5.50)

Tracks 1-4, 6, 8, 12Clive Harvey;
Tracks 5, 9 Derek Pearce;
Tracks 7, 10 arr. Roaring Jelly;
Track 11 Jimmy Rogers

Tracks

Roaring Jelly’s Golden Grates

1. Family Christmas (4.25)
2. (Tucked up in a Flowerbed With My) Rose (3.24)
3. Mansfield Royal Visit (4.47)
4. Trev and the Rock and Roll Rockets (3.49)
5. Mazawattee Tea-Break (2.43)
6. Home-to-Tea Girl (3.32)
7. Last Night on the Back Porch (3.51)
8. Monster Movie Nightmare Blues (5.00)
9. Riff-Raff (3.06)
10. What a Silly Place to Kiss a Girl (2.33)
11. For the Sake of Days Gone By (4.45)
12. You and Me and a Wind-up Grammophone (5.27)

Michael Hebbert: The Rampin’ Cat (excerpts)

13. Medley: Logan Water / Orkney Rope Waltz / Pete’s Peerie Boat / Alber’s Hornpipe (5.07)
14. Gathering Codpieces (1.38)
15. I do Like to Be Beside the Seaside (3.22)
16. Icicle Joe, the Eskimo (2.03)
17. The Quaker’s Wife (1.54)
18. Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime? (3.52)
19. The Dambusters’ March (2.57)
20. The Indian Queen (1.45)
21. Allan Water (2.52)
22. Medley: Star of the County Down / The American Boot-Dance / Jenny Lind Polka (5.50)