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* * A r r i v a l - o f - N e w - A l b u m s -- D e l a y e d * *

2011-12-27T09:28:00.003Z

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I am afraid there will be some delay in producing any more LP rips due to the health of my life's partner,

She needs nursing care now, until the end of her life so I will not have much time to process material, however I will read mail from time to time and try to respond to comments.

Thank you for your patience.

Update 9 Jan 2012
I am sad at heart to inform all my loyal followers
that my partner died suddenly in hospital after an emergency admission. I have so much to do now, after this is all over I need a break, a holiday away from here to re-charge the mental battery after all the recent stress, however, fear not I am internet mobile, so will be keeping an eye on the blog from around the World, all is NOT lost.
I assure you, your comments and sympathy are all very much appreciated... I'll be back !!

* * * P L A G I A R I S M * * * Copying work from one blog to another

2011-12-18T17:24:00.005Z

I have recently been made aware that some of the newest LP restorations on here are being copied, re-coded and presented on another blog.

I have no objection to this in principal, provided the original source is suitably credited, what I DO object to is to find

the copies are inferior, recoded to 128k joint stereo and any credits to source and/or ripper have been removed from the MP3 tags.

A lot of work goes into these restorations to produce the best possible quality from the resource, why it has become necessary to present a lower quality version beats me.

If this blatant copying continues I shall in future present

only low quality, low bit rate versions on this blog, leaving the full 320k versions for personal friends only.

Look HERE for another blog, but BEWARE of the low quality.

"TUNDRA" SONGS FROM GREENWICH Greenwich Village 1981

2011-12-02T16:21:00.015Z

I' was offered a copy of this LP by

a blog watcher, we successfully transfered the music and scans.

From the Greenwich Village label GVR 218

Tracks.
Side One

1. Greenwich Park
2. Pretty Maids Of Greenwich
3. The Rambling Sailor
4. Rebellion Of Watt Tyler
5. Admiral Benbow
6. The Greenwich Lovers' Garland

Side Two

1. Homeward Bound
2. The Blackheath Burglar
3. The Jolly Sailor or The Lady Of Greenwich
4. So Handy
5. Jack At Greenwich
6. I'm Going To Leave Her Shallow Brown

Work has been completed on this LP, the rip was not perfect

due to either a worn record or a stylus problem, we have now had a second go at the worse tracks with a new stylus, the finished article is now here just in time for Christmas.

To emphasis the importance of having a good
stylus, which has been positively proved by this exercise to considerably improve the quality of the recovered audio, even if the LP itself is already worn.

Please checkout these samples of one bad track from the inner most recordings on the LP, hear how even the slightest error in tracking on the inner tracks can ruin the sound when a worn stylus is in use. There is still a little distortion even with the new stylus, this is due most likely to the record already being worn or damaged to a degree by its previous owner, or playing.

Samples

Full Audio & Scans

Password for the archive is gonzoTSOG

The Satisfaction rating for this post is 10.26%
(78 downloads and 8 valid comments)

* * * B R I A N -- D E W H U R S T * * * More 70's music sought

2011-11-29T22:15:00.014Z

The recent posting of the Horden Raikes first album

has created a lot of interest in the subsequent material

from Brian Dewhurst.

He made a few other albums from 1972 onwards,
the previously posted "King Cotton" being one, he
also teamed up with other artists to produce two more albums "Bits & Pieces" (1974)

Which was a compilation containing tracks from the 1971

album just presented, and from King Cotton.
This was followed by "Sea lions" (1977)

A live album, recorded and produced by Mike Harding

featuring Chris Parkinson playing "squeezy things".

The album that most interests me is the one produced

in between these two in 1975.

The Hunter & the Hunted where Brian teams up

with Tom Tiddler's Ground, 17 tracks on a theme

of hunting, poaching etc.

I would dearly like to work on this album if
anyone has a copy they could either let me have
to rip, or are prepared to rip and get me the audio
and scans.

I do have the audio at low quality and from listening it

seems better results should be possibly, certainly the

music is superb and well worth collecting.

I now have the scans for this LP, so here in advance of the audio, are a decent copy of the front and a very informative higher resolution copy of the rear.

Sample tracks from the album dealing with Hares?

Hares

* * * Update Jan 2012 * * *
I have been slowly working on the low quality copy of this album's tracks, some are quite reasonable, some have the typical tracking distortion of a worn record and/or stylus, however they are all listenable and I feel I might break a rule of mine and present some here, without the usual hi-quality rip and hi-res scans, but from the original MP3
source. My current situation means these tracks will appear as they are completed, and when I have time.

STOP PRESS !!
I have been offered a copy of this LP to rip, I have the scans already, once prepared they will be posted here.
The audio content will take some time, probably not until mid February, too many other things to arrange here at the moment.

Latest update
I am working on the audio restoration now, really a delightful album, so much so that I find myself spending more time listening and singing along than actually editing which is something I need to do at these stressful times, I hope you will get as much pleasure out of this album as I have done. Still on course for early February release of the audio content.

Horden Raikes First LP (1971)

2011-11-07T18:18:00.029Z

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I have been offered this rare album to share on here

there is very little information on the web about this LP

it seems to be yet another example of a brilliant group

that split and went their own individual way after making

a few superb albums. Their follow up album "King Cotton"

was posted on another blog, and repeated here some while ago

so you can get a sample of their style by taking a listen to that.

Work is proceeding on the first side, the second side to follow soon. update 22 Nov 2011. Audio restoration work completed

An interesting exercise, the LP is in a very good shape
(Round and flat of course) but the ripping method is
vastly different from my normal one. This LP has been
digitised on an ION 1 direct from vinyl to digital deck.
This is the first time I have had to work with the output
from one of these, techniques are basically similar, but
the difficulty has been trying to do it remotely by issuing
instruction via email and live chat, and dealing with strange
programs, that although capable do not have the features
I have come to be used to. After a few goes and a few
failures we have at last got some good results and sounds
which would probably never have happened were it not
for the perseverance of the owner, the use of the internet
and the shear joy of listening to a rare folk music album
(for BOTH of us)

Tracks:

Side 1:

Mock Beggar Hall (Old mansion in Cheshire)

Farewell She (Roud 803)

Spencer The Rover (A British Rambling singer)

Ye Jacobites By Name (Roud 5517) (Burns)

Lord Franklin (Roud 487) (British Sea Captain/Explorer)

Thomas of Winesbury (Child #100)

Side 2:

Mad Tom Of Bedlam (Poem about a Bedlamite)

Bogies Bonny Belle (Song about a fair girl of Huntly, Scotland)

The Two Magicians (classic loss of maidenhead story)

Londons Ordinary (Tradesmen and their Pubs)

John Barleycorn (personification of Beer's principle parts)

The Seeds Of Love (Trad)

Group contained the following artists.
Brian Dewhurst (later known as Preston)
(Him the HAIR)
and Ron Flanagan

You might like to checkout
some of Brian's recent appearances at folk clubs.
with these YouTube videos.

One
Two
Three
Four
Five

Now the Audio content.
Here

Password is required
gonzoHR71

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but HOW to do this? 1. I try to provide rare material
2. I try to restore it well sonically.
3. is where you come in, only by comments can I judge this!

The Satisfaction rating for this post is 12.72%
(110 downloads and 14 comments)

I received one (unpublished) comment from a respected friend
in the music business, who, with no axe to grind said he
couldn't understand why I took so much trouble to post
to such an unappreciative audience, he likened the
lack of response to that of the whole front 10 rows at a live
concert NOT clapping after a performance, the sort of response
(or lack of) that would make the performers give up and leave
the stage.
He suggested I should remove a post when the
"satisfaction rating" fell below 10%... You know
that is not a bad idea!

Something Different "Sauter Finegan" Orchestra Doodletown Fifers

2011-09-23T20:00:00.006+01:00

Going back to the Fifties, a unique and very (POP)ular

band that turned orchestral "Pop" on it's head with

stunning arrangements and instrumentation.

The Doodletown Fifers

Re-issued in the 1970's

Re-constructed back cover

Originally posted on a now deleted blog as a vinyl rip

cleaned and edited by yours truly.

This is not Jazz as such but the instrumentation

and arrangements of classic tunes do tend to favour

some Jazz structures.

I put this album in the same category as the Arthur Lyman "Taboo" I did a few months ago, special Hi-Fi demo's to exercise your ears.

You will undoubtedly recognise some of the tunes as they are often played on the radio
for example

Midnight Sleighride and April in Paris and of course Doodletown races based on the classic Camptown races, (doo dah, doo dah).

It's been FUN and a refreshing change.

Download
You'll need a password
gonzoSTFG

Found a CLICK?
So did I, one I'd missed, track 9
Click above for a replacement

* * * * DELETED LINKS * * * * and Other info !!

2011-09-21T16:15:00.002+01:00

I hear by reading other blogs that some are experiencing link deletions by various file repositories.

Today I checked the first years files and ALL are correct and working as they were originally, except where the album has been issued on CD, then the link will point
to the purchase resource.

I have far too many other jobs to do currently so work on this blog is at a minimum, but
I DO READ IT
so if you find

D E A D L I N K S

please let me know, your comments will
ALWAYS be appreciated.

North by North East, Songs and Humour from the Northeast UK (Tyneside)

2011-08-29T16:45:00.005+01:00

First requested by a blog visitor, now kindly donated by another, here it is.

Bit of an oddball album is this one, cannot really classify it as Folk, it is more of a "Grandma's favourite" really, with some humour that will appeal to those from, or with knowledge of the great North-East of England, Tyneside etc.

However it does contain music by some renown artists from
the North East

The High Level Ranters and Four in a Bar for example
so I guess it is "Folky"

The NEWS items are of course many years out of date, you would have to be a Geordie and have lived in the Tyneside area for many years to appreciate the meanings of some items, for example the cost of the METRO rail system which at the time was a scandal of miss-management and
under-estimating, cost the tax payer millions by the time it opened it's first network in 1980.

Restoration is now COMPLETE

Side One

Side Two

No passwords needed here, covers in part two

Alternate ways to display Google blog pages

2011-08-20T17:51:00.002+01:00

I have presented in the side bar the alternate display options for this blog, they have all been working until just recently when they now seem to generate an Error 500 report.

I have no idea if this is Google problem, or is down to the forever updated Firefox messing things, perhaps someone out there has the answer, does it work with I.E? or any other browsers? Safari, Chrome, etc.

Seems to be OK NOW
I guess it was a Google Problem

Topic "Songs" series CHILDS BALLADS Volume 5 Completed

2011-08-14T23:48:00.011+01:00

Final in the "Songs of Series"
Francis Child's references

Side 1
    The Royal Forester (#110)
    The Baffled Knight (#112)
    Johnie Cock (#114)
    Robin Hood and Little John (#125)
    The Jew’s Garden (#155)
    The Battle of Harlaw (#163)
    The Four Maries (#173)
    The Gypsie Laddie (#200)
    Georgie (#209)
    The Dowie Dens of Yarrow (#214)

Side 2
    Glenlogie (#238)
    The Grey Cock (#248)
    Henry Martin (#250)
    Lang Johnny More (#251)
    Willie’s Fate (#255)
    Our Goodman (#274)
    The Farmer’s Curst Wife (#278)
    The Jolly Beggar (#279)
    The Auld Beggarman (#279)
    The Keach in the Creel (#281)
    The Golden Vanity (#286)
    The Trooper Lad (#299)

Tracks and Artist Details

Totally out of keeping with what I normally find with LP's side two on this one was better than side one, in fact side two was completed in less than 1 hour, where sometimes I can spend that long on one track, pity some of the earlier ones were not that good..

Download contains both sides of the LP, front and rear scans, plus the

track title panels as .PNG files.

