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Phoebe Smith

2026-04-04T08:51:42Z

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'''Phoebe Smith''', née Scamp, English Gypsy singer, born 1913, died 8 November 2001.

Born 1913 in Tanner Street, Faversham, [[Kent]], Phoebe was the the youngest of twenty-one children. Her parents Bill Scamp and Ann (née Jones) had ceased to travel, but did seasonal work; she spent much of her early life picking fruit in Kent. She married [[Joe Smith]], a scrap dealer, and moved with him around Kent and Essex before settling in Woodbridge, [[Suffolk]]. Phoebe learnt many of her songs as a young girl from her elder sisters. Her uncle, [[Oliver Scamp]], a Kentish horse-dealer, was also an important source of songs. Joe Smith played the fiddle and Phoebe loved to step-dance to her husband's music.

In the early 1950s the BBC recorded some songs from one of Phoebe's brothers, [[Charlie Scamp]]. Charlie mentioned Phoebe's name and that is how she came to the attention of the 'outside' world.

[https://www.eatmt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/phoebe-smith.jpg Photo of Phoebe Smith] (Mike Yates / Veteran Records)

Read more on the KentTrad website: https://kenttrad.org/phoebe-smith/

== Discography ==

*[[VT136CD The Yellow Handkerchief|The Yellow Handkerchief]], [[Veteran]] VT136CD (14 tracks)

*[[Once I Had a True Love (LP)|Once I Had a True Love]], [[Topic Records]] 12T193 (9 tracks)

'''Tracks on compilations:'''

*[[Hidden English]], [[Topic Records]] - [[Higher Germany]]

*[[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green]], [[Topic Records]] - [[Molly Vaughan]]

*[[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride]], [[Topic Records]] - [[Young Ellender]]

*[[Who's That at my Bed Window?]], [[Topic Records]] - [[Captain Thunderball]]

*[[My Father's the King of the Gypsies]], [[Topic Records]] 
:[[Sweet William]]
:[[Tan Yard Side, The|The Tan Yard Side]]
:[[Yellow Handkerchief, The|The Yellow Handkerchief]]

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Traveller]]
[[Category: Kent]]
[[Category: Suffolk]]

Charlie Scamp

2026-04-04T08:48:57Z

Andyturner:

'''Charlie Scamp''', English Gypsy singer, older brother of [[Phoebe Smith]].

He was recorded 15th January 1954 by [[Peter Kennedy]] at Chartham Hatch, near Canterbury, [[Kent]]. Born at nearby Chilham, his father was William Scamp, horse-dealer of Ramsgate, and his mother was Anne Jones of [[Sussex]].

He told Peter Kennedy that he had 500 relations living in Canterbury in the horse trade. He had travelled in Ireland, Scotland, France and Wales horse dealing.

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Traveller]]
[[Category: Kent]]

Voice of the People Performer Index

2025-12-15T09:33:46Z

Andyturner: /* D */

Index of performers featured on the [[Topic Records]] 20 CD set, "[[The Voice of the People]]".

== A ==
[[Abbots Bromley Horn Dancers]] - Live Performance - [[Cock o' the North]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 23 
[[Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers]] - [[Jockey to the Fair]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 13 
[[Ruth Askew]] - [[The Manchester Hornpipe]] / [[Click Go The Shears]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 23 
[[Will Atkinson]] - [[Tell Her I Am]] / [[Teviot Brig]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 07 
[[Will Atkinson]] - [[Off to Califomia]] / [[The Greencastle]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 19 
[[Will Atkinson]] - [[Hexham Races]] / [[The Stool Of Repentance]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 01 
[[Will Atkinson]] - [[The Friendly Visit]] / [[The Greencastle]] / [[The Lass on The Strand]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 06 
[[Will Atkinson]] - [[Christie MacLeod]] / [[The Gallowglass Rant]] / [[Charlie Hunter]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 07 
[[Will Atkinson]] - [[Mrs Jamieson's Favourite]] / [[Parnell's March]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 12 
[[Will Atkinson]] - [[Farewell to the Creeks ]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 14 
[[Will Atkinson]] - [[J. B. Milne]] / [[The New High Level]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 17 
[[Will Atkinson]] - [[Longueval]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 21 
[[Will Atkinson]] - [[A M Shinnie]] / [[The Hogmanay Jig]] / [[Elizabeth Adair]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 25 
[[Will Atkinson]] - [[Kelso Accordion and Fiddle Club]] / [[Linda McFarlane]] / [[The Scairlaveg]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 28 
 

== B ==

[[Stephen Baldwin]] - [[Just As The Tide Was Flowing]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 19 
[[Stephen Baldwin]] - [[The Girl I Left Behind Me]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 11 
[[Stephen Baldwin]] - [[Greensleeves]] / [[Napoleon's March]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 01 
[[Stephen Baldwin]] - [[The Gypsy Hompipe]] / [[Untitled Schottische]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 19 
[[Billy Ballantine]] - [[The Gilsland Hornpipe]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 02 
[[Billy Ballantine]] - [[Bonny North Tyne]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 04 
[[Billy Ballantine]] - [[Rosalie the Prairie Flower]] / [[My Lodging]] / [[Blow The Wind Southerly]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 19 
[[Billy Ballantine]] - [[Kielder Schottische|The Kielder Schottische]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 22 
[[Billy Ballantine]] - [[Sylph, The|The Sylph]] / [[Proudlock's Hornpipe]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 23 
[[Bampton Morris]] - [[Quaker, The (Morris Dance)|The Quaker]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 03 
[[Bampton Morris]] - [[Bobbing Around]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 18 
[[Bampton Morris]] - [[Banbury Bill]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 17 
[[Margaret Barry]] - [[Blarney Stone, The|The Blarney Stone]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 17 
[[Margaret Barry]] - [[She Moved Through the Fair]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 25 
[[Margaret Barry]] - [[Two Hundred Years A-Brewing]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 02 
[[Margaret Barry]] - [[Leprechaun, The|The Leprechaun]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 05 
[[Margaret Barry]] - [[A Parody]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 28 
[[Margaret Barry]] - [[Half-Door, The|The Half-Door]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 05 
[[Margaret Barry]] - [[I'll Marry and I Won't be A Nun]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 14 
[[Margaret Barry]] - [[If You Ever Go Over To Ireland]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 05 
[[Margaret Barry]] - [[Eileen McMahon]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 13 
[[Margaret Barry]] - [[Farewell, My Own Dear Native Land]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 18 
[[Margaret Barry]] - [[Wild Colonial Boy, The|The Wild Colonial Boy]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 03 
[[Margaret Barry]] - [[Bold Fenian Men, The|The Bold Fenian Men]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 24 
[[Rabbity Baxter]] - [[Jenny Lind]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 01 
[[Rabbity Baxter]] - [[Untitled Polka]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 13 
[[Paddy Beades]] - [[Bonnie Labouring Boy, The|The Bonnie Labouring Boy]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 17 
[[Belhavel Trio]] - [[Job of Journeywork, The|The Job of Journeywork]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 04 
[[Amy Birch]] - [[Over Yonder's Hill]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 09 
[[Amy Birch]] - [[Royal Comrade]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 03 
[[Frank Bond]] (of North Waltham Jolly Jacks) - [[God Bless The Master Of This House]] / [[Where Does Father Christmas Go To?]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 17 
[[Sam Bond]] - [[Oh, the Hampshires do Like Duff]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 11 
[[Sam Bond]] (of North Waltham Jolly Jacks) - [[God Bless The Master Of This House]] / [[Where Does Father Christmas Go To?]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 17 
[[Boscastle and Tintagel Players]] - [[The Boscastle Breakdown]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 05 
[[Bob Brader]] - [[Old John Wallis]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 23 
[[Bob Brader]] - [[Banks of Sweet Dundee, The|The Banks of Sweet Dundee]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 23 
[[May Bradley]] - [[Under the Leaves]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 33 
[[May Bradley]] - [[Willow Tree, The|The Willow Tree]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 01 
[[May Bradley]] - [[Calvery]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 22 
[[Harry Brazil]] - [[Sally Morrow]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 02 
[[Harry Brazil]] - [[A Blacksmith Courted Me]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 21 
[[Harry Brazil]] - [[Bold Keeper]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 17 
[[Lemmie Brazil]] - [[God Killed the Devil]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 03 
[[Paddy Breen]] - [[On the Banks of the Silvery Tide]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 15 
[[Paddy Breen]] - [[Sweet Inishcara]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 02 
[[Paddy Breen]] - [[Blue Meadow, The|The Blue Meadow]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 23 
[[Jumbo Brightwell]] - [[Blow the Candle Out]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 17 
[[Jumbo Brightwell]] - [[The Loss of The Ramilly]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 01 
[[Jumbo Brightwell]] - [[The Derby Miller]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 06 
[[Jumbo Brightwell]] - [[The Oak And The Ash]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 21 
[[Jumbo Brightwell]] - [[Muddley Barracks]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 07 
[[Jumbo Brightwell]] - [[Newry Town]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 01 
[[Britannia Coconut Dancers]] - Live Performance - [[The Nut Dance]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 01 
[[Britannia Coconut Dancers]] - [[The Garland Dance No 3]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 24 
[[Percy Brown]] - [[Old Joe, The Boat is Going Over]] / [[Untitled Polka]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 01 
[[Percy Brown]] - [[The Yarmouth Breakdown]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 03 
[[Percy Brown]] - [[Veleta|The Veleta]] / [[Heel and Toe Polka|The Heel and Toe Polka]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 21 
[[Tom Brown]] - [[Windy Old Weather]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 21 
[[Tom Brown]] - [[Widdlecombe Fair]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 01 
[[Turp Brown]] - [[Abroad As I Was Walking]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 16 
[[Turp Brown]] - [[Streams of Lovely Nancy, The|The Streams of Lovely Nancy]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 08 
[[Billy Buckingham]] - [[Waysailing Bowl, The|The Waysailing Bowl]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 2 
[[Walter Bulwer]] - [[Sailor Cut Down in His Prime, The|The Sailor Cut Down in His Prime]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 14 
[[Walter Bulwer]] - [[Old Mrs Cuddledee, The Egg Hornpipe]] / [[Shipdham Hornpipe|The Shipdham Hornpipe]] / [[Sailor's Hornpipe, The|The Sailor's Hornpipe]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 12 
[[Harry Burgess]] - [[A Week Before Easter]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 21 
[[Harry Burgess]] - [[Hungry Fox, The|The Hungry Fox]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 07 
[[Ben Butcher]] - [[Cruel Lincoln]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 11 
[[Eddie Butcher]] - [[David's Flowery Vale]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 15 
[[Eddie Butcher]] - [[Killyclare]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 03 
[[Eddie Butcher]] - [[Tossing The Hay]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 23 
[[Eddie Butcher]] - [[Another Man's Wedding]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 03 
 

== C ==

[[Bob Cann]] - [[Uncle George's Hornpipe]] / [[Tommy Roberts' Hornpipe]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 08 
[[Bob Cann]] - [[Woodland Flowers /Uncle Jim's Barndance]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 09 
[[Mary Ann Carolan]] - [[Bold Doherty]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 08 
[[Mary Ann Carolan]] - [[in London So Fair]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 01 
[[Mary Ann Carolan]] - [[My Father's A Hedger and Ditcher]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 16 
[[Mary Ann Carolan]] - [[The Maid of Ballymore]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 04 
[[Mary Ann Carolan]] - [[Young Bob Ridley]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 07 
[[Cheviot Ranters, The|Cheviot Ranters]] - [[The Ideal Schottische]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 27 
[[Robert Cinnamond]] - [[It Was Early Early All in A Spring]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 17 
[[Robert Cinnamond]] - [[There Was a Lady Lived in the West]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 09 
[[Robert Cinnamond]] - [[The Aghalee Heroes]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 08 
[[Willie Clancy]] - [[The Song of The Riddles]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 06 
[[Willie Clancy]] - [[Erin's Lovely Lee]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 16 
[[Bertie Clark]] - [[The Maid of the Mill]] / [[Bacca Pipes]] / [[Jockey to the Fair]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 26 
[[Nora Cleary]] - [[Farewell, Lovely Mary]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 17 
[[Nora Cleary]] - [[Willie O]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 21 
[[Nora Cleary]] - [[The Green Wedding]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 06 
[[Nora Cleary]] - [[The Bold Trooper]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 16 
[[Nora Cleary]] - [[The Codfish]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 26 
[[Julia Clifford]] - [[Ballydesmond]] / [[Knocknabowl]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 24 
[[Michael Coleman]] - [[Farewell To Ireland]] / [[Unidentified]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 06 
[[Mary Ann Connelly]] - [[Lurgan Streams]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 13 
[[Diddy Cook]] - [[The Blackbird]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 08 
[[Billy Cooper]] - [[The Irish Washerwoman]] / [[Garyowen /Rory O'More]] / [[St Patrick's Day]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 17 
[[Eddie Corcoran]] - [[Bonny Kate]] / [[Jenny's Chickens]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 01 
[[Tom Costello]] - [[A Grand Conversation on Napoleon]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 01 
[[Harry Cox]] - [[The Bold Fisherman]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 09 
[[Harry Cox]] - [[Just as the Tide Was A - Flowing]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 04 
[[Harry Cox]] - [[Come All You Men Throughout This Nation]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 11 
[[Harry Cox]] - [[The Bold Princess Royal]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 22 
[[Harry Cox]] - [[In Worcester City]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 01 
[[Harry Cox]] - [[Young Edmund]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 15 
[[Harry Cox]] - [[The Pretty Ploughboy]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 14 
[[Michael Crogan]] - [[My Love She s in America]] / [[Hand Me Down The Tackle]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 15 
[[Donald Cumming]] - [[The Bottom of the Punchbowl]] / [[The Teetotaller]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 09 
 

== D ==

[[Donald Davidson]] - [[The Inverness Gatheting]] / [[Dornoch Links]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 26 
[[Mary Delaney]] - [[Buried in Kilkenny]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 05 
[[Mary Delaney]] - [[What Put the Blood? ]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 11 
[[Jimmy Dixon]] - [[Over the Waves]] / [[The Cuckoo Waltz]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 11 
[[Jimmy Dixon]] - [[Nobody's Darling But Mine]] / [[Untitled Quickstep Medley]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 27 
[[Jim Donaghue]] - [[The Pigeon on The Gate]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 29 
[[Seamus Donaghue]] - [[The Pigeon on The Gate]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 29 
[[Felix Doran]] - [[The Fox Hunt]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 09 
[[Dorset Trio]] - [[Hands Across]] / [[The Four - Handed Reel]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 08 
[[Dorset Trio]] - [[The Italian Schottische]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 18 
[[Dorset Trio]] - [[Sheep - Shearing]] / [[Untitled Polka]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 24 
[[Johnny Doughty]] - [[Baltimore]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 09 
[[Johnny Doughty]] - [[Up The Channel]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 15 
[[Johnny Doughty]] - [[Will You Marry Me]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 02 
[[Johnny Doughty]] - [[The Streets of Port Arthur]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 24 
[[Johnny Doughty]] - [[I'm Going To Be Mother Today]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 27 
[[Johnny Doughty]] - [[Come My Own One, Come My Fond One]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 04 
[[Johnny Doughty]] - [[Round Rye Bay For More]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 17 
[[Johnny Doughty]] - [[Herrings' Heads]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 01 
[[Ray Driscoll]] - [[Jingles, Recitations & Dance Tunes]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 18 
[[George Dunn]] - [[My Little Grey Horse]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 19 
[[George Dunn]] - [[While Shepherds Were Watching ther Flocks by Night]] - [[You_Lazy_Lot_of_Bone-Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 06 
 

== E ==

[[Jack Elliott]] - [[Old Johnny Booger]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 03 
[[Jack Elliott]] - [[Champion He Was a Dandy]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 15 
[[Jack Elliott]] - [[In the Bar - Room]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 09 
[[Jack Elliott]] - [[The Banks of the Dee]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 15 
[[Bill Ellson]] - [[Will You Buy my Sweet Blooming Lavender?]] / [[Love is Pleasing]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 12 
 

== F ==

[[Lucy Farr]] - [[The Glen of Aherlow]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 11 
[[Hockey Feltwell]] - [[Four Horses]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 13 
[[Straighty Flanagah]] - [[The Grazer Tribe]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 08 
[[Austin Flanagan]] - [[The Barley Grain]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 12 
[[Straighty Flanagan]] - [[Michael Power]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 23 
[[Bob Forrester]] - [[The Wild Rover]] / [[Copshawholm Fair]] / [[Yon Flowery Garden]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 16 
[[Bob Forrester]] - [[Copshawholm Fair]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 05 
[[Louie Fuller]] - [[Young Maria]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 17 
[[Louie Fuller]] - [[Green Grow the Laurels]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 06 
[[Louie Fuller]] - [[Hopping Down In Kent]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 01 ''N.B. on the CD this track is incorrectly labelled as [[Mary Ann Haynes]]'' 

== G ==

[[Gargan's Athlone Accordeon Band]] - [[The Soldier's Joy]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 29 
[[Martin Gorman]] - [[The Little Drummer]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 19 
[[Martin Gorman]] - [[It's Nowt To Do With Me]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 02 
[[Martin Gorman]] - [[Old King Cole]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 16 
[[Michael Gorman]] - [[Two Hundred Years A - Brewing]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 02 
[[Michael Gorman]] - [[The Broken Pledge]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 21 
[[Michael Gorman]] - [[The Leprechaun]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 05 
[[Michael Gorman]] - [[The Half - Door]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 05 
[[Michael Gorman]] - [[I'll Marry and I Won't be A Nun]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 14 
[[Michael Gorman]] - [[Eileen McMahon]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 13 
[[Michael Gorman]] - [[Farewell, My Own Sear Native Land]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 18 
[[Michael Gorman]] - [[The Wild Colonial Boy]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 03 
[[Adam Gray]] - [[Tom Hepple's Polka]] / [[The Tow House Polka]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 15 
[[John Griffin]] - [[The Real Old Mountain Dew]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 05 
[[Michael Grogan]] - [[The Queen of the Fair]] / [[The Lark in the Morning]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 16 
 

== H ==

[[Jimmy Halpin]] - [[Johnny Harte]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 03 
[[Jimmy Halpin]] - [[Killafole Boasters]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 02 
[[Jimmy Halpin]] - [[To Reap and Mow the Hay]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 02 
[[Paddy Halpin]] - [[To Reap and Mow the Hay]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 02 
[[Geordie Hanna]] - [[On Yonder Hill there Sits a Hare]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 02 
[[Geordie Hanna]] - [[Young Edmund in the Lowlands Low]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 07 
[[Geordie Hanna]] - [[Brockagh Brae]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 07 
[[Geordie Hanna]] - [[Kate of Bailinamore]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 17 
[[Bob Hart]] - [[Seventeen Come Sunday]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 01 
[[Bob Hart]] - [[The Female Cabin Boy]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 13 
[[Bob Hart]] - [[Cod Banging]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 16 
[[Bob Hart]] - [[The Farmers Servant]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 11 
[[Bob Hart]] - [[A Broadside]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 02 
[[Mary Ann Haynes]] - [[Lovely Johnny]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 03 
[[Mary Ann Haynes]] - [[Little Dun Dee]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 13 
[[Mary Ann Haynes]] - [[The Female Drummer]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 23 
[[Mary Ann Haynes]] - [[The Colour of Amber]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 25 
[[Mary Ann Haynes]] - [[The Young Officer]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 32 
[[Mary Ann Haynes]] - [[The Little Ball of Yarn]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 19 
[[Mary Ann Haynes]] - [[Erin's Lovely Home]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 02 
[[Mary Ann Haynes]] - [[Hopping Down In Kent]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 01 ''N.B. this track is incorrectly labelled - the singer is actually [[Louie Fuller]]'' 
[[Mary Ann Haynes]] - [[Long A - Growing]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 19 
[[Joe Heaney]] - [[Who Are You My Pretty Fair Maid? ]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 11 
[[Joe Heaney]] - [[The Rocks of Bawn]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 02 
[[Joe Heaney]] - [[The Wife of the Bold Tenant Farmer]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 04 
[[Joe Heaney]] - [[Morrissey and the Russian Sailor]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 02 
[[Fred Hewett]] - [[Three Maidens to Milking Did Go]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 02 
[[Fred Hewett]] - [[The Prickle Holly - Bush]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 08 
[[Lizzie Higgins]] - [[The Banks of Red Roses]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 16 
[[Lizzie Higgins]] - [[A Beggar Man]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 01 
[[Lizzie Higgins]] - [[Lady Mary Ann]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 12 
[[Lizzie Higgins]] - [[Sandy's A Sailor]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 07 
[[Lizzie Higgins]] - [[The Cruel Mother]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 13 
[[Lizzie Higgins]] - [[Lovely Molly]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 16 
[[Lizzie Higgins]] - [[The Forester]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 09 
[[Lizzie Higgins]] - [[The Laird 0 The Dainty Doonby]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 18 
[[Harry Holman]] - [[There was a Poor Thresherman]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 13 
[[Eddy Holmes]] - [[The Bottom of the Punchbowl]] / [[The Teetotaller]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 09 
[[Martin Howley]] - [[The Young Horseman]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 06 
[[Jimmy Hunter]] - [[Rosalie the Prairie Flower]] / [[My Lodging]] / [[Blow The Wind Southerly]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 19 
[[Tom Hunter]] - [[The Gilsland Hornpipe]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 02 
[[Tom Hunter]] - [[The Kielder Schottische]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 22 
[[Jake Hutton]] - [[Kielder Schottische, The|The Kielder Schottische]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 22 
[[Joe Hutton]] - [[Off to Califomia]] / [[The Greencastle]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 19 
[[Joe Hutton]] - [[Christie MacLeod]] / [[The Gallowglass Rant]] / [[Charlie Hunter]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 07 
[[Joe Hutton]] - [[Mrs Jamieson's Favourite]] / [[Parnell's March]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 12 
[[Joe Hutton]] - [[Kelso Accordion and Fiddle Club]] / [[Linda McFarlane]] / [[The Scairlaveg]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 28 
[[Hyde Brothers]] - [[Back o' the Haggart]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 25 
[[Jack Hyde]] - [[Shepherd's Hey]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 06 
 

