> Folk Music > Records > Folk Songs (Topic Sampler No 1)
Folk Songs
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Folk Songs Topic Records TPS114 (LP, UK, 1964) |
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Notes by Karl Dallas
Sleeve design Ken Lees
Photography from Hulton Picture Library
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#1 from Farewell Nancy: Sea Songs and Shanties (12T110, 1964);
#2 from A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl: Gamblers and Sporting Blades (TOP71, 1962);
#3 from Ian Campbell Folk Group: Songs of Protest (TOP82, 1962);
#4 from Ewan MacColl, Isla Cameron: Still I Love Him (10T50, 1960);
#5 from Margaret Barry, Michael Gorman: Street Songs & Fiddle Tunes (10T6, 1957);
#6 from A.L Lloyd, Ewan MacColl: The Singing Sailor (TRL3, 1956);
#7 from The McPeake Family: Wild Mountain Thyme (TOP92, 1963);
#8 from Louis Killen, Colin Ross, Johnny Handle: Northumbrian Garland (TOP75, 1962);
#9 from Enoch Kent: The Butcher Boy and Other Ballads (TOP81, 1962);
#10 from Anne Briggs: The Hazards of Love (TOP94, 1964);
#11 from Various Artists: The Iron Muse: A Panorama of Industrial Folk Music (12T86, 1963);
#12 from Ewan MacColl: The Jacobite Rebellions (12T79, 1962)
> Folk Music > Records > Folk Songs: An Anthology (Topic Sampler No 2)
Folk Songs: An Anthology
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Folk Songs: An Anthology Topic Records TPS145 (LP, UK, 1966) |
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Notes by Bill Leader
Sleeve design Ken Lees
Photography from Hulton Picture Library
Tracks
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#1 from The Liverpool Spinners: Songs Spun in Liverpool (live)
(TOP69, 1962);
#2 from Tommy Armstrong of Tyneside (12T122, 1965);
#3 from Stan Kelly: Liverpool Packet (TOP27, 1958);
#4 from Hedy West: Old Times and Hard Times (12T117);
#5 from Ewan MacColl: Shuttle and Cage (10T13, 1957) and Steam Whistle Ballads (12T104, 1964);
#6 from Dominic Behan: Down by the Liffeyside: Irish Street Ballads (12T35);
#7 from The Ian Campbell Folk Group: Ceilidh at the Crown (TOP76, 1962);
#8 from The A.L. Lloyd: Outback Ballads: Songs from the Australian Bush and Outback (12T51, 1960);
#9 from New Voices (12T125, 1965);
#10 from Shirley Collins: Heroes in Love (TOP95, 1963);
#11 from Peggy Seeger and Tom Paley: Who's Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? (12T113, 1964);
#12 from Ray & Archie Fisher: Far Over the Forth (TOP67)
Review
This review is from Gramophone, March 1966:
… In spite of that I preferred the Topic Sampler No. 2 (Topic TPS145). On this there is no song less than a hundred years old and one or two of the tracks are far from perfect, but the record is full of variety and life. Stan Kelly, the Watersons, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, Dominic Behan, Shirley Collins, Ray and Archie Fisher, A.L. Lloyd, Hedy West, Tom Paley and Johnny Handle are represented by some of the best tracks they have recorded for Topic. The Ian Campbell Group and The Spinners are here too; the performances are good but they were less lucky in the way they were recorded. Still, this is a fine record and presents the non-pop aspect of the British folk revival as well as any record could.
> Folk Music > Records > Men at Work (Topic Sampler No 3)
Men at Work
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Men at Work Topic Records TPS166 (LP, UK, 1966) |
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Tracks
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#1 from Farewell Nancy: Sea Songs and Shanties (12T110, 1964);
#2 from New Voices (12T125, 1965);
#3 from Perry Friedmann: Vive La Canadienne (TOP56, 1960);
#4 from Hedy West: Old Times and Hard Times (12T117);
#5 from The Campbell Family: The Singing Campbells (12T120, 1965);
#6 from Various Artists: The Iron Muse: A Panorama of Industrial Folk Music (12T86, 1963);
#7 from Ewan MacColl and A.L. Lloyd: The Singing Sailor (TRL3, 1956);
#8 from Jack Elliott: Talking Woody Guthrie (12T93, 1963);
#9 from Ewan MacColl: Shuttle and Cage (10T13, 1957) and Steam Whistle Ballads (12T104, 1964);
#10 from Margaret Barry, Michael Gorman: Street Songs & Fiddle Tunes (10T6, 1957);
#11 from The McPeake Family: Irish Traditional Folk Songs and Music (12T87, 1963);
#12 from Tommy Armstrong of Tyneside (12T122, 1965)
> Folk Music > Records > From Erin's Green Shore (Topic Sampler No 4)
From Erin's Green Shore
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From Erin's Green Shore Topic Records TPS168 (LP, UK, 1966) |
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#1 from Dominic Behan: Dominic Takes the Floor (TOP101, 1963);
#2 from Joe Heaney: Irish Traditional Songs in Gaelic & English (12T91, 1963);
#3 from Margaret Barry, Michael Gorman: Street Songs & Fiddle Tunes (10T6, 1957);
#4, 11, 12 from Margaret Barry, Michael Gorman: Her Mantle So Green (12T123, 1965);
#5 from Paddy Tunney: A Wild Bees' Nest (12T139, 1965);
#6 from The McPeake Family: Wild Mountain Thyme (TOP92, 1963);
#7 from The McPeake Family: Irish Traditional Songs (12T87, 1963);