Download HERE

Password gonzoCHILDS

This is the LAST of the Topic LP's in the Tasmanian friends collection

Time for a bit of a rest from collecting, ripping and cleaning Folk music

Now I move on to a little Jazz.

Fred Jordan "Songs of a Shropshire Farm Worker" Topic 12T150

2011-08-01T15:14:00.005+01:00

This is a reminder for those waiting for this album that work is completed now, see the original posting.

HERE

This is another LP provided for me by a blog watcher to digitise, sincere thanks are due to the provider for allowing me to also

keep the LP
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Please look at his recent and charitable adventures to the outer Hebrides
HERE
There are so few comments for some postings, I do wonder if down-loaders really do appreciate the work that goes in to these restorations, specially those that are provided by others for our enjoyment, and to keep me off the streets.

Please be kind enough to comment and thank Kelvin, in this case, also check out his charity events at the link above. Check back to the 2010 Facebook pages for details of the marathon cycle trip
Kent to the Hebrides.
HERE

Topic "Songs" series CHILDS BALLADS Volume 4 Completed

2011-07-16T10:29:00.011+01:00

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                          Francis Child's reference numbers for tracks
         Side 1

1. The Elfin Knight (#2)
2. The False Knight on the Road (#3)
3. Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight (#4)
4. The Twa Sisters (#10)
5. Lord Randal (#12)
6. Edward (#13)
7. King Orfeo (#19)
8. The Cruel Mother (#20)

9. The Broomfield Wager (#43)

Side 2

1. Captain Wedderburn's Courtship (#46)
2. The Twa Brothers (#49)
3. Lord Bateman (#53)
4. Lord Thomas and Fair Ellen (#73)
5. Lord Lovel (#75)
6. Lord Gregory (#76)
7. Barbara Allen (#84)
8. George Collins (#85)
9. Cruel Lincoln (#93)
10. The Prickelly Bush (#95)

Tracks with artist details

Ripping is well under way now, this time I am completing both sides in one file the total size is not over 100MB so those with downloads limits will only need one download. I have extracted the track details, shown here on the left, into two picture files, you can click on these to enlarge them then right click to save them for reference use. The tracks are all mono but I have used 256k MP3 encoding to maximise the available quality on some not all tracks really need this bit rate, considering these LP's date back to before 1970, with the original recordings being done around 1961, the quality is fair, there are a few thumps which I felt better to leave in after reducing them, rather than cutting them out with an obvious effect.

Tracks & Scans HERE
password for the RAR is gonzoCHILDS

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

2011-07-12T22:35:00.009+01:00

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.

TOPIC FOLK LP "SONGS OF" Series "Songs of Ceremony"

2011-07-11T20:52:00.007+01:00

Volume 9 of 10

I've complete work on this LP, one of the last two in the series, progress was slow, this one is quite noisy.

for more information Topic Records 12T197 (LP, UK, 1970)

A collection of songs related to seasonal ceremonies, once of magical intent, now often frivolous, recorded in the field from traditional folk singers in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Isle of Man

Tracks Side One


Cornish Wassail Song (Roud 209) Charlie Bate, Padstow, Cornwall; Truro Wassail Bowl Singers, Malpas, Cornwall New’r Even’s Song (Roud 4584) Sidney Scott and company, North Ronaldsay, Orkney The “Mari Lwyd” Ceremony David Thomas and party, Maesteg, Glamorgan; Margaretta Thomas, Nantgarw, Glamorgan The Joys of Mary (Roud 278) Teresa Maguire, Belfast Holly and the Ivy (Roud 514) Peter Jones, Bromsash, Ross, Hereford The Twelve Days of Christmas (Roud 68) Bob and Ron Copper, Rottingdean, Sussex The Bitter Withy (Roud 452) Charlotte Smith, Tarrington, Hereford; William Payne, Gloucester As I Sat on a Sunny Bank (Roud 700) John Thomas, Camborne, Cornwall The Singing of the Travels (Roud 873) Group of mummers, Symondsbury, Dorset Divers and Lazarus (Roud 477; Child 56) Emily Bishop, Bromsberrow Heath, Hereford The Gower Wassail (Roud 209) Charlie Bate, Padstow, Cornwall

Cornish Wassail Song (Roud 209)
Charlie Bate, Padstow, Cornwall;
Truro Wassail Bowl Singers, Malpas, Cornwall
New’r Even’s Song (Roud 4584)
Sidney Scott and company, North Ronaldsay, Orkney
The “Mari Lwyd” Ceremony
David Thomas and party, Maesteg, Glamorgan;
Margaretta Thomas, Nantgarw, Glamorgan
The Joys of Mary (Roud 278)
Teresa Maguire, Belfast
Holly and the Ivy (Roud 514)
Peter Jones, Bromsash, Ross, Hereford
The Twelve Days of Christmas (Roud 68)
Bob and Ron Copper, Rottingdean, Sussex
The Bitter Withy (Roud 452)
Charlotte Smith, Tarrington, Hereford;
William Payne, Gloucester
As I Sat on a Sunny Bank (Roud 700)
John Thomas, Camborne, Cornwall
The Singing of the Travels (Roud 873)
Group of mummers, Symondsbury, Dorset
Divers and Lazarus (Roud 477; Child 56)
Emily Bishop, Bromsberrow Heath, Hereford
The Gower Wassail (Roud 209)
Charlie Bate, Padstow, Cornwall

Tracks Side Two


Taladh an Leinibh Losa Group of crofters, South Uist, Hebrides The St Clements Song (Roud 9679) Phyllis Carnwell, Hammerwich, Staffordshire The Shrove Tuesday Song (Roud 1516) Herbert Prince, Warminster, Wiltshire Shepherds Arise (Roud 1207) Bob and Ron Copper, Rottingdean, Sussex The Cherry Tree Carol (Roud 453; Child 54) John Partridge, Cinderford, Gloucester Somerset Wassail Song (Roud 209) Harry and Walter Sealy, Ash Priors, Taunton, Somerset Hunting the Wren (Roud 236) Joe and Winifred Woods, Douglas, Isle of Man Cheshire Souling Song (Roud 304) The Antrobus Soul-Cakers, Northwich, Cheshire Six Jolly Miners (Roud 871) Louis Rowe, Grenoside, Yorkshire John Barleycorn (Roud 164) Group of Boggans, Haxey, Lincolnshire Hal-an-Tow (Roud 1520) Townspeople with band, Helston, Cornwall Huntingdonshire May Carol (Roud 305) Mrs Church and Mrs Hall, Biddenham, Bedfordshire Cornish May Carol (Roud 305) Hobbyhorse party and townspeople, Padstow, cornwall

Taladh an Leinibh Losa
Group of crofters, South Uist, Hebrides
The St Clements Song (Roud 9679)
Phyllis Carnwell, Hammerwich, Staffordshire
The Shrove Tuesday Song (Roud 1516)
Herbert Prince, Warminster, Wiltshire
Shepherds Arise (Roud 1207)
Bob and Ron Copper, Rottingdean, Sussex
The Cherry Tree Carol (Roud 453; Child 54)
John Partridge, Cinderford, Gloucester
Somerset Wassail Song (Roud 209)
Harry and Walter Sealy, Ash Priors, Taunton, Somerset
Hunting the Wren (Roud 236)
Joe and Winifred Woods, Douglas, Isle of Man
Cheshire Souling Song (Roud 304)
The Antrobus Soul-Cakers, Northwich, Cheshire
Six Jolly Miners (Roud 871)
Louis Rowe, Grenoside, Yorkshire
John Barleycorn (Roud 164)
Group of Boggans, Haxey, Lincolnshire
Hal-an-Tow (Roud 1520)
Townspeople with band, Helston, Cornwall
Huntingdonshire May Carol (Roud 305)
Mrs Church and Mrs Hall, Biddenham, Bedfordshire
Cornish May Carol (Roud 305)
Hobbyhorse party and townspeople, Padstow, cornwall

(Thanks to Reinhard for the title info, the rear of my LP is almost un-copyable)
Those that are not familiar with the Roud index, this is the work of Steve Roud
a librarian from Croydon in the UK County of Surrey (almost my original home town)
this index is now available at the EFDSS (Google it)

Side one contains the audio, these track notes and the LP scan.
Side two just the audio. Both sides were encoded VBR to optimise the size
and quality, which is somewhat limited due to the original Mono source.
Password to unlock sides is gonzoSOC

For more details about the song origins and some excellent reviews, please visit Reinhard's pages

Bucca... (The Goblin of the wind in Celtic mythology) Cornwall Music

2011-07-08T13:01:00.009+01:00

Here is a most interesting album from a little known group

from Cornwall in the deep south west of the UK.

The album comes from 1982, as far as I know it has never been seen on CD, which is probably because in 1982 CD's were only just becoming available, most of the output was of a classical nature, the lighter music and jazz came later.

I said little known for that is what the group was but the musicians forming Bucca were well known as part of

"Anao Atao" another group keeping the Cornish

tradition alive.

There are cover scans of both front and back plus copies of the inlay in the RAR archive. Recording quality is good to excellent, VBR encoding to MP3 from a converted
24 bit master.

(LP is Plant Life PLR039)

Tracks Side 1.
01: St. Malo ~ Zeak Waltz ~ Sunny Corner
02: Ny Woer Hi
03: Morvah Fair
04:Constantine in Kerrier Funeral Hymn ~ an Try Marghak ~ Delyow Syvy
05: An Lader (The Robber) **
06: The Hole in the Harper's Head

Tracks Side 2
01: Maggy May's Hornpipe
02: May Day Carol
03: The Tinner's Fancy
04: A Virgin Most Pure ~ Kost Ar C'Hoad
05: Re a Lever
06: Arz Dufunyans (The Awakening)

** Based on the SOVAY (Female Highwayman Roud index #7)

Download (standard)
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Password
gonzoHITHH

Der Kobold

After the last SAD news, some more joyfull happenings "AT LAST"

2011-06-25T20:15:00.014+01:00

CYRIL TAWNEY

Long awaited re-releases from the ARGO lable.

It has been the policy of many blogs to not make available any of Cyril's recordings at the request of
Rosemary Tawney.

At that time income from sales was supporting a Divers charity, the DDRC. You can find out more details HERE

As indeed you can find other information from the official web site.

The albums to be re-released are (1) "The Mayflower Garland"

A collection of Folk songs from Devon & Cornwall
given as a tribute on the 350th anniversary of the

SAILING of the MAYFLOWER

Original recording info: Argo ZFB 9 1970

Cyril Tawney: Vocal & Guitar
Tom Paley: Guitar & Banjo
Reg Hall: Melodeon

With Extracts from William Bradford's history

"Of PLIMOUTH PLANTATION"

Read by Gary Watson

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and (2) "Children's Songs from Devon and Cornwall.

The former is already available, and the latter available NOW see :-

"CYRIL TAWNEY SINGS CHILDREN'S SONGS FROM DEVON AND CORNWALL"

Talking Elephant TSCD 179

(original LP cover)

Tracks to include:

The Three Huntsman, John Jago, Harvey Darvey
The Old Grey Duck, The Herring's Head, Old Daddy Fox
   The Tree in the Valley, A Lying Tale, My Father Had a Horse
Carion Crow, Cradle Song, The Snail
Jonathon, James & John,   The Jolly Shilling Tommy and the Apples,   The Foolish Boy
   The Cuckoo, Johnny Greyman and His Grey Mare
   I Had a Little Cock, Jinny Jan, Three Scamping Rogues
There Was a Lady All Skin and Bone

And NOW!

