Ewan MacColl

Ewan MacColl - Black and White - The Definitive Collection (1990) @192



1. Ballad Of Accounting
2. The Driver's Song
3. My Old Man
4. Dirty Old Town
5. Black And White
6. Brother Did You Weep
7. The Press Gang
8. The Shoals Of Herring
9. The Manchester Rambler
10. Sheath And Knife
11. Highland Muster Roll
12. Cam Ye O'er Frae France
13. The Maid Gaed Tae The Mill
14. The Moving On Song
15. Nobody Knew She Was There
16. Looking For A Job
17. Kilroy Was Here
18. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
19. The Foggy Dew
20. The Joy Of Living

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Sweet Thames Flow Softly
CBR 256, Joint Stereo \ Not My Rip ~ Posted As Found



Ewan MacColl
Peggy Seeger
John Faulkner
Sandra Kerr
Ted Culver
Terry Yarnell
Jim O'Connor


The Critics Group, also known as The London Critics Group, was a group of people who met to explore 'how best to apply the techniques of folk-music and drama to the folk revival under the direction of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, with some participation from Bert Lloyd and Charles Parker. Running for eight years from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s this was not a conventional musical group as it had no permanent line-up.

It started out as a study group for singers, meeting once a week at MacColl and Seeger's home in Beckenham, attempting to raise the standards of singing. One of the main activities of the meetings was group criticism and discussion of each other's performances which subsequently earned the group its name, coined by Charles Parker when pressed for a name by a radio interviewer.

Many of the meetings were recorded, and some of these recordings are held as part of the The Charles Parker Archive which is held in the Birmingham City Archive and Heritage Service.

The group went on to produce an annual show called the Festival of Fools. Staged each Christmas for five years, they satirised events of the previous year through sketches and songs, loosely based around folk customs and songs. They were performed in the back room of a North London pub.

Members of the group included Frankie Armstrong, Bob Blair, Brian Byrne (UK), Helen Campbell (UK), Jim Carroll (UK), Ted Culver, John Faulkner (UK), Richard Humm, Allen Ives, Sandra Kerr, Paul Lenihan, Pat Mackenzie, Jim O'Connor, Maggie O'Murphy, Tom Paley, Brian Pearson, Michael Rosen, Buff Rosenthal, Susanna Steele, Denis Turner, Jack Warshaw, Terry Yarnell.

The group released a number of recordings on the Argo label.

In 1972 the principal performing members of the Critics Group broke away from MacColl's leadership and formed the left-wing theatre group Combine, which produced weekly events in an east London pub, the Knave of Clubs. They created songs, plays and other events in a similar manner to the Critics, culminating in the Vietnam Victory Show of April 1975 which celebrated the final liberation of Saigon.

The Critics Group


TrackList:

01. Street Cries
02. Tottie
03. Judges And Juries
04. Parson Grocer
05. Betsy Baker
06. Plank Bed Ballad
07. The Jail Song
08. William And Phyllis
09. Randolph Turpin, Sugar Ray Fight
10. Supermarket Song
11. Ratcliffe Highway
12. Outward Bound
13. My Jolly Sailor Bold
14. The Streets Of London
15. The Colour-bar Strike
16. Landlord's 9 Questions
17. Sweet Thames Flow Softly

Playing Time: 00:53:17
Total Size....: 97.72 MB




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The World Of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
VBR ≈ 256, Joint Stereo


At the present time, I have no information regarding this album.


