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Songs of the North Riding

Songs of the North Riding from the 1962 Colin Wharton Collection; Various Artists Musical Traditions Records MTCD406/7 (CD, UK, 20 September 2019)

In 1962 Colin S. Wharton published his Leeds University degree thesis “Folk Songs from the North Riding”. This thesis was the culmination of his collecting in the North Riding of Yorkshire. The finished work was 149 pages long and divided into five sections, according to subject matter: Songs of Love and Courtship, Songs from the Farm, Hunting Songs, Occasional Songs, and Songs of Sorrow.

This 2 CD set has 67 songs from 22 singers, including the now relatively well-known Arthur Wood and Billy Pennock.

Edited and produced by Rod Stradling

Musical Traditions booklet notes by Rod Stradling

Musicians

Jim Allonson, vocals [52];
Tom Batterbee, vocals [19, 46];
John Beaumont, vocals [14, 16];
Lynas Bennison, vocals [66-67];
James Duell, vocals [37];
Mrs G H Free, vocals [35];
Fred Grayson, vocals [63];
Harry Grayson, vocals [13, 26];
Joe Hodgeson, vocals [3, 17, 25, 59];
Anthony Newton, vocals [53];
Walter Nichols, vocals [41];
Ralph Noble, vocals [44, 49, 51];
William Noble, vocals [28];
Billy Pennock, vocals [1, 4, 21, 39, 54];
Frank Pickering, vocals [9, 61];
Reg Pickering, vocals [64];
Fred Swales, vocals [24, 31];
Jack Watson, vocals [11, 42, 48];
Frank Wetherill, vocals [29, 33];
Bill White, vocals [6, 8, 22];
George Williamson, vocals [56];
Jim Winspear, vocals [65];
Dave Winter, vocals [60, 62];
Arthur Wood, vocals [2, 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 23, 27, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 43, 45, 47, 50, 55, 58];
unnamed singer, vocals [57]

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