Original LP cover

"IN PORT"

Talking Elephant TECD 187

This 1972 album offers 15 of Cyril's classic compositions, mainly Royal Navy-related, with a few landlocked ones for good measure. The Yetties or Denis McCallum (accordion) accompany him on many of the tracks, giving the collection a different quality which it is interesting to compare with his later recordings of the songs.

Click HERE for full track listing and details.

The ARGO record label was a wonderful source of folk and World music, for more info check HERE

||||| MIKE WATERSON JAN 1941 - JUNE 2011 |||||

2011-06-24T20:22:00.003+01:00

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I guess that most folk music fans will have heard by now that Mike Waterson of the Waterson family
passed away on June 22nd after suffering with
pancreatic cancer.

I am not going to post any of his work, or that of the Watersons, virtually all of it is available on CD and so much has been said about Mike, his beginings and his career in many publications since the sad news was released, that I could add nothing in words, except when ever I have chatted with him, had little jibes about his fishing interests, It always ended up with a yarn or two.

Perhaps you would like to note this link to follow up

the posting on another blog.

Orbit

Finally here is a picture of Mike in one of his all too
familiar poses, taken at a folk session at Sidmouth
back in the 90's

R.I.P Mike

Peggy Seeger Songs, another LP coming soon 1979 "Different"

2011-06-09T22:45:00.005+01:00

This is another LP owned by my friend and fellow contributor from Western Australia, between us we have cleaned and ripped it, and scanned the covers.

It is currently being edited and de-clicked here in the UK, a slow job as even with the cleaning there are still quite a few loud clicks.

There are two issues for this one album, the original "Folkways" album and the re-issue on the "Blackthorne" label, our copy is a Blackthorne, but I managed to find a scan of the original Folkways cover which I will include here.

"Blackthorne"

Front cover

"Folkways"
Front cover

Only graphics available for download pending investigation of a CD issue.

password for scans = gonzoPSDTE

Please read the comments

MARTIN CARTHY one of Britains best known Folk singers, 70 years old

2011-05-17T21:56:00.012+01:00

To celebrate his Three Score and Ten Martin gave an hour long interview on the 11th May 2011 on the Mike Harding show on BBC Radio Two, if you missed the original or the listen again option, never fear, it is not lost and gone forever I managed to preserve an MP3 copy to share here.

Martin appearing locally

.Martin talks about his career, how it got stated, who his influences were, and who he performed with in the early days, an interesting 50 year history of folk music. Martin also talks frankly about his wife Norma, how they met, and about her recent serious illness, which thankfully she is recovering from.

Martin in the Daily Telegraph

There are some samples of his early and recent recordings from a career which he says is not like a job, but just fun and a great privilege to be able to do what he enjoyed.

Martin at TYNE FOLK

Watch this space as they say for the MP3 file which will be posted after the BBC listen again option has expired.

Audio

Password = gonzoMC70

BBC Bush House 2008 Concert with Dick Gaughan,Martin Simpson (RE-POST)

2011-03-18T07:55:00.005Z

.
Over two years since this was posted on another blog

the resource has become fragmented over time

the artwork for a cover was posted HERE back

in 2008, so time to re-establish the complete set.

Links:
Artwork

Video:
part 1 of 12
part 2 of 12
part 3 of 12
part 4 of 12
part 5 of 12
part 6 of 12
part 7 of 12
part 8 of 12
part 9 of 12
part 10 of 12
part 11 of 12
part 12 of 12

This is one of the classic Celtic Folk concerts of the period
it was presented as part of a travelogue on the
appearances and travels of the host artist.

Dick Gaughan: singer, guitarist, song writer.
(champion, "tell it like it REALLY is" protest singer)

Martin Simpson: Folk and Blues guitarist.
(variety of styles, American blues, Old Time, Folk)

Michael McGoldrick: Flute, Low Whistle.
(Ex Flook, Lunasa, Capercaille, etc)

Mary McMaster: Harp, Vocals.
(formed the "Poozies")

This is a LARGE file, so I have kept the part sizes
down to 100Mb to help those with download limits.

Peggy Seeger "American Childrens Songs" (TOPIC 18)

2011-03-15T20:44:00.005Z

Another album from "Gracenotes"

Topic 7T18 (TOP18)

From time to time I try to present something different

my last posting was the superb "Taboo" album from

Arthur Lyman, a standard for HI-Fi fans in the 50's.

This time it is a special album for the Kids, those

potential folk music fans in the making.

these are timeless children's songs from America

not quite like the British ones I remember

but they do have their British counterparts

with variations on the American ones, not dissimilar

to the British folk songs that crossed the Atlantic

and got Americanised.

Peggy is joined on here by other members of the Seeger clan
Penny on second guitar and Barbara on autoharp.

7T18 Come Along, John!

8 American folk songs for children,
sung by Peggy Seeger with Barbara and Penny Seeger:

Tracks:

1. Come Along John

2. All Round the Kitchen

3. Billy Barlow

4. Old Aunt Kate

5. Little Bird

6. Lula Gal

7. Rissolty Rissolty

8. The Derby Ram.

This was quite a noisy recording so has taken quite a while

to get it into good sonic shape. The recording is not generally bad but some of the solo singing and Banjo tracks are very light on bass, the banjo strings have some of the normal "tizz" but the rhythmic knuckle slaps on the body are a bit light, I'd guess this was on the original masters due to the particular recording set up for those tracks.
The accompanied tracks have a much broader sound.
As is often the case with vinyl, side two was a lot worse than side one, there were virtually no clicks at all on side one but a few fairly obvious ones on two.

Another kind offering from this blog visitor

"Gracenotes"

Thank you!

password for the rip is gonzoPSACS

TOPIC FOLK LP "SONGS OF" Series "A Soldiers Life for Me"

2011-03-09T08:39:00.010Z

Completed

Topic 12T196 The Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 8.
A soldiers Life for Me.

Side 1

01. Bonny Laddie - John Strachan

02. Swansea Barracks - Phil Tanner

03. The Dying Soldier - Mary Doran

04. Willie O’Reilly - Robert Cinnamond

05. The Banks of the Nile - Sidney Richards

06. The Bonnet 'o Blue - Jean Matthew

07. The Recruiting Song - William Rew

08. William Taylor - Harold Covill

09. Johnny Harte - Mrs. Maguire

10. The Soldier and the Sailor - Arthur Lenox

11. Bold General Wolfe - Bob Scarce

Side 2

01. Muddley Barracks - Jumbo Brightwell

02. Handsome Polly-O - Thomas Moran

03. The Deadly Wars - Jeannie Robertson

04. McCaffery - Peter Reilly

05. Drink Old England Dry - Carol Singers

06. Prince Charlie Stuart - Brigid Tunney

07. My Son Tim - Timothy Walsh

08. Napoleon Bonaparte - Robert Cinnamond

09. The Bonny Bunch of Roses O - Louise Holmes

10. Napoleon’s Dream - Sam Larner

11. The Forfar Soldier - Jimmy McBeath.

Listening to these recordings gives one the impression that they were recorded just anywhere with no regard for acoustic problems, background noise etc, true folk music, recorded where it happened.

An interesting exercise in restoration, after removing the vinyl influences on the sound (rumble, scratch & clicks) I had to set about trying to remove some of the distortion due to over recording, the background noises, fans, and even a passing motor cycle on one track, I have tried not to be too heavy handed, preferring to leave as much of the atmosphere as possible to establish the metre of the events.

There will be the odd cough, the scraping chair, and traffic noise, as
Peter Sellers said on his album
"Three Folk songs in Hi-Fi" The Glasgow street singer
"You may hear somes trafficks noise"
"Pay No attention!"

Click on side headers for downloads
Password is gonzoSOSL

For more details about the song origins and some excellent reviews, please visit Reinhard's pages

TOPIC FOLK LP "SONGS OF" Series SAILORMEN and SERVING MAIDS

2011-03-07T11:58:00.015Z

Completed

12T194 The Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 6.
SAILORMEN and SERVING MAIDS

Some tracks on this album are attributed to Cyril Tawney who's estate has expressly wished by notifying another blog, that his performances should NOT be shared for free so that a worthy charity may benefit fully from the sales of his songs. However that does not apply here, because Cyril in this case only collected some of the songs and does not appear to be performing on any.

Side 1

1. Paddy West - Timothy Walsh
2. Liverpool Packet - Billy Barber
3. Green Banks of Yarrow - Mrs. Maguire
4. Our Gallant Ship - William Howell
5. Alehouse - Elizabeth Cronin
6. Rosemary Lane - Bruce Laurenson
7. Ratcliffe Highway - Jim Baldrey
8. Lowlands of Holland - Paddy Tunney
9. Quaker - Dorchester Mummers
10. Beninn a’ Cheathaich - Flora McNeil
11. Whale Fishery - Philp Hamon & Hilary Carre
12. Grey Silkie - John Sinclair (Child #113)

Side 2

01. Warlike Seaman - Bob & Ron Copper
02. Boat that Brought Me - Thomas Moran
03. Handsome Cabin Boy - Jeanie Robertson
04. The Uist Boat song - John Stickle
05. Smacksman - Sam Larner
06. Sweet Willie - Lal Smith
07. Campanero - Bill Cameron
08. Andrew Ross - John & Ethel Findlater
09. The Bold Princess Royal - Ned Adams
10. Boatie Row - Jessie Murray
11. Our Ship is Ready - Robert Cinnamond
12. Nancy of Yarmouth - Fred Ling.

Password for downloads is gonzoSOSSM

For more details about the song origins and some excellent reviews, please visit Reinhard's pages

NEWLY RELEASED CD's for artists previously posted here................. and on other blogs

2011-03-05T23:49:00.010Z

Steve Turner

From 1984, ECLOGUE

Steve Turner

And From 1986, BRAIDING

Info and availability on both these

HERE

Steve deep in song at Sidmouth Folk festival

2005

The two previous LP's "OutStack" and "Jigging One Now"
are still available on request, but only while
there is no CD issued for them.
(Links are active, request password in comments)

TOPIC FOLK LP "SONGS OF" Series << SEDUCTION >>

2011-03-04T09:22:00.014Z

This album is now complete.

12T158 The Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 2.
The Songs of Seduction:

Side One

01. The Nutting Girl - Cyril Poacher
02. The Bonnie Wee Lassie Who Never Said No - Jeannie Robertson
03. Bundle and Go - John Doherty
04. Blow the Candle Out - Jimmy Gilhaney
05. The Foggy Dew - Phil Hammond
06. Toorna Ma Goon - Jimmy McBeath
07. Rolling in the Ryegrass - Paddy Taylor
08. The Jolly Tinker - Thomas Moran
09. Long Peggin’ Aw - Harry Cox
10. The Thrashing Machine - Anne O’Neill
11. The Rigs of London Town - Charlie Wills
12. The Wind Blew the Bonnie Lassie’s Plaid Awa’ - Jimmy McBeath, Duncan Burker, Jeannie Robertson
13. The Cunning Cobbler - George Spicer

Side Two
01. Dublin City - Seamus Ennis

02. The Light Dragoon - Harry List

03. The Orkney Style of Courtship - John Findlater
04. The Cuckoo’s Nest - Jeannie Robertson, John Maguire, John Strachan
05. The Soldier and the Lady - Raymond and Frederick Cantwell
06. Behind the Bush in the Garden - Seamus Ennis
07. Never Wed an Old Man - Jeannie Robertson
08. The Maid of Australia - Harry Cox
09. The Merchant’s Son and the Beggar’s Daughter - Davy Stewart
10. The Bold English Navvy - Lal Smith
11. Cruising Round Yarmouth - Harry Cox.

The SIDE headers are the active (click) links

Password for RAR files is gonzoTSOS

Side one was in quite good condition, relatively easy to prepare, side two took considerably longer, quite a lot of distortion on some tracks, not due to over loading from the vinyl, but on the original tapes the vinyl was compiled from, I have smoothed out some tracks where the voices were really harsh.