== I ==

[[Peter Ingram]] - [[Mandi Went To Poove The Gri]] / [[Untitled Stepdance Tune]] / [[Can You Rokker Romany? ]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 02 
 

== J ==

[[Liz Jefferies]] - [[Rosemary Lane]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 16 
[[Liz Jefferies]] - [[Willie The Bold Sailor Boy]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 05 
[[Liz Jefferies]] - [[Matt Highland]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 13 
 
[[Joe Jones]] - [[Jingles, Recitations & Dance Tunes]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 18 
[[Fred Jordan]] - [[John Barleycorn]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 01 
[[Fred Jordan]] - [[When Jones's Ale Was New]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 13 
[[Fred Jordan]] - [[The Dark Eyed Sailor]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 23 
[[Fred Jordan]] - [[We Shepherds are the Best of Men]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 03 
[[Fred Jordan]] - [[The Bonny Boy]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 02 
[[Fred Jordan]] - [[We're All Jolly Fellows As Follow the Plough]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 01 
[[Fred Jordan]] - [[Down The Road]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 18 
 

== K ==

[[Willie Kemp]] - [[The Tinklers Wedding]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 15 
[[Willie Kemp]] - [[Mackenzie Highlanders]] / [[The Inverness Gathering]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 04 
[[Willie Kemp]] - [[The Ball O' Kerriemeer]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 17 
[[Willie Kemp]] - [[Wi Ma Big Kilmarnock Bonnet]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 21 
[[Willie Kemp]] - [[Glendarel Highlanders]] / [[Kenmure's on and Awa']] / [[Lovat Scouts]] / [[Monymusk]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 13 
[[William Kimber|Bill Kimber]] - [[Haste to the Wedding]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 01 
[[William Kimber|Bill Kimber]] - [[Double Set Back]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 08 
[[William Kimber|Bill Kimber]] - [[Over the Hills To Glory]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 15 
[[Jimmy Knights]] - [[Out With My Gun in the Morning]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 05 
[[Jimmy Knights]] - [[Marrowbones]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 07 
 

== L ==

[[Sam Larner]] - [[The Sailors Alphabet]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 06 
[[Sam Larner]] - [[The Lofty Tall Ship]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 25 
[[Sam Larner]] - [[In Scarborough Town]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 06 
[[Sam Larner]] - [[The Pleasant Month of May]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 04 
[[Ted Laurence]] - [[The Flies are on the Turmits]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 05 
[[Harry Lee]] - [[The Breakdown]] / [[The Flowers of Edinburgh]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 14 
[[Tom Lenihan]] - [[Paddy's Panacea]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 02 
[[Tom Lenihan]] - [[Sixteen Years, Mama]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 24 
[[Tom Lenihan]] - [[The Cranbally Farmer]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 02 
[[Geoff Ling]] - [[The Green Bushes]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 02 
[[Geoff Ling]] - [[Died For Love]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 11 
[[George Ling]] - [[Jolly Jack The Sailor]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 16 
[[George Ling]] - [[On Board The Leicester Castle]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 09 
[[Loftus Sword Dancers]] - [[The Oyster Girl - 1st Figure]] / [[The Lass of Dallowgill - 2nd Figure]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 09 
 

== M ==

[[Sean Mac Donnchadha]] - [[An Spailpin Fanach (The Migrant Labourer)]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 01 
[[John Macdonald]] - [[Bonnie Hoose O' Airlie, The|The Bonnie Hoose O' Airlie]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 04 
[[John Macdonald]] - [[Wandering Shepherd Laddie, The|The Wandering Shepherd Laddie]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 12 
[[John Macdonald]] - [[Lord Ronald]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 09 
[[John Macdonald]] - [[Dowie Dens of Yarrow, The|The Dewie Dens of Yarrow]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 16 
[[John Macdonald]] - [[Mains O Fogieloan, The|The Mains O Fogieloan]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 09 
[[John Macdonald]] - [[Sleepytoon]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 24 
[[John Macdonald]] - [[Majuba Hill]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 01 
[[John Macdonald]] - [[Haughs o' Cromdale, The|The Haughs o' Cromdale]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 07 
[[Curly Mackay]] - [[The Tinklers Wedding]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 15 
[[Curly Mackay]] - [[Mackenzie Highlanders]] / [[Inverness Gathering, The|The Inverness Gathering]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 04 
[[Curly Mackay]] - [[Ball O' Kerriemeer, The|The Ball O' Kerriemeer]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 17 
[[Curly Mackay]] - [[Wi Ma Big Kilmarnock Bonnet]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 21 
[[John Maedonald]] - [[Ball O ' Kerriemeer, The|The Ball O ' Kerriemeer]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 09 
[[Big John Maguire]] - [[Huntsman's Horn, The|The Huntsman's Horn]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 06 
[[Big John Maguire]] - [[Neatly Thatched Cabin, The|The Neatly Thatched Cabin]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 14 
[[Sarah Makem]] - [[I Courted A Wee Girl]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 01 
[[Sarah Makem]] - [[Factory Girl, The|The Factory Girl]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 18 
[[Sarah Makem]] - [[Barbara Allen]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 16 
[[Sarah Makem]] - [[Wind that Shakes the Barley, The|The Wind that Shakes the Barley]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 18 
[[Packie Manus Byrne]] - [[Young Alvin]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 07 
[[Packie Manus Byrne]] - [[The Holland Handkerchief]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 01 
[[Packie Manus Byrne]] - [[Molly Bawn]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 14 
[[Maurice]] - [[A Nice Piece of Irish Pig's Head]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 12 
[[Pop Maynard]] - [[Our Captain Calls All Hands]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 05 
[[Pop Maynard]] - [[Rolling in the Dew]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 04 
[[Pop Maynard]] - [[The Seeds of Love]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 19 
[[Pop Maynard]] - [[A Sailor in the North Country]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 03 
[[Pop Maynard]] - [[Polly on The Shore]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 26 
[[Pop Maynard]] - [[The Aylesbury Girl]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 04 
[[Pop Maynard]] - [[William Taylor]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 12 
[[Pop Maynard]] - [[Ground for the Floor]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 17 
[[Pop Maynard]] - [[The Weaver's Daughter]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 06 
[[Pop Maynard]] - [[Colin and Phoebe]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 12 
[[Pop Maynard]] - [[Three Sons of Rogues]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 06 
[[Jimmy McBeath]] - [[The Bonnie Lass O ' Fyvie]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 07 
[[Jimmy McBeath]] - [[Bound To Be A Row]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 21 
[[Jimmy McBeath]] - [[The Bold English Navy]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 09 
[[Jimmy McBeath]] - [[The Wind Blew The Lassie's Plaidie Awa']] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 21 
[[Jimmy McBeath]] - [[Hieland Rory]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 09 
[[Jimmy McBeath]] - [[Johnny McIndoe]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 22 
[[Jimmy McBeath]] - [[I'm A Stranger in this Country]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 22 
[[Jimmy McBeath]] - [[Come All You Tramps and Hawkers]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 06 
[[Jimmy McBeath]] - [[Airlin's Fine Braes]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 18 
[[Jimmy McBeath]] - [[Nicky Tams]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 14 
[[Jimmy McBeath]] - [[The Barnyards 0 Delgaty]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 18 
[[Jimmy McBeath]] - [[You Canna Put it on to Sandy]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 04 
[[Jamesy McCarthy]] - [[Coochie Coochie Coo Go Way]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 09 
[[Jamesy McCarthy]] - [[Come To The Hiring]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 11 
[[Mikeen McCarthy]] - [[The Herring]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 02 
[[James McDermott]] - [[My Mother's Last Goodbye]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 12 
[[Philip McDermott]] - [[The Fair of Rosslea]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 11 
[[Philip McDermott]] - [[The Reaping of The Rushes Green]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 16 
[[Tommy McGrath]] - [[The Colleen From Coolbaun]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 04 
[[Tommy McGrath]] - [[She Lived Beside The Anner]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 11 
[[Tommy McGrath]] - [[Burke's Engine]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 02 
[[Tommy McGrath]] - [[Down in the Town of Old Bantry]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 15 
[[Curly McKay]] - [[Glendarel Highlanders]] / [[Kenmure's on and Awa']] / [[Lovat Scouts]] / [[Monymusk]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 13 
[[Freddy McKay]] - [[Skabbereen]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 13 
[[Tommy McMahon]] - [[Bonaparte's Retreat]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 17 
[[Merrymakers (Padstow)]] - [[The Happy Wanderer]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 05 
[[Merrymakers (Padstow)]] - [[The Sash]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 25 
[[Henry Mitchelmore]] - [[Most Beautiful Leg of the Mallard]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 21 
[[Mummers]] - [[So Now We've Gained Our Victory]] / [[The Quaker]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 09 
[[Maggy Murphy]] - [[Clinking O'er The Lea]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 14 
[[Rose Murphy]] - [[The Lonely Maid]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 01 
[[Rose Murphy]] - [[Ladybower's]] / [[The Sister]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 05 
 

== N ==

[[Tom Newman]] - [[My Old Hat That I Got On]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 04 
[[Harvey Nicholson]] - [[The Copshawholm Butchers]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 07 
[[Jack Norris]] - [[Gown of Green, The|The Gown of Green]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 12 
 

== O ==

[[Ellen O'Dwyer]] - [[The Stack of Barley]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 02 
[[Sarah Anne O'Neill]] - [[Standing in Yon Flowery Garden]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 01 
[[Sarah Anne O'Neill]] - [[Carrickrnannon Lake]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 14 
[[Sarah Anne O'Neill]] - [[John Reilly]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 19 
[[Tom Orchard]] - [[Two Untitled Stepdance Tunes]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 27 
[[Tom Orchard]] - [[Untitled Stepdance Tune]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 28 
[[Tommy Orchard]] - [[Two Untitled Stepdance Tunes]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 27 
[[Bernard O'Sullivan]] - [[Bonaparte's Retreat]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 17 
 

== P ==

[[Freda Palmer]] - [[The Wandering Girl]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 22 
[[Freda Palmer]] - [[Maria Marten]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 12 
[[Walter Pardon]] - [[Peggy Benn]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 18 
[[Walter Pardon]] - [[Let The Wind Blow High or Low]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 24 
[[Walter Pardon]] - [[The Hungry Army]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 08 
[[Walter Pardon]] - [[I Wish I Wish]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 01 
[[Walter Pardon]] - [[One Cold Morning in December]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 15 
[[Walter Pardon]] - [[Jack Hall]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 03 
[[Walter Pardon]] - [[The Poachers Fate]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 19 
[[Walter Pardon]] - [[A Ship To Old England Came]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 11 
[[Walter Pardon]] - [[Jack Tar Ashore]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 24 
[[Walter Pardon]] - [[Van Dieman s Land]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 04 
[[Walter Pardon]] - [[The Raggle - Taggle Gypsies]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 01 
[[Ned Pearson]] - [[The Heel and Toe Polka]] / [[The Morpeth Rant]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 13 
[[Ned Pearson]] - [[Corn - Rigs]] / [[Untitled Jigs for The Sylph 1 & 2]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 02 
[[Ned Pearson]] - [[Untitled Polka]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 03 
[[Ned Pearson]] - [[The Polka Mazurka]] / [[Paddle Your Own Canoe ]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 13 
[[Ned Pearson]] - [[The Highland Laddie]] / [[The Pin Reel]] / [[The Cambo March]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 24 
[[Ned Pearson]] - [[The Varsoviana (Original Tune)]] / [[The Varsoviana (Later Tune)]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 24 
[[Cyril Poacher]] - [[Nancy of Yarmouth]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 08 
[[Cyril Poacher]] - [[Plenty of Thyme]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 23 
[[Cyril Poacher]] - [[A Broadside]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 01 
[[Cyril Poacher]] - [[A Sailor And His True Love]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 19 
[[Cyril Poacher]] - [[Australia]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 08 
[[Cyril Poacher]] - [[The Maid And The Magpie]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 01 
[[Cyril Poacher]] - [[The Bonny Bunch of Roses]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 21 
[[Charlie Potter]] - [[Sing Ivy]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 14 
[[Ian Powrie]] - [[Stirling Militia]] / [[Ruthven House]] / [[Fairy Dance]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 27 
[[Will Powrie]] - [[The Drunken Piper]] / [[Highland Whisky]] / [[The High Road to Linton]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 18 
[[Will Powrie]] - [[Stirling Militia]] / [[Ruthven House]] / [[Fairy Dance]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 27 
[[George Privett]] - [[The Manchester Hornpipe]] / [[Click Go The Shears]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 23 
 

== Q ==

[[Frank Quinn]] - [[The Tan Yard Side]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 14 
 

== R ==

[[John Rae]] - [[The Sailor on The Rope]] / [[The Bonnie Bunch of Roses]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 05 
[[John Rea]] - [[Coil the Hawser]] / [[Lord MacDonalds]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 07 
[[John Reilly]] - [[Adieu Unto All True Lovers]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 08 
[[John Reilly]] - [[Old Carathee]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 07 
[[John Reilly]] - [[Lord Baker]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 02 
[[John Reilly]] - [[Once there Lived a Captain]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 13 
[[John Reilly]] - [[The Well Below The Valley]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 15 
[[John Reilly]] - [[The Rosin Box]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 19 
[[Albert Richardson]] - [[The Old Sow]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 25 
[[Ripon Sword Dancers (Mummers)]] - Live Performance - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 12 
[[Bob Roberts]] - [[While Gamekeepers Were Sleeping]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 01 
[[Bob Roberts]] - [[The Fish And Chip Ship]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 02 
[[Jeannie Robertson]] - [[An Old Man Come Courting Me]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 24 
[[Jeannie Robertson]] - [[When I was Noo but Sweet Sixteen]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 03 
[[Jeannie Robertson]] - [[The Bonnie Wee Lass Who Never Said No]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 14 
[[Jeannie Robertson]] - [[The Gypsy Laddies]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 14 
[[Stanley Robertson]] - [[Moorlough Maggie]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 18 
[[Stanley Robertson]] - [[The Clattering of The Clyde Waters]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 06 
[[Stanley Robertson]] - [[The Ballad of the Ewe Buchts]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 05 
[[Davie Rogerson]] - [[The Tenpenny Bit]] / [[The Rakes of Kildare]] / [[I Lost My Love And I Care Not]] / [[Untitled Reel]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 18 
[[Davie Rogerson]] - [[Untitled Hornpipe]] / [[The Swallow's Tail]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 26 
[[Willie Ross]] - [[Leaving St Kilda]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 09 
[[Micho Russell]] - [[Nora Daly]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 22 
[[Micho Russell]] - [[When Mursheen Went To Bunnan]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 12 
[[Micho Russell]] - [[The Poor Little Fisherboy]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 15 
[[Jim Rutherford]] - [[The Morpeth Rant]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 08 
 

== S ==

[[Sailors' Hobby Horse (Minehead)]] - Live Performance - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 19 
[[Sailors' Hobby Horse (Minehead)]] - Live Performance - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 28 
[[Willie Scott]] - [[The Bonnie Wee Tramping Lass]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 05 
[[Willie Scott]] - [[Piper O'Neill]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 07 
[[Willie Scott]] - [[Jock Geddes And The Soo]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 22 
[[Willie Scott]] - [[The Dowie Dens O' Yarrow]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 06 
[[Willie Scott]] - [[The Irthing Water Hounds]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 03 
[[Willie Scott]] - [[The Kielder Hunt]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 13 
[[Willie Scott]] - [[The Banks of Newfoundland]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 22 
[[Willie Scott]] - [[The Shepherd's Song]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 08 
[[Willie Scott]] - [[When the Kye Comes Hame]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 22 
[[Willie Scott]] - [[You Boys O Callieburn]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 12 
[[Willie Scott]] - [[The Lads That Was Reared Among Heather]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 22 
[[Willie Scott]] - [[Bloody Waterloo]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 14 
[[Daisy Sherlock]] - [[Untitled Schottische]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 02 
[[Albert Smith]] - [[Jingles, Recitations & Dance Tunes]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 18 
[[Jasper Smith]] - [[The Moon Shine Bright]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 01 
[[Jasper Smith]] - [[Father Had a Knife]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 05 
[[Jasper Smith]] - [[Cock o' the North]] / [[Garryowen]] / [[Flowers of Edinburgh]] / [[Step It Away]] / [[The Girl I Left Behind Me]] / [[Step It Away]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 17 
[[Jasper Smith]] - [[Down in the Meadow]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 18 
[[Jasper Smith]] - [[The Small Birds Whistle]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 22 
[[Jasper Smith]] - [[The Squire and the Gypsy]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 26 
[[Jasper Smith]] - [[Jingles, Recitations & Dance Tunes]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 18 
[[Jasper Smith]] - [[Thornymoor Park]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 01 
[[Jasper Smith]] - [[Hartlake Bridge]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 19 
[[Levi Smith]] - [[The Haymakers]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 07 
[[Levi Smith]] - [[One Penny]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 08 
[[Levi Smith]] - [[Cock O' the North]] / [[Garryowen]] / [[Flowers of Edinburgh]] / [[Step It Away]] / [[The Girl I Left Behind Me]] / [[Step It Away]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 17 
[[Levi Smith]] - [[The Game of Cards]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 29 
[[Levi Smith]] - [[Georgie]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 31 
[[Minty Smith]] - [[The Basket of Eggs]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 11 
[[Minty Smith]] - [[Jingles, Recitations & Dance Tunes]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 18 
[[Phoebe Smith]] - [[Captain Thunderball]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 23 
[[Phoebe Smith]] - [[Yellow Handkerchief, The|The Yellow Handkerchief]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 01 
[[Phoebe Smith]] - [[Sweet William]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 06 
[[Phoebe Smith]] - [[Tan Yard Side, The|The Tan Yard Side]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 19 
[[Phoebe Smith]] - [[Molly Vaughan]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 17 
[[Phoebe Smith]] - [[Young Ellender]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 11 
[[Wiggy Smith]] - [[There Was A Rich Farmer at Sheffield]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 04 
[[Wiggy Smith]] - [[When I Was A Young Man]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 01 
[[Wiggy Smith]] - [[The Oakham Poachers]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 08 
[[Wiggy Smith]] - [[Hares in the Old Plantation]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 14 
[[Wlggy Smith]] - [[The High - Low Well]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 16 
[[George Spicer]] - [[Coming Home Late]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 06 
[[George Spicer]] - [[The Barley Mow]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 24 
[[George Spicer]] - [[I Wish There Was No Prisons]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 25 
[[Sid Steer]] - [[The Derby Ram]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 15 
[[Belle Stewart]] - [[The Bonnie Wee Lassie Fae Gouroch]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 13 
[[Belle Stewart]] - [[Betsy Bell]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 12 
[[Belle Stewart]] - [[Queen Amang the Heather]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 02 
[[Belle Stewart]] - [[The Overgate]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 01 
[[Belle Stewart]] - [[The Berry Fields O' Blair ]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 23 
[[Belle Stewart]] - [[The Two Brothers]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 19 
[[Belle Stewart]] - [[Here's A Health To All True Lovers]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 02 
[[Davie Stewart]] - [[The Merchant's Son]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 03 
[[Davie Stewart]] - [[Often Drunk and Seldorn Sober]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 11 
[[Davie Stewart]] - [[The Tarves Rant]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 03 
[[Davie Stewart]] - [[I Am A Miller to My Trade]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 12 
[[Davie Stewart]] - [[MacPherson's Rant]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 05 
[[Davie Stewart]] - [[Boulavogue]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 16 
[[Sheila Stewart]] - [[The Mountain Streams where the Moorcocks Crow]] - [[It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day|Volume 17]] Track 08 
[[Sheila Stewart]] - [[Young Jamie Foyers]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 09 
[[Jim Swain]] - [[The Banks of Sweet Mossing]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 13 
 

