Singing In the Streets - Scottish Children''s Songs
Various Artists - Scottish Folk
Scottish
Rounder
Catalogue Number: ROUCD1795
Barcode: 682161179520
Running Time: 51 mins.
56 tracks ranging from 12 seconds up to 2 minutes 32 seconds, some tracks have alternate versions.
There is also the odd track of conversation with Alan Lomax and the participants.
Recordings made between 1951 and 1957, when children actually played on the streets.
40 page booklet with 'lyrics'.
1) London Bridge
2) My Girl''s A Corker
3) I''ve A Sweetheart in America
4) There Are Hundreds of These
5) The Night Was Dark
6) Harry Lauder & Mussolini Are Dead
7) As I Went Down To Windsor
8) Chinese Government
9) The Wind, The Wind
10) Poor Mary Sat A-weeping
11) Here''s A Poor Widow
12) Little Sally Walker
13) On the Mountain
14) All the Boys In London
15) The Big Ship Sails
16) In and Out the Window
17) Up Against the Wall
18) I Paula Tay, Paula Taska
19) Here Comes A Bluebird
20) My Father Bought the Lettle Coat
21) A Tisket a Tasket
22) In and Out the Dusty Bluebells
23) He''s A Navvy
24) Mother Mother Am I Ill
25) PK Penny Packet - Mrs.Mopp - Chicka Tony
26) One, Two, Three Alairy
27) Eevy Ivy Over
28) All the Way to London Town
29) Queen Elizabeth Lost Her Shoe
30) It Has To Come Out Quite Unconsciously
31) Down In the Valley
32) There''s Usually An Argument.....
33) Jelly On the Plate
34) Cowboy Joe - Ippetty Soopitty
35) My Mother - My Little House
36) Eetle Ottle, Black Bottle
37) Flip Flop
38) One Two Three Four Five
39) My Name is Sweet Jenny
40) I''m A Little Orphan Girl
41) Broken Hearted I Wander
42) The Bonny Sailor Boy
43) When I Was Single
44) An Angel Said To Me
45) All That Shivers - Canaan''s Shore - The Burning Deck
46) The World Must Be Coming To An End
47) Robert Burns
48) Put Him In The Bathtub
49) I''m Goin Awa in the Train
50) Paddy Knight
51) When I Was Young
52) Chairlie - The Cotton Spinners - The Forty-Second
53) Geese, Ducks, Stones, Fires & Rain
54) Aunty Mary Had A Canary - Wee O''Hara
55) The Donkey - The Croft - The Policeman
56) Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
56 tracks ranging from 12 seconds up to 2 minutes 32 seconds, some tracks have alternate versions.
There is also the odd track of conversation with Alan Lomax and the participants.
Recordings made between 1951 and 1957, when children actually played on the streets.
40 page booklet with 'lyrics'.
Lineup
Cedar Place Children, Aberdeen
Garrynamonie Children, South Uist
Norton Park Children
Jennifer & Pat Cushnie
Ewan MacColl
Peggy MacGillivray
Kathleen & Jack Mearns
Hamish Henderson