Some originals here of familiar tracks like "Blow the Candle out", "Foggy Dew", "Rigs" and the "Threshing machine"
Plus on side 2 some interesting insights into
Hebridean courting styles, then sound advice to ladies
about courting an "Old Man" as well as some definitive
risque versions of the "Cuckoo's Nest"

For more details about the song origins and some excellent reviews, please visit Reinhard's pages

Peggy Seeger 1962 Topic TOP73 --------------- "Early in the Spring"

2011-02-17T10:07:00.012Z

Another original Peggy Seeger

Thanks to a blog visitor's kind gesture.

Four more songs on the theme of LOVE

from the Lady with the Banjo

Blog visitor "Gracenotes" has provided this EP
another in the same vein as the previous posting of "Troubled Love"

Tracks on this EP are:-

1. Madam I Have Come to Court You
   This song tells a story, where a suitor's advances are rejected until Money is mentioned.

2. When I Was in My Prime
   The theme of this song is a classic tale of the regret for loss of virginity in a certain encounter.

3. So Early in the Spring
   The suitor, in this case a Sailor, returns from sea to find his lover has married a richer man.

4. The Chickens they are Crowing.
   The Chickens are crowing, it is time to go home!
   A couple probably spent the night together.
   (from a Cecil Sharp Appalachians song collection)

Tracks completed, download HERE

Password is gonzoPSEIS

Again this is a combined effort, thanks are
due to "Gracenotes" for doing the EP rip.
I am sure he would be pleased to know his
efforts are appreciated.

This EP has restored quite well considering the background noise
and rumble that was evident on the original rip, there is still
some evidence in the quiet passages though, but for it's
age this is considerably better than previous copies of the tracks.

TOPIC FOLK LP "SONGS OF" Series << FAIR GAME and FOUL >>

2011-02-12T17:41:00.015Z

12T195 The Folk Songs of Britain

Vol. 7. Fair Game and Foul:

Side 1.

1-1. Northamptonshire Poacher - Jim Baldrey
1.2 Jimmy Raeburn - Jessie Muray
1-3 Drumhullogan’s Bottom - Thomas Moran
1-4 Sweet Fanny Adams - Vashti Vincent
1-5 Sylvia - Timothy Walsh
1-6 Young Willie - Paddy McCuskey
1-7 Lakes of Shillin - Mary Reynolds
1-8 Brennan on the Moor - Robert Cinnamond
1-9 Butcher Boy - Jeannie Robertson
1-10 Three Jolly Sportsmen - Bob Scarce

Side 2.

2-1 Jack Hall - Jack Endacott
2-2 Standing Stones - John & Ethel Findlater
2-3 Polly Vaughan - Harry Cox
2-4 Lion’s Den - Mrs Maguire
2-5 Van Diemen’s Land - Jimmy MacBeath
2-6 Blind Man He Can See - Mary Connors & Paddy Doran
2-7 Oxford City - Mary Doran
2-8 Erin Go Brach - John Strachan
2-9 Derry Gaol - Sarah Makem
2-10 Newlyn Town - Bob Scarce.

This LP is yet another found in a Tasmanian musicians collection, it was played on a Philips
transcription deck recorded 16bit with a Creative
Live SB audio card then transferred here as a
320k MP3 on a CD/RW disc.

The source quality does not warrant a 320k distribution
so I have used a VBR (variable bit rate) to provide a match to the quality of the recording.

Editing, de-noising and de-clicking were done in the
U.K using Sound Forge and Audition.

HERE
Password gonzoFGAF

For more details about the song origins and some excellent reviews, please visit Reinhard's pages

TOPIC FOLK LP "SONGS OF" Series << COURTSHIP >>

2011-02-12T17:02:00.023Z

12T157 The Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 1.

The Songs of Courtship (1968). Original issue Caedmon
TC 1141 (USA), 1961:

Side 1.

1-1. Green Grow the Laurels - Jeannie Robertson
1-2. The False Bride - Bob Copper
1-3. Our Wedding Day - Francis McPeake
1-4. When a Man’s In Love - Paddy Tunney
1-5. Aileen Duinn - Flora McNeill
1-6. Bonnie Kate - Agnes Whyte
1-7. Old Grey Beard Newly Shaven - Jeannie Robertson
1-8. The Sweet Primeroses - Bob and Ron Copper
1-9. The Coolin - Paddy Taylor
1-10. Shule Aroon - Elizabeth Cronin
1-11. The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow - Paddy Tunney
1-12. The Brown Thorn - Seamus Ennis

Side 2.

2-1. As I Roved Out - Seamus Ennis
2-2. The Magpie’s Nest - Jane Kelly
2-3. Dame Durden - Bob and Ron Copper
2-4. Casadh an Sugain - Maire O’Sullivan
2-5. The Girl was Smart for the Fiddler - Michael Doherty
2-6. My Darling Ploughman Boy - Jimmy McBeath
2-7. The False Young Man - Frank and Francis McPeake
2-8. I’m A Young Bonnie Lassie - Blanche Wood
2-9. No John, No - Bob and Ron Copper
2-10. Cois Abhain Na Sead - Máire Ni Cheocháin
2-11. Bogie’s Bonnie Belle - Davy Stewart.

Tracks now completed
click the side headers to download
Password is gonzoTSOC

Please note! due to an error with the tagger
the tags in the MP3's show the wrong date
this album as stated above is 1968.
I am having serious synchronising problems with my tagger
Side 1 tracks 11 & 12 are as shown above, not as tagged
that's what comes of trying to use a cue sheet in the wrong format.

For more information about the TOPIC "Songs of" series
I suggest you checkout a previous posting on this blog
TOPIC

The albums re-issued for digital download continue
to grow in number, well worth looking

HERE (link is now DEAD, or moved)

For the almost daily updates

For more details about the song origins and some excellent reviews, please visit Reinhard's pages

Another early TOPIC album in course of restoration TOP78

2011-01-23T10:16:00.010Z

Johnny Handle "Stottin' doon the Waall"

A lot of the tracks on this album have appeared on other releases,
Some of them on CD.

Currently I was waiting confirmation from the artist concerned about one track (2) that I could find no other release for.

Tracks are

1. Stottin doon the Waal (42) (T)

2. The Stoneman's Song

3. The Day we went to the Coast (35)

4. The Collier Lad (33) (T)

5. Durham big Meeting Day (48) (T)

6. Farewell to the Monty (40) (T)

Track 2 was the undiscovered one, it has now been located on the CD release of the original vinyl "Along the Coaly Tyne"

And on the artist issued "Collier Lad" album.

The number in brackets refers to the CD number in the

Northumbria Anthology

Without listening to these tracks I am unsure they are the same actual recordings, but as four were issued together on one
LP (12TS189) marked (T) it seems likely they are.

For more information about North Eastern English music see FARNE

Re-posts of Vinyl Restorations originally carried on other Blogs

2011-01-18T17:31:00.008Z

While I am working on the remaining Topic albums in my collection

I am going to post some of the more popular albums that were previously posted on other
(some now inactive) Blogs

Kentigern Topic 12TS394(1978) DL

Sadly Jim Barnes is no longer with us, his wife Sylvia continues singing in the traditional style, well worth a listen is her 2007 album "the Colours of Amber" Samples (or purchase) from HERE

Roy Harris By Sandbank Fields
Topic 12TS327 (1977)
DL

Ewan MacColl and Dominic Behan

Streets of Song
Topic 12T41 (1959)
DL
(Track listing in comments)

Peggy Seeger
Courting and Complaint
Folkways 2049 (1962)
DL

* * * FOUND * * * Peggy Seeger 1962 TOP72 Track 1

2011-01-17T21:32:00.006Z

Most blogs provide interesting out of print albums, so WHERE do these albums come from? Mostly the blog owners personal collection, or that of friends and like minded collectors, blog visitors etc.

Now is the time, YOUR time, to help in a quest, I need to find track one of a damaged album, or indeed the complete album if possible.

Topic 7" 4 Track EP TOP72

Anyone recognise this EP, do you have a good clean copy?

If so a copy of track one, or even the whole disc would be much appreciated to complete a potential posting.

Thanks.

(Missing track is "Rich Old Man")

February 2011 Update

with many thanks to a blog visitor I now have a good copy
of track one of this EP and have completed
the restoration. The original track one was severely
damaged and though listenable after some work
I was not happy to add it here.

We now have a complete set of tracks and some
better scans, thanks to blog visitor "Gracenotes"

I don't crave for comments, though they do make
the efforts worthwhile, but when a visitor has
gone out of their way to provide material for
us all, I think they deserve recognition.

You know WHAT TO DO!

Download link HERE

Password for the RAR file is gonzoPSTL

Judging by the large number of downloads of this, it is a popular album from Peggy Seeger, what is disappointing is the lack of comments posted here, please remember a response or two does make the continuing effort worthwhile, in this case especially as this album would not be complete without the assistance from a visitor "Gracenotes"

Johnny Doughty, Singing Sussex Fisherman (Update 2011)

2011-01-16T11:30:00.008Z

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

It was 2 years ago I posted the "Round Rye Bay for More" album from the Rye (Sussex) singing fisherman.

I have been lucky to receive from a blog viewer the complete scans for this album. For those that don't normally dig too far back in the archive you can find the original
HERE

Fred Jordan (Farm Worker and Folk singer) Here now TOPIC 12T150

2011-01-14T23:03:00.009Z

.
Since presenting the "Frost on the Pumpkin" album I have received from various sources, information about other albums made by Fred.

The first one I have been offered to copy is the original 1966 album, "Songs of a Shropshire Farm worker"

I have not been able to locate any recent release on CD or tape for this album, so in course of time it will be presented here as a vinyl rip.

The LP is now completed but as often is the case, side 2 was a lot worse than side 1 so there is still some residual noise.

Download link Side 1 + scans
Download link Side 2

Password for RAR files = gonzoSOSFW

In Course of Time

This is a cunning introduction to yet another album by

Fred Jordan, you might like to search out, this time a cassette tape issued by the EFDSS in 1991, as this is currently available the Audio will NOT be presented here.

An edited photo of the cassette cover

The tracks contained on the EFDSS tape.

You might like to checkout the INDEPENDENT News

Obituary for more details. HERE

Fred Jordan, farm worker and folk singer:
born Ludlow, Shropshire 5th January 1922;
died Ditton Priors, Shropshire 30 July 2002.

Born in 1922 at Ludlow in Shropshire, he was first recorded at the age of 30 on a farm at Diddlebury in 1952 by Peter Kennedy, then on secondment to the BBC from the English Folk Dance and Song Society. He claimed to have obtained
most of his songs from his mother, though he was quite prepared to supplement his lyrics from print, most notably "The Dark-Eyed Sailor", some of the words of which he copied out from the Farmer and Stockbreeder magazine.

(Karl Dallas, the INDEPENDENT)

Fred Jordan "Shropshire Singer" The Frost is on the Pumpkin (1973)

2011-01-09T23:30:00.005Z

Here is a Topic LP that I found in Tasmania

back in 1999, it was restored over 10 years ago

time to bring it back into the limelight again.

Topic 12TS233

Tracks:

Side A:

A.1 Six Pretty Maids (The Outlandish Knight)

A.2 The Banks of Claudy

A.3 Break the News to Mother

A.4 Barbara Allen

A.5 Turmot Hoeing;

Side B:

B.1 The Horn of the Hunter

B.2 When the Frost Is on the Pumpkin

B.3 The Seeds of Love

B.4 The Bonny Bunch of Roses

B.5 When Joan’s Ale Was New

B.6 The Volunteer Organist

-------------------

This is an interesting album containing a wide variety of songs, all sung in Fred's particular style easily recognised by the "chirp" in his voice.

