- The Folk Songs of Britain Volume 5 Vinyl Record LP
- The Child Ballads Volume 2 - Various Artists
- Collected and Edited by Peter Kennedy and Alan Lomax
- Editorial and research assistant Shirley Collins
- Published 1961 by Caedmon Records (TC 1146), Made in USA
- Text Enclosed
- New old stock, still in original sealed wrap which has some splitting at edges. Light edgewear to sleeve, age toning, sticker on front.
Description: What Professor F. J. Child called the popular ballads were those which had passed through the process of oral tradition; classical, historical, dramatic, romantic, and even comic. On this album they follow each other with wonderful contrasts in vocal styles and dialects, with some short examples in Irish, and Scots Gaelic, Welsh and Norse. Some of the ballads are compiled verse by verse from various different areas. Contrasting voices follow in succession from the West Coast of Ireland to East Anglia, from Shetland to the Scilly Isles. The album is indispensable to all ballad scholars.
Tracklist:
- John Strachan - The Royal Forester
- Emily Bishop - The Baffled Knight
- John Strachan - Johnie Cock
- John Strachan - Robin Hood And Little John
- Cecilia Costello - The Jew's Garden
- Lucy Stewart - The Battle Of Harlaw
- Jeannie Robertson - The Four Maries (Mary Hamilton)
- Harry Cox - Jeannie Robertson / Paddy Doran The Gypsy Laddie
- Harry Cox - Georgie
- Davy Stewart - The Dowie Dens Of Yarrow
- John Strachan - Glenlogie
- Cecilia Costello - The Grey Cock (Willie's Ghost)
- Phil Tanner - Henry Martin
- John Strachan - Lang Johnny More
- Jeannie Robertson - Willie's Fate
- Our Goodman: Three Versions - Harry Cox / Mary Connors / Colm Keane
- Thomas Moran - The Farmer's Curst Wife
- Jeannie Robertson - The Jolly Beggar
- Maggie Chambers / Sarah Chambers - The Auld Beggarman
- Michael Gallagher - The Keach In The Creel
- Bill Cameron - The Golden Vanity
- Jimmy McBeath - The Trooper Lad