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Ripest Apples
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Ripest Apples Veteran Tapes VT101 (cassette, UK, 1987) |
Recorded by Mike Yates in 1961-95;
Produced by John Howson in 1987
Singers
Bob Blake (Broadbridge Heath, Horsham), Johnny Doughty (Rye), Babs Hall (Billingshurst), Mary Ann Haynes (Brighton), George Spicer (West Hoathly), George Townsend (Lewes), Fred Welfare (North Chailey, Lewes)
Tracks
Side 1
- Mabs Hall: Ripest Apples (Roud 146)
- Mabs Hall: A Sailor From Dover (Roud 180; Laws P9; G/D 6:1219; Henry H72)
- George Townsend: The Ploughboy’s Joy (Roud 439)
- George Spicer: Muckin’ About in the Garden (Roud 5373)
- Mary Ann Haynes: Lily White Hand (Roud 654; TYG 33)
- Bob Blake: John Barleycorn (Roud 164; G/D 3:559)
- Mabs Hall: Ginny Jones (Roud 1047)
- Mabs Hall: The Banks of Inverness (Roud 3815; Henry H812)
- Fred Welfare: Coming Home Late (Roud 114; Child 274; G/D 7:1460; Henry H21ab)
- Johnny Doughty: Vessell in Distress (Roud 5375) / Yes I Am Contented (Roud 5374)
- George Spicer: Jim the Carter Lad (Roud 1080; G/D 3:457; Henry H171)
Side 2
- Mabs Hall: Trip Unto the Fair (Roud 27901)
- Johnny Doughty: Still I Love Him (Roud 654; TYG 33) / Lazy Wife
- Fred Welfare: Sussex Farmer’s Wife (Roud 160; Child 278; G/D 2:320) / Epitaph
- Mabs Hall: The Farmer Out of Gloucestershire (Roud 2930; G/D 1:173)
- George Spicer: Trashing Mashine (Roud 1491)
- Mary Ann Haynes: Master and Man (Roud 5376)
- Mabs Hall: Studying Economy (Roud 5377)
- George Spicer: Cock a Doodle Do (Roud 3464)
- Mabs Hall: Cecilia (Roud 7; Laws N21; Henry H35)
- Johnny Doughty: Windy Old Weather (Roud 472)
Track 5 is also on Stepping It Out! (VTC1CD, 1993);
Tracks 6, 12, 15-16, 19 are also on Down in the Fields (VTC4CD, 2001);
Tracks 2, 21 are also on When the Wind Blows (VTC5CD, 2001);
Tracks 4, 13, 17 are also on It Was on a Market Day—One (VTC6CD, 2005);
Tracks 3, 10 are also on It Was on a Market Day—Two (VTC7CD, 2006)