The tracks and a rather crude digital photo of the cover, taken with my original 2megapixel Olympus are all HERE

You may find the quality is not up to the latest albums, this one was copied first off onto digital tape (DAT) transferred to a PC via an optical cable into a Creative sound card with an optical to SP/DIF adaptor.

Editing was either by Sound Forge or Cool Edit, the latter I used originally, the records are unclear what was used for this album.

When you have downloaded the file, you will need a password to see and extract the tracks and cover picture.

Enter gonzoFJFO when prompted.

A Vinyl Rip from 2003 "PyeWackett" Eponymous album (1981)

2010-10-09T22:50:00.008+01:00

An interesting album, difficult to place, a bit Folky,

Jazzy, Comedy all together different from the

normal Folk album.

The Groups first album from 1981

Tracks Side A

a1. Haufe Hannikin
a2. Harry the Tailor
a3. The Weary Cutters
a4. The Bonny Hawthorn
a5. Two Sisters
a6. Peppers Black~Tomorrow the Fox will come to Town

Tracks Side B

b1. Kettle Drum~Goddesses~Parsons farewell
b2. Hey then Up We Go~Jack-a-Lent
b3. Reynardine
b4. We Just Couldn't say Goodbye
b5. Aunt Nessy's White Horse

Artists:

Ian Blake:      Recorders, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Rosie Cross:    Bassoon, Tambourine
Mark Emerson:   Violin, Viola, Keyboard, Drums, vocals
Laurie Harper: Violin, Mandolin, Mandola, Bass Guitar, Vocals
Bill Martin:    Guitar, Accordian, Keyboards, Vocals

Preparation:

LP 1981 Dingle's DIN 312

Vinyl cleaned, analogue transfer to digital tape (DAT)
Optical copying to PC for digitisation, Sound Forge
to remove clicks, glitches and rumble.

MP3 Encoded 128/256 VBR with Lame 3.93

Date 2003

Download LINK

Alternate Download
Another trial link HERE

Password: gonzoPWKT

For more detailed information about this album please check here
SQUIDOO
Follow the further work of Ian Blake at his own site and studio in Canberra Australia
ACT

See Comments for more Pyewackett links

TANSEY's FANCY, Co-Founder Doug Kelly reports in

2010-10-04T21:36:00.006+01:00

.
Please see the comments on the Tansey's Fancy posting for contact information HERE

Some recordings are available from a band member in
L.P. Vinyl
format.

TOPIC Folk Albums Yet to be RESTORED (Songs Of Series)

2010-10-04T21:24:00.013+01:00

I have these in my collection, most un-restored as yet some will never be released as many of the tracks are either re-issued, or subject to future re-issues.

Most of these albums will need quite a bit of work to get to a reasonable listening standard, this is the task for the next few months, I am not promising them as Christmas Presents.

Courtship = Completed
Seduction = Completed
Jack of all trades = Completed
Child's Ballads V4 = Completed
Sailor Men = Completed
Soldiers Life = Completed
Fair Game = Completed
Ceremony = Completed
Animals = Completed

I hope to be able to re-rip the remaining volume 5
the Child's Ballads at some time soon.

Meanwhile a good source of reference to these LP's and their content can be found HERE

Bounce back to Bud, Bud Freeman and Two Guitars " Something Tender" 1963

2010-10-03T17:00:00.013+01:00

I missed this album in the previous Bud Freeman collection

Here we find Bud in fine company alongside two premier guitarists George Barnes and Karl Kress

Side One

1. The Eel's Nephew

2. Something Tender

3. Golden Retriever Puppy Dog Blues

4. Please

5. Disenchanted Trout

6. Satin Doll

Side Two

1. It Must Be True

2. Mimi

3. Doctor Paycer's Dilemma

4. Lets Do it Again

5. Mountain Greenery

6. Sweet Sue

I wondered about some of the titles here, it seems that Dr Paycer was a psychiatrist friend of Bud, from New York.

The Eel's Nephew was a grown up relation of one of Bud's best known tracks, one that showed his unique style off to the full, The Eel.

Disenchanted Trout is another in the Bud Freeman "Fishy Title" line

Mp3's and LP scans See Below
(DEAD Download LINK Thanks sharebee you are as useless as the others)
Another Link to try HERE
Password for this album is gonzoBFST

CHANGES to DOWNLOAD links on SOME posts.

2010-09-30T16:07:00.009+01:00

RapidShare is becoming unreliable now

What with the new charges, the unscheduled deletions and

the recent abandoning of the download credits that helped

to fund the costs of supporting INSTANT downloads, I am

now having to change to other services. You will in future

see different links and sometimes multiple links to files.

As you will see I have started using ShareBee to upload the archives, I would appreciate any feedback you care to give in comments, was it easy, are all the links working etc. I am also aware that the links may not last if they are not frequently downloaded, so there might need to be some more re-uploads at sometime soon, at least you get the choice of 4 or 5 different sites now.

The RapidShare links will remain valid until my paid up account runs out of funds, then I'm afraid that will be it, so if there is anything you want, I advise get it quick.

SHAREBEE is also USELESS, looking for another
Now trying "2Shared"

Re-Up time again "Martyn Wyndham Read, with the High Level Ranters" (1977)

2010-09-28T22:04:00.009+01:00

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This was originally posted on Time Has Told Me Blog it has long vanished from there and is referenced only on one other blog, but with no detectable download link.

This is a new fresh rip from a different LP, done at 320k.

Tracks on this album

Side ONE

1. Eccles Wakes

2. Bonny Beeswing

3. The Ballad of Trubshaw and Green

4. The Great Foot Race

5. Newcastle Wakes

6. The Charcoal Black and the Bonny Grey

Side TWO

1. Sayerìs and Heenan's Great Fight

2. The Boat Race

3. The White Hare of Howden

4. The Noble Fox Hunting

5. Alnwick Football song

6. The Bullard's song

The "WAKES" were originally religious ceremonies, watches or vigils over the souls of the dead, but were often usurped by unsavory characters that sought to make trouble, also money by entertaining the participants, eventually the proceedings turned from religious affairs into lecherie, glotony and sin. After the reformation, the Puritans succeeded in getting these affairs banned to the common marketplaces. Today "Wakes" refer to local holidays, at one time whole industries would close down for "Wakes".

Bonny Beeswing was a famous mare with a winning streak that lasted for 8 seasons in the 1840's winning the Ascot Gold Cup, the Chester and Doncaster cups.

Trubshaw and Green were famous wrestlers from Staffordshire.

The Foot Race was about an event held in Preston between two famous rival characters

Charcoal Black and Bonny Grey refers to Cock Fighting

Sayerìs and Heenan's were Prize Fighters

The Boat Race was a kind of Oxford and Cambridge affair only on the River Tyne a distance of about 5 miles.

The White Hare was a song about Hare hunting, both for sport and for food, its original function.

Noble Fox Hunting, the sport of the gentry (before the PC brigade got in on the act) refers to the Lake district hunting, the "Cumbrian Hunt"

The Bullards Song seems to be related to Bull Bating, eventually banned in 1835.

Alnwick Football song is about a Shrove Tuesday football match, an annual event in the 1850's

This archive contains the MP3 tracks from both sides, together with the front and back covers and the song descriptions in more detail than that above.

The password to unlock the tracks is gonzoMWRHLR

Alternate link NOT HERE (more useless file repositories)

RE-Post Roy Bailey "Hard Times" (1982)

2010-09-25T22:06:00.008+01:00

Previously posted on another blog, now deleted, here is a re-up

One of Roy's rare albums, only ever released on vinyl, here is the restored version, the definitive version with tracks as on the original LP, not as often found, compiled from other sources, mostly wrong.

SIDE ONE

1. In These Hard Times 2. La Vierge Rouge 3. Song of the Leaders 4. The Roses of Eyam

5. War without Bangs

SIDE TWO

1. If They Come in the Morning 2. Green Peace Really Green

3. When This Old Hat Was New

4. All Used Up 5. We Will Fight, We Will Win

MP3,s at 192k, front and rear LP covers HERE

Password to unlock the archive is gonzoRBHT

Alternate link HERE (Could be DEAD now)

Gonzo creates a BLOG of RANDOM Jottings: Music/Art/Technical/etc

2010-08-22T09:24:00.003+01:00

So not to be BOUND to Folk music and Jazz, I created a random blog

Product of a "Freewheeling Mind"

NOW for something COMPLETELY different: Arthur Lyman "TABOO" 1958

2010-08-12T15:39:00.009+01:00

As a complete change from the normal genre's of Folk or Jazz

Here is a copy of a vinyl I owned in the late 1950's which was one of the first wave of Hi-Fi demo recordings heralding the arrival of stereophonic records into the domestic music market. Stereo had been around for some years previous to this, mostly available to those that had reel to reel tape decksor FM radio with a stereophonic decoder.

I remember the scramble to go over to stereophonic listening, the frantic search for an identical loudspeaker to the existing single one, hastily building another amplifier (Mullard 3-10) and saving up for one of the, then very expensive stereo phono cartridges just to experience recorded sound as it could be heard naturally.

Early examples of stereo sound contained many gimmicks in the recording to emphasise the left to right effect, careful positioning of microphones, instruments, even heavy curtains hung between the centre of the band, all to emphasise the left-right nature of stereo. Serious and far less gimmicky recordings used low numbers of microphones carefully positioned to simulate how the human ear would hear the real sound

this technique is used on the Arthur Lyman album presented here. Add the wonderful acoustics of the aluminium domed roof and you have an exciting live vibrant recording.

This copy is not as clear and crisp as I remember the original, but my ears are 50 years older now though what I hear I still find exciting. There is some distortion, probably due to wear, the intense sounds of the unusual rhythm percussion shows some signs of harmonic distortion (breathy sounds) but all in all it is acceptable considering it's age. Cleaned and restored quite well for what was obviously a well played LP

Tracks are: Side One

1. Taboo

2. Kalua

3. Ringo Oiwake

4. Sea Breeze

5. Misirlou

6. China Clipper

Side Two

1. Sim Sim

2. Katsumi Love Theme

3. Caravan

4. Akaka Falls

5. Dahil Sayo

6. Hilo March

Download contains Front and Rear LP scans HERE

Password is gonzoTABOO

Alternate link HERE (NOW DEAD)

Anyone Remember THIS? Chris Barber 1959 Lansdown Volume 1

2010-07-05T16:17:00.003+01:00

I dug this from my collection after 30 years it had not been played until now, in that period it has been stored in various places, and none too suitable for vinyl's either, as you can guess it was in quite a bad state, the cover is the best bit of the album, this seems to have survived the bad treatment very well, such was the advantage of having all my LP's in a heavy outer plastic cover.

I am preparing this album for the British Jazz blog that specialises in music from the 1950's however in the process of restoration of this extremely noisy LP I became aware of how important a good wet cleaning was in the restoration of vinyl's. you can only do so much in the digital de-noising department, if you have a clean LP, freshly washed, the job becomes very much easier, and the results far superior, especially if you use any of the auto-declickers, these tend to smear the sound, and the harder they have to work, the more likely it is the music will lose vital components.

I am not going to post the album here, far too much jazz already, I want to redress the balance to Folk as soon as I can, but folk or jazz the cleaning process is the same, so these examples of "Before, During and After" taken on one specific track will show what can be achieved.

The same process is adopted for Folk, previous folk rips have had to be re-done when too much was lost in auto-declicking, one example was the album HERE.

