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Songs from ABC Television's “Hallelujah”

Songs from ABC Television's “Hallelujah” (Fontana TL5356)

Songs from ABC Television's “Hallelujah”
Isla Cameron, Sydney Carter, Martin Carthy, Nadia Cattouse, Johnny Scott Trio

Fontana TL5356 (LP, UK, 1966)

This album was a spin-off from the ABC Sunday evening TV series “Hallelujah”. While each TV shows explored a single theme, such as War, Romance, Protest, or Loneliness, this album contains a selection of the more than hundred songs sung on Hallelujah and therefore is not centred on a singular topic.

Musicians

Isla Cameron, Nadia Cattouse, Sydney Carter: vocals;
Martin Carthy: guitar, vocals;
Johnny Scott Trio (Johnny Scott: flute; Arthur Watts: double bass; Barry Morgan: drums)

Musical arrangement by Johnny Scott

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. [MC & Chorus] Jug of Punch (Roud 1808; Henry H490) (1.45)
  2. [NC] Business Goes on As Usual (1.28)
  3. [MC] Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime (Roud 2; Laws Q26; G/D 7:1404; Henry H680) (0.45)
  4. [IC] Two Brothers (1.56)
  5. [MC] Wayfaring Stranger (Roud 3339) (2.23)
  6. [IC] Wife of the Soldier (1.12)
  7. [SC] Mister Barber, Will You Cut My Hair? (0.41)
  8. [NC] Glass of Water (2.01)
  9. [MC] Teach Me, My God and King (1.16)
  10. [IC] Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney (2.14)
  11. [MC] Like the Snow (2.08)
  12. [NC] A Fine Romance (0.50)
  13. [SC] My Last Cigarette (1.20)
  14. [MC, SC & Chorus] Cigarettes, Whusky, and Wild, Wild Women (1.55)
  1. [All] Shalom (0.20)
  2. [NC] I Want to Have a Little Bomb Like You (1.36)
  3. [IC] Gift to Be Simple (0.47)
  4. [NC] Half the World (2.52)
  5. [SC & Chorus] Mixed Up Old Man (1.34)
  6. [IC] Whistle, Daughter, Whistle (Roud 1570; G/D 7:1334) (1.34)
  7. [MC] John Barleycorn (Roud 164; G/D 3:559) (2.35)
  8. [NC] Gallow's Pole (Roud 144; Child 95; G/D 2:248) (2.42)
  9. [IC] Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier (Roud 911) (1.32)
  10. [MC] Rivers of Babylon (Psalm 136) (1.26)
    (re-released on The Carthy Chronicles)
  11. [NC] When Were You Really Living (1.16)
  12. [SC] To My Heart (1.17)
  13. [All] Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream (1.31)

All songs trad. except
Track 2 Fred Hellerman, Fran Minkoff;
Track 4 Irving Gordon;
Track 6 Bertolt Brecht, Johnny Scott;
Tracks 7-8, 11, 13, 16, 19, 25-26 Sydney Carter;
Track 10 Tom Paxton;
Track 12 Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields;
Track 14 Tim Spencer;
Track 18 J. Maitland, Johnny Scott;
Track 22 trad. arr. Nadia Cattouse;
Track 24 Joseph Gelineau;
Track 27 Ed McCurdy