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Various Artists: The Leaves of Life

Various Artists: The Leaves of Life (VWML 003)

The Leaves of Life
The Field Recordings of Fred Hamer
Songs, Stories, Tunes and a Play from Bedfordshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Durham, Lancashire, Lincolshire, Shropshire and Yorkshire
Various Artists

Vaughan Williams Memorial Library VWML 003 (cassette, UK, 1989)

Cassette compiled and edited by Jim Carroll and Malcolm Taylor;
Master tapes produced by Noel Sidebottom od the National Sond Archive (British Library);
Duplication and inlay design by John Howson;
Tramscritio setting and layout by Derek Schofield

Musicians

Emma Vickers (Burscough, Lancashire) [1, 4-5, 10, 15-16, 28-30];
May Bradley (Ludlow, Shropshire) [2, 6, 19-21];
Mr A. Dobson (Heptonstall, Yorkshire) [3];
Mary Duffy (Stockton, Durham) [7];
Will Martin (Pelynt, Cornwall) [8];
Arthur Brace (Kempston, Bedfordshire) [9];
Harry Scott (Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire) [11, 18, 22];
Mr Hill (Tetford, Lincolnshire) [12-13];
Luther Stanley (Barrow-on-Humberside, Lincolnshire) [14, 17];
Mr & Mrs Wagstaff (Clowne, Derbishire) [23];
Robert Brader (Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire) [24-25];
Roy Faulkner (Ludlow, Shropshire) [26];
Alf Widmann (Colesden, Bedfordshire) [27, 31];
Arthur Lane (Hungerford, Shropshire) [32-33];
John Henry Collins (Pelynt, Cornwall) [34];
Billy Bartle (Wrestlingworth, Bedfordshire) [35]

Tracks

Side 1

  1. Emma Vickers: There Is a Tavern (Roud 18834; G/D 6:1171)
  2. May Bradley: McCaffery (Roud 1148) (with comment)
  3. Mr A Dobson: Grey Goose and Gander (Roud 1094)
  4. Emma Vickers: Pace-Egg Song No.2 (Roud 614; TYG 53)
  5.  — : Description of Pace-Egging
  6. May Bradley: The Willow Tree (Roud 18831)
  7. Mary Duffy: Johnnie Gallagher (Roud 920; G/D 1:80; Henry H574)
  8. Wilf Martin: The Noble Foxhunting (Roud 584; TYG 76)
  9. Arthur Brace: Herring’s Head (Roud 128; TYG 31)
  10. Emma Vickers: Red Herring (Roud 128; TYG 31)
  11. Harry Scott: Box On Her Head (Roud 289; Laws L3; G/D 2:268)
  12. Mr Hill: Rattle Mutton Pie (Roud 1408; TYG 30)
  13.  — : Talk about broadsides
  14. Luther Stanley: The Outlandish Knight (Roud 21; Child 4; G/D 2:225; Henry H163)
  15. Emma Vickers: Egg-Timer Story
  16.  — : Melodeon Tune

Side 2

  1. Luther Stanley: Acre of Land (Roud 21093; TYG 23)
  2. Harry Scott: There Stands a Cottage (Roud 608; G/D 5:983; TYG 36)
  3. May Bradley: Under the Leaves (Roud 127)
  4.  — : Talk about mother
  5.  — : Lily-White Hand (Roud 564; Laws P18; G/D 6:1188)
  6. Harry Scott: Turkey Rhubarb (Roud 1073)
  7. Mr & Mrs Wagstaff: Mummers’ Play (with Song)
  8. Robert Brader: Banks of Sweet Dundee (Roud 148; Laws M25; G/D 2:224)
  9.  — : Old John Wallis (Roud 294; Henry H480a; TYG 27)
  10. Roy Faulkner: Two Black Crows (Roud 5; Child 26)
  11. Alf Wildman: The Cuckold’s Song (Roud 114; Child 274; G/D 7:1460; Henry H21ab)
  12. Emma Vickers: My Sailor Love (Roud 1411)
  13.  — : A Cure for the Mare (story)
  14.  — : After the Ball (Roud 4859)
  15. Alf Wildman: Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington (Roud 483; Child 105; G/D 1:168)
  16. Arthur Lane: Bell-Bottomed Trousers (Roud 269; Laws K43; G/D 7:1429; TYG 10)
  17.  — : Boney’s March Over the Alps (tune followed by comment)
  18. John Henry Collins: The Ram (Roud 126; G/D 3:645; TYG 59)
  19. Billy Bartle: Come All You Garners Gay (Roud 3; G/D 6:1180)