Proper Job
Bob Cann: Proper Job - Melodeon playing from Dartmoor 1952-1988, Veteran VT138CD (1999)
CD featuring Dartmoor melodeon player Bob Cann, with his grandson Mark Bazeley on several tracks. The recordings on the CD were made between 1952 and 1978, with 6 tracks (15 tunes) taken from 1950s recordings in the BBC archives. Other tracks are taken from live and studio recordings made in the 1970s (including some from the Topic LP West Country Melodeon, through to 9 tracks recorded by John Howson two years before Bob's death, aged 74, in 1990.
Tracklist
- Schottische Hornpipe / Schottische
- Heel and Toe Polka / Seven Step Polka / /Uncle Jim’s Polka
- Stepdance tunes: Uncle George’s Hornpipe / Schottische Hornpipe / Tommy Roberts’ Hornpipe
- Harry Chubb’s Hornpipe / The Cokey Hornpipe
- Cross Hands Country Dance / Uncle George’s Jig / Uncle Jim’s Waltz / Kestor Rock
- Polka: Climbing up the Golden Stairs
- Woodland Flowers / Uncle Jim’s Barndance
- Lyrinka
- Ford Farm Reel / Cornish Quickstep
- Smash the Windows / New Rigged Ship
- The Stein Song - with Mark Bazeley, concertina
- Morpeth Rant - with Mark Bazeley, concertina
- Irish Waltzes - with Mark Bazeley, melodeon
- Ripple of the Teign - with Mark Bazeley, concertina
- To-Tore - with Mark Bazeley, melodeon
- Uncle Jim’s (When Daylight Shines)
- Barn Dance - with Mark Bazeley, concertina
- Family Waltzes - with Mark Bazeley, melodeon
- Stepdance to Uncle George’s Hornpipe with Mark Bazeley, melodeon
- The Primrose Polka
- Family Jig
- Harry Gidley’s Waltz
- Dorsetshire Hornpipe
- Hot Punch / Uncle’s Jig
- Uncle George’s Hornpipe played on Oscar Woods’ melodeon
- Manchester Hornpipe with Jim Small, mouthorgan and Ray Andrews, banjo
- Uncle George’s Waltz with Charlie Bate, piano accordion
- Dartmoor stepdancing with Charlie Bate, piano accordion