== T ==

[[Phil Tanner]] - [[The Sweet Primroses]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 14 
[[Phil Tanner]] - [[The Four - Hand Reel]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 21 
[[Phil Tanner]] - [[The Wassail Song]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 14 
[[Phil Tanner]] - [[Young Henry Martin]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 18 
[[Seamus Tansey]] - [[Bonny Kate]] / [[Jenny's Chickens]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 01 
[[Joseph Taylor]] - [[The Gypsy Girl]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 02 
[[Joseph Taylor]] - [[The White Hare]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 04 
[[Joseph Taylor]] - [[Worcester City]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 04 
[[Joseph Taylor]] - [[Bold William Taylor]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 15 
[[Joseph Taylor]] - [[Creeping Jane]] - [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 12 
[[Willy Taylor]] - [[Off to Califomia]] / [[The Greencastle]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 19 
[[Willy Taylor]] - [[Willy Taylor's Polka]] / [[There's Nae Good Luck]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 01 
[[Willy Taylor]] - [[The Braemar Gathering]] / [[J.D. Burgess]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 05 
[[Willy Taylor]] - [[Christie MacLeod]] / [[The Gallowglass Rant]] / [[Charlie Hunter]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 07 
[[Willy Taylor]] - [[The Pop Along Polka]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 11 
[[Willy Taylor]] - [[Mrs Jamieson's Favourite]] / [[Parnell's March]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 12 
[[Willy Taylor]] - [[Kelso Accordion and Fiddle Club]] / [[Linda McFarlane]] / [[The Scairlaveg]] - [[Ranting and Reeling|Volume 19]] Track 28 
[[Scan Tester]] - [[While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks By Night]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 16 
[[Scan Tester]] - [[The Lakes of Coalflin]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 02 
[[Scan Tester]] - [[Untitled Schottische]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 03 
[[Scan Tester]] - [[Jenny Lind]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 01 
[[Scan Tester]] - [[In and Out The Windows]] / [[The Monkey Hornpipe]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 07 
[[Scan Tester]] - [[Untitled Polka]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 13 
[[Scan Tester]] - [[Untitled Schottische]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 02 
[[Helston Town Band]] - [[The Furry Dance]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 15 
[[George Tremain]] - [[The Huntsmans' Chorus]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 21 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[The Old Man Rocking The Cradle]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 08 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[When A Man's in Love He Feels No Cold]] - [[Come Let Us Buy the Licence|Volume 1]] Track 23 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[Blackwaterside]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 02 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[The Old Petticoat]] - [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Volume 10]] Track 06 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[Captain Coulson]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 02 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[The Cow that Drank the Poteen]] - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 16 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[The Wearing of The Britches]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 02 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[Lovely Johnny]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 12 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[Bonny Tavern Green]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 25 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[The Lowlands of Holland]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 02 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[The Wee Weaver]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 02 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[What Put the Blood? ]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 03 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[Lady Margaret]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 14 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[The Green Fields of Canada]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 01 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[Craigie Hill]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 01 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[The Lark in the Morning]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 15 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[The Month of January]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 08 
[[Paddy Tunney]] - [[The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow]] - [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6]] Track 02 
[[Jane Turriff]] - [[What Can a Young Lassie Dae Wi an Auld Man? ]] - [[As Me and My Love Sat Courting|Volume 15]] Track 11 
 

== U ==

[[Harry Upton]] - [[I Am A Donkey Driver]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 15 
[[Harry Upton]] - [[The Royal Albion]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 13 
[[Harry Upton]] - [[The Rich Lady Gay]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 19 
 

== V ==

[[Frank Verrill]] - [[Stowborough Town]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 18 
[[Frank Verrill]] - [[Jesus At Thy Command]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 12 
[[Emma Vickers]] - [[The Pace Eggers' Song]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 04 
 

== W ==

[[Wapping Irish Flute and Drum Band]] - [[Dublin Fair]] / [[The Boys Of Wexford]] / [[Garryowen]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 01 
[[Wassailers (Bodmin)]] - Live Performance - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 22 
[[Wassailers (Drayton)]] - Live Performance - [[They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Bottles of Sherry|Volume 13]] Track 23 
[[Jinky Wells]] - [[Highland Mary]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 02 
[[Jinky Wells]] - [[The Maid of the Mill]] - [[Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough|Volume 5]] Track 07 
[[Jinky Wells]] - [[Banbury Bill]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 17 
[[Jinky Wells]] - [[The Flowers of Edinburgh]] / [[Bobbing Around]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 02 
[[Font Whatling]] - [[The Pigeon on The Gate]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 11 
[[Font Whatling]] - [[Untitled Polka]] / [[Golden Slippers]] / [[Mick's Tune]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 16 
[[Ron Whatmore]] - [[Over the Waves]] / [[The Cuckoo Waltz]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 11 
[[Ron Whatmore]] - [[Nobody's Darling But Mine]] / [[Untitled Quickstep Medley]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 27 
[[Enos White]] - [[George Collins]] - [[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|Volume 3]] Track 18 
[[Fred Whiting]] - [[The Earl Soham Slog]] / [[Harkie Nestling's]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 22 
[[Widnes Star Novelty Band]] - [[The Great Little Army March]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 21 
[[Chris Willett]] - [[The American Stranger]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 15 
[[Chris Willett]] - [[Once I was a Servant]] - [[My Father's the King of the Gypsies|Volume 11]] Track 24 
[[Chris Willett]] - [[The Rambiing Sailor]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 05 
[[Chris Willett]] - [[The Old Miser]] - [[Farewell My Own Dear Native Land|Volume 4]] Track 17 
[[Tom Willett]] - [[Riding Down to Portsmouth]] - [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|Volume 2]] Track 03 
[[Tom Willett]] - [[The Roaming Journeyman]] - [[There is a Man upon the Farm|Volume 20]] Track 21 
[[Charlie Wills]] - [[The House that Jack Built]] - [[To Catch a Fine Buck was my Delight|Volume 18]] Track 18 
[[Charlie Wills]] - [[Up To the Rigs of London Town]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 28 
[[Jim Wilson]] - [[The Keyhole in The Door]] - [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7]] Track 22 
[[Gerry Wimsey]] - [[Ships Are Sailing]] / [[The Heather Breeze]] - [[We've Received Orders to Sail|Volume 12]] Track 19 
[[Arnold Woodley]] - [[Johnny's so Long at the Fair]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 14 
[[Oscar Woods]] - [[The Italian Waltz]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 04 
[[Oscar Woods]] - [[Untitled Polka]] / [[Untitled Polka]] - [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)|Volume 9]] Track 25 
[[Wrenboys (Listowel)]] - Live Performance - [[By the Bright Silvery Light of the Moon]] / [[Highland Fling]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 07 
[[Wattie Wright]] - [[The Pigeon on The Gate]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track 11

Shadrack Hayden

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'''Shadrack Hayden''' - perhaps better known as '''Shepherd Hayden''' - singer; surname sometimes given as "Haden" or "Haydon".
Born at Lyford, [[Berkshire]] in 1826, he shepherded at Hatford near Faringdon before moving to [[Bampton]], [[Oxfordshire]] in 1891. He was living in Bampton when [[Cecil Sharp]] collected songs from him, towards the end of his life, in 1909, 1910 and 1914.
[[Alfred Williams]] also collected a number of songs from him - see https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Folk/Search?isSong=True (search for "haydon" in "Collected From").

== Songs collected ==
[[Adieu my lovely Nancy]] 
[[As I walked through the meadows]] 
[[As I was going to Romford]] 
[[Bold General Wolfe]] 
[[Brisk young bachelor, The |The brisk young bachelor]] 
[[Croppy boy, The|The croppy boy]] 
[[Cobbler and the butcher, The |The cobbler and the butcher]] 
[[Constant farmer's son, The|The constant farmer's son]] 
[[Country blade and his scolding wife]] 
[[Crimea, The|The Crimea]] 
[[Daughter in the dungeon]] 
[[Dirty beggarman, The|The dirty beggarman]] 
[[Erin's lovely home]] 
[[Farmer and tinker]] 
[[Greenland fishery]] (Whale fishers) 
[[Gypsy laddie, The|The gypsy laddie]] 
[[Hearty poacher, The|The hearty poacher]] 
[[John Barleycorn]] 
[[Little Dun Mare, The|The little dun mare]] 
[[Lord Bateman]] 
[[Lost lady found]] 
[[Nancy Whisky]] 
[[O once I was a shepherd's boy]] (On Compton Downs) 
[[Pleasant month of May]] 
[[Ploughboy's courtship, The|The ploughboy's courtship]] 
[[Rambling Sailor, The|The rambling sailor]] 
[[Rosemary lane]] 
[[Royal George, The |The Royal George]] 
[[Sailor and the soldier, The|The sailor and the soldier]] 
[[Sailor cut down in his prime]] 
[[Simple Ploughboy, The|The simple ploughboy]] 
[[St. James's hospital]] 
[[Thomas and Nancy]] 
[[Thorneymoor woods]] 
[[Three Butchers, The |The three butchers]] 
[[Three jolly huntsmen]] 
[[Wraggle taggle gipsies]] (Draggle-tailed gipsies) 
[[You married men you know|You bachelors you know]] 
[[Young girl cut down in her prime, The | The young girl cut down in her prime]] 

[http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/query.cgi?index_roud=on&cross=off&type=Song&access=off&op=or&query=haden+hayden&field=0&fieldshow=multi&op_9=or&field_9=&op_12=or&field_12=&op_13=or&field_13=&op_14=or&field_14=&op_15=or&field_15=&op_47=or&field_47=&op_16=or&field_16=&op_0=or&field_0=haden+hayden&op_17=or&field_17=oxfordshire&op_10=or&field_10=&op_11=or&field_11=&op_18=or&field_18=&op_19=or&field_19=&op_20=or&field_20=&op_21=or&field_21=&op_22=or&field_22=&op_23=or&field_23=&op_24=or&field_24=&op_5=or&field_5=&op_25=or&field_25=&op_26=or&field_26=&output=List&length=50&submit=Submit+query Songs sung by Shepherd Hayden - VWML Online]

[http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/query.cgi?index_sharp=on&cross=off&type=Song&access=off&op_0=or&field_0=&op_1=or&field_1=&op_2=or&field_2=&op_3=or&field_3=&op_10=or&field_10=&op_6=or&field_6=&op_7=or&field_7=&op_8=or&field_8=&op_5=or&field_5=&fieldshow=single&op=or&query=hayden&field=all&output=Record&length=5&submit=Submit+query Photographs of Shepherd Hayden, and list of songs collected from Hayden by Cecil Sharp - VWML Online]

[[Category:Singer]]

[[Category:Oxfordshire]]

O once I was a shepherd's boy

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'''O once I was a shepherd boy'''

[[Roud 2407]]

collected from [[Shadrack Hayden|Shepherd Hayden]] by [[Cecil Sharp]], [[Bampton]], [[Oxfordshire]], 6th September 1909

#O once I was a shepherd boy Kept sheep on Compton Down Twas about two miles from Ilsley It was called a market town With my fol de rol, O the riddle oddy O With my fol de rol i day 
#And in the morn when we do rise And daylight do appear Our breakfast we do get To our fold we all do steer 
#And when we gets to our sheepfold We merrily pitched him round And all the rest part of the day We sailed the downs all round 
#And when we gets up on the downs Gazing ourselves all round We see the storm is rising And coming on all round 
#And now the storm is coming on The rain fast down do fall neither limb nor tree to shelter me I must stand and take it all 
#And there we stand in our wet clothes A-shining and shaking with cold We dare not go to shift ourselves Till we drive our sheep to fold 
#And now the storm is over And that you may plainly see I’ll never keep sheep on the downs any more For there’s neither a limb nor tree 

Cecil Sharp MSS, [[Folk Words]]

[[Alfred Williams]] also noted the words of this song from Hayden, as [https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Folk/Verse/651?isCommunityPage=False "On Compton Downs"]

[[Category:Song]]

Ethel Apps

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'''Ethel Apps''', singer from Sissinghurst, [[Kent]], 1884 - 1970.

Songs recorded by [[Francis Collinson]], held at the [[School of Scottish Studies]]:
*[[Dark Eyed Sailor]]
*[[Lily White Hand]]
*[[Lad of the Scotch Brigade]]
*[[Henry Martin]] (possibly - unclear on tape whether this is same singer as on previous three songs)

From obituary in the Kentish Express, Friday 12th June 1970:

:"Sissinghurst

:Mrs. Ethel Apps, of Cleavers, who died in the West Kent hospital on Friday, aged 86, will be remembered in the village as a great character. She was the widow of a Metropolitan policeman. She loved entertaining, and some years ago she recorded [[Gypsy's Lament, The|'The Gypsy's Lament']], an old folk song, for the BBC. She received a royalty every time it was played. Probably her greatest characteristic was her unfailing cheerfulness, which continued th[r]ough her final stay in hospital."

'The Gypsy's Lament' remains a mystery, but the details in this brief notice allow us to identify Mrs Apps in the official records. She was born Ethel Rose(mary) Lambert, in Millwall, London, 4th Nov 1884. Her husband, Metropolitan Police Constable Henry Edmund Samuel Apps was born in Hastings, Sussex, in 1883. They married in Greenwich in 1907. At the time of the 1911 Census they were living in Peckham, and in 1921 in Deptford. They must have moved out of London in the following decade, as Henry is recorded as having died in 1930 in Cranbrook, Kent. Mrs Apps was living in Battle, Sussex, at the time of the 1939 Register. We don't have a date for Francis Collinson's recordings, made at Sissinghurst, but they were almost certainly made during the 1940s.

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Kent]]

Song

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''Category Advisor: Dr Vic Gammon''

There are many thousands of songs. There are many song collections and many versions of the same song. Where to start looking? That's the problem.

All songs currently in Folkopedia are listed on the [[Category:Song| Song Category Page]]

Note. Our intention is not to restrict this initiative to English Song, but to use the present headings as a starting point to view whatever develops from wherever it comes.

==The Take 6 Transcription Programme==

Take 6 (also more recently, and in an augmented form, known as The Full English) is a major initiative from the English Folk Dance and Song Society to put online some of the major manuscript collections of folk songs and folk music. Check it out here [http://library.efdss.org/archives/]

The Take 6 Transcription Programme is an initiative hosted by Folkopedia to make the content of these manuscripts available as PDF sheet music, MIDIs, MusicXMLs and abc files. Check it out here: [[Take_6_Transcription_Programme|Transcription_Programme]]

==Traditional Songs by Theme==

It's often difficult to categorise a song. Is the song of a Thames Bargeman a sea song or an industrial one? Likewise a Fishing song. Many industrial or rural songs had a political dimension. It doesn't do to worry too much about it - the categories are really just a rough guide to get to something that fits the browser's interest and in the spirit of the Wiki might lead to somewhere altogether unexpected!
Some [[Song Books]] are arranged by theme.
Here are some of the common themes in folk song:

'''[[Songs of Love and Marriage]]''' ''romantic, unrequited, happy and unhappy wedlock, spinsters and batchelors, broken tokens''

'''[[Songs of Seduction]]''' ''brief, bawdy, passionate and tragic

'''[[Songs of Country Life]]''' ''millers, blacksmiths, cobblers''

'''[[Songs of Good Company]]''' ''drinking, carousing, conviviality''

'''[[Hunting and Poaching Songs]]''' ''the fox, the hare, transportation''

'''[[Sea Songs]]''' ''press gangs, men o' war, fishing & whaling, jack on shore''

'''[[Soldiers' Songs]]''' ''the king's shilling, bloody battles''

'''[[Songs of Comedy and Diversion]]''' ''comical tales, legendary animals, marvels''

'''[[Ritual Songs]]''' ''folk ceremonies, mummer's plays''

'''[[Songs of the Road]]''' ''travellers, gypsies and journeymen''

'''[[Political and Historical Songs]]''' ''rebellion, reform, great events''

'''[[Ballads]]'''

'''[[Children's Songs]]''' ''rhymes, game songs''

'''[[Songs of Heroes and Villains]]''' ''Highwaymen, scoundrels, and adventurers, real and fictitious''

'''[[Industrial Songs]]''' ''pits and mills''

English ballad broadsides by theme at the [https://digital.nls.uk/english-ballads/archive/74896726#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-4049%2C0%2C10597%2C5906 National Library of Scotland]

==Traditional Singers==

==='''[[English Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[Scottish Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[Irish Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[North American Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[Australian Source Singers]]'''===

==Performance==
''section editor Chris Coe''

This is a tricky section to think of including. One doesn't always associate folk song and 'performance' but some of the techniques applied by the traditional singers can bear scrutiny, especially by those who want to sing the same sort of songs.

The intimate fireside delivery of [[Walter Pardon]].......

[[Lizzie Higgins]] taking a deep breath, expanding to be a 'giant' and setting forth..........

[[Johnny Doughty]] turning his cap sideways and singing the [[Herring's Head]].....

And any one who has seen [[Jock Duncan]] perform the [[Two Sisters]] will have a vivid understanding of song delivery with gestures....

Watch this space.

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 22:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

==Scales and Musical Modes in Celtic, Anglo-American and English Folk Songs==

The great folk song collectors, such as Cecil Sharp and Lucy Broadwood, were interested in the musical scales and modes (such as Ionian, Mixolydian, Dorian and Aeolian) in which Celtic, Anglo-American and English folk songs have come down to us. To read more about scales and modes click on this link: [[Scales_and_Musical_Modes_in_Celtic,_Anglo-American_and_English_Folk_Songs |Scales and Modes in Folk Songs]].

==Tune Analysis: How To Dissect, Interpret and Categorise Anglo-American, Celtic and English Folk Melodies==

To learn how to analyse Anglo-American, Celtic and English folk song melodies click on [[Tune_Analysis:_How_To_Dissect,_Interpret_and_Categorize_Anglo-American,_Celtic_and_English_Folk_Melodies | this link]].

==Ionian, Mixolydian, Dorian and Aeolian: Samples and Examples of the 4 Main Musical Scales in Celtic, Anglo-American and English Folk Songs==

For samples and examples follow this link [[Ionian,_Mixolydian,_Dorian_and_Aeolian:_Samples_and_Examples_of_the_4_Main_Musical_Scales_in_Celtic,_Anglo-American_and_English_Folk_Songs| Samples and Examples]]

==Folk Song: Definitions, Concepts and Controversies==
What is "folk song," "authenticity," "revival," and so on? To find out follow [[Folk_Song: Definitions, Concepts and Controversies| this link]].

==West Gallery Music==

For information and links on West Gallery Music go to [[West Gallery Music]]

==Sea Shanties==

'''External links'''

W.B. Whall (1913) 'Ships, Sea Songs and Shanties' can be read online here [https://archive.org/details/shipsseasongssha00whal/page/12/mode/2up?view=theater]. PDF page images are here [https://ia902706.us.archive.org/30/items/shipsseasongssha00whal/shipsseasongssha00whal.pdf].

A single PDF file of both volumes of Richard Runciman Terry's 'Shanty Book' can be downloaded here [https://marine-cafe.com/download/the-shanty-book-by-richard-runciman-terry-parts-i-and-ii-in-one-pdf-file/]
Terry's Volume 1, in a number of different formats, is posted at Project Gutenberg here [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20774]. The online HTML version links to downloadable midi files.

The abc code for Terry's shanties is available here:

[[File:Terry vol 1 (all verses) v241217.abc]]

[[File:Terry vol 2 (all verses) v241217.abc]]

[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2649751&view=1up&seq=138&skin=2021&q1=chanty] This links to PDF images from 1917 of the 'Bellman' magazine. Run a search (search term "chantey") for information about, and sheet music of, sea shanties. Alternatively, these resources can be more conveniently accessed by clicking on the links below.

[[File:Robinson_Chanty-Man_0_Introduction.pdf]]

[[File:Songs_of_the_Chanty-Man_1_of_4.pdf]]

[[File:Songs_of_the_Chanty-Man_2_of_4.pdf]]

[[File:Songs_of_the_Chanty-Man_3_of_4.pdf]]

[[File:Songs_of_the_Chanty-Man_4_of_4.pdf]]

==Resources==

===Recordings===

Record labels produce recordings of both song and instrumental music, and a list of these can be found [[Recordings|here]]

=== Books & Bibliographies===
Books of and about folk songs abound and seem to increase at an exponential rate. It is ironic that computerisation and digitalisation, which make this site possible, also make it much easier and cheaper to publish new books. In addition, many rare and inaccessible books from the past have been scanned and placed on the web in recent years, which has helped more and more people to find songs and contribute to scholarship and discussion. Probably the most complete and recent listing of books is the one given immediately below. After that, there follows a short selection of some important books.

====Bibliographies====

[http://www.efdss.org/songbib3.pdf English Folk Song Bibliography: An Introductory Bibliography Based on the Holdings of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Third Edition, edited by David Atkinson]

* Margaret Dean-Smith, ''A guide to English Folk Song Collections 1822 - 1952'', Liverpool: University Press of Liverpool, in Association with EFDSS (1954) - An earlier attempt at a bibliography but with substantial descriptions and publishing details of the books as well as an alphabetical index of the songs included in these collections. Still a valuable reference - particularly when used in conjunction with the Roud index.

====Books====

Probably the most important thing to know is what is available and in print now. The most up to date list is probably to be found at the [http://www.tradsong.org Traditional Song Forum web site] in the form of a list by publisher Dave Herron. Look on the [http://www.tradsong.org/Library.htm library pages] for Dave Herron's Chapbook.

Below is the place to put detail of ALL the folksong books that ever there were.

* [[Books before 1900]]

* [[Broadside ballads]]

* [[Song Books]]

* [[Folk Song Scholarship]]

====Songs in abc code====

For information on abc code see here[https://abcnotation.com/].

There is a wide variety of software, much of it free.

EasyABC is widely used software. With it you can view sheet music, listen to MIDI renditions of tunes, create and edit abc files, and convert MusicXML files into abc code.

TradMusician is an Android programme. With it you can display sheet music and listen to MIDI renditions of tunes. If you do this on your mobile phone you can improve sound quality by casting to a Bluetooth speaker.

* [[Songs in abc code]]

* [[Chappell Project]]

===Indexes===

The '''[[Vaughan Williams Memorial Library]]''' website hosts a number of indexes and catalogues including

[https://archives.vwml.org/search/vwml VWML indexes] (Song index and Dance/Tune index)

[https://archives.vwml.org/subjects Song subject index]

[https://archives.vwml.org/collections Archive catalogues]

The '''VWML Archive catalogues''' provide digital access to copies of the manuscripts of major collectors such as

* [[Cecil Sharp]]
* [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]
* [[Maud Karpeles]]
* [[John Broadwood]]
* [[Lucy Broadwood]]
* [[H.E.D. Hammond]]
* [[Francis Collinson]]
* [[George Gardiner]]
* [[Percy Grainger]]
* [[James Madison Carpenter]]

The site also gives you access to the [https://archives.vwml.org/search/roud Roud Index], compiled by Steve Roud.

The '''Roud Folk Song Index''' is a database of 143,000+ references to songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is the most important finding aid for traditional song ever compiled, and not even the most casual researcher can afford to do without it.