The World Of Ewan & Peggy:


TrackList:

01. Dirty Old Town
02. The Manchester Rambler
03. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
04. Freeborn Man
05. Space Girl
06. Black Velvet Band
07. The Big Hewer
08. The Shoals Of Herring
09. Maids, When You're Young
10. Thirty-Foot Trailer
11. Peggy Gordon
12. Poor Paddy Works On The Railway
13. Ballad Of Springhill
14. Sweet Thames Flow Softly

Playing Time: 00:49:58
Total Size....: 90.94 MB



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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads: Vol. 1 ~ Child Ballads
CBR 128, Joint Stereo \ LP Rel. 1961


The Ballads:

TrackList:

01. Johnnie O'Breadisley (Johnie Cock) - Child No. 114
02. The Dowie Dens O'Yarrow - Child 214
03. Lord Randall - Child 12
04. Sir Patrick Spens - Child 58
05. The Burning O'Auchendoun - Willie MacIntosh - Child 183
06. Oud Goodman - Our Gudeman - Child 274
07. The Rantin Laddie - Child 240
08. Bawbee Allan - Barbara Allen - Child 84
09. The Brown Girl - Lord Thomas and Fair Annet - Child 73
10. The Three Ravens - Child 26
11. The Bonnie Earl O' Murray - Child 181
12. The Battle of Harlaw - Child 163
13. Thomas Rhymer - Thomas Rymour - Child 37

Playing Time: 00:49:52
Total Size....: 45.67 MB



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Ewan MacColl - "Scots Drinking Songs"




TrackList:

01. We're A' Jolly Fu'
02. The Calton Weaver
03. When She Come Ben She Bobbit
04. The Laird o' the Dainty Doon Bye
05. Blow The Candle Out
06. Donald Blue
07. The Brewer Laddie
08. We're Gayly Yet
09. A Wee Drappie O't
10. The Cuckoo's Nest
11. Green Grow The Rashes, O
12. The Day We Went to Rothesay, O
13. The Bonnie Wee Lassie Who Never Said No
14. The Muckin' 0' Geordie's Byre
15. Jock Hawk's Adventure in Glasgow
16. The Brisk Young Lad
17. I Wish That You Were Dead, Guidman
18. The Wind Blew The Bonnie Lassie's Plaidie Awa'
19. Andro And His Cutty Gun

47 Mb, 256 kbps, vynil rip



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Ewan MacColl - "Bad Lads and Hard Cases"




Tracks:

01. Turpin Hero
02. Spence Broughton
03. Ivor
04. The Bonnie Banks of Airdrie
05. Superintendent Barratt
06. Barratty-Parratty
07. Go Down You Murderer
08. Van Dieman's Land
09. Whiskey in the Jar
10. Bill Brown
11. The Banks of the Royal Canal
12. The Black Velvet Band
13. Hard Case
14. The Ballad of Bentley and Craig
15. Treadmill Song
16. Gilderoy

68Mb, 256 kbps, vynil rip



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Ewan MacColl - "British Army Songs"




TrackList:

01. Bless 'Em All
02. Tell Me Boys Have You Any Complaints
03. The Dying Soldier
04. The Ballad of Wadi Maktilla
05. The Trooper Cut Down in His Prime
06. Hand Me Down Me Petticoat
07. All You Maidens Sweet and Kind
08. Columbo
09. Seven Years In the Sand
10. Join the British Army
11. When This Ruddy War is Over
12. The Second Front Song
13. Browned Off
14. McKaffery
15. The Fortress Song
16. The D Day Dodgers
17. On the Move
18. The Ghost Army of Korea

66 Mb, 256 kbps, vynil rip
(Sorry, the track 12 has some defects - the LP is not in a very good condition)




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Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger - The Paper Stage


This one is ripped from the CD reissue of the album by Camsco Music


Tracks:

Disc 1

01. The Taming of a Shrew
02. King Lear and His Three Daughters
03. Arden of Faversham
04. The Frolicksome Duke, or The Tinker's Good Fortune


Disc 2

01. Titus Andronicus's Complaint
02. Gerontus, The Jew of Venice
03. The Spanish Tragedy
04. A Warning Piece to England Against Pride and Wickedness



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Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger - "The Amorous Muse"




Tracks:

