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The Critics Group
A Merry Progress To London
Argo ZDA 46
Sweet Thames Flow Softly
Argo ZDA 47
Sweet Thames Flow Softly
Vocalion CDSML 8424
As We Were a-Sailing
Argo ZDA 137
Female Frolic
Argo DA 82
Waterloo:Peterloo
Argo ZFB 68
Ye Mariners All
Argo ZDA 138
Living Folk
Albatross VPA 8093
Ewan MacColl
The English And Scottish Popular Ballads (Child Ballads), Vol.1
1961
Folkways
FG 3509
12-inch LP
Tracks:
1. Johnnie O'Breadisley (Johnie Cock, Child 114)
(appears on other albums)
2. The Dowie Dens O'Yarrow (Child 214)
(appears on other albums)
3. Lord Randall (Child 12)
(appears on other albums)
4. Sir Patrick Spens (Child 58)
(appears on other albums)
5. The Burning of Auchendoun (Child 183)
(appears on other albums)
6. Oud Goodman (Our Gudeman, Child 274)
7. The Rantin Laddie (Child 240)
(appears on other albums)
8. Bawbee Allan (Barbara Allen, Child 84)
(appears on other albums)
9. The Brown Girl (Lord Thomas and Fair Annet, Child 73)
10. The Three Ravens (Child 26)
(appears on other albums)
11. The Bonnie Earl O' Murray (Child 181)
(appears on other albums)
12. The Battle of Harlaw (Child 163)
(appears on other albums)
13. Thomas Rhymer (Thomas Rymour, Child 37)
(appears on other albums)
Personnel:
Ewan MacColl, unaccompanied
Related recordings:
The English And Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol.2, F.J. Child Ballads (Folkways FG 3510)
The English And Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol.3, F.J. Child Ballads (Folkways FG 3511)
Digital download (mp3 or lossless) or a custom CD is available from
Smithsonian Folkways