#8 from Dominic Behan: Easter Week and After: Songs of the IRA (12T44, 1959);
#9 from Margaret Barry, William Clancy, Michael Gorman: Irish Pipe & Fiddle Tunes (TOP89, 1963);
#10 from Paddy Tunney, Arthur Kearney, Frank Kelly, Joe Tunney: Ireland Her Own (12T153, 1966)
> Folk Music > Records > A Prospect of Scotland (Topic Sampler No 5)
A Prospect of Scotland
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A Prospect of Scotland Topic Records TPS169 (LP, UK, 1966) |
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#1 from Isabel Sutherland: Vagrant Songs of Scotland (12T151, 1966);
#2 from By Mormond Braes (TOP68, 1961);
#3 from The Ian Campbell Folk Group: Ceilidh at the Crown (TOP76, 1962);
#4 from Jeannie Robertson: The Great Scots Traditional Ballad Singer (12T96, 1963);
#5 from New Voices from Scotland (12T133, 1965);
#6, 10 from The Stewart Family: The Stewarts of Blair (12T138, 1965);
#7 from The Fisher Family: The Fisher Family (12T137, 1966);
#5 from The Campbell Family: The Singing Campbells (12T120, 1965);
#9 from Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger: Chorus from the Gallows (12T16, 1960);
#11 from The Iron Muse: A Panorama of Industrial Folk Music (12T86, 1963);
#12 from The Exiles: Freedom, Come All Ye (12T143, 1966)
> Folk Music > Records > Folk Songs: A Collection of Ballads & Broadsides (Topic Sampler No 6)
Folk Songs: A Collection of Ballads & Broadsides
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Folk Songs: A Collection of Ballads & Broadsides Topic Records TPS201 (LP, UK, 1970) |
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Cover motif from the book Ballads and Broadsides, Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1969
Notes by Michael Pollard
Tracks
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#1, 12 from Shirley Collins: The Sweet Primeroses (12T170, 1967);
#2 from A.L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl: English and Scottish Folk Ballads (12T103, 1964);
#3, 14 from The Watersons: The Watersons (12T142, 1966);
#4, 6 from The Watersons: Frost and Fire (12T136, 1965);
#5 from Ewan MacColl: Second Shift (10T25, 1958) and Steam Whistle Ballads (12T104, 1964);
#11 from Ewan MacColl: Shuttle and Cage (10T13, 1957) and Steam Whistle Ballads (12T104, 1964);
#7 from A.L. Lloyd: Leviathan! Ballads and Songs of the Whaling Trade (12T174, 1967);
#8, 10 from Louis Killen, Colin Ross, Johnny Handle: The Colliers' Rant (TOP75, 1962);
#13 from New Voices (12T125, 1965);
#14 from A.L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl: The Singing Sailor (TRL3, 1956)
> Folk Music > Records > Sea Songs and Shanties (Topic Sampler No 7)
Sea Songs and Shanties
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Sea Songs and Shanties Topic Records TPS205 (LP, UK, 1971) |
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Right sleeve design by Ken Lees;
Photography by D.O. Hill of a Newhaven fisherman in 1845
Tracks
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#1, 5, 10, 13 from A.L Lloyd, Ewan MacColl: The Singing Sailor (TRL3, 1956);
#2, 6, 8, 11, 16 from A.L Lloyd, Ewan MacColl: The Black Ball Line (8T8, 1957);
#3, 12 from Stan Kelly: Liverpool Packet (TOP27, 1958);
#4, 14 from The Watersons: The Watersons (12T142, 1966);
#7, 17 from Farewell Nancy: Sea Songs and Shanties (12T110, 1964);
#9, 15 from New Voices (12T125, 1965)
> Folk Music > Records > English Garland (Topic Sampler No 8)
English Garland
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English Garland Topic Records TPSS221 (LP, UK, 1972) |
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#1, 13 from Roy Harris: The Bitter and the Sweet (12TS217, 1972);
#2, 14 from The High Level Ranters: Northumberland For Ever (12T186, 1968);
#3, 10 from Dave and Toni Arthur: The Lark in the Morning (12T190, 1969);
#4, 9 from Anne Briggs: Anne Briggs (12TS207, 1971);
#5, 8 from Peter Bellamy: The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate (12TS200, 1970);
#6, 11 from Bernard Wrigley: The Phenomenal Bernard Wrigley (12TS211, 1971);
#7, 12, 15 from Oak: Welcome to Our Fair (12TS212, 1971)
> Folk Music > Records > Folk Vol. 1
Folk Vol. 1
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Folk Vol. 1 Anvil Records ANV001 (LP, Germany, 1979) |
A collection of tracks from the Topic label
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#1, 13 from The Lark in the Clear Air (12TS230, 1974);
#2 from The High Level Ranters: Northumberland For Ever (12T186, 1968);
#3 from June Tabor: Airs and Graces (12TS298, 1976);
#4 from Jackie Daly: Music from Sliabh Luachra Vol. 6 (12TS358, 1977);
#5 from The Watersons: Sound, Sound Your Instruments of Joy (12TS346, 1977);
#6 from Dick Gaughan: Coppers and Brass: Scots and Irish Dance Music on Guitar (12TS315, 1977);
#7 from The Battlefield Band: Battlefield Band (12TS313, 1977);
#8 from The Clutha: Scots Ballads, Songs & Dance Tunes (12TS242, 1974);
#9 from Dick Gaughan: Gaughan (12TS384, 1978);
#10 from New Victory Band: One More Dance & Then (12TS382, 1978);
#11 from Robin & Barry Dransfield: Bowin' and Scrapin' (12TS386, 1978);
#12 from The Battlefield Band: At the Front (12TS381, 1978)