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The Old Hat Concert Party

The Old Hat Concert Party (Old Hat OH1CD)

The Old Hat Concert Party
Music, Songs and Step-dancing from East Anglia
The Old Hat Concert Party

Old Hat Music OH-1 (cassette, UK, 1986)
Old Hat Music OH1CD (CD, UK, 1999)

Musical Traditons review by Barry Callaghan

Musicians

Katie Howson: melodeon;
Reg Reader: dulcimer;
Adrian Turner: fiddle, piano;
Font Whatling, Cyril Barber: melodeon, stepdancing;
Ted Chaplin: singer [2, 7, 10, 15];
Tony Harvey: singer [5, 12];
Des Miller: mouthorgan;
David Webb: melodeon;
John Howson: banjo;
Ted Stevens: percussion

Tracks

Side 1

  1. Oscar Wood’s Polka / Old Joe the Boat Is Going Over (3.38)
  2. Story / Fellas in Love (Roud 10706) (1.36)
  3. Cecil Pearl’s Hornpipes (3.01)
  4. Abey My Boy / Story / Stepdancing to Albert Hewitt’s Hornpipe (2.21)
  5. Marrowbones (Roud 183; Laws Q2; G/D 2:318; Henry H174; TYG 6) (1.55)
  6. In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree / Are We to Part Like This, Bill? / There’s a Lovely Lake in London (4.07)
  7. The Wooden Leg Family (Roud 10703) (2.43)
  8. Story / Rig a Jig / Starry Night for a Ramble / Woodland Flowers (4.04)

Side 2

  1. Happy Hours (4.06)
  2. Are You All Livery? (Roud 10707) (1.13)
  3. Harry Cox’s / Cromer Schottisches (2.08)
  4. Rattling Old Grey Mare (Roud 1400; G/D 3:456; Henry H664) (2.24)
  5. Oscar’s Waltz / Peggy O’Neill (3.55)
  6. Stepdance to Scotland the Brave (2.03)
  7. Is Izzy Azzy Wozz? (Roud 10705) (2.04)
  8. Alf Peachey’s Polka / BB’s (3.24)
  9. Waiting for the Wagon / Dennington Bell (3.18 )

Track 14 is a CD bonus track not on the original cassette