If you are interested in hearing these samples, you can download HERE, but that is all you will get, to get the full album you will need to keep an eye on BritJazz

Avoiding CLIPPING (Overload) on Vinyl ripping

2010-07-04T08:56:00.009+01:00

Recently there has been some discussion on one of the blogs I visit about sound clipping and the distortion it causes to the music. There are many examples of badly done Vinyl rips, leaving aside the obvious problems of old, dirty and worn records, which only allow certain levels of improvement, there is one fundamental that should be firmly understood that of LOUDNESS when encoding from analogue to digital. Digital recording is just a bucket of bits, once the bucket is filled, any more filling is lost over the side NEVER to be heard of again. This is a simple analogy as although it would appear that what falls out of the bucket cannot be heard, this is not actually true, the effect of the bits falling out leaves behind unwanted bits, mixed up with the wanted bits... DISTORTION !!

The picture that saves a thousand words (I hope) ..

Click on the picture to magnify it for printing/reading

So, next time you consider turning one of your precious vinyl's into something DIGITAL please take care to do it to the best possible quality with the equipment you have available, most will have a record VOLUME control, please USE IT !! (CAREFULLY)

To assist you in getting the ripping levels right, here are some useful utilities.

Retro Style Analogue meters

These are available from the excellent VU-Player site HERE

Then the Professional style Broadcast Peak Program Meters (PPMS)

These meters and others can be downloaded from HERE

Both these meter programs are compatible with Windows 98/XP/Vista

There are enhanced versions that run only with Windows 7.

I have no connection with either of the programmers, I just want to spread the word because I have used them both to great advantage and am grateful to them for their labours.

Now the words you all wanted to read... They are FREE

However donations are accepted.

Technical Words

These programs use your sound card to monitor the current audio stream, they can be set to monitor recording and playback, by making the correct selections on your audio mixer settings. Most computers have a "What You Hear" option, with this enabled, the meters will show exactly what you are listening to, the RETRO meters can be quite a talking point.

Folk Music albums: Availability (original copies) Old restorations

2010-07-01T17:09:00.009+01:00

The Folk music restorations have almost come to a stop

Why? Well many have been re-issued, specially the TOPIC label ones. Most of my collection is from that stable so we face the inevitable confrontation over copyright issues, such problems have plagued other blogs recently, the question at issue seems to be, who owns the copyright, are they likely to be re-issuing the album in question, if so when? or are they the copyright holders and can see loss of sales if downloadable copies are made available for free? Well to my mind if they are going to re-issue a specific album, then it makes sense to make it known, to spike up the interest in advance, this is what all the contemporary folk labels do, so why any different for a 30-40 year old re-issue?

With an album that age it is likely that two whole generations may not have heard the artists in question or even know of them. In come the blogs, run by enthusiasts, lovers of the older music, prepared to spend time making their original copies available to others, copies that the label owners just do not see any profit in re-releasing. Blog owners do it for the sake of the music and making others aware of it's existence, thus increasing the potential demand.

Most major labels now are developing a digital download option, the decreasing demand for the music CD has forced it upon them, so the mechanism is there for them to release more of the older material, not just the over-hyped and over-compressed popular CRAP, most of which could not really be called music anyway.

If you are a Folk collector, take a look at what is offered, here are some

on-line catalogues.

Topic Records

Wild Goose Records

Fellside Records

Veteran Records

The first four links are via http://www.veteran.co.uk/ a site well worth a visit.

And THIS (link is now DEAD) interesting indie site for Topic digital downloads

So, if you wonder why the folk collection seems to have dried up, I can tell you it has NOT, it is just that so many of the tracks seem to be potential re-issues on various compilations, that sorting what to do is not just a question of looking for the particular album name, it goes much deeper, it goes to song and recording level now. In addition as it is my policy to provide LP scans with a posting where possible, those without original covers (Ex-broadcast org) that have no recording information, no dates and no original copyright notices stand little chance or being sufficiently researched to avoid copyright problems.

There are about 20 such albums in my collection in this category, all need a serious restoration and a lot of time to get to a good listenable condition, so I do not want to post them and have to delete them quickly, I prefer to make them available as a private resource via peer-2-peer networks. That way only the real enthusiasts get them, and share them with real enthusiasts, not the

"If it's Free, I'll download it"

general blog watcher.

Which is the reason that some special albums have passwords only available on email request.

To be continued:

LP restorations: Best way to upload: opinions Please!

2010-07-01T15:48:00.001+01:00

Word saying time:

I often do not get time to complete an LP restoration in one go, so tend to do them side by side, having advertised that I am preparing a new rip, I usually post what I have completed, so you might get a side A then have to wait for side B. To me this has advantages, it means I can split my time between Jazz and Folk restorations as too much of either in one session can be a little wearing. It also means I can keep my Rapid Share uploads quicker and spread over a period, and I guess it helps those without accounts that are restricted in the total downloads, and gives the chance to assess an album which you may not in the end like, without having to download it all.

So, what do you think? do you prefer to have the complete album in one go, or as separate files?

Comments Welcome:
but please mention this topic because Google Blog hides any comments after moderation so your worthwhile (we hope) words may not get responded to by yours truly.

Continuing a theme "Bud Freeman, SATIN DOLL" 1979 Vinyl rip

2010-06-27T13:19:00.011+01:00

This album rip was kindly donated by one of my Blog watchers, it follows on nicely from the previous post it is one of the many sessions that Bud played on which used different and varied accompliments, this album features the Hammond Organ of Georges Arvanitas. I am not a great fan of too much Hammond, it has it's uses but in my opinion is more suited to cinema entertainment, though there is nothing un-musical about any of these fine renditions of standards from Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rogers and Hart, and of course "The Duke".

Scans were provided by the original ripper, I cleaned them up a little, as I did with the music, though most of the hard work had already been done.

I am running short of time at the moment, been spending far too much time on this ripping lark, so I am going to present what I have done up to now (A Side) and finish the B side later.

The rips are not at my usual 320k CBR because at sometime in the cleaning process they have gone through a lossy stage (MP3 or heavy noise filtering) so only warrant a lower bit rate setting, I have chosen 128-256 VBR as this nicely matches the spectrum of the original files.

Side A Tracks HERE

1. Here's that Rainy Day
2. The Man I Love
3. Bewitched
4. But Not For Me

Side B Tracks HERE

1. Satin Doll
2. Easy To Love
3. I Cover the Waterfront
4. Please (Take 2)

Password to unlock the archive is gonzoBFSD
MD5: Side A 959B95C4F7DB4B93E9B9F2D2B4E5F083
MD5: Side B
1859D76C8A21614F00EEA342769B6001

The last track on side B is at 320k, because it seems to be a separate rip, not restricted by the lossy stage
as are the remaining tracks, the history of which is still unclear. Who has the original LP? Who ripped it first off?
See comments from cvllos regarding the source of the LP

John Wright Folksinger, Harmonica, Jews Harp and fiddle player,

2010-06-25T13:05:00.009+01:00

John Wright was a very accomplished artist in the folk music scene. Singing, and fiddle playing were two of his most familiar skills, but lesser known was his ability on the Jews Harp, tracks containing this instrument seem to be only on one recording, this "Unaccompanied Album" on the TOPIC lable 12TS348

The complete album has been posted before but was withdrawn for some reason. I have done some restoration on this Topic album and to reduce the likelyhood of complaints from objectors, record companies and or copyright holders, I am going to post ONLY the three Jews Harp tracks.

The sample Jews Harp tracks here are
03 - Murphy's Hornpipe, 06 - Bridget Cruise 2 & 3 and the medley track
08 - Dornoch Links - the Shepherd's Crook - lochiel's Awa' to France

Links to these three tracks HERE

Password to unlock the file is gonzoJWUA

Please note: This John Wright is NOT the English John Wright that died in February 2008, according to
more information received, the player on Topic 12TS348 LP is another John Wright that lives in France.
I've left this post here for continuity, in normal circumstances I would completely remove it.

"Bud Freeman The Song of the Tenor" 1975 Vinyl Rip

2010-06-23T23:57:00.012+01:00

Recorded in London, November 1975, contains many of Bud's standards
and a few lesser known titles. Rear scans now available, see note**

Tracks

01. Song of the Tenor
02. That D Minor Thing
03. Madame Dynamite
04. Blue Room
05. Keep Smiling at Trouble
06. As Long as I Live
07. Stomp, Look and Listen
08. Roy Hits The Road
09. Nobody's Sweetheart
10. Easy To Love
11. The Eel's Nephew
12. Blues in C Double Flat

Personel:

Bud Freeman (tnr)
Roy Williams (tbo)
Bob Wilbur (sop / clt)
Bruce Turner (alt / clt)
Keith Ingham (pno)
Peter Ind (bass)
Bobby Orr (dms)

London. November 4th 1975.

LP was played on an Ariston Transcription deck with a Shure V15 cartridge into a Technics phono amplifier, line output fed to a Creative Labs Sound blaster Live audio card.Editing with Sound Forge and CoolEdit then MP3 encoded with LAME 3.90 to 320k Stereo format.

Music content HERE
MD5: F978A144758317F0198C243BCFC15E89
Password to unlock the archive gonzoSOTT
** Back scans HERE

<<< R.I.P JAZZMAN BLOG >>>

2010-06-19T11:29:00.008+01:00

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   This is a SAD DAY for bloggers and for music:

A well respected Jazz blog has been closed due

to threats received from anonymous posters.

     Someone with a personal AXE to grind, no doubt!

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Some better news: A new site has arisen from the ashes of the old, it looks good too, sorry access is by invitation only at the moment.

HOW L* O* U* D can you make your music Mr record producer ?

2010-06-01T20:08:00.005+01:00

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Way back when the Compact Disc (CD) that we know today was being designed by Philips & Sony the designers were constrained by the technology available in the period (1979-1980). Digital recording was already well established in studio complexes using multi-track tapes, what was needed for home use was a medium that the average listener could handle easily, like the move from reel to reel tape to cassette tapes made handling easier, what was needed was a similar transition from the vinyl disc in analogue format to a smaller neater disc in digital format.

The CD was born. Even with the restrictions placed on the designers by the 1980's technology, the CD produced audio so clear and bright compared to the average record, played on the average domestic record player, the differences were obvious immediately, no awkward pickup arms to place carefully on the record, no rumble, no scratches, no stylus to wear out. The CD's future was assured and after 30 years it is still a major source of recorded music for most people.

However, the convenience of the CD its ease of production with 21st century technology has meant that the CD has become just a marketing tool for record companies to fight each other with, to produce the LOUDEST sound in the battle for attention of the younger !music! listeners. We have lost the plot totally in this respect, music (real music) has two principal parameters, frequency, the pitch (key) of the sound, and amplitude (volume) of the sound. The loudest instruments in an orchestra or band are probably the percussion, and a front line of brass, the softest sounds being made by the delicate brush work on a drum skin, or the triangle in an orchestra.

Both these sounds have their place in the music, which means the space between them in volume as heard in the recording studio, should be the same space as heard on the eventual recording, this space is called the dynamic range, the difference between the softest and the LOUDEST sounds in the music. Sadly this is NOT happening, and has not been happening for the last 15 years at least.

Studio engineers, producers are progressively reducing this dynamic range in an effort to produce the LOUDEST overall sound to the consumer, the consumer that is becoming progressively more DEAF to the dynamics in music expects it.

This destruction of dynamics in music had not gone unnoticed by those that remember better times and better music, to this end a group has been formed to try to convince the record producers that dynamics are needed in music, to allow the best listening experience.

If you are interested in joining or just reading up on this subject, might I suggest you visit the web site HERE

You can read more, and even download a program "DR" that you can use to check the music on your system HERE

A brief extract from the site gives us this leader into their mission ...

DYNAMIC RANGE and the end of loudness insanity!