Indexes of all the "'''Child Ballads'''" i.e. the ballads included in [[Francis J Child]]'s 'English and Scottish Popular Ballads' canm be found in various places on the internet, including https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/

==[[Other Nations]]==

Click on the title to go to the page

Albert Beale

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Albert Edward Beale, c.1875 – 1961. Singer, Kenardington, [[Kent]]. Recorded by [[Peter Kennedy]] and [[Maud Karpeles]], 1954. Son of [[James Beale]] and [[Alice Harden]] from whom [[Cecil Sharp]] collected songs.

Born at Orlestone, on the edge of Romney Marsh in Kent (birth registered Sep 1875, East Ashford district). One of around 11 children, Albert's parents were “caravan-dwellers” who moved from Sussex to the Hamstreet area, and settled in a house. At the time of the 1881 Census he was living in a private dwelling at Hamstreet with his sister Louisa (age 8) and his grandparents, Charles and Phoeby Hall, both aged 63. Charles Hall is listed as “dealer”.

Albert and his younger brother Jim (also reputedly a good singer, but never recorded) went to Hamstreet School, where they learned songs for singing at school concerts. Bert left school at 14, although he was very bright, especially at Maths, and his teacher wanted him to become a schoolmaster. His family couldn’t afford to keep him at school, and he spent the rest of his life doing farmwork, though he never really settled at anything. He’d do a bit of work, then do nothing for a while – one farmer said that when Bert was working he’d give him two men’s work just to keep him occupied.
In the 1901 Census he is listed as Ordinary Agricultural Labourer.

Bert used to sing mainly at home, and family get-togethers, but not a lot in public - maybe some village concerts, but not in pubs. Played squeezebox (probably anglo-concertina) when he sang sometimes.

He knew a lot of songs, but only recorded half a dozen, because - according to the Beale family - although Peter Kennedy gave him one or two guineas, he didn’t keep his promise to pay him more when the songs were broadcast on the radio. Kennedy paid several visits but when he failed to keep his word, Bert wouldn’t have any more to do with him.

N.B. Orlestone, Hamstreet, Warehorne and Kenardington are adjoining villages - [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=kenardington&layer=&sll=51.063191,0.824661&sspn=0.060954,0.193977&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=13&ll=51.059415,0.811272&spn=0.060959,0.193977 Google Map]

'''Songs collected:'''

[[Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, The|The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington]] [[(Roud 483)]]

[[In London’s Fair City]] ([[Villikins and his Dinah]]) [[(Roud 271)]]

[[Comical ditty, A|A comical ditty]] (Fol the rol lol) [[(Roud 9484)]]

[[Frog he would a-wooing go, A|A frog he would a-wooing go]] [[(Roud 16)]]

[[Moon shines bright, The|The moon shines bright]] [[(Roud 702)]]

[[Where are you going to, my pretty maid?]] [[(Roud 298)]]

'''Sources:'''

Charles Beale (Albert's son), interviewed by Andy Turner at The Wish, Kenardington, 1983.

Unnumbered Folktracks cassette, recorded at Kenardington (N.B. not Kenardrington as Kennedy has it) by [[Peter Kennedy]] and [[Maud Karpeles]], 14th Jan 1954.

'''External references:'''

Photographs of Albert Beale taken by Peter Kennedy, 1954

* http://www.peterkennedyarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/025I-MSMUS1771X1X-1533A0.jpg

* http://www.peterkennedyarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/025I-MSMUS1771X1X-1468A0.jpg

* http://www.peterkennedyarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/025I-MSMUS1771X1X-1469A0.jpg

* http://www.peterkennedyarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/025I-MSMUS1771X1X-1470A0.jpg

[[Category:Singer]][[Category:Kent]]

Faithful Sailor Boy, The

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'''The Faithful Sailor Boy'''

[[Roud 376]]

== Version from [[George Spicer]] ==

#It was a stormy winter’s night The snow lay on the ground The sailor boy stood on the quay His ship was outward bound His sweetheart standing by his side Shed many a silent tear And as he pressed her to his breast He whispered in her ear ''Chorus'' Farewell, farewell my own true love This parting brings me pain I’ll be your own true guiding star When I return again My thoughts shall be of you, of you When the storms are raging high So fare thee well, remember me Your faithful sailor boy 
#Without a gale the ship set sail He bid his love goodbye She watched his craft till out of sight A tear bedimmed her eye She prayed to him in heaven above To guide him on his way His last and loving words that night Re-echoed o’er the bay 
#But sad to say the ship returned Without her sailor boy He died whilst on the voyage home The flag was half-mast high And when his comrades came on shore They told her he was dead A letter he had sent to her the last line sadly read ''Final chorus'' Farewell, farewell my own true love On earth we’ll meet no more I soon shall be from storm and sea On that eternal shore I hope to meet you in that land That land beyond the sky Where you shall not be parted from Your faithful sailor boy

== Version from [[Fred Whiting]] ==
Words - follow link from http://www.veteran.co.uk/VTC2CD.htm

[[Category: Song]]

MTCD333 The Birds Upon the Tree

2024-05-12T07:22:08Z

Andyturner:

To see the full CD details, go to the Musical Traditions website where you'll also find the complete booklet notes [https://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/birds.htm]

'''Tracklist:'''

''[[Barbara Allen]]'', [[Debbie & Pennie Davis]], [[Roud 54]] 
''[[Billy Brown]]'', [[Freda Palmer]], [[Roud 3354]] 
''[[Birds Upon the Tree, The]]'', [[Charlie Bridger]], [[Roud 1863]] 
''[[Bonny Labouring Boy, The]]'', [[Bob Blake]], [[Roud 1162]] 
''[[Bonny Light Horseman, The]]'', [[Jacquey Gabriel]], [[Roud 1185]] 
''[[British Soldier's Grave, The]]'', [[Archer Goode]], [[Roud 1223]] 
''[[Dales Waltz, The]]'', [[Harry Cockerill]] 
''[[Doughty Packman, The]]'', [[Ray Driscoll]], [[Roud 18306]] 
''[[Feyther Stole the Parson's Sheep]]'', [[George Fradley]], [[Roud 2498]] 
''[[Henry My Son]]'', [[Fred Jordan]], [[Roud 10]] 
''[[Holly and the Ivy, The]]'', [[Ivor Hill & family]], [[Roud 514]] 
''[[I'll Sing of Martha]]'', [[Freda Palmer]], [[Roud 10560/2467]] 
''[[Jack and the Squire]]'', [[Freda Palmer]], [[Roud 511]] 
''[[Johnny o' Hazelgreen]]'', [[Packie Manus Byrne]], [[Roud 250]] 
''[[Little by Little and Bit by Bit]]'', [[Charlie Bridger]], [[Roud 10674]] 
''[[Man in the Moon, The]]'', [[Scan Tester & Rabbidy Baxter]] 
''[[Mr Lobski]]'', [[Archer Goode]], [[Roud 18304]] 
''[[Mulberry Bush, The]]'', [[Harry Cockerill]] 
''[[Nowt to do wi' Me]]'', [[George Fradley]], [[Roud 5315]] 
''[[Obidiah]]'', [[Billy Bennington]], [[Roud 18307]] 
''[[Old Drunken Man, The]]'', [[Alice Francombe]], [[Roud 114]] 
''[[Oyster Girl (Roud 875)|Oyster Girl, The]]'', [[Harry Cockerill]] 
''[[Poor Dog Tray]]'', [[Packie Manus Byrne]], [[Roud 2668]] 
''[[Seeds of Love, The]]'', [[Unknown singer]], [[Roud 3]] 
''[[Three Jolly Boys]]'', [[George Spicer]], [[Roud 1710]] 
''[[When I Was a Boy]]'', [[George Fradley]], [[Roud 18305]]

Mike Yates

2024-05-12T07:18:13Z

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'''Mike Yates''' is one of the foremost post-war British collectors.

He has recorded widely in Southern England - [[George Spicer]], [[Harry Upton]], [[Johnny Doughty]], [[Walter Pardon]] to name but a few - including Gypsy and travelling singers such as [[Phoebe Smith]], [[Jasper Smith]] and [[Harry Brazil]]. But he also recorded songs from [[Frank Hinchcliffe]] in [[Yorkshire]], instrumental music in [[Northumberland]], and in [[Appalachia]], following in the trail, of [[Cecil Sharp]] - see ''[https://mustrad.org.uk/articles/mountain.htm Far in the Mountains, volumes 1 to 5: some thoughts, comments and memories]''.

His recordings have been released commercially on [[Topic Records]], [[Musical Traditions]], [[Veteran]] and on his own [[Home-Made Music]] and [[Kyloe Records]] labels.

He has written a number of articles for the [[Musical Traditions]] internet magazine. ''[https://mustrad.org.uk/articles/time-change.htm Time Has Made a Change - some reflections]'' gives some insight into what drew him to traditional music and to collecting.

[[Category: Collector]]

Pug Allen

2024-05-12T06:46:52Z

Andyturner:

'''L G 'Pug' Allen:''' Mike Yates, travelling with Paul Brown in the Shenandoah Valley, stayed with Pug Allen and his wife at Stuart’s Draft in Augusta County, VA.  He recorded Pug playing fiddle, with his son, George, on guitar and Paul on banjo.

''Part of the booklet notes, written by [[Mike Yates]], to the Musical Traditions Records CDs Far in the Mountains (MTCD321-4)''

Pug Allen

2024-05-12T06:46:27Z

Andyturner:

'''L G 'Pug' Allen:''' Mike Yates, travelling with Paul Brown in the Shenandoah Valley, stayed with Pug Allen and his wife at Stuart’s Draft in Augusta County, VA.  He recorded Pug playing fiddle, with his son, George, on guitar and Paul on banjo.

''Part of the booklet notes, written by [Mike Yates], to the Musical Traditions Records CDs Far in the Mountains (MTCD321-4)''

Harry Barling

2024-04-10T19:44:11Z

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'''Harry Barling''', singer from South Willesborough, Ashford, [[Kent]], 1867 - 1947.

[[Francis Collinson]] collected two songs from him on 3rd December 1942:
*[[King Arthur]]
*[[Thresherman, The|The Thresherman]]

Harry was baptised 30 Dec 1866 at St Mary Magdalene, Ruckinge. His parents were Mary (née Lonkhurst) and Francis (Frank) Barling. Frank was a brother of William Barling (1802-1884), the father of [[Charles Barling]], from whom Cecil Sharp would collect a couple of songs in 1908. Thus Charles and Harry were cousins.

Frank was described on his son's baptism record as "labourer", but in the 1871 Census as "carrier" and by 1881, "Innkeeper & carrier" - running the Good Intent at Aldington Frith, about 3 miles from Ruckinge.

The 1891 Census has Frank as "Farmer carrier", living at Rose Cottage, Frith Road, Aldington. Harry (listed as "Henry") is 23 years old, married and described as "Farmers son". He had married Susannah Butcher at Aldington in April 1890. She died in 1897, and Harry remarried three years later, to Kate (actually Altheania Kate) Barth. In 1901 they were living at Bourne House, Aldington, and his occupation is given as "Carrier (general)". Subsequent censuses have him at Rock Cottages, Aldington Hythe, as "General workman labourer" (1911), "Engineers Labourer" (1921) and finally, in the 1939 Register as "Carpenter (Retired)". By that point he and Kate had moved from the Aldington area to 110 Gladstone Road, South Willesborough, which is where they were living when [[Francis Collinson]] collected songs from Harry in December 1942. A keen cyclist, he died at the age of 80 when, cycling to visit his sons in nearby villages, he was in a collision with a motor-cyclist (Obituary in Kentish Express, Friday 19th September 1947). His obituary describes him as a retire master carpenter, and states that he had been a member of the Aldington Brass Band for 45 years - he was bandmaster when he retired from the band in 1930.

[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=51.129815,0.869293&spn=0.167408,0.30899&z=12&msid=117108199108247831929.0004661a1c71e712f5642 Google map of places mentioned]

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Kent]]

Harry Barling

2024-04-10T19:41:18Z

Andyturner:

'''Harry Barling''', singer from South Willesborough, Ashford, [[Kent]], 1867 - 1947.

[[Francis Collinson]] collected two songs from him on 3rd December 1942:
*[[King Arthur]]
*[[Thresherman, The|The Thresherman]]

Harry was baptised 30 Dec 1866 at St Mary Magdalene, Ruckinge. His parents were Mary (née Lonkhurst) and Francis (Frank) Barling. Frank was a brother of William Barling (1802-1884), the father of [[Charles Barling]]. Thus Charles and Harry were cousins.

Frank was described on his son's baptism record as "labourer", but in the 1871 Census as "carrier" and by 1881, "Innkeeper & carrier" - running the Good Intent at Aldington Frith, about 3 miles from Ruckinge.

The 1891 Census has Frank as "Farmer carrier", living at Rose Cottage, Frith Road, Aldington. Harry (listed as "Henry") is 23 years old, married and described as "Farmers son". He had married Susannah Butcher at Aldington in April 1890. She died in 1897, and Harry remarried three years later, to Kate (actually Altheania Kate) Barth. In 1901 they were living at Bourne House, Aldington, and his occupation is given as "Carrier (general)". Subsequent censuses have him at Rock Cottages, Aldington Hythe, as "General workman labourer" (1911), "Engineers Labourer" (1921) and finally, in the 1939 Register as "Carpenter (Retired)". By that point he and Kate had moved from the Aldington area to 110 Gladstone Road, South Willesborough, which is where they were living when [[Francis Collinson]] collected songs from Harry in December 1942. A keen cyclist, he died at the age of 80 when, cycling to visit his sons in nearby villages, he was in a collision with a motor-cyclist (Obituary in Kentish Express, Friday 19th September 1947).

He had worked as a master carpenter, and was a member of the Aldington Brass Band for 45 years - he was bandmaster when he retired from the band in 1930.

[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=51.129815,0.869293&spn=0.167408,0.30899&z=12&msid=117108199108247831929.0004661a1c71e712f5642 Google map of places mentioned]

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Kent]]

Charles Barling

2024-04-10T18:57:53Z

Andyturner:

'''Charles Barling''', singer, Ruckinge, [[Kent]].

Songs collected by [[Cecil Sharp]], 23rd September 1908:
*[[Kind Sir I am too young]] ([[Roud 564]]) - tune and first verse
*[[Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor]] ([[Roud 4]]) - tune only

Mr Barling was 81, and living at The Corner, Ruckinge - right in the centre of the village, near the Blue Anchor pub - when he sang for Sharp.

He was baptised at St Mary Magdalene, Ruckinge, on 20 Jan 1828, the son of Mary (née Clemens or Clements) and William Barling (an agricultural labourer).

In the 1851 Census, Charles is listed - along with his father and two brothers - as an agricultural labourer. He married Lydia Knowlden from Ivychurch in November 1851.
David Sutcliffe (Cecil Sharp's People) notes that Charles and Lydia had 10 children, losing 3 in infancy.
Subsequent census returns show that Charles continued to work as an agricultural labourer, and continued to live in Ruckinge up until his death at the age of 89 in January 1917.

'''References:'''

[https://cecilsharpspeople.org.uk/barling-charles.html| Cecil Sharp's People]

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Kent]]

Charles Barling

2024-04-10T18:43:01Z

Andyturner:

'''Charles Barling''', singer, Ruckinge, [[Kent]].

Songs collected by [[Cecil Sharp]], 23rd September 1908:
*[[Kind Sir I am too young]] ([[Roud 564]]) - tune and first verse
*[[Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor]] ([[Roud 4]]) - tune only

Mr Barling was 81, and living at The Corner, Ruckinge, when he sang for Sharp.

He was baptised at St Mary Magdalene, Ruckinge, on 20 Jan 1828, the son of Mary (née Clemens or Clements) and William Barling (an agricultural labourer).

In the 1851 Census, Charles is listed - along with his father and two brothers - as an agricultural labourer. He married Lydia Knowlden from Ivychurch in November 1851. Subsequent census returns show that he continued to work as an agricultural labourer, and continued to live in Ruckinge up until his death at the age of 89 in January 1917.

David Sutcliffe (Cecil Sharp's People) notes that Charles and Lydia had 10 children, losing 3 in infancy.

'''References:'''

[https://cecilsharpspeople.org.uk/barling-charles.html| Cecil Sharp's People]

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Kent]]

Charles Barling

2024-04-10T16:31:15Z

Andyturner:

'''Charles Barling''', singer, Ruckinge, [[Kent]].

Songs collected by [[Cecil Sharp]], 23rd September 1908:
*[[Kind Sir I am too young]] ([[Roud 564]]) - tune and first verse
*[[Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor]] ([[Roud 4]]) - tune only

Mr Barling was 81, and living at The Corner, Ruckinge, when he sang for Sharp.

He was baptised at St Mary Magdalene, Ruckinge, on 20 Jan 1828, the son of Mary (née Clemens or Clements) and William Barling (an agricultural labourer).

In the 1851 Census, Charles is listed - along with his father and two brothers - as an agricultural labourer. He married Lydia Knowlden in November 1851. Subsequent census returns show that he continued to work as an agricultural labourer, and continued to live in Ruckinge up until his death in January 1917.

'''References:'''

[https://cecilsharpspeople.org.uk/barling-charles.html| Cecil Sharp's People]

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Kent]]

Harry Baker

2024-04-07T19:39:50Z

Andyturner:

'''Harry Baker''', singer from Maidstone, [[Kent]], 1876 - 1958.

His wife, [[Frances Baker]], was also a singer.

His version of [[Death and the lady]], collected by [[Francis Collinson]] in 1946, was printed in [[JEFDSS]] Vol 5 No 1 (1946), p19-20, with the following note:

:"Mr. Baker of Maidstone, who is in his seventies, has worked all his life as an engineer at Thomas Tillings'. He is a little uncertain in his singing, and I had to ask him to repeat the tune of "Death and the Lady" a number of times before I was certain of having it down correctly."

Mr. Baker sang only four verses, but his version, with expanded words, was included in the [[Penguin Book of English Folk Songs]].

[https://www.vwml.org/record/COL/5/29 Death and the Lady - VWML Archive Catalogue]

Collinson also collected a version of [[Bold Fisherman|The Bold Fisherman]] from Mr Baker.

Harry Baker was born 12 Dec 1876, and baptised 14 Jan 1877 at St Lawrence's church, Mereworth in Kent. He was the son of Eliza (née Honey) and William, an agricultural labourer, the third eldest of four children. Census records show the family living at Mereworth, West Peckham and East Peckham - all within a few miles of each other, roughly halfway between Tonbridge and Maidstone. The 1901 Census shows Harry as a Grocer's assistant, still living with his parents. He married Frances Harriett Bell in Mereworth on 19th December 1903. By 1911 they had moved to Upper Fant Road, Maidstone; Harry was working as an Assurance agent for the Prudential. Ten years later his occupation was given as "Hardware Steel", but he was out of work.

The 1939 Register shows the Bakers living at 5 Evelyn Road, Maidstone, and Harry's occupation is given as "Steel Engineer Hardener Heavy Worker". He died at the age of 81, in 1958.

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Kent]]

Frances Baker

2024-04-07T19:39:04Z

Andyturner:

'''Frances Baker''', singer from Maidstone, [[Kent]].

Songs collected by [[Francis Collinson]], 1946:

*[[Gleaner, The|The Gleaner]]
*[[Oyster Girl (Roud 875)|Oyster Girl]]
*[[Sergeant in the Wagon Train, The|The Sergeant in the Wagon Train]]
*[[Mary at the Garden Gate]]

Note by Collinson in [[JEFDSS]] Vol 5 No 1 (1946), p20, accompanying her husband [[Harry Baker]]'s version of [[Death and the Lady]]:

:"His wife also knows folk-songs and I got the following songs from her : "The oyster girl", "The bold fisherman" and "The sergeant in the wagon train". She was born at Mereworth in Kent and learned her songs from her father, who used to sit and sing them in the chimney corner in the evening. He knew over a hundred and fifty songs. Mrs Baker was hopeful of getting some more songs from her sister, but the latter unfortunately died very shortly afterwards, and her songs died with her."

Born Frances Harriett Bell, 5th October 1879, and baptised at St Lawrence's, Mereworth, on 26th October 1879. Her parents were Mary (née Cheesman), and Josiah, an agricultural labourer. The family lived at Butchers Lane, Mereworth (1881 and 1891 Census). In 1901 Frances was working at Hazlewood, East Peckham, as "Cook domestic" in the household of farmer John Godwin. She was married to Harry Baker in Mereworth on 19th December 1903, susbequently living in Maidstone.

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Kent]]

Harry Baker

2024-04-07T19:26:49Z

Andyturner:

'''Harry Baker''', singer from Maidstone, [[Kent]], 1876 - 1958.

His wife, [[Frances Baker]], was also a singer.

His version of [[Death and the lady]], collected by [[Francis Collinson]] in 1946, was printed in [[JEFDSS]] Vol 5 No 1 (1946), p19-20, with the following note:

:"Mr. Baker of Maidstone, who is in his seventies, has worked all his life as an engineer at Thomas Tillings'. He is a little uncertain in his singing, and I had to ask him to repeat the tune of "Death and the Lady" a number of times before I was certain of having it down correctly."

Mr. Baker sang only four verses, but his version, with expanded words, was included in the [[Penguin Book of English Folk Songs]].

[https://www.vwml.org/record/COL/5/29 Death and the Lady - VWML Archive Catalogue]

Harry Baker was born 12 Dec 1876, and baptised 14 Jan 1877 at St Lawrence's church, Mereworth in Kent. He was the son of Eliza (née Honey) and William, an agricultural labourer, the third eldest of four children. Census records show the family living at Mereworth, West Peckham and East Peckham - all within a few miles of each other, roughly halfway between Tonbridge and Maidstone. The 1901 Census shows Harry as a Grocer's assistant, still living with his parents. He married Frances Harriett Bell in Mereworth on 19th December 1903. By 1911 they had moved to Upper Fant Road, Maidstone; Harry was working as an Assurance agent for the Prudential. Ten years later his occupation was given as "Hardware Steel", but he was out of work.

