Compiled and arranged by Tutfy Swift;
Recorded by Nic Kinsey at Livingston Studios;
Produced by Neil Wayne;
Sleeve photography by Chris Hall;
Sleeve design by Sue Dransfield and Tufty Swift

Musicians

Tufty Swift: four-stop one-row melodeon, fiddle, mouth organ;
Alan Harris: banjo, double bass, piano;
Sue Harris: hammered dulcimer, oboe

Tracks

Side 1

1. Winster Processional / Blue-Eyed Stranger No. 2 (3.06)
2. Kit White’s Square Eight (2.14)
3. Father’s Whiskers (3.27)
4. Mr Gubbin’s Bicycle (2.06)
5. The Officer’s Polka (2.16)
6. Sam Steel’s Waltz and Schottische (2.10)
7. Buttered Pease / Mulberry Bush (2.41)
8. Boatman’s Dance (2.30)
9. Rig-a-Jig (2.36)
10. Old Mother Casey (2.29)

Side 2

6. Herbert Smith’s Four-Hand Reel (2.29)
7. Swedish Tune (2.10)
8. Gaspé Reel (3.15)
9. Tip-Top Polka (2.25)
10. Waltz Me, Willy (2.38)
11. Brass Nuts (2.22)
12. Winster Morris Gallop / The Miner’s Standard (2.53)
13. Miss Baker’s Hornpipe (1.40)
14. Lady of the Lake / Buffalo Girls (3.06)

All tracks trad. arr. Tufty Smith except
Track 4 John Kirkpatrick

Produced by Mossy Christian for One Row Records 2025;
Recorded by John Gill at B.B.K. Studios, Selston, Nottinghamshire in January 1985;
Front sleeve photo by Bob Naylor;
Sleeve and design by Ken Lees

Musicians

Tufty Swift: one-row melodeon D/G, tw-row melodeon;
Peter Bullock: clarinet. baritone saxaphone, flute, electric piano;
Jim Eldon: fiddle, piccolo

Tracks

LP Side 1

1. Fraser’s 10^th Quickstep (3.16)
2. Troop (London) (2.53)
3. Heage Quickstep / Quickstep. Mr. Fletcher (2.53)
4. Slow March / Lord Murdoch’s March (4.02)
5. Morgan Fancy / Peacocks Fancy (3.11)
6. Waltz / Lady Francis Courtland’s Waltz (2.47)
7. Trip It Lightly / Rostim Castle Hornpipe (3.52)

LP Side 2

1. You’ll Never Die for Love / Calabria (2.52)
2. German Waltz (3.24)
3. Turkish March (2.15)
4. Come If You Dare / Quickstep (2.24)
5. Chesterfield Bugle Horn Two Step / Nottingham Races (2.29)
6. London Waltz (2.46)
7. Quickmarch / The Fudge (2.25)
8. Nottingham Hornpipe (3.07)

All tracks trad. arr. Tufty Smith

2025 Notes

“This album comprises 24 English dance tunes and marches from the manuscript of one man Isiah Walton who lived in Kirk Langley in Derbyshire and played fife in the Belper Local Militia Band around 1814.”

Or so wrote Ian ‘Tufty’ Swift on the sleeve notes to this album in 1985. Newer research casts doubt on the source of Isiah Walton, but what is know is all of these tunes appear in the manuscript of a James Oldfield, of the Belper Militia, dated 1808. 40 years on it is thought fitting to reissue this lost album to make these wonderful tunes available once again, and to celebrate the legacy of Tufty Swift.

This is (shortened) compilation CD reissue of two Free Reed LPs: Tufty Swift’s How to Make a Bakewell Tart and Sue Harris’ Hammers & Tongues. Some of the missing tracks can be found on the Free Reed anthology This Label Is Not Removable.

Tracks

Hammers & Tongues

1. Perry Gutter / All Asiden (5.23)
2. Old Man in a Wood / Gay Ladies’ Polka (4.30)
3. Put On Your Ta-Ta, Little Girl (3.10)
4. Just Watch the Ivy (3.05)
5. Pottings Polka (2.29)
6. In the Midst of Night (4.34)
7. Green Grow the Laurels (Roud 279; G/D 6:1138; Henry H165ab, H624) (3.46)
8. All the Months of the Year / All the Year Round (7.30)

How to Make a Bakewell Tart

9. Winster Processional / Blue-Eyed Stranger No. 2 (3.06)
10. Kit White’s Square Eight (2.14)
11. Father’s Whiskers (3.27)
12. Mr Gubbin’s Bicycle (2.06)
13. The Officer’s Polka (2.16)
14. Sam Steel’s Waltz and Schottische (2.10)
15. Buttered Pease / Mulberry Bush (2.41)
16. Boatman’s Dance (2.30)
17. Rig-a-Jig (2.36)
18. Old Mother Casey (2.29)
19. Herbert Smith’s Four-Hand Reel (2.29)
20. Swedish Tune (2.10)
21. Gaspé Reel (3.15)
22. Tip-Top Polka (2.25)
23. Waltz Me, Willy (2.38)
24. Brass Nuts (2.22)
25. Winster Morris Gallop / The Miner’s Standard (2.53)