The TT DYNAMIC RANGE METER Plug-in is an open source plug-in (VST, AU and RTAS)
which is perfectly suited for many applications used in modern music production. Additionally we supply the TT DR Offline Meter Software (PC) which will be used for the fast and convenient offline calculation of the official DR value of releases. In this way, anyone involved in music production has a tool for creating more dynamics in their productions.

This is a condition for ending the Loudness War!

For those who are not familiar with this term, here's an explanation: the Loudness War designates the senseless competition between record companies which involves releasing music with increasingly high amounts of dynamic compression (the "compression" of dynamic levels so that originally quiet passages are as loud as the loudest parts of a song). This results in products which are increasingly obtrusive in order to fight for the listener's attention.

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If you are in music production, or involved with mastering, please remember we like to hear our music correctly, with LOUD highs, and delicate soft lows, just as it would be in a concert hall,
NOT as a weapon between record companies to destroy our enjoyment, and hearing.

!!Great News!! Now all you MAC owners can get DR !!

The MAC (MacOS) has long been a favourite of music makers, it's range of music production tools was always way ahead of the Windows platform until very recently, now there is NO EXCUSE for too much compression for all you MacOS Muso's

Only one change remains now for the MAC users, get to use SPACES in file names, dump that crazy Underscore finally.

(that was just a PERSONAL GRIPE folks)

* * * * New layout for BLOG * * * *

2010-05-28T22:27:00.000+01:00

As you will notice, I'm trying one of the new layouts to make things easier to read, however some of the text colours that suited the old dark background are far from ideal with this light one, so over the course of the next few days/weeks I will be reviewing the whole blog and making changes as needed.

Tip: If you cannot read some text in its original colours, try highlighting it as you would for Copy/Paste.

Tubby Hayes album (1956) Prepared for BRITJAZZ blog

2010-05-25T07:16:00.003+01:00

Here is an album I prepared for posting on a blog that specialises in pre-1960 British Jazz

As you will have discovered from my earlier jazz orientated postings, I keep to the MP3 format for postings here but my masters are stored in FLAC format, this is the preferred lossless format on Brit Jazz, so this material is ideal for their requirements.

Please visit them for some real good 50's Jazz

Link HERE

Some 50's Light Jazz "Toots Thielemans THE SOUND OF (1955)"

2010-05-23T06:53:00.011+01:00

This is about the oldest "Toots" album I have found so far, considering it's age the quality is really quite good, though it does require quite a lot of attention to background noise and scratches.. I've tried to retain as much of the original detail as possible and minimised the filtering. This album did not warrant my usual 320k treatment, but rather than make a special lower bit rate copy for the blog I will upload the 320k version.

I have now completed the restoration, however I have just discovered that the tracks on this vinyl have been re-issued for a second time, this time in their entirety along with the tracks from another Toots album "Timeout for Toots" that is already presented HERE

Normally in this situation I would withdraw a listing, but in this case since the original is well past the 50 year old original copyright date I will continue to process and restore this album. For those interested in the double album CD, you can find reference to it, and optionally purchase it HERE

I can highly recommend this CD, although it has obviously been sourced from original vinyl, not master tapes, the clean up job has been well done, my only reservations being a slight lack of bass on the "Timeout" content compared to my rip of an original Decca vinyl DL9204.

Tracks on the album:

1. On The Alamo
2. Don’t Be That Way
3. I Put All The Eggs In One Basket
4. Sophisticated Lady
5. Scotch On The Rocks
6. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
7. Stars Fell Of Alabama
8. Diga Diga Doo
9. So Rare
10. Skylark
11. Sonny Boy
12. Cocktails For Two

Quality Issues:
The source LP had some bad skips on track 11 (Sonny Boy), this was repaired by extracting a section from the Giants of Jazz album. This track also has a rather strange corruption later on that appears on both the LP and the CD. I can only assume that my source of this track had already found a problem and likewise used the CD track as the corruption sounds like a sudden burst at a different sample rate, not something you would expect from an analogue master tape.

I can now confirm this burst of what sounds like "Chipmunk" harmonica playing is also on the new CD, so one must form one of two conclusions here: It was on the original master, or my copy and the copy for the new CD came from the same source. These comments do not refer to the skips first mentioned, these are only on my copy, and have been corrected as described above.

Download link HERE

Password for the RAR file is gonzoTSO55

* For those that wondered *

2010-05-03T21:19:00.002+01:00

I am still here, very busy with other projects, some jazz is coming up, but folk, specially the old TOPIC stuff is getting very thin on the ground, so many have been either completely or partially re-issued which is a good thing, a number I have already completed or were near completion, have had significant issues, so they get put back in the archive for listening only.

Comments made are STILL not being addressed to the relevant blog entry, so some are getting missed, I am NOT ignoring you, in fact today I spent hours reviewing old comments and found some I never replied to, mainly because when you moderate a comment, IF it is not referenced to a particular posting, it will effectively vanish.

Please NOTE if commenting WHAT you are commenting ON

2010-02-23T10:35:00.007Z

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I found this wonderful little picture on Jazzman blog, I hope you don't mind me borrowing it

This was found on Jazzman blog which is now closed down, so I leave this here as a memorial to an excellent blog, sadly no more

* * * * VERY SAD NEWS * * * * Alistair Hulett... (a personal friend) dies 28th Jan 2010

2010-02-02T09:52:00.013Z

Dear Friends, Blog visitors and anyone championing Human Rights

My friend of many years Alistair Hulett, Guitarist, Song Writer and Rights activist sadly died last week

See HERE

He had only just launched into a new venture, a new group "The Malkies" which had a growing following.

I was lucky and privileged to be at one of the seminal live sessions at the "Mad Nannys" folk club in 2008 where Alistair and Phil Snell did a run through of some of the album tracks destined for the first Malkies album.

As a tribute to a great man, his friendship and compassion, I am going to present some live recordings that were done as a sound test for the "Mad Nannys" session. These are NOT studio quality, their purpose was just to assess the balance of the live presentation and to air the new tunes to a live audience.

I would request anyone that enjoys Alistair's music to visit the MALKIES web site and buy a copy of "Suited & Booted" You can even sample some of the tracks LIVE on UTUBE

Or listen to the "Mad Nannys" session HERE

A very good review of Alistair's involvement with music, from his early days in New Zealand, on to Australia and the Punk scene, through rock and finally to folk and landing back in the UK can be found in the excellent Living Tradition article of 1999 HERE

Password for this file is gonzoAHPS

Pictures taken at Korks Wine Bar, Otley July 11, 2008 by Ian Watkinson
OK I know I spelt Nannies wrong, and got the "Mad" wrong in the tracks, but to be honest I was feeling
rather low at the loss of a good friend, its hard to think straight at such times.. R.I.P dear Alistair.

Judging by the amount of downloads of this live session, there must be quite a bit of interest in Alistair's performances, I hope that at least SOME of you have taken up the purchase option of the Malkies material, Alistair's partner Fatima has set up a charity to benefit from and manage contributions.

Suffolk & Norfolk Singers: Sam Larner "A Garland for Sam" Topic 12T244

2010-01-28T00:46:00.008Z

This album from 1974 is in my opinion one of the best collections of Sam's work, yet it does not seem to have been issued on CD, sure a few tracks appear on various best of and folk specific collections.

This recording was made by BBC records: Sam grew up in Winterton which was at the time housing

a busy herring fishery. For a youngster the town had two occupations, Fishing or in gaol. Sam chose the former and at the ripe old age of 12 years joined the crew of a 40-ton sailing boat as a cabin boy ("peggy").

After 4 years of hard fishing life around the Faeroes and the Norway Deeps. he got a berth as a deck-hand in the sailing lugger "Snowflake" and soon began to feel himself a real fisherman. at the end of the 19th century Sam moved on to one of the newly commissioned steam drifters. Up to the first World war was a boom time for driftermen, herring stocks and the boats that fished them were so numerous, 'tis said you could walk across Yarmouth harbour on the boats jammed together, and there was little room for all the herring on the quay.

Links to the music: Click the side headings.

Side ONE

1. Alphabet Song

2. Merry Month of May

3. Napoleon's Dream

4. London Steamer

5. Bonny Bunch of Roses

6. Barbara Allen

7. The Smacksman

8. The Lofty Tall Ship

Side TWO

1. Raking the Hay

2. Will Watch

3. The Outlandish Knight (Childs)

4. Haisboro Light Song (spelled Hapisburgh on the map)

5. Old Bob Ridley-O

6. The Bold Princess Royal

7. In Scarboro' Town

The password is gonzoSLGS

General quality notes:

This LP was very noisy, either it was badly stored, or was made on poor quality vinyl there were a number of problems with low frequency noise, some hum on the recording so considerable filtering was needed, hence the sound is "thinner" than I would like it you can compare the vinyl with an original master copy of one track by checking out :-

Side 2: Track 6: The Bold Princess Royal can be found on Topic "Three Score & Ten" Disc 2

ABOUT the content of this blog

2010-01-14T09:53:00.009Z

Most regular visitors will know that the main genre here is folk music, but to balance up a little I do occasionally put up some jazz and blues material, both genre's that I also collect. The recent expose' on Toots Thielemans has brought some responses from one of my visitors, his comments, though being visible to all could be missed, so here are some links to more Toots Thielemans resources provided by my dear friend Vilstef

HERE

52 Years Ago "Toots Thielemans" Decca DL9204

2010-01-07T16:35:00.013Z

"TIMEOUT FOR TOOTS"

A great album from the master of the "Gob Iron" (Harmonica) long derided by jazz musicians as a NOT A REAL jazz instrument, Toots proved otherwise, by playing with some highly respected jazz luminaries, he has become World renown.

The support artists on this album list like..

Hank Jones: Piano, Art Taylor: Drums

Doug Watkins: Bass, Urbie Green: Trombone

Billy Byers: Trombone/Arranger

Chauncy Welsch:Trombone

Santos Russo:

Al Cohn: Tenor Sax

Zoot Sims: Tenor Sax

Al Epstein: Tenor Sax

With Toots on Harmonica & Guitar

Tracks:

Side A:

1. The Nearness of You

2. In a Sentimental Mood

3. You Took Advantage of Me

4. Cool & Easy

5. Body & soul

6. Cuckoo in the Clock

Side B:

1. Tangerine

2. Early Autumn

3. Them There Eyes

4. Handfull of Stars

5. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

6. Clap Yo' Hands

Vinyl 12" LP DECCA DL 9204

Recorded January-February 1958

Music and scans HERE

Password is gonzoTOFT

This is another album ripped with the Edirol UA-1ex from the trusty Ariston transcription deck with the Shure V15 cartridge via the Tecnics phono amplifier.

Initial rip done at 96k sampling to extract the most possible from the album

(including the scratches and clicks).

Noise reduction by Adobe Audition, fine click removal and final digital mastering with Sound Forge. Re-sampled and MP3 coded 320k CBR Stereo with LAME V3.90.

One Year on .. "The Catsfield Steamers"

2009-12-28T15:29:00.005Z

Please see HERE for an update
Shirley Collins MBE presented
with a floral gift.