The 1939 Register shows the Bakers living at 5 Evelyn Road, Maidstone, and Harry's occupation is given as "Steel Engineer Hardener Heavy Worker". He died at the age of 81, in 1958.

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Kent]]

Harry Baker

2024-04-07T19:23:45Z

Andyturner:

'''Harry Baker''', singer from Maidstone, [[Kent]], 1876 - 1958.

His wife, [[Frances Baker]], was also a singer.

His version of [[Death and the lady]], collected by [[Francis Collinson]] in 1946, was printed in [[JEFDSS]] Vol 5 No 1 (1946), p19-20, with the following note:

:"Mr. Baker of Maidstone, who is in his seventies, has worked all his life as an engineer at Thomas Tillings'. He is a little uncertain in his singing, and I had to ask him to repeat the tune of "Death and the Lady" a number of times before I was certain of having it down correctly."

Mr. Baker sang only four verses, but his version, with expanded words, was included in the [[Penguin Book of English Folk Songs]].

[https://www.vwml.org/record/COL/5/29 Death and the Lady - VWML Archive Catalogue]

Harry Baker was born 12 Dec 1876, and baptised 14 Jan 1877 at St Lawrence's church, Mereworth in Kent. He was the son of Eliza (née Honey) and William, a labourer, the third eldest of four children. Census records show the family living at Mereworth, West Peckham and East Peckham - all within a few miles of each other, roughly halfway between Tonbridge and Maidstone. The 1901 Census shows Harry as a Grocer's assistant, still living with his parents. He married Frances Harriett Bell in Mereworth on 19th December 1903. By 1911 they had moved to Upper Fant Road, Maidstone; Harry was working as an Assurance agent for the Prudential. Ten years later his occupation was given as "Hardware Steel", but he was out of work.

The 1939 Register shows the Bakers living at 5 Evelyn Road, Maidstone, and Harry's occupation is given as "Steel Engineer Hardener Heavy Worker". He died at the age of 81, in 1958.

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Kent]]

Harry Baker

2024-04-07T19:23:10Z

Andyturner:

'''Harry Baker''', singer from Maidstone, [[Kent]].

His wife, [[Frances Baker]], was also a singer.

His version of [[Death and the lady]], collected by [[Francis Collinson]] in 1946, was printed in [[JEFDSS]] Vol 5 No 1 (1946), p19-20, with the following note:

:"Mr. Baker of Maidstone, who is in his seventies, has worked all his life as an engineer at Thomas Tillings'. He is a little uncertain in his singing, and I had to ask him to repeat the tune of "Death and the Lady" a number of times before I was certain of having it down correctly."

Mr. Baker sang only four verses, but his version, with expanded words, was included in the [[Penguin Book of English Folk Songs]].

[https://www.vwml.org/record/COL/5/29 Death and the Lady - VWML Archive Catalogue]

Harry Baker was born 12 Dec 1876, and baptised 14 Jan 1877 at St Lawrence's church, Mereworth in Kent. He was the son of Eliza (née Honey) and William, a labourer, the third eldest of four children. Census records show the family living at Mereworth, West Peckham and East Peckham - all within a few miles of each other, roughly halfway between Tonbridge and Maidstone. The 1901 Census shows Harry as a Grocer's assistant, still living with his parents. He married Frances Harriett Bell in Mereworth on 19th December 1903. By 1911 they had moved to Upper Fant Road, Maidstone; Harry was working as an Assurance agent for the Prudential. Ten years later his occupation was given as "Hardware Steel", but he was out of work.

The 1939 Register shows the Bakers living at 5 Evelyn Road, Maidstone, and Harry's occupation is given as "Steel Engineer Hardener Heavy Worker". He died at the age of 81, in 1958.

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Kent]]

Ethel Apps

2024-04-07T18:59:57Z

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'''Ethel Apps''', singer from Sissinghurst, [[Kent]], 1884 - 1970.

Songs recorded by [[Francis Collinson]], held at the [[School of Scottish Studies]]:
*[[Dark Eyed Sailor]]
*[[Lily White Hand]]
*[[Lad of the Scotch Brigade]]
*[[Henry Martin]] (possibly - unclear on tape whether this is same singer as on previous three songs)

From obituary in the Kentish Express, Friday 12th June 1970:

:"Sissinghurst

:Mrs. Ethel Apps, of Cleavers, who died in the West Kent hospital on Friday, aged 86, will be remembered in the village as a great character. She was the widow of a Metroploitan policeman. She loved entertaining, and some years ago she recorded [[Gypsy's Lament, The|'The Gypsy's Lament']], an old folk song, for the BBC. She received a royalty every time it was played. Probably her greatest characteristic was her unfailing cheerfulness, which continued th[r]ough her final stay in hospital."

'The Gypsy's Lament' remains a mystery, but the details in this brief notice allow us to identify Mrs Apps in the official records. She was born Ethel Rose(mary) Lambert, in Millwall, London, 4th Nov 1884. Her husband, Metropolitan Police Constable Henry Edmund Samuel Apps was born in Hastings, Sussex, in 1883. They married in Greenwich in 1907. At the time of the 1911 Census they were living in Peckham, and in 1921 in Deptford. They must have moved out of London in the following decade, as Henry is recorded as having died in 1930 in Cranbrook, Kent. Mrs Apps was living in Battle, Sussex, at the time of the 1939 Register. We don't have a date for Francis Collinson's recordings, made at Sissinghurst, but they were almost certainly made during the 1940s.

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Kent]]

Ethel Apps

2024-04-07T17:46:27Z

Andyturner:

'''Ethel Apps''', singer from Sissinghurst, [[Kent]], 1884(?) - 1970.

Songs recorded by [[Francis Collinson]]
*[[Dark Eyed Sailor]]
*[[Lily White Hand]]
*[[Lad of the Scotch Brigade]]
*[[Henry Martin]] (possibly - unclear on tape whether this is same singer as on previous three songs)

Fom obituary in the Kentish Express, Friday 12th June 1970:

:"Sissinghurst

:Mrs. Ethel Apps, of Cleavers, who died in the West Kent hospital on Friday, aged 86, will be remembered in the village as a great character. She was the widow of a Metroploitan policeman. She loved entertaining, and some years ago she recorded [[Gypsy's Lament, The|"The Gypsy's Lament"]], an old folk song, for the BBC. She received a royalty every time it was played. Probably her greatest characteristic was her unfailing cheerfulness, which continued th[r]ough her final stay in hospital."

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Kent]]

George Benstead

2023-10-20T10:49:40Z

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'''George Benstead''', singer, Hamstreet, [[Kent]].

Sang [[Barley Mow, The|The Barley Mow]] ([[Roud 944]]) for [[Cecil Sharp]], 22nd September 1908.

David Sutcliffe has identified the singer as Percy George Benstead, agricultural labourer, born 1882.

See https://cecilsharpspeople.org.uk/benstead-george.html

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Kent]]

George Benstead

2023-10-20T10:48:02Z

Andyturner: Have removed George Frampton's speculations about the singer - I can't see anywhere that Sharp says the singer was 68. Only VWML record is https://www.vwml.org/record/CJS2/10/1920

'''George Benstead''', singer, Hamstreet, [[Kent]].

Sang [[Barley Mow, The|The Barley Mow]] ([[Roud 944]]) for [[Cecil Sharp]], 22nd September 1908.

Charles Sutcliffe has identified the singer as Percy George Benstead, agricultural labourer, born 1882.

See https://cecilsharpspeople.org.uk/benstead-george.html

[[Category: Singer]]
[[Category: Kent]]

Ambrose Cooper

2023-10-10T09:37:34Z

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'''Ambrose Cooper''' Gypsy singer and songwriter who lives near Epsom, [[Surrey]]. He is [[Jasper Smith]]'s nephew and [[Harry Lee]]'s grandson.

:'''''Unsung hero''': Ambrose Cooper is a Gypsy man who sings for passion not profit.

:''Ambrose Cooper is almost unique amongst British Gypsy performers. He loves country music and he’s keen on English folk too. But unlike many others he sings about recent Gypsy experiences and sets it all down to a country rhythm. The songs he’s written over the years are known and sung by Gypsies across England, yet he rarely gets the credit for what he’s created. For Ambrose, singing is a passion and not a profession. And his talent is as hidden away as the site he lives on.''

:''In his kitchen block at the corner of the Cox Lane site in Epsom, Surrey, Ambrose is jamming with his son Ambrose, playing everything from guitar boogies and English folk, to Elvis. Ambrose senior plays the accordion, guitar and banjo expertly. He says he got his interest in music from his granddad Harry Lee.''

:''“My granddad used to get his living with his violin years ago,” says Ambrose. “They’d make a fire and get a board to tap dance on and he’d play jigs and reels on the fiddle. That was their entertainment. The trouble is now, everything is ready made. You’ve got CDs, backing tapes and karaoke and the music is already there. The younger generation don’t play instruments like they used to. Karaoke’s alright, but it’s not real music, is it?”''

:''“When I was a little boy I used to say: ‘Let me have a go on your banjo grandfather’ and he’d say: ‘No son, that’s a violin.’ But it got me interested in music. When I got old enough I got myself a guitar and used to listen to old Jimmie Rodgers’ records and taught myself.”''

:''Ambrose’s best-known song, ‘Will There Be Any Travellers in Heaven?’ is a good example of how he creates music, but gets little credit for it. His late cousin Derby Smith is often named as the song’s creator.''

:''“People take my stuff and say they’ve done it. I can’t read and write, so I’ve made a song up on a tape, played it to somebody and they’ve written it down and said that they’ve done it. Jimmie Rodgers said: ‘Will there be any brakemen in heaven?’ So it was his tune but my words.”''

:''From his song ‘Old Motors’ to the ‘Travellers’ Blues’, his songs are widely known, but have never been commercially released. “What I’ve wrote about is what’s really happened,” he says and launches into a song that all Gypsies in the south of England know and love: ‘Now you get some old motors, they’re going everyday, some of them, they need a tow, before you can get away …’''''

from [http://travellerstimes.org.uk Traveller's Times] issue 33, Autumn 2007

Some of Ambrose's songs are included in 'Romano Drom songbook: Songs by Ambrose Cooper, Kerieva & Others', Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, June 2009.

'''YouTube links:'''

[https://youtu.be/tIBpPMHYe8U?si=6xvywTHFA8GT5xrr Travellers Tales part 1 (Surrey History Trust)]

[http://youtu.be/ZxcNYnlE6Og 'Reuben And Levy']

[http://youtu.be/zma-AlFMWkg 'Old Motors', written by Ambrose Cooper]

'''Audio links:'''

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/realmedia/audio/voices/ambrose.ram Ambrose Cooper sings ''Hartlake Bridge''] - linked from http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/voices/hartlake/song.shtml

[[Category: Singer]]

[[Category: Surrey]]

[[Category: Traveller]]

Ken Stubbs

2022-05-09T18:36:20Z

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'''Ken Stubbs''' (1923-2008), Southern English folksong collector.

See http://forest-tracks.co.uk/kenstubbs/

There is a brief biography of Stubbs on the VWML website at https://www.vwml.org/archives-catalogue/KS

The VWML houses digitised copies of Stubbs' field recordings, and these are accessible as the [https://www.vwml.org/archives-catalogue/KS Ken Stubbs Collection].

The recordings are mostly from [[Sussex]], [[Surrey]] and [[Kent]]. Regular locations for the “folk music parties” that he organised included The Abergavenny Arms, Copthorne; The Cherry Tree, Copthorne; The Plough, Three Bridges; The Oak, Ardingly; The Plough Inn, Cuckfield; The Gun, Horsmonden; The Crown, Edenbridge and “Elsie’s” at The Queen’s Arms, Cowden.

[[Category: Collector]]

George Spicer

2022-05-09T18:30:09Z

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'''George ‘Spike’ Spicer''', singer, 1906-1981.

George Spicer was born at Little Chart, [[Kent]] in 1906 and left school at the age of 14, when he went to work on a local farm as a general farmhand.  After two years he became an under herdsman and at the age of twenty-six the head man.  His early working life was spent on farms in the Dover and Deal area and continued on various farms in Kent near Faversham, Canterbury, Maidstone and Biggin Hill before moving to Selsfield, [[Sussex]], in 1940, where he was employed as head herdsman with pedigree Guernsey cattle.  Here he was to work for virtually all of the next 31 years until retiring in 1971.

George had a vast store of songs ranging from music hall tearjerkers to classic traditional ballads.  Many he learnt from his parents, others from various relatives and still more from pub singsongs.  After retiring he remained very active as a part time gamekeeper, village cricket umpire and enthusiastic gardener; he won over a thousand certificates at various flower shows for his skills.

A renowned singer, throughout his life George performed in village pubs at sing arounds - including the Cherry Tree at Copthorne where he encountered [[George 'Pop' Maynard|Pop Maynard]] - and various others around the Ashdown Forest area.  He often sang in company with [[Harry Holman]] of Copthorne, a friend of Pop’s.  During the 1950s he regularly took his son [[Ron Spicer]] along to play accordion while he did the singing.

The collector [[Ken Stubbs]] maintained that George was never ‘discovered’ by song collectors.  He insisted George was so well known as a singer that anyone visiting the area in search of traditional material could not help but find him.

[[Brian Matthews]] remembers him as ‘a fine powerful singer who would dominate most pub sing-songs ...  much to the annoyance of other singers, I gather.’ This was so marked that Brian only heard his son [[Ron Spicer]] sing in public after George’s death.

George died at Selsfield, Sussex in 1981 at the age of 75.  He made one complete Topic LP, ''Blackberry Fold'' (12T235), 1974, and could be heard on tracks of several others: he sang ''I Wish there was no Prisons'' on the EP ''Four Sussex Singers'' (Collector LEB 7), 1961; and ''The Thrashing Machine'' and ''Lilly White Hand'' on ''When Sheepshearing’s Done'' (Topic 12T254), 1975.

''Part of the booklet notes, written by Mike Yates, to the Musical Traditions Records CDs [[MTCD311-2 Up in the North and Down in the South|Up in the North and Down in the South]] (MTCD311-2)''

== External Links ==
George Frampton ''"I don't know if this is actually a folk song" The Life and Music of George Spicer (1906-1981)''
* Part 1: A Boyhood in Kent https://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/g_spicer.htm
* Part 2: The West Langdon Years, 1928-35 https://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/g_spice2.htm
* Part 3: Crossing the Border, 1935-1953 https://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/g_spice3.htm
* Part 4: The Old House Years, 1948-1981 https://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/g_spice4.htm

== Discography ==
* George Spicer, [[Blackberry Fold (LP)|Blackberry Fold]], [[Topic Records]] 12T235 (1974)

* Various artists, [[MTCD309-10 Just Another Saturday Night|Just Another Saturday Night]], Musical Traditions, MTCD309-10 (4 tracks)

* Various artists, [[MTCD311-2 Up in the North and Down in the South|Up in the North and Down in the South]], Musical Traditions, MTCD311-2 (6 tracks)

*Various Artists, [[VTC4CD Down in the Fields|Down in the Fields]], Veteran, VTC4CD (2 tracks)

[[Category:Singer]]
[[Category:Kent]]
[[Category: Sussex]]

MTCD339-0 A Story to Tell: Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-9

2022-02-14T15:00:19Z

Andyturner:

To see the full CD details, go to the ''Musical Traditions'' website where you'll also find the complete booklet notes https://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/summers.htm

'''Tracklist:'''

''[[Doing My Duty]]'', [[Ted Cobbin]], [[Roud 21227]] 
''[[Abie My Boy]]'', [[Ted Cobbin and Peter Plant]] 
''[[Blow the Candle Out]]'', [[Jumbo Brightwell|William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 368]] 
''[[Highwayman and the Farmer's Daughter]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 2638]] 
''[[Coal-Black Mammy]]'', [[Fred Pearce]] 
''[[Talking about learning songs]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]] and [[Geoff Ling]] 
''[[Three Jolly Sportsmen]]'', [[Bob Scarce]], [[Roud 17]] 
''[[Green Bushes]]'', [[Geoff Ling]], [[Roud 1040]] 
''[[Maggie May]]'', [[Geoff Ling]], [[Roud 1757]] 
''[[Mary Anne]]'', [[Arthur 'Spanker' Austin]], [[Roud 21228]] 
''[[Soldier's Joy]]'', [[Fred List]] 
''[[All Tattered and Torn]]'', [[Percy Ling]], [[Roud 1407]] 
''[[The Nutting Girl]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 509]] 
''[[The Kildare Fancy]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]] 
''[[The Ship I Love]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]], [[Roud 17057]] 
''[[I'm a Man you don't Meet Every Day]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 975)]] 
''[[Step Dance Tune]]'', [[Peter Plant]] 
''[[The Parson's Creed]]'', [[Jumbo Brightwell|William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]] 
''[[Cock of the North / Pop Goes the Weasel]]'', [[Tommy Williams]] 
''[[The Seeds of Love]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 3]] 
''[[The Drowned Lover]]'', [[Jumbo Brightwell|William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 185]] 
''[[The Lincolnshire Poacher]]'', [[Billy List]], [[Roud 299]] 
''[[Talking about his grandfather]]'', [[George Ling]] 
''[[Fairy's Hornpipe and dancing doll]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting and Cecil Fisk]] 
''[[You Can Look but you Mustn't Touch!]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 21238]] 
''[[Wild Flowers]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]] 
''[[The Yellow Handkerchief]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 954]] 
''[[Poem]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]] 
''[[The Rakes of Mallow]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]] 
''[[The Baby's Name]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]], [[Roud 21229]] 
''[[The Flowers of Edinburgh]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]] 
''[[The Roving Gypsy]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]], [[Roud 21230]] 
''[[Talking]]'', [[Harkie Nesling and Fred 'Pip' Whiting]] 
''[[Polka(Jingle Bells)]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]] 
''[[Australia]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 1488]] 
''[[The Female Drummer]]'', [[Bill 'Dodger' Brabbing]], [[Roud 226]] 
''[[The Sailor's Hornpipe]]'', [[The Peacock Band]] 
''[[Truly Fair]]'', [[Font Watling and Wattie Wright]] 
''[[The Recruiting Sergeant]]'', [[George Ling]], [[Roud 493]] 
''[[Strolling down to Hastings]]'', [[Aileen Stollery]], [[Roud 364]] 
''[[Chinaman]]'', [[Aileen Stollery]], [[Roud 1850]] 
''[[Pigeon on the Gate]]'', [[Font Watling and Wattie Wright]] 
''[[The Lobster]]'', [[Percy Ling]], [[Roud 149]] 
''[[Old General Wolfe]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 624]] 
''[[A Broadside]]'', [[Bob Scarce]], [[Roud 492]] 
''[[Unidentified Tune]]'', [[George Woolnough]] 
''[[The Flower of London]]'', [[George Dow]], [[Roud 548]] 
''[[The Indian Lass]]'', [[Jumbo Brightwell|William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 2326]] 
''[[Oscar's Waltz / Charlie Philpott's Waltz]]'', [[Reg Reeder]] 
''[[Out with my Gun in the Morning]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 1847]] 
''[[Talking]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]] 
''[[Duckfoot Sue]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 9553]] 
''[[Talking]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]] 
''[[Wormwood Scrubs]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 21231]] 
''[[Phil the Fluter]]'', [[Tommy Williams]] 
''[[Paddy and the Rope]]'', [[Billy List]], [[Roud 2037]] 
''[[The Oak and the Ash]]'', [[Charlie Whiting]], [[Roud 269]] 
''[[Sailor's Hornpipe]]'', [[George Woolnough]] 
''[[Lamplighting Time in the Valley]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 13304]] 
''[[Step Dance Tune]]'', [[Oscar Woods]] 
''[[Pretty Little Mary]]'', [[Percy Ling]], [[Roud 899]] 
''[[The Next Song in the Programme]]'', [[Albert Smith]] 
''[[Sailor's Hornpipe / Pigeon on the Gate]]'', [[Albert Smith]] 
''[[Old Brown sat in the Rose and Crown]]'', [[ Albert Smith]] 
''[[Cock of the North]]'', [[Fred Pearce]] 
''[[Talking about The Ship]]'', [[Cyril Poacher and Geoff Ling]] 
''[[The Burden of the Spray]]'', [[Bob Scarce]], [[Roud 21232]] 
''[[The Maid and the Magpie]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 1532]] 
''[[Red Sails in the Sunset]]'', [[Fred Eley Whent]] 
''[[Unidentified Tunes]]'', [[Fred Eley Whent]] 
''[[The False Hearted Knight]]'', [[Jumbo Brightwell|William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 21]] 
''[[Young George Oxbury]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 90]] 
''[[The Barndance]]'', [[Fred List]] 
''[[The Morals]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 21233]] 
''[[Jim the Carter's Lad]]'', [[Ted Cobbin]] with [[Peter Plant]], [[Roud 1080]]

Keith Summers

2022-02-14T14:56:24Z

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'''Keith Summers''' (1948-2004), founder and editor of the paper [[Musical Traditions magazine]], co-editor of the internet version of [[Musical Traditions]]; collector best known for his recordings made in Suffolk in the 1970s.

The [https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Keith-Summers-Collection Keith Summers English Folk Music Collection] on the British Library Sounds website includes recordings made by Keith in [[Devon]], [[Essex]], [[London]], [[Norfolk]], [[Nottinghamshire]], [[Oxfordshire]], [[South Yorkshire]], [[Suffolk]] and [[Sussex]].

