The Alan Lomax collection, the concert & radio series : sing Christmas and the turn of the year
SCD 790 Sound Library The Alan Lomax collection, the concert & radio series : sing Christmas and the turn of the year - Rounder, 2000. - 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Compact disc.
1. A) Introduction / Alan Lomax and Cast B) Good King Wenceslas / Birmingham Studio Group & Chorus -- 2. A) Caroling in the Dark / Alan Lomax B) Good King Wenceslas / Children's Chorus C) Good King Wenceslas Brian Newey Skiffle Group D) This is the Truth Sent From Above / Shirley Collins E) The Holly and the Ivy / the Haddo House Choir F) The Holly and the Ivy / the Skinner's Bottom Glee Singers -- 3. A) Boscastle Breakdown / Charlie Bate and Group B) Padstow Wassail Song / Charlie Bate C) St. David's Day Dance / Marshfield Paper Boys D) I Wonder as I wander / Cyril Tawney -- 4. A) We Wish You a Merry Christmas / Wisbech Children's Choir B) Narration, Caroling Scene / Alan Lomax, Wisbech Children's Choir -- 5. Peace O'er the World / Carolers at the Cheshire Cheese Pub -- 6. Introduction to the Ballad of Jesus Christ / Ewan McColl -- 7. The Ballad of Jesus Christ / Ewan McColl -- 8. A) Excerpt from Shepherd's Nativity Play / Stephen Kirby, Ronald Soules, Walter Slasher B) Shepherd's Cradel Song / Hollinwood Girl's Choir C) Coventry Carol / Wisbech Grammar School D) Excerpt from Wisbech Nativity Play / Malcolm Pope -- 9. Christmas in London / Alan Lomax & Charles Chilton -- 10. The Derby Ram / A. L. Lloyd & singers from the Princes Louise Folksong Club -- 11. Christmas Morning Calypso / Fitzroy Coleman -- 12. Unite / Rans Boi Highlife Group -- 13. Pretty Little Baby / Peggy Seeger -- 14. A) Reading from Luke 2:15 19 / Joe Duthie B) Psalm 23 / Peter Buchan & Crew of the Twinkling Star C) The Mother's Consecration / Katie Ann Nicholson D) Christ Child Lullaby / Flora MacNeil E) Saint Mary's Men are We -- 15. The Day We Went to Rothsay o / Ian McRae & the Joe Gordon Skiffle Group -- 16. Regional Hookup: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen A) Ewan MacColl & Carolers B) Charlie Bate & group C) Brian Newey Skiffle Group D) Birmingham studio group -- 17. Cromewell versus Father Christmas [story] / Alan Lomax -- 18. A) The Jug of Punch / the McPeake Trio B) Viny Ridge March / Ravenhill Temperance Flute Band -- 19. A) Royal Belfast Hornpipe / Gerard O'Kane B) Millicent's Hornpipe / Katie Graham C) The Tenpenny Bit / the Rakes D) The Dublin Reel / Seamus Ennis -- 20. The Cherry Tree Carol / Shirley Collins -- 21. A) Anglesey Carol / the North Wales Singers B) Hiraeth / Sian Emlyn -- 22. A) Excerpt from the Symondsbury Mummers Play B) Donnybrook Fair (Winlaton Sword Dance) -- 23. A) Good King Wenceslas / Haslington Boys Brass Band B) When the Saints Go Marchin in / the Happy Wanderers -- 24. A) Twas Mary Conceived / Dominic Behan B) The Noble Stem of Jesus [fragment] Hollinwood Girls Choir -- 25. The Lord's Prayer [in Welsh] / Welsh Choir -- 26. A) O Come All Ye Faithful / the Sale and District Musical Society. B) The Gift of Power / Katie Ann Nicholson C) Metrical Psalm [in Gaelic] / [unidentified] -- 27. No Room at the Inn [story], Last Month of the Year / Alan Lomax -- 28. Hark, What News the Angels Bring / Carolers at the Cheshire Cheese Pub B) I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing in / Charlie Bate and Group C) Wassail, Wassail, All Over this Town / Shirley Collins with skiffle group D) Here We Come a Wassailing / Birmingham studio group.
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