01. Kissing's Nae Sin (Scots) - Ewan MacColl
02. The Little Carpenter (American) - Peggy Seeger
03. Stonecutter Boy (English) - Ewan MacColl
04. When I Was In My Prime (Nove Scotia) - Peggy Seeger
05. The Mill-Mill O (Scots) - Ewan MacColl
06. Bonny Bunch of Rushes Green (Canadian) - Peggy Seeger
07. Lassie Gathering Nuts (Scots) - Ewan MacColl
08. If He'd Be A Buckaroo (American) - Peggy Seeger
09. Let Me In This Ae Nicht (Scots) - Ewan MacColl
10. Whistle Daughter Whistle (American) - Peggy Seeger
11. Eppie Morrie (Scots) - Ewan MacColl
12. Supper is Nae Ready (Scots) - Ewan MacColl
13. The Spinning Wheel (Scots) - Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
14. A Pretty Fair Maid (American) - Peggy Seeger
15. Firelock Stile (English) - Ewan MacColl
16. Where Are You Going, My Pretty Little Girl (American) - Peggy Seeger
17. O Gin My Love Were You Red Rose (Scots) - Ewan MacColl
18. Young Munro (Canadian) - Peggy Seeger
19. The Bugaboo (American) - Peggy Seeger
20. Dainty Davie (Scots) - Ewan MacColl
21. The First Time Ever (Contemporary English) - Peggy Seeger
22. Sweet Thames Flow Softly (English) - Ewan MacColl

71 Mb, 256 kbps





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The Critics Group - "Ye Mariners All" (1971)




TrackList:

01. Ja Ja Ja (pumping shanty) - Dick Snell and chorus
02. The Indian Lass - Brian Pearson (Dick Snell: whistle; Peggy Seeger: concertina; Sandra Kerr: guitar; John Faulkner: fiddle)
03. The Cruel Ship's Captain - Ewan MacColl
04. Paddy Get Back (capstain shanty) - Aldwyn Cooper and chorus
05. Jack The Jolly Tar - Ewan MacColl and chorus (Peggy Seeger: concertina)
06. The Ship In Distress - Terry Yarnell
07. Cheer'ly Man (halyard shanty) - Ewan MacColl and chorus
08. The Spanish Fight - Brian Pearson (Peggy Seeger: dulcimer; Sandra Kerr: whistle; John Faulkner: fiddle)
09. Andrew Rose - Terry Yarnell and chorus (John Faulkner: fiddle)
10. Bangidero (capstain shanty) - John Faulkner and chorus
11. The Mermaid (Child 289) - Ewan MacColl
12. Goodbye, Fare You Well (capstain shanty) - Dick Snell and chorus (Peggy Seeger: concertina; John Faulkner: fiddle; Sandra Kerr: whistle)
13. The Bold Princess Royal - John Faulkner
14. Clear The Track (capstain shanty) - Ewan MacColl and chorus
15. Captain Ward And The Rainbow - Ewan MacColl (John Faulkner: fiddle)
16. The Sea Martyrs - Terry Yarnell; John Faulkner; Dick Snell
17. Cruising Round Yarmouth - Phil Colclough and chorus
18. Ye Mariners All - John Faulkner
19. Galloping Randy Dandy Oh (capstain shanty) - Ewan MacColl and chorus
20. Leave Her Johnny (capstain shanty) - Ewan MacColl and chorus

115 Mb, 320 kbps, vynil rip




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Ewan MacColl - Solo Flight (1972)


Ewan MacColl vocals
Peggy Seeger guitar , concertina, dulcimer & banjo
John Faulkner guitar, fiddle, mandolin & tin-whistle


Tracks:

01 The Bonnie Bunch Of Roses
02 The Tunnel Tigers
03 A Roving Hielan Man
04 The Iron-Moulder's Wedding
05 The Bold Poachers
06 Ye Hae Lien Wrang Lassie
07 The Fowler
08 The Maid Of Reigate
09 Sheath and Knife
10 Alan Tyne o' Harrow
11 Roseberry
12 The Molecatcher
13 James Herries
14 The Penny Wager
15 The Tattie-Lifting Song
16 Lament for the Death of a Nobody

81 Mb, 256 kbps




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