Keith Summers: An Obituary, Musical Traditions, https://www.mustrad.org.uk/ks_obit.htm

Jumbo Brightwell

2022-02-14T14:49:50Z

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William 'Jumbo' Brightwell, born 1900, Little Glenham, [[Suffolk]]. Singer recorded in 1947 by [[Ernest John Moeran|E.J.Moeran]], and in the 1970s by [[Keith Summers]] and [[Tony Engle]].

His father [[Velvet Brightwell]] was also a singer.

== External References ==
* Article by Chris Foster on the [[East Anglian Traditional Music Trust]] website: [https://www.eatmt.org.uk/jumbo-brightwell-2/ Jumbo Brightwell]
* Interview, and song recordings made by [[Keith Summers]]: [https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Keith-Summers-Collection Keith Summers English Folk Music Collection, British Library]

== Discography ==
* [[Songs from the Eel’s Foot]], [[Topic Records]], TSDL261, 1975 [https://www.topicrecords.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/TSDL261.pdf PDF booklet]

Compilations:
* [[Sing, Say and Play|Sing, Say and Play: Traditional Songs & Music From Suffolk]], [[Topic Records]], 12TS375
* [[MTCD339-0 A Story to Tell: Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-9|A Story to Tell: Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-9]], [[Musical Traditions]], MTCD339-0
* [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Who's That at my Bed Window? (Voice of the People Volume 10]] Track 17 
* [[We've Received Orders to Sail|We've Received Orders to Sail (Voice of the People Volume 12]] Track 01 
* [[Troubles They Are But Few|Troubles They Are But Few (Voice of the People Volume 14]] Track 06 
* [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean (Voice of the People Volume 2]] Track 21 
* [[[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green (Voice of the People Volume 3]] Track 01 

[[Category:Singer]]
[[Category:Suffolk]]

Songs from the Eel’s Foot

2022-02-14T14:45:09Z

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[[Jumbo Brightwell]], Songs from the Eel’s Foot, [[Topic Records]], TSDL261, 1975 [https://www.topicrecords.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/TSDL261.pdf PDF booklet]

Recorded by [[Tony Engle]].

== Tracklist ==

# [[Flower of London]]
# [[Derby Miller]]
# [[Loss of the Ramillies]]
# [[Green Mossy Bank of the Lea]]
# [[Blow the Candle Out]]
# [[Bold Princess Royal]]
# [[Newry Town]]
# [[Indian Lass]]
# [[Muddley Barracks]]
# [[False Hearted Knight]]
# [[Lost Heiress]]
# [[Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Grow]]
# [[Rumbleaway]]
# [[Life of a Man]]

MTCD339-0 A Story to Tell: Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-9

2022-02-14T14:43:04Z

Andyturner:

To see the full CD details, go to the ''Musical Traditions'' website where you'll also find the complete booklet notes https://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/summers.htm

'''Tracklist:'''

''[[Doing My Duty]]'', [[Ted Cobbin]], [[Roud 21227]] 
''[[Abie My Boy]]'', [[Ted Cobbin and Peter Plant]] 
''[[Blow the Candle Out]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 368]] 
''[[Highwayman and the Farmer's Daughter]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 2638]] 
''[[Coal-Black Mammy]]'', [[Fred Pearce]] 
''[[Talking about learning songs]]'', [[Cyril Poacher and Geoff Ling]] 
''[[Three Jolly Sportsmen]]'', [[Bob Scarce]], [[Roud 17]] 
''[[Green Bushes]]'', [[Geoff Ling]], [[Roud 1040]] 
''[[Maggie May]]'', [[Geoff Ling]], [[Roud 1757]] 
''[[Mary Anne]]'', [[Arthur 'Spanker' Austin]], [[Roud 21228]] 
''[[Soldier's Joy]]'', [[Fred List]] 
''[[All Tattered and Torn]]'', [[Percy Ling]], [[Roud 1407]] 
''[[The Nutting Girl]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 509]] 
''[[The Kildare Fancy]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]] 
''[[The Ship I Love]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]], [[Roud 17057]] 
''[[I'm a Man you don't Meet Every Day]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 975)]] 
''[[Step Dance Tune]]'', [[Peter Plant]] 
''[[The Parson's Creed]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]] 
''[[Cock of the North / Pop Goes the Weasel]]'', [[Tommy Williams]] 
''[[The Seeds of Love]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 3]] 
''[[The Drowned Lover]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 185]] 
''[[The Lincolnshire Poacher]]'', [[Billy List]], [[Roud 299]] 
''[[Talking about his grandfather]]'', [[George Ling]] 
''[[Fairy's Hornpipe and dancing doll]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting and Cecil Fisk]] 
''[[You Can Look but you Mustn't Touch!]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 21238]] 
''[[Wild Flowers]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]] 
''[[The Yellow Handkerchief]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 954]] 
''[[Poem]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]] 
''[[The Rakes of Mallow]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]] 
''[[The Baby's Name]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]], [[Roud 21229]] 
''[[The Flowers of Edinburgh]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]] 
''[[The Roving Gypsy]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]], [[Roud 21230]] 
''[[Talking]]'', [[Harkie Nesling and Fred 'Pip' Whiting]] 
''[[Polka(Jingle Bells)]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]] 
''[[Australia]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 1488]] 
''[[The Female Drummer]]'', [[Bill 'Dodger' Brabbing]], [[Roud 226]] 
''[[The Sailor's Hornpipe]]'', [[The Peacock Band]] 
''[[Truly Fair]]'', [[Font Watling and Wattie Wright]] 
''[[The Recruiting Sergeant]]'', [[George Ling]], [[Roud 493]] 
''[[Strolling down to Hastings]]'', [[Aileen Stollery]], [[Roud 364]] 
''[[Chinaman]]'', [[Aileen Stollery]], [[Roud 1850]] 
''[[Pigeon on the Gate]]'', [[Font Watling and Wattie Wright]] 
''[[The Lobster]]'', [[Percy Ling]], [[Roud 149]] 
''[[Old General Wolfe]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 624]] 
''[[A Broadside]]'', [[Bob Scarce]], [[Roud 492]] 
''[[Unidentified Tune]]'', [[George Woolnough]] 
''[[The Flower of London]]'', [[George Dow]], [[Roud 548]] 
''[[The Indian Lass]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 2326]] 
''[[Oscar's Waltz / Charlie Philpott's Waltz]]'', [[Reg Reeder]] 
''[[Out with my Gun in the Morning]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 1847]] 
''[[Talking]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]] 
''[[Duckfoot Sue]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 9553]] 
''[[Talking]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]] 
''[[Wormwood Scrubs]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 21231]] 
''[[Phil the Fluter]]'', [[Tommy Williams]] 
''[[Paddy and the Rope]]'', [[Billy List]], [[Roud 2037]] 
''[[The Oak and the Ash]]'', [[Charlie Whiting]], [[Roud 269]] 
''[[Sailor's Hornpipe]]'', [[George Woolnough]] 
''[[Lamplighting Time in the Valley]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 13304]] 
''[[Step Dance Tune]]'', [[Oscar Woods]] 
''[[Pretty Little Mary]]'', [[Percy Ling]], [[Roud 899]] 
''[[The Next Song in the Programme]]'', [[Albert Smith]] 
''[[Sailor's Hornpipe / Pigeon on the Gate]]'', [[Albert Smith]] 
''[[Old Brown sat in the Rose and Crown]]'', [[ Albert Smith]] 
''[[Cock of the North]]'', [[Fred Pearce]] 
''[[Talking about The Ship]]'', [[Cyril Poacher and Geoff Ling]] 
''[[The Burden of the Spray]]'', [[Bob Scarce]], [[Roud 21232]] 
''[[The Maid and the Magpie]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 1532]] 
''[[Red Sails in the Sunset]]'', [[Fred Eley Whent]] 
''[[Unidentified Tunes]]'', [[Fred Eley Whent]] 
''[[The False Hearted Knight]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 21]] 
''[[Young George Oxbury]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 90]] 
''[[The Barndance]]'', [[Fred List]] 
''[[The Morals]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 21233]] 
''[[Jim the Carter's Lad]]'', [[Ted Cobbin with Peter Plant]], [[Roud 1080]]

MTCD339-0 A Story to Tell: Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-9

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To see the full CD details, go to the ''Musical Traditions'' website where you'll also find the complete booklet notes [https://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/summers.htm]

'''Tracklist:'''

''[[Doing My Duty]]'', [[Ted Cobbin]], [[Roud 21227]] 
''[[Abie My Boy]]'', [[Ted Cobbin and Peter Plant]] 
''[[Blow the Candle Out]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 368]] 
''[[Highwayman and the Farmer's Daughter]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 2638]] 
''[[Coal-Black Mammy]]'', [[Fred Pearce]] 
''[[Talking about learning songs]]'', [[Cyril Poacher and Geoff Ling]] 
''[[Three Jolly Sportsmen]]'', [[Bob Scarce]], [[Roud 17]] 
''[[Green Bushes]]'', [[Geoff Ling]], [[Roud 1040]] 
''[[Maggie May]]'', [[Geoff Ling]], [[Roud 1757]] 
''[[Mary Anne]]'', [[Arthur 'Spanker' Austin]], [[Roud 21228]] 
''[[Soldier's Joy]]'', [[Fred List]] 
''[[All Tattered and Torn]]'', [[Percy Ling]], [[Roud 1407]] 
''[[The Nutting Girl]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 509]] 
''[[The Kildare Fancy]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]] 
''[[The Ship I Love]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]], [[Roud 17057]] 
''[[I'm a Man you don't Meet Every Day]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 975)]] 
''[[Step Dance Tune]]'', [[Peter Plant]] 
''[[The Parson's Creed]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]] 
''[[Cock of the North / Pop Goes the Weasel]]'', [[Tommy Williams]] 
''[[The Seeds of Love]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 3]] 
''[[The Drowned Lover]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 185]] 
''[[The Lincolnshire Poacher]]'', [[Billy List]], [[Roud 299]] 
''[[Talking about his grandfather]]'', [[George Ling]] 
''[[Fairy's Hornpipe and dancing doll]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting and Cecil Fisk]] 
''[[You Can Look but you Mustn't Touch!]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 21238]] 
''[[Wild Flowers]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]] 
''[[The Yellow Handkerchief]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 954]] 
''[[Poem]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]] 
''[[The Rakes of Mallow]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]] 
''[[The Baby's Name]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]], [[Roud 21229]] 
''[[The Flowers of Edinburgh]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]] 
''[[The Roving Gypsy]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]], [[Roud 21230]] 
''[[Talking]]'', [[Harkie Nesling and Fred 'Pip' Whiting]] 
''[[Polka(Jingle Bells)]]'', [[Harkie Nesling]] 
''[[Australia]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 1488]] 
''[[The Female Drummer]]'', [[Bill 'Dodger' Brabbing]], [[Roud 226]] 
''[[The Sailor's Hornpipe]]'', [[The Peacock Band]] 
''[[Truly Fair]]'', [[Font Watling and Wattie Wright]] 
''[[The Recruiting Sergeant]]'', [[George Ling]], [[Roud 493]] 
''[[Strolling down to Hastings]]'', [[Aileen Stollery]], [[Roud 364]] 
''[[Chinaman]]'', [[Aileen Stollery]], [[Roud 1850]] 
''[[Pigeon on the Gate]]'', [[Font Watling and Wattie Wright]] 
''[[The Lobster]]'', [[Percy Ling]], [[Roud 149]] 
''[[Old General Wolfe]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 624]] 
''[[A Broadside]]'', [[Bob Scarce]], [[Roud 492]] 
''[[Unidentified Tune]]'', [[George Woolnough]] 
''[[The Flower of London]]'', [[George Dow]], [[Roud 548]] 
''[[The Indian Lass]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 2326]] 
''[[Oscar's Waltz / Charlie Philpott's Waltz]]'', [[Reg Reeder]] 
''[[Out with my Gun in the Morning]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 1847]] 
''[[Talking]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]] 
''[[Duckfoot Sue]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 9553]] 
''[[Talking]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]] 
''[[Wormwood Scrubs]]'', [[Jimmy Knights]], [[Roud 21231]] 
''[[Phil the Fluter]]'', [[Tommy Williams]] 
''[[Paddy and the Rope]]'', [[Billy List]], [[Roud 2037]] 
''[[The Oak and the Ash]]'', [[Charlie Whiting]], [[Roud 269]] 
''[[Sailor's Hornpipe]]'', [[George Woolnough]] 
''[[Lamplighting Time in the Valley]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 13304]] 
''[[Step Dance Tune]]'', [[Oscar Woods]] 
''[[Pretty Little Mary]]'', [[Percy Ling]], [[Roud 899]] 
''[[The Next Song in the Programme]]'', [[Albert Smith]] 
''[[Sailor's Hornpipe / Pigeon on the Gate]]'', [[Albert Smith]] 
''[[Old Brown sat in the Rose and Crown]]'', [[ Albert Smith]] 
''[[Cock of the North]]'', [[Fred Pearce]] 
''[[Talking about The Ship]]'', [[Cyril Poacher and Geoff Ling]] 
''[[The Burden of the Spray]]'', [[Bob Scarce]], [[Roud 21232]] 
''[[The Maid and the Magpie]]'', [[Cyril Poacher]], [[Roud 1532]] 
''[[Red Sails in the Sunset]]'', [[Fred Eley Whent]] 
''[[Unidentified Tunes]]'', [[Fred Eley Whent]] 
''[[The False Hearted Knight]]'', [[William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 21]] 
''[[Young George Oxbury]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 90]] 
''[[The Barndance]]'', [[Fred List]] 
''[[The Morals]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 21233]] 
''[[Jim the Carter's Lad]]'', [[Ted Cobbin with Peter Plant]], [[Roud 1080]]

Jumbo Brightwell

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Andyturner:

William 'Jumbo' Brightwell, born 1900, Little Glenham, [[Suffolk]]. Singer recorded in 1947 by [[Ernest John Moeran|E.J.Moeran]], and in the 1970s by [[Keith Summers]] and [[Tony Engle]].

His father [[Velvet Brightwell]] was also a singer.

== External References ==
Article by Chris Foster on the [[East Anglian Traditional Music Trust]] website: [https://www.eatmt.org.uk/jumbo-brightwell-2/ Jumbo Brightwell]

== Discography ==
[[Songs from the Eel’s Foot]], [[Topic Records]], TSDL261, 1975 [https://www.topicrecords.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/TSDL261.pdf PDF booklet]

Compilations:
* [[Sing, Say and Play|Sing, Say and Play: Traditional Songs & Music From Suffolk]], [[Topic Records]], 12TS375
* [[MTCD339-0 A Story to Tell: Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-9|A Story to Tell: Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-9]], [[Musical Traditions]], MTCD339-0
* [[Who's That at my Bed Window?|Who's That at my Bed Window? (Voice of the People Volume 10]] Track 17 
* [[We've Received Orders to Sail|We've Received Orders to Sail (Voice of the People Volume 12]] Track 01 
* [[Troubles They Are But Few|Troubles They Are But Few (Voice of the People Volume 14]] Track 06 
* [[My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean|My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean (Voice of the People Volume 2]] Track 21 
* [[[O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green|O'er His Grave the Grass Grew Green (Voice of the People Volume 3]] Track 01 

[[Category:Singer]]
[[Category:Suffolk]]

Jumbo Brightwell

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Jumbo Brightwell

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Andyturner: Starter post

Robert Hurr

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'''Robert Hurr''' (1855-1934), singer and [[concertina]]-player from [[Southwold]] in [[Suffolk]] who sang for [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] and [[George Butterworth]].

See [https://unsunghistories.info/the-real-ben-hurr Katie Howson, ''The Real Ben Hurr: The Hurr brothers of Southwold, singers & fishermen'']

[[Category: Singer]]

[[Category: Suffolk]]

William Hurr

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'''William Hurr''' (1843-1925), singer from [[Southwold]] in [[Suffolk]] who sang for [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] and [[George Butterworth]].

See [https://unsunghistories.info/the-real-ben-hurr Katie Howson, ''The Real Ben Hurr: The Hurr brothers of Southwold, singers & fishermen''] and [https://unsunghistories.info/a-life-through-five-sovereigns-william-hurr-senior Katie Howson, ''A Life through Five Sovereigns: Stories from the life of William Hurr senior, Southwold'']

[[Category: Singer]]

[[Category: Suffolk]]

Ben Hurr

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Andyturner: Stub

'''Ben Hurr''' (1860-1934), singer from [[Southwold]] in [[Suffolk]] who sang for [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] and [[George Butterworth]].

See [https://unsunghistories.info/the-real-ben-hurr Katie Howson, ''The Real Ben Hurr: The Hurr brothers of Southwold, singers & fishermen'']

[[Category: Singer]]

[[Category: Suffolk]]

Singers by County

2021-09-22T15:51:18Z

Andyturner: /* Gloucestershire */

The thrust of this section is to identify what we might call 'traditional' singers. These are distinct from the singers who have learned via the folk revival initiated in the 1950s and continuing today.

Which singers should go in this category? That's open to discussion. The starting point is the era of recording, ie. those singers who sang into the cylinder machines of the early collectors, followed by the early reel-to-reel tape machines and then the newer technologies, probably as far as the turn of the millenium. What we include before and after that is open to discussion and interpretation of what constitutes a 'traditional singer'

They are more likely to have learned their songs within the family or the community rather than off recordings but even this factor is fraught with difficulty. Probably the best approach is to take a stab at it and accept the flaws.

Classifying singers by County is probably as good an approach as any. That's often how the collectors did it.

But some of the Counties have changed! Let's include them anyway, for a while at least!

==North East==

===[[Northumberland]]===

===[[County Durham]]===
[[Jack Elliott]]

===[[Yorkshire]]===

==North West==

===[[Cumbria:Cumberland:Westmorland]]===

===[[Lancashire]]===

===[[Greater Manchester]]===

===[[Merseyside]]===

==West Midlands==

===[[Cheshire]]===

===[[Staffordshire]]===

===[[Shropshire]]===

[[Fred Jordan]]

===[[West Midlands County]]===

[[Cecilia Costello]]

[[George Dunn]]

===[[Herefordshire]]===

===[[Warwickshire]]===

===[[Worcestershire]]===

==East Midlands==

===[[Derbyshire]]===

===[[Nottinghamshire]]===

===[[Leicestershire]]===

===[[Rutland]]===

===[[Humberside]]===

===[[Lincolnshire]]===

[[Joseph Leaning]]

[[Joseph Taylor]]

[[George Wray]]

==East Anglia==

===[[Norfolk]]===

[[Harry Cox]]

[[Sam Larner]]

[[Walter Pardon]]

===[[Suffolk]]===

[[Alec Bloomfield]]

[[George Bloomfield]]

[[Harry Bloomfield]]

[[Jumbo Brightwell]]

[[Velvet Brightwell]]

[[Ted Chaplin]]

[[Hubert Freeman]]

[[Bob Hart]]

[[Tony Harvey]]

[[Ben Hurr]]

[[Robert Hurr]]

[[William Hurr]]

[[Roy Last]]

[[Fred Ling]]

[[Geoff Ling]]

[[Percy Ling]]

[[Fred List]]

[[Harry List]]

[[Cyril Poacher]]

[[Bob Roberts]]

[[Phoebe Smith]]

[[Fred Whiting]]

===[[Cambridgeshire]]===

==South Midlands==

===Northamptonshire===

===Bedfordshire===

===Buckinghamshire===

===[[Oxfordshire]]===

[[Joseph Alcock]]

[[Bob Arnold]]

[[Shadrack Hayden|Shadrack 'Shepherd' Hayden]]

[[Tom Newman]]

[[Freda Palmer]]

[[William Pratley]]

[[George Rimell]]

[[Francis Shergold]]

[[Charlie Tanner]]

[[Son Townsend]]

[[William Walton]]

[[Fred Webb]]

[[Henry Webb]]

===[[Berkshire]]===

==London and South East==

===[[London]]===

===[[Middlesex]]===

===Surrey===

===Essex===

===[[Kent]]===
[[Ethel Apps]]

[[Frances Baker]]

[[Harry Baker]]

[[Charles Barling]]

[[Harry Barling]]

[[Batt Family]]

[[Albert Beale]]

[[James Beale]]

[[George Benstead]]

[[Charles Boulding]]

[[Charlie Bridger]]

[[Ted Briggs]]

[[William Crampton]]

[[Bill Epps]]

[[Tim Fidler]]

[[Jack Goodban]]

[[Henry Greengrass]]

[[Alice Harden]]

[[William Harding]]

[[Samuel Holdstock]]

[[John Johnson]]

[[John Lancefield]]

[[Ted Lancefield]]

[[Clarke Lonkhurst]]

[[Frances Lurcock]]

[[Fred Mannering]]

[[Jim Mannering]]

[[Millen Family]]

[[William Newport]]

[[Kate Oliver]]

[[Fred Ring]]

[[Bill Rolph]]

[[Will Sawkins]]

[[Charlie Scamp]]

[[Phoebe Smith]]

[[George Spicer]]

[[Fred Wanstall]]

[[Chris Willett]]

[[Tom Willett]]

==South==

===[[Sussex]]===

* [[George Attrill]]

* [[Rabbidy Baxter]]

* [[George Belton]]

* [[Bob Blake]]

* [[Henry Burstow]]

* [[Lily Cook]]

* [[The Copper Family]]

* [[Johnny Doughty]]

* [[Louie Fuller]]

* [[Noah Gillette]]

* [[Gordon Hall]]

* [[Mabs Hall]]

* [[Mary Ann Haynes]]

* [[John Johnson]]

* [[Bob Lewis]]

* [[Pop Maynard|George 'Pop' Maynard]]

* [[Cyril Phillips]]

* [[George Spicer]]

* [[Ron Spicer]]

* [[Jim Swain]]

* [[Scan Tester]]

* [[Harry Upton]]

===[[Hampshire]]===
see list at http://www.forest-tracks.co.uk/hampshirevoices/pages/singers.html

===[[Dorset]]===

==South West==

===Gloucestershire===

* [[Mildred Akers]]

* [[Henry Charles Albino]]

* [[Ann Aston]]

* [[Henry Barrett]]

* [[William Baylis]]

* [[Frederick Bee]]

* [[Danny Brazil]]

* [[Harry Brazil]]

* [[Hyram Brazil]]

* [[Lemmy Brazil]]

* [[Tom Brazil]]

* [[William Hedges]]

* [[George Hill]]

* [[Daniel Morgan]]

* [[C S Neal]]

* [[Thomas Lanchbury]]

===Avon===

===Somerset===

===[[Devon]]===

===[[Cornwall]]===

Singers by County

2021-09-22T15:50:48Z

Andyturner: /* Suffolk */

The thrust of this section is to identify what we might call 'traditional' singers. These are distinct from the singers who have learned via the folk revival initiated in the 1950s and continuing today.

