TOPIC FOLK LP "SONGS OF" Series Animals and other Marvels

This is the last of the Topic collection that was not previously restored, I will eventually re-do the two remaining Child's Ballads LP's Vol's 4 and 5

Topic Records 12T198 (LP, UK, 1970)

Tracks Side 1   

 1. The Happy Family (Roud 850)
    Harold Covill, March, Cambridgeshire
   
 2. Brian O'Lynn (Roud 294)
    Thomas Moran, Mohill, Co. Leitrim
  
 3. The Ewie Wi' the Crookit Horn (Roud 2140)
    Lucy Stewart, Fetterangus, Aberdeen
  
 4. Wim Wam Waddles (Roud 469)
    Mummers, Dorchester, Dorset
  
 5. When I Was a Little Boy (Roud 1706)
    John Stickle, Unst, Shetland
  
 6. The Muckin' o' Geordie's Byre (Roud 2137)
    Jimmy MacBeath, Aberdeen

 7. The Frog and the Mouse (Roud 16)
    Adolphus Le Rue, Bonne Nuit, Jersey;
    Elizabeth Cronin, Ballyvourney, Co. Cork;
    Annik Paterson, Tob, Orkney;
    Albert Beale, Kenardington, Kent
 
 8. Old King Cole (Roud 1164)
    Bill Westaway, Belstone, Devon
 
 9. Fear a'Phige
    Group of Singers. South Uist, Hebrides
   
10. The Parson and the Clerk (Roud 1154)
    Phil Tanner, Llagennith, Glamorgan
 
11. The Barley Mow (Roud 944)
    George Spicer, Copthorne, Sussex

Tracks Side 2

 1. Three Men Went a-Huntin' (Roud 283)
    Hywel Wood, Bala, Merioneth

 2.  A-Rub-A-Dub-Dub (Roud 3101)
    Jeannie Robertson, Aberdeen
  
 3. Was You Ever See? (Roud 2144)
    Manfrie Wood, Bala, Merioneth
 
 4. Going Up Camborne Hill (Roud 3102)
    Group of Singers, Skinners Bottom, Cornwall

 5. Old Mother Shipton
    Luther Stanley, Barrow-on-Humber,  
    Lincolnshire

 6. The Herring Song (Roud 128)
    Phoebe Smith, Woodbridge, Suffolk;
    Richard Blackman, Arundel, Sussex

 7. Rothesay-O (Roud 2142)
    Davie Stewart, Dundee, angus (w/ accordion)
  
 8. The Farmyard Song (Roud 544)
    George Blackman, Wisborough Green, Sussex
   
 9. The Ram of Derby (Roud 126)
    Arthur Lennox, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
    Northumberland
  
10. Tom Pearce (Widecombe Fair) (Roud 137)
    Bill Westaway, Belstone, Devon;
    George Maynard, Copthorne, Sussex
 
11. The Green Grass Grew All Around (Roud 129)
    John Casley, Morvah, Cornwall


Password for RAR files = gonzoSOA


Side 2 has presented some problems, the original content was probably recorded on a basic cassette machine with very restricted frequency response, this means the sound is not as distinct as we have come to be used to in today's digital world.
I have equalised where possible up to a point, without creating too much distortion.  The limited spectrum has caused some ringing and "spitch" on some of the vocals, not a lot can be done to avoid this without spending hours on each track, the improvement is just not worth the effort.
This IS as good as it gets.