"The LollyPop Man" Jim Causley

2009-12-28T11:46:00.014Z

The Lollipop Man

Chorus: trad. Verses: © Jim Causley,
Paul Wilson & Marilyn Tucker 2007

Oh the lollipop man has a great big stick
And all that he charges is a penny a lick
And he gets it out whenever he can
He’s a dirty old devil is the lollipop man

Who is this with his spurty spout?
A dribbly cone, you can suck it all out
And a knicker-knocker glory, it’s the ice-cream man
But he cannot hold a candle to the lollipop man

Who is this with his grimy sack?
You can have it up the front or he’ll shove it round the back
With his sooty old nuts it’s the dirty coalman
But he’ll never hold a candle to the lollipop man

Who is this with his long stiff brush?
He rams it up the flu with a shove and a push
And he doesn’t give a toss; he’s the chimney sweep man
But he’ll never hold a candle to the lollipop man

And who is this with his floppy mop?
It’s long and it’s wet with a foam on top
Well he’s squeaky clean; it’s the window cleaner man
But he’ll never hold a candle to the lollipop man

Who is this with a silver top?
It’s nothing that a little blue-tit can’t pop
With his manly jugs it’s the creamy milkman
But he cannot hold a candle to the lollipop man

And who is this with his petticoats gay?
Powder puff and curly wig and lingerie
Well it’s old Mollybags, neither woman nor a man
But she’ll never hold a candle to the lollipop man

Who is this taking down your draws?
He never ever shoots and he seldom scores
Well it’s never jackpot with the Littlewoods man
And he’ll never hold a candle to the lollipop man

To reveal the next verse, drag your cursor over the text to highlight it

Who is this with the long bent fruit?
He peels back the skin and he slips on his suit
Well his real name’s Eric, he’s Banana Man
But he’ll never hold a candle to the lollipop man

(A Little humour for 2010, hope you don't mind Jim?)

You can hear Jim singing this hilariously funny track on
The Mother of all Morris, 2007 Talking Elephant Records
MORRIS samples

Artist links for more information

2009-12-27T23:51:00.008Z

I have added some resource links to the artists and groups displayed in the sidebar, just roll your mouse pointer over and click to be taken to the resource (Links OK at 12.2009)

Johnny Dickinson (Guitarist) Revealed at last !

2009-12-27T13:21:00.003Z

My thanks go to an anonymous visitor that correctly pointed out that
my picture (see side bar) of Martin Simpson was really
Johnny Dickinson. Armed with this information I have now located
the Sidmouth program for the year 2004, this was the Golden Jubilee
(50th year) for the Sidmouth International Festival.
Johnny appeared for an afternoon concert at the Bedford Hotel and
stunned us all with his skill and style.

Johnny, if you read this, sorry to have confused you with another master of the Guitar.

"TIME and TIDE by Faraway Folk" 1972

2009-12-26T15:56:00.016Z

I saw this album posted on another blog a few years ago, ever since, I have wanted to get a copy.

A friend has had this in his collection for years and only a chance conversation about West Country folk artists brought it into the conversation. We played it and it was pretty rough, so the wave files have been sitting here in the archive just waiting to be looked into, well before I started my archive blog, so now the time has come to do some serious work on it.

This is the 2nd album by the Faraway Folk, dated 1972 on the RA record lable from Paington Devon (U.K). I have never found this on CD, I'd guess it is too far off the beaten track to be considered worthy of a re-issue, but we can hope.

The cover picture is of the "Charlotte Rhodes"

(Owned then by Capt' AJB Mackreth)

This ship was used in the BBC TV series

"The Onedin Line" if it looks familiar.

Restoration is now completed as far as it goes

Tracks.

Side ONE:

1. Melanie

2. Seasons of Time

3. Rue (a version of "Let no Man Steal your Thyme"

4. Sinner Man

5. Vanishing Age

6. Got No Time

Side TWO:

1. Faraway

2. Lady Waiting

3. Lowlands

4. Summer Time (George Gershwin)

5. Good Time Charlie

6. Time you old Gypsy Man

Artists:

John Turk: Mandolin, Vocals

John Hartshorn: Kazoo, Vocals

Jon Eden: Bass

Nick Ramsey-Whale: Drums

Tony Waldron: Electric Guitar

Roger Hodgeson: String Bass

Clive Powers: Flute

Shirley Turk: Vocals, Finger symbals, Xylophone, Kazoo

Judy Whittington: Vocals, Tambor, Recorder, Washboard.

I find it quite difficult to fix this album in one genre, it is traditional

Folkie, Rocky, Country all in one

I hope you all enjoy it as much as I have done, being exposed

to the innermost workings of the tracks many times over,

I find myself wondering HOW I missed this the first time.

Side One and Scans HERE

Updated January 2010

Five tracks of side two are now completed, but as is often the case

the second side is much worse than the first, the last track has

defeated me for a while so I've uploaded the second side without

track 6 for the moment, I will re-visit the last track at a later date

and work on the 20,000 plus tiny clicks & scratches (Yes that many)

I think this LP was stored in a bed of fine sand !!!

Side Two tracks minus track 6 HERE

Password for the RAR files is gonzoFFTAT

Update February 2011

Finally I got around to re-working side 2 track 6, it is poor by my reckoning

but not really worth much more effort without ruining the sound, so you will

have to ignore the remaining clicks and scratches (lots of them) HERE

For more info on the formation and history of FARAWAY FOLK see HERE

Seasons greetings to all visitors

2009-12-17T14:51:00.002Z

It is good to see the visit counter still getting hit well, and the new widget that shows where folks visit from and how they came is really interesting to watch.

2010 looks like being a lean year for ripping, my stock of un-cleaned LP's is running low, and Topic are re-issuing so many that I already did, which is good for the music's sake, but makes the task of finding suitable material more difficult.

I hope you will all continue to visit both over this coming holiday period and in the coming year

Thanks for all your support and comments in the past year.

One for the Jazz & Blues Fans: Toots Thielemans & Svend Assmussen "JAM" 1972

2009-12-09T23:57:00.007Z

This is a superb album, demonstrates what quality was possible on a vinyl album. No restoration needed here, the album was new sealed and unplayed, this rip was done on the second play the first play was used to run the dust bug and remove any detritus from the cellophane sealing, very little in the way of de-clicking was needed.

Recording was done using the Edirol UA1-EX at 48kHz / 24 bit and preserved as a set of FLAC files, these being re-sampled to make the files CD compatible (44.1k) and finally Lame coded to 320k CBR Stereo.

Tracks:

Side A:
1. Sophisticated Lady (Ellington)
2. Mr Nashville (Thielemans)
3. Vem Kan Segla Forutan Vind (Thielemans/Asmussen)
4. Yesterday & To-day (Thielemans)

Side B:
1. The Spirit Feel (Jackson)
2. Denise (Thigpen)
3. Blues on Blues (Thielemans)

Recorded STOCCOLMA 22&23-11-1972

Session Artists:

Toots Thielemans: Harmonica
Svend Asmussen: Violin
Kjell Ohman: Keyboards
Stefan Brolund: Guitar
Red Mitchell: Bass
Ed Thigpen: Drums

Music and Scans HERE

Password for the rar file is gonzoTTSA

"Broadside from Grimsby" Topic 12TS228 (1973)

2009-12-08T20:55:00.008Z

Here is an interesting album with songs and ballads from the English county of Lincolnshire: Topic 12TS228 1973: This album was ripped by a friend of mine, Reynardine, I did a little edit on it and tidied up a bad track or two.

The Singers here were at the time all resident singers of the Grimsby Folk club, and the main organisers of same club. The Songs: Collected in Lincolnshire in the early part of the 20th century by Frank Kidson, Percy Grainger and Lucy Broadwood were later recorded on an early Edison-Bell phonograph, the first use of mechanical apparatus in Britain to record traditional music.

The LP back cover has comprehensive details of the song sources and some interesting historical facts about the songs and recordings.

Tracks Side One:
1. Seventeen Come Sunday
2. Lincolnshire Wedding Song
3. The Bold Grenadier
4. The Gardener and the Ploughman
5. Free and Easy
6. The Outlandish Knight (Small part of this track was bad, made Mono)
7. Caistor Fair

Tracks Side Two:
1. Dicky Turpin
2. Lisbon
3. The American Stranger
4. Maria Marten
5. The Poacher
6. Creeping Jane
7. The Banks of Sweet Dundee

Links to Side One: Tracks Music

Links to Side Two: Tracks Music

Password = gonzoLBRSD

Dr Bowswer's Brown Bowel Oil Band (First album)

2009-12-07T22:49:00.008Z

I thought I should re-run this original Dr Bowser's album, it appeared on the THTM blog first off, but for some while the link was dead. This is the original album, back in December 2008 I posted the follow up album to this one.

Music & Scans HERE

Password for the rar file is boweloil

Temporary LOSS of Broadband connection

2009-11-06T20:41:00.002Z

"OLD NEWS" I will be taking an enforced rest from uploading for a while, there has been a right mess up with the upgrade to a 50 Mbit fibre connection here, my original 20Mbit connection got dismantled and now they say they can only re-connect me to the 50Mbit system when that is restored.

"NEW NEWS"

Internet connection restored AT LAST and it F--L--Y--S like a Hawk... SO watch out for

More Vinyl restoration work....

"The LING family" Topic 12TS292 (Suffolk traditional songs)

2009-10-08T11:30:00.009+01:00

This album by the LING family of Suffolk, is a collection of local songs, some traditional, some fishing orientated, some familiar ones: A few of the tracks have been presented on Folk compilations but as far as I know the complete album has never been released on CD.

NOW the reason I needed your help! As you will have seen on previous postings, I like to present not only the music, but scans of the original vinyl albums together with the notes provided. This album is, like a lot of mine, an ex- radio station library album, as such it was supplied in a plain brown library sleeve with the vital information required for a radio presentation, track names, timing and other broadcasting types of information.

Thanks to Reinhard I now have some really good scans of this album so can finish off the music cleaning and complete the posting.

Anyone needing references and further information on the LINGS of Suffolk should visit the

EFDSS site > LINGS

Or checkout the profiles of traditional folk singers of East Anglia at > PROFILES

Side One:

TrackNr ; Title

01/1 ; Green Bushes (Geoff)

01/2 ; On Board the Leicester Castle (George)

01/3 ; The Lobster (Percy)

01/4 ; Died For Love (Geoff)

01/5 ; Little Ball of Yarn (Geoff)

01/6 ; The Lakes of Coolfin (George)

01/7 ; The Deserter (George)

01/8 ; The Little Sweetheart (Percy)

Tracks HERE (Also contains the full front and rear LP scans)

Password gonzoLFST

Side TWO:

TrackNr ; Title

02/1 ; Jolly Jack the Sailor (George)

02/2 ; A Group of Young Squaddies (Geoff)

02/3 ; On the Banks of the Clyde (Geoff)

02/4 ; Underneath Your Apron (Percy)

02/5 ; The Bonny Bunch of Roses (George)

02/6 ; Nancy of Yarmouth (George)

02/7 ; The Man All Tattered and Torn (Percy)

02/8 ; Fagin the Cobbler (Percy)

Tracks HERE

password = gonzoLFST

As with most of my "EX-Radio" LP's they have seen considerable use and some worn to a point that they play better when converted to mono. I only do this on the worse tracks, as although these are solo singers, there is some ambience so where possible I leave them as stereo.

Side two has taken some time to upload, I lost my broadband cable connection temporarily so this was uploaded via a 3G USB cellular modem (somewhat slowly)

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52 Years Ago "Toots Thielemans" Decca DL9204

One Year on .. "The Catsfield Steamers"

"The LollyPop Man" Jim Causley

Artist links for more information

Johnny Dickinson (Guitarist) Revealed at last !

"TIME and TIDE by Faraway Folk" 1972

**** Seasons greetings to all visitors ****

One for the Jazz & Blues Fans: Toots Thielemans & Svend Assmussen "JAM" 1972

"Broadside from Grimsby" Topic 12TS228 (1973)

Dr Bowswer's Brown Bowel Oil Band (First album)

Temporary LOSS of Broadband connection

"The LING family" Topic 12TS292 (Suffolk traditional songs)

RE-Post Roy Bailey "Hard Times" (1982)

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Please NOTE if commenting WHAT you are commenting ON

ABOUT the content of this blog

Seasons greetings to all visitors