Which singers should go in this category? That's open to discussion. The starting point is the era of recording, ie. those singers who sang into the cylinder machines of the early collectors, followed by the early reel-to-reel tape machines and then the newer technologies, probably as far as the turn of the millenium. What we include before and after that is open to discussion and interpretation of what constitutes a 'traditional singer'

They are more likely to have learned their songs within the family or the community rather than off recordings but even this factor is fraught with difficulty. Probably the best approach is to take a stab at it and accept the flaws.

Classifying singers by County is probably as good an approach as any. That's often how the collectors did it.

But some of the Counties have changed! Let's include them anyway, for a while at least!

==North East==

===[[Northumberland]]===

===[[County Durham]]===
[[Jack Elliott]]

===[[Yorkshire]]===

==North West==

===[[Cumbria:Cumberland:Westmorland]]===

===[[Lancashire]]===

===[[Greater Manchester]]===

===[[Merseyside]]===

==West Midlands==

===[[Cheshire]]===

===[[Staffordshire]]===

===[[Shropshire]]===

[[Fred Jordan]]

===[[West Midlands County]]===

[[Cecilia Costello]]

[[George Dunn]]

===[[Herefordshire]]===

===[[Warwickshire]]===

===[[Worcestershire]]===

==East Midlands==

===[[Derbyshire]]===

===[[Nottinghamshire]]===

===[[Leicestershire]]===

===[[Rutland]]===

===[[Humberside]]===

===[[Lincolnshire]]===

[[Joseph Leaning]]

[[Joseph Taylor]]

[[George Wray]]

==East Anglia==

===[[Norfolk]]===

[[Harry Cox]]

[[Sam Larner]]

[[Walter Pardon]]

===[[Suffolk]]===

[[Alec Bloomfield]]

[[George Bloomfield]]

[[Harry Bloomfield]]

[[Jumbo Brightwell]]

[[Velvet Brightwell]]

[[Ted Chaplin]]

[[Hubert Freeman]]

[[Bob Hart]]

[[Tony Harvey]]

[[Ben Hurr]]

[[Robert Hurr]]

[[William Hurr]]

[[Roy Last]]

[[Fred Ling]]

[[Geoff Ling]]

[[Percy Ling]]

[[Fred List]]

[[Harry List]]

[[Cyril Poacher]]

[[Bob Roberts]]

[[Phoebe Smith]]

[[Fred Whiting]]

===[[Cambridgeshire]]===

==South Midlands==

===Northamptonshire===

===Bedfordshire===

===Buckinghamshire===

===[[Oxfordshire]]===

[[Joseph Alcock]]

[[Bob Arnold]]

[[Shadrack Hayden|Shadrack 'Shepherd' Hayden]]

[[Tom Newman]]

[[Freda Palmer]]

[[William Pratley]]

[[George Rimell]]

[[Francis Shergold]]

[[Charlie Tanner]]

[[Son Townsend]]

[[William Walton]]

[[Fred Webb]]

[[Henry Webb]]

===[[Berkshire]]===

==London and South East==

===[[London]]===

===[[Middlesex]]===

===Surrey===

===Essex===

===[[Kent]]===
[[Ethel Apps]]

[[Frances Baker]]

[[Harry Baker]]

[[Charles Barling]]

[[Harry Barling]]

[[Batt Family]]

[[Albert Beale]]

[[James Beale]]

[[George Benstead]]

[[Charles Boulding]]

[[Charlie Bridger]]

[[Ted Briggs]]

[[William Crampton]]

[[Bill Epps]]

[[Tim Fidler]]

[[Jack Goodban]]

[[Henry Greengrass]]

[[Alice Harden]]

[[William Harding]]

[[Samuel Holdstock]]

[[John Johnson]]

[[John Lancefield]]

[[Ted Lancefield]]

[[Clarke Lonkhurst]]

[[Frances Lurcock]]

[[Fred Mannering]]

[[Jim Mannering]]

[[Millen Family]]

[[William Newport]]

[[Kate Oliver]]

[[Fred Ring]]

[[Bill Rolph]]

[[Will Sawkins]]

[[Charlie Scamp]]

[[Phoebe Smith]]

[[George Spicer]]

[[Fred Wanstall]]

[[Chris Willett]]

[[Tom Willett]]

==South==

===[[Sussex]]===

* [[George Attrill]]

* [[Rabbidy Baxter]]

* [[George Belton]]

* [[Bob Blake]]

* [[Henry Burstow]]

* [[Lily Cook]]

* [[The Copper Family]]

* [[Johnny Doughty]]

* [[Louie Fuller]]

* [[Noah Gillette]]

* [[Gordon Hall]]

* [[Mabs Hall]]

* [[Mary Ann Haynes]]

* [[John Johnson]]

* [[Bob Lewis]]

* [[Pop Maynard|George 'Pop' Maynard]]

* [[Cyril Phillips]]

* [[George Spicer]]

* [[Ron Spicer]]

* [[Jim Swain]]

* [[Scan Tester]]

* [[Harry Upton]]

===[[Hampshire]]===
see list at http://www.forest-tracks.co.uk/hampshirevoices/pages/singers.html

===[[Dorset]]===

==South West==

===Gloucestershire===

* [[Mildred Akers]]

* [[Henry Charles Albino]]

* [[Henry Barrett]]

* [[William Baylis]]

* [[Frederick Bee]]

* [[Danny Brazil]]

* [[Harry Brazil]]

* [[Hyram Brazil]]

* [[Lemmy Brazil]]

* [[Tom Brazil]]

* [[William Hedges]]

* [[George Hill]]

* [[Daniel Morgan]]

* [[C S Neal]]

* [[Thomas Lanchbury]]

===Avon===

===Somerset===

===[[Devon]]===

===[[Cornwall]]===

West Gallery Music

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'''West Gallery Music''' is a term coined to describe the music performed in English country churches during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is so called because the music was typically perfromed by a group of singers and musicians housed in the West Gallery of the church. The music is sometimes also referred to as 'Georgian Psalmody' since it flourished in the reigns of George I to George IV.

Our knowledge of the West Gallery repertoire is drawn from printed sources (e.g. [[William Knapp|William Knapp's]] published works) and from surviving musicians' and singers' manuscript books. [[Metrical Psalms]] were the most common type of music performed, along with anthems and some hymns. The repertoire also included a significant number of pieces suitable to be sung at Christmas and for funerals. Few of the pieces sung by West Gallery 'quires' were composed by professional musicians. Most were composed by artisans and craftsmen: for example, [[William Knapp]] was apprenticed as a glovemaker, [[Thomas Clark]] worked as a shoemaker, [[James Nuttall]] was a weaver. West Gallery Music can thus be viewed as an example of genuine folk art - particularly since the versions found in musicians' manuscript books often show marked discrepancies from the composer's original, differences which sometimes suggest a degree of oral transmission.

The music had largely died out by the middle of the nineteenth century. One interpretation is that singers and musicians were driven out of the church by reforming Church of England parsons determined to establish control over the music sung during their services. In Sussex, however, Lucy Broadwood told a different story. See [[Media:LEB_West_Gallery.pdf]]. But, for whatever reasons, fiddle, cello, clarinet and bassoon were replaced by some form of organ; while the metrical translations of the psalms by [[Tate and Brady]] or [[Sternhold and Hopkins]] were superseded by ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymns_Ancient_and_Modern Hymns Ancient and Modern]''.

However the music survived in a number of places. Having crossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth century the West Gallery style developed into [[Shape Note Singing]] (of which the [[Sacred Harp]] tradition is the best known example. Meanwhile, back in England, musical settings composed by West Gallery composers survive in the carol-singing traditions of [[Padstow]] in [[Cornwall]], and in South [[Yorkshire]] and [[Derbyshire]] - in villages such as [[Oughtibridge]] and [[Grenoside]] near [[Sheffield]], and [[Castleton]] in the Derbyshire Peak District.

Since the mid-1970s there has been a revival of interest in performing music from the West Gallery repertoire, prompted by the researches of [[Vic Gammon]], [[Gordon Ashman]], [[Dave Townsend]] and others. The West Gallery Music Association supports both research in, and performance of, this music.

Vic Gammon's 'The Rise and Fall of the West Gallery: popular religious music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries' was published as a chapter in the ''Routledge Companion to Folk Performance,'' edited By Peter Harrop and Steve Roud, July 2021. PDF images of the author's PowerPoint presentation in support of the chapter are available here [[Media:TSF_West_Gallery_Presentation-compressed_copy.pdf]]. A recording of the presentation, including audio playback of the sound examples, is posted at YouTube here [[https://youtu.be/pZmpALZkqEI]]. The presentation begins about 1 hour and 10 minutes into the recording.

'''External links'''

[http://www.rodingmusic.co.uk/index.htm Roding Music] - is Francis Roads' website of West Gallery church music. It is dedicated to encouraging choirs to sing music from this repertoire by offering free downloads and information about the genre.

[http://www.wgma.org.uk/ West Gallery Music Association website] - a great deal of useful information, with links to other sites dealing with this music.

[http://www.wgma.org.uk/Articles/intro.htm Gordon Ashman, ''Introduction to West Gallery Music''] - online version of an article which first appeared in [[English Dance and Song]], 56 (4), Winter 1994.

[http://www.radical-musicology.org.uk/2006/Gammon.htm Vic Gammon, ''Problems in the Performance and Historiography of English Popular Church Music'', Radical Musicology Volume 1 (2006)]

[https://youtu.be/pZmpALZkqEI?t=4283 Vic Gammon, ''The Rise and Fall of the West Gallery: popular religious music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries'', TSF Online meeting 28, Sunday 11 July 2021]

Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

2021-09-22T07:24:26Z

Andyturner: Added bibliographic details and contents list from https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/books/penguinbookofenglishfolksongs.html Wikified Lewis' list of songs and modes

Links to the [[Song Books]] page and to [[Tune Analysis: How To Dissect, Interpret and Categorize Anglo-American, Celtic and English Folk Melodies]].

Originally published as 'The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs', edited by [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] and [[A.L. Lloyd]], Penguin Books, 1959.

Revised edition published as 'Classic English Folk Songs', selected and edited by [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] and [[A.L. Lloyd]], revised by [[Malcolm Douglas]], [[English Folk Dance & Song Society]], London, 2003.

== Contents of the book ==
[[All Things Are Quite Silent]] ([[Roud 2532]])

[[As Sylvie Was Walking]] ([[Roud 170]])

[[The Banks of Green Willow]] ([[Roud 172]]; [[Child 24]])

[[The Banks of Newfoundland]] ([[Roud 1812]]; [[Laws K25]])

[[The Banks of Sweet Primroses]] ([[Roud 586]])

[[The Basket of Eggs]] ([[Roud 377]])

[[Benjamin Bowmaneer]] ([[Roud 1514]])

[[The Blacksmith]] ([[Roud 816]])

[[The Bold Benjamin]] ([[Roud 2632]])

[[The Bramble Briar]] ([[Roud 18]]; [[Laws M32]])

[[The Broomfield Hill]] ([[Roud 34]]; [[Child 43]]; [[Greig/Duncan 2:322]]; [[Henry H135]])

[[The Cock-Fight]] ([[Roud 211]])

[[The Cruel Mother]] ([[Roud 9]]; [[Child 20]])

[[The Daughter of Peggy, O]] ([[Roud 117]]; [[Child 277]]; [[Greig/Duncan 7:1282]])

[[Death and the Lady]] ([[Roud 1031]])

[[The Death of Queen Jane]] ([[Roud 77]]; [[Child 170]])

[[The Deserter from Kent]] ([[Roud 2510]])

[[The Devil and the Ploughman]] ([[Roud 160]]; [[Child 278]])

[[Droylsden Wakes]] ([[Roud 3290]])

[[The False Bride]] ([[Roud 154]]; [[Greig/Duncan 6:1198]])

[[Fare Thee Well, My Dearest Dear]] ([[Roud 1035]])

[[Gaol Song]] ([[Roud 1077]])

[[The Gentleman Soldier]] ([[Roud 178]])

[[Geordie]] ([[Roud 90]]; [[Child 209]])

[[George Collins]] ([[Roud 147]]; [[Child 85]])

[[The Golden Vanity]] ([[Roud 122]]; [[Child 286]])

[[The Green Bed]] ([[Roud 276]]; [[Laws K36]])

[[The Greenland Whale Fishery]] ([[Roud 347]]; [[Laws K21]])

[[The Grey Cock / The Lover's Ghost]] ([[Roud 179]]; [[Child 248]])

[[I Wish, I Wish]] ([[Roud 495]])

[[Jack the Jolly Tar]] ([[Roud 511]]; [[Laws K40]])

[[John Barleycorn]] ([[Roud 164]])

[[Lisbon]] ([[Roud 551]]; [[Laws N8]])

[[Long Lankin]] ([[Roud 6]]; [[Child 93]])

[[Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor]] ([[Roud 4]]; [[Child 73]])

[[Lovely Joan]] ([[Roud 592]])

[[Lucy Wan]] ([[Roud 234]]; [[Child 51]])

[[Manchester Angel|The Manchester “Angel”]] ([[Roud 2741]])

[[Man of Burningham Town |The Man of Burningham Town]] ([[Roud 665]])

[[Mermaid, The|The Mermaid]] ([[Roud 124]]; [[Child 289]])

[[Mother, Mother, Make My Bed]] ([[Roud 45]])

[[New York Trader , The|The New York Trader]] ([[Roud 478]]; [[Laws K22]])

[[O Shepherd, O Shepherd]] ([[Roud 1055]])

[[Old Man from Lee, The|The Old Man from Lee]] ([[Roud 362]]; [[Greig/Duncan 4:815]])

[[On Monday Morning]] ([[Roud 433]]; [[Laws Q6]])

[[One Night As I Lay on My Bed]] ([[Roud 672]])

[[Outlandish Knight, The|The Outlandish Knight]] ([[Roud 21]]; [[Child 4]])

[[T'Owd Yowe Wi' One Horn]] ([[Roud 1762]])

[[Oxford City]] ([[Roud 218]]; [[Laws P30]])

[[Ploughman, The|The Ploughman]] ([[Roud 2538]])

[[Ratcliffe Highway]] ([[Roud 598]])

[[Red Herring , The|The Red Herring]] ([[Roud 128]]; [[ TYG 31]])

[[Robin Hood and the Pedlar]] ([[Roud 333]]; [[Child 132]])

[[Rounding the Horn]] ([[Roud 4706]]; [[Henry H539]])

[[Royal Oak, The|The Royal Oak]] ([[Roud 951]])

[[Sailor from Dover, The|The Sailor from Dover]] ([[Roud 180]]; [[Laws P9]])

[[A Sailor in the North Country]] ([[Roud 1504]])

[[Sailor in the North Country, The|A Sailor's Life]] ([[Roud 273]]; [[Laws K12]])

[[Salisbury Plain]] ([[Roud 1487]])

[[Ship in Distress, The|The Ship in Distress]] ([[Roud 807]])

[[Six Dukes Went A-Fishing]] ([[Roud 78]])

[[Streams of Lovely Nancy, The|The Streams of Lovely Nancy]] ([[Roud 688]]; [[Henry H520]])

[[Trees They Grow So High, The|The Trees They Grow So High]] ([[Roud 31]]; [[Laws O35]])

[[Whale-Catchers , The|The Whale-Catchers]] ([[Roud 3291]])

[[When I Was a Little Boy]] ([[Roud 1706]])

[[When I Was Young]] ([[Roud 2583]])

[[Ye Mar'ners All]] ([[Roud 1191]])

[[Young and Single Sailor, The|The Young and Single Sailor]] ([[Roud 264]]; [[Laws N42]])

[[Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low / Young Emma]] ([[Roud 182]]; [[Laws M34]])

[[Young Girl Cut Down in Her Prime]] ([[Roud 2]]; [[Laws Q26]])

== Analysis of the 70 tunes in Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L. Lloyd (1959) ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'' ==

''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'' contains 70 tunes. Of these 31 are plagal and 13 are authentic. There are 25 tunes that are mainly authentic but that contain at least one note that is below the keynote (sub-keynote), or, in one case, (Number 31, ''Jack, the Jolly Tar''), two notes that are above the keynote (super-keynotes). One tune (Number 29, ''The Grey Cock'') has 2 variant keynotes, one of which renders it as authentic and the other as mainly authentic. These tunes in ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'' all have either D or G as their keynote. With one exception, (Number 52, ''The Red Herring'', which is authentic) these tunes whose keynote is G are plagal, whereas tunes whose keynote is D are authentic or mainly authentic and, except for Number 31, ''Jack, the Jolly Tar'', they have sub-keynotes such, for example, as the C below the keynote.

Full seven-note Heptatonic scales number 58, or c.82 per cent. There are 11 (c.15 per cent) six-note Hexatonic scales, and 2 (c.3 per cent) five-note Pentatonic scales. One tune, (Number 19, Droyelsden Wakes), has a 4 note scale.

There are 21 tunes (c.30 per cent) in the Ionian, or major scale (17 pure heptatonic, 2 heptatonic with accidentals, 1 hexatonic and 1 --'Droylesden Wakes'--with only 4 notes of the scale). There are 11 (c.16 per cent) Mixoydian tunes (7 pure heptatonic, 2 heptatonic with accidentals, 1 hexatonic and 1 pentatonic). The Aeolian melodies number 12 (c.17 per cent) of which 7 are pure heptatonic, 4 heptatonic with accidentals, and 1 pentatonic. There are 25 Dorian tunes (c.36 per cent) of which 16 are pure heptatonic, 2 heptatonic with accidentals, and 7 hexatonic. Finally, 1 tune --'The Trees They Grow So High'-- is pure heptatonic Phrygian.

For definitions and explanations of authentic and plagal scales, and of the different scales and modes, see [[Scales and Musical Modes in Celtic, Anglo-American and English Folk Songs]].

== Full Detailed Listing ==
 
1 [[All Things are Quite Silent]] [1904] Heptatonic D Dorian Authentic 
2 [[As Sylvie Was Walking]] [1911] Heptatonic D Aeolian 1 B natural--sharpened 7th, so tune modulates between Aeolian and a modern minor key Authentic 
3 [[Banks of Green Willow, The]] [1904] Hexatonic G Ionian no C (4th) Plagal 
4 [[Banks of Newfoundland, The]] [1926] Heptatonic D Mixolydian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote A 
5 [[Banks of Sweet Primroses, The]] [1892] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
6 [[Basket of Eggs, The]] [1903] Heptatonic G Aeolian Plagal 
7 [[Benjamin Bowmaneer]] [n.d.] Hexatonic G Dorian no E (6th) Plagal 
8 [[Blacksmith, The]] [1909] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
9 [[Bold Benjamin, The]] [1907] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
10 [[Bramble Briar, The]] [1914] Heptatonic D Ionian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
11 [[Broomfield Hill, The]] [1910] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
12 [[Cock-Fight, The]] [1905] Heptatonic D Aeolian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
13 [[Cruel Mother, The]] [1907] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
14 [[Daughter of Peggy, O, The]] [1908] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
15 [[Death and the Lady]] [1946] Heptatonic D Ionian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynotes C and B 
16 [[Death of Queen Jane, The]] [1907] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
17 [[Deserter from Kent, The]] [1907] Heptatonic D Ionian Plagal 
18 [[Devil and the Ploughman, The]] [1903] Heptatonic E Aeolian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynotes D and C 
19 [[Droylsden Wakes]] [n.d.] 4-note scale G Ionian no C (4th), E (6th) or F (7th) Plagal 
20 [[False Bride, The]] [1904] Heptatonic G Ionian 1 flattened F (7th) so tune modulates between Ionian and Mixolydian Plagal 
21 [[Fare Thee Well, my Dearest Dear]] [1904] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
22 [[Gaol Song]] [1906] Pentatonic D Aeolian no B (6th) or C (7th) Authentic 
23 [[Gentleman Soldier, The]] [1907] Pentatonic G Mixolydian no E (6th) or F (7th) Plagal 
24 [[Geordie]] [1908] Hexatonic G Dorian no E (6th) Plagal 
25 [[George Collins]] [1906] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
26 [[Golden Vanity, The]] [1906] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
27 [[Green Bed, The]] [1909] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
28 [[Greenland Whale Fishery, The]] [1906] Heptatonic G Mixolydian 1 sharpened F so tune modulates between Mixolydian and Ionian Plagal 
29 [[Grey Cock, The]] [1951] Heptatonic D Aeolian or F Ionian with alternative keynote. Authentic as D Aeolian, Mainly Authentic--sub-keynotes E and D as F Ionian 
30 [[I Wish, I Wish]] [1951] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
31 [[Jack the Jolly Tar]] [1904] Heptatonic D Ionian Mainly Authentic--super-keynotes E and F 
32 [[John Barleycorn]] [1909] Heptatonic D Dorian Authentic 
33 [[Lisbon]] [1904] Heptatonic D Dorian 2 Cs (7ths) both sharpened--influence of modern mior scales? Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
34 [[Long Lankin]] [1909] Heptatonic G Aeolian the 1 F is sharpened so tune modulates between Aeolian and a modern minor scale. Plagal 
35 [[Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor]] [1904] Heptatonic D Mixolydian Authentic 
36 [[Lovely Joan]] [1908] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
37 [[Lucy Wan]] [n.d.] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
38 [[Manchester ‘Angel’, The]] [1906] Heptatonic D Aeolian Authentic 
39 [[Man of Burningham Town, The]] [1908] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
40 [[Mermaid, The]] [1906] Heptatonic G Aeolian Plagal 
41 [[Mother, Mother, Make My Bed]] [1906] Heptatonic D Mixolydian Authentic 
42 [[New York Trader, The]] [1921] Hexatonic D Dorian no B (6th) so tune could be either Dorian or Aeolian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
43 [[O Shepherd, O Shepherd]] [1906] Hexatonic G Dorian no E (6th) Plagal 
44 [[Old Man from Lee, The]] [n.d.] Hexatonic D Dorian no B (6th). If flattened D Aeolian. Only 2 Cs (7ths) both sharpened so tune modulates between Dorian, Aeolian and a modern minor key. Authentic 
45 [[On Monday Morning]] [1909] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
46 [[One Night as I Lay on my Bed]] [1907] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
47 [[Outlandish Knight, The]] [1908] Heptatonic D Mixolydian Authentic 
48 [[Owd Yowe Wi’ one Horn, T’]] [1905] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
49 [[Oxford City]] [1905] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
50 [[Ploughman, The]] [1904] Heptatonic D Aeolian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
51 [[Ratcliffe Highway]] [1905] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
52 [[Red Herring, The]] [1906] Heptatonic G Mixolydian Authentic 
53 [[Robin Hood and the Pedlar]] [1906] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
54 [[Rounding the Horn]] [1907] Heptatonic D Mixolydian Authentic 
55 [[Royal Oak, The]] [1912] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
56 [[Sailor from Dover, The]] [1909] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
57 [[Sailor in the North Country, A]] [1904] Heptatonic G Dorian Plagal 
58 [[Sailor’s Life, A]] [1899] Heptatonic G Mixolydian Plagal 
59 [[Salisbury Plain]] [1904] Heptatonic D Aeolian 3 of the Bs (6ths) are naturalised so tune modulates between Aeolian and Dorian. Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
60 [[Ship in Distress, The]] [1907] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
61 [[Six Dukes went A-Fishing]] [1906] Hexatonic G Mixolydian no F (7th). If this were sharpened tune would be G Ionian, so tune could be either Mixolydian or Ionian. Plagal 
62 [[Streams of Lovely Nancy, The]] [1905] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
63 [[Trees they Grow so High, The]] [n.d.] Heptatonic G Phrygian Plagal 
64 [[Whale-Catchers, The]] [1900] Heptatonic D Dorian 3 of the Fs (3rds) are sharpened so tune modulates between Dorian and Mixolydian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
65 [[When I was a Little Boy]] [1947] Hexatonic G Dorian no E (3rd) Plagal 
66 [[When I was Young]] [1920] Heptatonic D Ionian. 4 of the Gs (4ths) are sharpened. Authentic 
67 [[Ye Mar’ners All]] [1907] Hexatonic G Dorian no E (6th) Plagal 
68 [[Young and Single Sailor, The]] [1908] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
69 [[Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low]] [1907] Heptatonic G Aeolian Plagal 
70 [[Young Girl Cut Down in her Prime, The]] [1909] Heptatonic D Mixolydian. One of the Fs is flattened so tune modulates between Mixolydian and Dorian. Authentic

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Links to the [[Song Books]] page and to [[Tune Analysis: How To Dissect, Interpret and Categorize Anglo-American, Celtic and English Folk Melodies]].

== Analysis of the 70 tunes in Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L. Lloyd (1959) ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'' ==

''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'' contains 70 tunes. Of these 31 are plagal and 13 are authentic. There are 25 tunes that are mainly authentic but that contain at least one note that is below the keynote (sub-keynote), or, in one case, (Number 31, ''Jack, the Jolly Tar''), two notes that are above the keynote (super-keynotes). One tune (Number 29, ''The Grey Cock'') has 2 variant keynotes, one of which renders it as authentic and the other as mainly authentic. These tunes in ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'' all have either D or G as their keynote. With one exception, (Number 52, ''The Red Herring'', which is authentic) these tunes whose keynote is G are plagal, whereas tunes whose keynote is D are authentic or mainly authentic and, except for Number 31, ''Jack, the Jolly Tar'', they have sub-keynotes such, for example, as the C below the keynote.

Full seven-note Heptatonic scales number 58, or c.82 per cent. There are 11 (c.15 per cent) six-note Hexatonic scales, and 2 (c.3 per cent) five-note Pentatonic scales. One tune, (Number 19, Droyelsden Wakes), has a 4 note scale.

There are 21 tunes (c.30 per cent) in the Ionian, or major scale (17 pure heptatonic, 2 heptatonic with accidentals, 1 hexatonic and 1 --'Droylesden Wakes'--with only 4 notes of the scale). There are 11 (c.16 per cent) Mixoydian tunes (7 pure heptatonic, 2 heptatonic with accidentals, 1 hexatonic and 1 pentatonic). The Aeolian melodies number 12 (c.17 per cent) of which 7 are pure heptatonic, 4 heptatonic with accidentals, and 1 pentatonic. There are 25 Dorian tunes (c.36 per cent) of which 16 are pure heptatonic, 2 heptatonic with accidentals, and 7 hexatonic. Finally, 1 tune --'The Trees They Grow So High'-- is pure heptatonic Phrygian.

For definitions and explanations of authentic and plagal scales, and of the different scales and modes, see [[Scales and Musical Modes in Celtic, Anglo-American and English Folk Songs]].

== Full Detailed Listing ==
 
1 All Things are Quite Silent [1904] Heptatonic D Dorian Authentic 
2 [[As Sylvie Was Walking]] [[Roud 170]] [1911] Heptatonic D Aeolian 1 B natural--sharpened 7th, so tune modulates between Aeolian and a modern minor key Authentic 
3 Banks of Green Willow, The [1904] Hexatonic G Ionian no C (4th) Plagal 
4 Banks of Newfoundland, The [1926] Heptatonic D Mixolydian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote A 
5 Banks of Sweet Primroses, The [1892] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
6 Basket of Eggs, The [1903] Heptatonic G Aeolian Plagal 
7 Benjamin Bowmaneer [n.d.] Hexatonic G Dorian no E (6th) Plagal 
8 Blacksmith, The [1909] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
9 Bold Benjamin, The [1907] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
10 Bramble Briar, The [1914] Heptatonic D Ionian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
11 Broomfield Hill, The [1910] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
12 Cock-Fight, The [1905] Heptatonic D Aeolian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
13 Cruel Mother, The [1907] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
14 Daughter of Peggy, O, The [1908] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
15 Death and the Lady [1946] Heptatonic D Ionian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynotes C and B 
16 Death of Queen Jane, The [1907] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
17 Deserter from Kent, The [1907] Heptatonic D Ionian Plagal 
18 Devil and the Ploughman, The [1903] Heptatonic E Aeolian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynotes D and C 
19 Droylsden Wakes [n.d.] 4-note scale G Ionian no C (4th), E (6th) or F (7th) Plagal 
20 False Bride, The [1904] Heptatonic G Ionian 1 flattened F (7th) so tune modulates between Ionian and Mixolydian Plagal 
21 Fare Thee Well, my Dearest Dear [1904] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
22 Gaol Song [1906] Pentatonic D Aeolian no B (6th) or C (7th) Authentic 
23 Gentleman Soldier, The [1907] Pentatonic G Mixolydian no E (6th) or F (7th) Plagal 
24 Geordie [1908] Hexatonic G Dorian no E (6th) Plagal 
25 George Collins [1906] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
26 Golden Vanity, The [1906] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
27 Green Bed, The [1909] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
28 Greenland Whale Fishery, The [1906] Heptatonic G Mixolydian 1 sharpened F so tune modulates between Mixolydian and Ionian Plagal 
29 Grey Cock, The [1951] Heptatonic D Aeolian or F Ionian with alternative keynote. Authentic as D Aeolian, Mainly Authentic--sub-keynotes E and D as F Ionian 
30 I Wish, I Wish [1951] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
31 Jack the Jolly Tar [1904] Heptatonic D Ionian Mainly Authentic--super-keynotes E and F 
32 John Barleycorn [1909] Heptatonic D Dorian Authentic 
33 Lisbon [1904] Heptatonic D Dorian 2 Cs (7ths) both sharpened--influence of modern mior scales? Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
34 Long Lankin [1909] Heptatonic G Aeolian the 1 F is sharpened so tune modulates between Aeolian and a modern minor scale. Plagal 
35 Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor [1904] Heptatonic D Mixolydian Authentic 
36 Lovely Joan [1908] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
37 Lucy Wan [n.d.] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
38 Manchester ‘Angel’, The [1906] Heptatonic D Aeolian Authentic 
39 Man of Burningham Town, The [1908] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
40 Mermaid, The [1906] Heptatonic G Aeolian Plagal 
41 Mother, Mother, Make My Bed [1906] Heptatonic D Mixolydian Authentic 
42 New York Trader, The [1921] Hexatonic D Dorian no B (6th) so tune could be either Dorian or Aeolian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
43 O Shepherd, O Shepherd [1906] Hexatonic G Dorian no E (6th) Plagal 
44 Old Man from Lee, The [n.d.] Hexatonic D Dorian no B (6th). If flattened D Aeolian. Only 2 Cs (7ths) both sharpened so tune modulates between Dorian, Aeolian and a modern minor key. Authentic 
45 On Monday Morning [1909] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
46 One Night as I Lay on my Bed [1907] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
47 Outlandish Knight, The [1908] Heptatonic D Mixolydian Authentic 
48 Owd Yowe Wi’ one Horn, T’ [1905] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
49 Oxford City [1905] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
50 Ploughman, The [1904] Heptatonic D Aeolian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
51 Ratcliffe Highway [1905] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
52 Red Herring, The [1906] Heptatonic G Mixolydian Authentic 
53 Robin Hood and the Pedlar [1906] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
54 Rounding the Horn [1907] Heptatonic D Mixolydian Authentic 
55 Royal Oak, The [1912] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
56 Sailor from Dover, The [1909] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
57 Sailor in the North Country, A [1904] Heptatonic G Dorian Plagal 
58 Sailor’s Life, A [1899] Heptatonic G Mixolydian Plagal 
59 Salisbury Plain [1904] Heptatonic D Aeolian 3 of the Bs (6ths) are naturalised so tune modulates between Aeolian and Dorian. Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
60 Ship in Distress, The [1907] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
61 Six Dukes went A-Fishing [1906] Hexatonic G Mixolydian no F (7th). If this were sharpened tune would be G Ionian, so tune could be either Mixolydian or Ionian. Plagal 
62 Streams of Lovely Nancy, The [1905] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
63 Trees they Grow so High, The [n.d.] Heptatonic G Phrygian Plagal 
64 Whale-Catchers, The [1900] Heptatonic D Dorian 3 of the Fs (3rds) are sharpened so tune modulates between Dorian and Mixolydian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
65 When I was a Little Boy [1947] Hexatonic G Dorian no E (3rd) Plagal 
66 When I was Young [1920] Heptatonic D Ionian. 4 of the Gs (4ths) are sharpened. Authentic 
67 Ye Mar’ners All [1907] Hexatonic G Dorian no E (6th) Plagal 
68 Young and Single Sailor, The [1908] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
69 Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low [1907] Heptatonic G Aeolian Plagal 
70 Young Girl Cut Down in her Prime, The [1909] Heptatonic D Mixolydian. One of the Fs is flattened so tune modulates between Mixolydian and Dorian. Authentic

As Sylvie Was Walking

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Tilly Aston noted down the song from her mother, [[Ann Aston]], originally from the Forest of Dean in [[Gloucestershire]], but then resident in Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, [[Australia]]. She sent it to [[W. Percy Merrick]] in 1911. It was included in the [Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society] Vol. 1, No. 1, December 1932, and then in the '[[Penguin Book of English Folk Songs]]'.

Merrick noted "When sending me the song in 1911, Miss Aston wrote that she had taken it down from the singing of her mother, then in her eightieth year, who was born near Coleford, Gloucestershire, England, and who had learnt it from her uncle, also of Gloucestershire. Mrs. Aston went to Australia after her marriage, in 1855."

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Ann Aston

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'''Ann Aston'''

Ann Aston, née Ann Howell, born October 1832 at Broadwell Lane End, Forest of Dean, [[Gloucestershire]].

She and her husband emigrated to [[Australia]] in 1855. Her daughter Tilly Aston noted down one of her songs, 'Sylvia' (or '[[As Sylvie was walking]]'), and sent it to W. Percy Merrick. It was included in the [Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society] Vol. 1, No. 1, December 1932, and then in the '[[Penguin Book of English Folk Songs]]'.

Biographical details at https://www.brh.org.uk/site/articles/as-sylvie-was-walking/

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Links to the [[Song Books]] page and to [[Tune Analysis: How To Dissect, Interpret and Categorize Anglo-American, Celtic and English Folk Melodies]].

== Analysis of the 70 tunes in Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L. Lloyd (1959) ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'' ==

''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'' contains 70 tunes. Of these 31 are plagal and 13 are authentic. There are 25 tunes that are mainly authentic but that contain at least one note that is below the keynote (sub-keynote), or, in one case, (Number 31, ''Jack, the Jolly Tar''), two notes that are above the keynote (super-keynotes). One tune (Number 29, ''The Grey Cock'') has 2 variant keynotes, one of which renders it as authentic and the other as mainly authentic. These tunes in ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'' all have either D or G as their keynote. With one exception, (Number 52, ''The Red Herring'', which is authentic) these tunes whose keynote is G are plagal, whereas tunes whose keynote is D are authentic or mainly authentic and, except for Number 31, ''Jack, the Jolly Tar'', they have sub-keynotes such, for example, as the C below the keynote.

Full seven-note Heptatonic scales number 58, or c.82 per cent. There are 11 (c.15 per cent) six-note Hexatonic scales, and 2 (c.3 per cent) five-note Pentatonic scales. One tune, (Number 19, Droyelsden Wakes), has a 4 note scale.

There are 21 tunes (c.30 per cent) in the Ionian, or major scale (17 pure heptatonic, 2 heptatonic with accidentals, 1 hexatonic and 1 --'Droylesden Wakes'--with only 4 notes of the scale). There are 11 (c.16 per cent) Mixoydian tunes (7 pure heptatonic, 2 heptatonic with accidentals, 1 hexatonic and 1 pentatonic). The Aeolian melodies number 12 (c.17 per cent) of which 7 are pure heptatonic, 4 heptatonic with accidentals, and 1 pentatonic. There are 25 Dorian tunes (c.36 per cent) of which 16 are pure heptatonic, 2 heptatonic with accidentals, and 7 hexatonic. Finally, 1 tune --'The Trees They Grow So High'-- is pure heptatonic Phrygian.

For definitions and explanations of authentic and plagal scales, and of the different scales and modes, see [[Scales and Musical Modes in Celtic, Anglo-American and English Folk Songs]].

== Full Detailed Listing ==
 
1 All Things are Quite Silent [1904] Heptatonic D Dorian Authentic 
2 [[As Sylvie Was Walking]] [1911] Heptatonic D Aeolian 1 B natural--sharpened 7th, so tune modulates between Aeolian and a modern minor key Authentic 
3 Banks of Green Willow, The [1904] Hexatonic G Ionian no C (4th) Plagal 
4 Banks of Newfoundland, The [1926] Heptatonic D Mixolydian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote A 
5 Banks of Sweet Primroses, The [1892] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
6 Basket of Eggs, The [1903] Heptatonic G Aeolian Plagal 
7 Benjamin Bowmaneer [n.d.] Hexatonic G Dorian no E (6th) Plagal 
8 Blacksmith, The [1909] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
9 Bold Benjamin, The [1907] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
10 Bramble Briar, The [1914] Heptatonic D Ionian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
11 Broomfield Hill, The [1910] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
12 Cock-Fight, The [1905] Heptatonic D Aeolian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
13 Cruel Mother, The [1907] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
14 Daughter of Peggy, O, The [1908] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
15 Death and the Lady [1946] Heptatonic D Ionian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynotes C and B 
16 Death of Queen Jane, The [1907] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
17 Deserter from Kent, The [1907] Heptatonic D Ionian Plagal 
18 Devil and the Ploughman, The [1903] Heptatonic E Aeolian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynotes D and C 
19 Droylsden Wakes [n.d.] 4-note scale G Ionian no C (4th), E (6th) or F (7th) Plagal 
20 False Bride, The [1904] Heptatonic G Ionian 1 flattened F (7th) so tune modulates between Ionian and Mixolydian Plagal 
21 Fare Thee Well, my Dearest Dear [1904] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
22 Gaol Song [1906] Pentatonic D Aeolian no B (6th) or C (7th) Authentic 
23 Gentleman Soldier, The [1907] Pentatonic G Mixolydian no E (6th) or F (7th) Plagal 
24 Geordie [1908] Hexatonic G Dorian no E (6th) Plagal 
25 George Collins [1906] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
26 Golden Vanity, The [1906] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
27 Green Bed, The [1909] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
28 Greenland Whale Fishery, The [1906] Heptatonic G Mixolydian 1 sharpened F so tune modulates between Mixolydian and Ionian Plagal 
29 Grey Cock, The [1951] Heptatonic D Aeolian or F Ionian with alternative keynote. Authentic as D Aeolian, Mainly Authentic--sub-keynotes E and D as F Ionian 
30 I Wish, I Wish [1951] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
31 Jack the Jolly Tar [1904] Heptatonic D Ionian Mainly Authentic--super-keynotes E and F 
32 John Barleycorn [1909] Heptatonic D Dorian Authentic 
33 Lisbon [1904] Heptatonic D Dorian 2 Cs (7ths) both sharpened--influence of modern mior scales? Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
34 Long Lankin [1909] Heptatonic G Aeolian the 1 F is sharpened so tune modulates between Aeolian and a modern minor scale. Plagal 
35 Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor [1904] Heptatonic D Mixolydian Authentic 
36 Lovely Joan [1908] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
37 Lucy Wan [n.d.] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
38 Manchester ‘Angel’, The [1906] Heptatonic D Aeolian Authentic 
39 Man of Burningham Town, The [1908] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
40 Mermaid, The [1906] Heptatonic G Aeolian Plagal 
41 Mother, Mother, Make My Bed [1906] Heptatonic D Mixolydian Authentic 
42 New York Trader, The [1921] Hexatonic D Dorian no B (6th) so tune could be either Dorian or Aeolian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
43 O Shepherd, O Shepherd [1906] Hexatonic G Dorian no E (6th) Plagal 
44 Old Man from Lee, The [n.d.] Hexatonic D Dorian no B (6th). If flattened D Aeolian. Only 2 Cs (7ths) both sharpened so tune modulates between Dorian, Aeolian and a modern minor key. Authentic 
45 On Monday Morning [1909] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
46 One Night as I Lay on my Bed [1907] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
47 Outlandish Knight, The [1908] Heptatonic D Mixolydian Authentic 
48 Owd Yowe Wi’ one Horn, T’ [1905] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
49 Oxford City [1905] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
50 Ploughman, The [1904] Heptatonic D Aeolian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
51 Ratcliffe Highway [1905] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
52 Red Herring, The [1906] Heptatonic G Mixolydian Authentic 
53 Robin Hood and the Pedlar [1906] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
54 Rounding the Horn [1907] Heptatonic D Mixolydian Authentic 
55 Royal Oak, The [1912] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
56 Sailor from Dover, The [1909] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
57 Sailor in the North Country, A [1904] Heptatonic G Dorian Plagal 
58 Sailor’s Life, A [1899] Heptatonic G Mixolydian Plagal 
59 Salisbury Plain [1904] Heptatonic D Aeolian 3 of the Bs (6ths) are naturalised so tune modulates between Aeolian and Dorian. Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
60 Ship in Distress, The [1907] Heptatonic D Dorian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
61 Six Dukes went A-Fishing [1906] Hexatonic G Mixolydian no F (7th). If this were sharpened tune would be G Ionian, so tune could be either Mixolydian or Ionian. Plagal 
62 Streams of Lovely Nancy, The [1905] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
63 Trees they Grow so High, The [n.d.] Heptatonic G Phrygian Plagal 
64 Whale-Catchers, The [1900] Heptatonic D Dorian 3 of the Fs (3rds) are sharpened so tune modulates between Dorian and Mixolydian Mainly Authentic--sub-keynote C 
65 When I was a Little Boy [1947] Hexatonic G Dorian no E (3rd) Plagal 
66 When I was Young [1920] Heptatonic D Ionian. 4 of the Gs (4ths) are sharpened. Authentic 
67 Ye Mar’ners All [1907] Hexatonic G Dorian no E (6th) Plagal 
68 Young and Single Sailor, The [1908] Heptatonic G Ionian Plagal 
69 Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low [1907] Heptatonic G Aeolian Plagal 
70 Young Girl Cut Down in her Prime, The [1909] Heptatonic D Mixolydian. One of the Fs is flattened so tune modulates between Mixolydian and Dorian. Authentic