Stick (Jim Eldon)

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VTC1CD  Stepping it Out - Various  

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VT146CD  STILL FRETTING - Rob Murch   

Topic  To see the full Topic Records Catalogue (click here)

TSCD511 Track List

The CD re-release of the classic Folkways LP of the Norfolk singer and reconteur, recorded by Ewan McColl and Peggy Seager in the late 1950s. As well as a great songs, many of which became the mainstay of the folk revival repertoire, there is also some fascinating dialogue about the songs and his life as a fisherman.

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TSCD512D Track List

Harry Cox 

A lavish production with extensive notes in a 'Voice of the People' style case. 54 tracks from one of Norfolk's finest singers, mainly taken from private recordings and including most of the songs that gave him the legendary status he so deserved.

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TSCD600 Track List 

HIDDEN ENGLISH  

The Who's Who of English traditional singers and musicians, selected mainly from the Topic back catalogue. Billy Bennington, Walter & Daisy Bulwer, Bob Cann, Billy Cooper, Harry Cox, Johnny Doughty, Louise Fuller, Bob Hart, Fred Jordan, William Kimber, Sam Larner, Pop Maynard, Walter Pardon, Billy Pigg, Cyril Poacher, Bob Roberts, Jasper Smith, Phoebe Smith, Joseph Taylor, Scan Tester, Tintagel & Boscastle Players, Tom Willett, Eely Whent, Oscar Woods. 

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TSCD607 Track List 

ENGLISH COUNTRY MUSIC 

This is an essential CD for anyone interested in traditional music from the English countryside. Recorded in Norfolk with Billy Cooper on dulcimer, Walter and Daisy Bulwer on fiddle and piano and Reg Hall on melodeon.

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TSCD534 Track List 

COME WRITE ME DOWN  

Early recordings of the Copper Family of Rottingdean, Sussex. A two hundred year old southern English harmony singing tradition captured at one of it's peaks in the 1950s and early 1960s. Classic recordings of Bob, John, Jim and Bob Copper and including all their well known songs.

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TSCD581D Track List

I NEVER PLAYED TO MANY POSH DANCES

Scan Tester

Mostly recorded by Reg Hall, these 55 tracks - expanded and remastered from the 1990 vinyl LP - open a window to our musical past. A labour of love, this double CD is a fitting tribute to one of the greatest traditional musicians this country has produced. While his greatest prowess was on the Anglo-German concertina, he was first rate step-dancer, a fine singer and he also played fiddle, melodeon and tambourine.

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The Radio Ballads - the ground breaking 1950/60s radio series produced by Charles Parker, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger now available on CD.

TSCD801 Track List

THE BALLAD OF JOHN AXON  

A radio-ballad about the railwaymen of England

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TSCD802 Track List

SONG OF THE ROAD   

The building of the M1 motorway 

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SINGING THE FISHING  

Britain's herring fishing communities 

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THE BIG HEWER   

Britain's coal miners 

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THE BODY BLOW   

The psychology of pain 

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ON THE EDGE   

Teenagers in England and Scotland 

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THE FIGHT GAME   

A radio ballad about boxers 

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English Folk Dance & Song Society  

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A CENTURY OF SONG 

'A celebration of traditional singers since 1898'

Produced to mark one hundred years since the foundation of the Folk Song Society. An anthology of 25 tracks of singers from all over the country including 6 rare tracks taken from early cylinder recordings. Includes: The Copper Family, Arthur Howard, Harry Cox, Emma Vickers, Phil Tanner, Mary Ann Haynes, May Bradley, Will Noble & John Cocking, Fred Jordan and Walter Pardon alongside lesser-known performers.

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EFDSSCD03 Track List

Archive recordings of the famed Headington Quarry anglo concertina player. This CD marks the centenary of Cecil Sharp's first meeting with him. An 'enhanced' CD which includes some archival film. NB audio tracks play on a normal CD player & the visual content can be viewed via your CD-ROM drive.

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Hebe Music

HEBECD001 Track list

Lively dance tunes and songs from England and Ireland with fine accompaniments on anglo concertina and melodeon.

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HEBECD002 Track list

They were one of the most influential bands arising from the 1970s resurgence of interest in English country dance music. Great tunes played in their own inimitable style plus songs from Bob Davenport and Peta Webb. This is a new recording, not a re-release of their old album. 

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More songs in unison plus a good scattering of Scan Tester tunes from these two stalwarts of English traditional music.

Rounder 

CD1741 Track List

Field recordings made in England by American folklorist Alan Lomax. Including: Stanley Slade, Royal Earlsdon Sword Dancers, Jim & Bob Copper, Bert Pidgeon (melodeon) & Alf Tuck (fiddle drum), Jack Armstrong's Barnstormers, Phil Tanner, Symondsbury Mummer's Play, Padstow May song, Jumbo Brightwell and William Kimber.

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CD1839 Track List

'What will Become of England?

46 tracks of Norfolk's greatest, featuring songs, reminiscences, and melodeon and fiddle tunes recorded by Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy. There is little cross-over between this and the Topic Harry Cox CDs.

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Coppersongs 

CSCD2 Track List

COPPERSONGS 2

England's most famous singing tradition! The Copper Family Including some rarely heard songs.

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CSCD3 Track List

COPPERSONGS 3

'The Legacy Continues' The four regular singing Coppers, Bob, John, Jill & Jon joined by Bob's grandchildren Mark, Andy, Sean, Ben, Lucy & Tom.

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CSCD4 Track List

COPPERS AT CHRISTMAS

The Copper Family on this album comprises John and Jill Copper, Jill's husband Jon Dudley, and The Young Coppers: Mark, Andy and Sean Barratt and Ben, Lucy and Tom Copper. Bob Copper was still well enough to record this album with us but sadly died in March 2004. Bob's father Jim and cousin Ron appear on the archive tracks. Booklet notes by Dr. Vic Gammon.

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CSCD5 Track List 

YOUNG COPPERS

'Passing Out'

The Young Coppers' first album, 'Passing Out' heralds the next generation of this famous family. Since the sad death of Bob Copper MBE in 2004, the family have done very few shows. However, now the six children of Bob's son and daughter, John and Jill Copper, are ready to launch the next leg of the ongoing story of The Copper Family.

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FECD122 Track List

Bob Davenport & the Rakes  

Great songs, great tunes. One of the classic combinations of the past thirty years.

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FECD155 Track List

Peta Webb & Ken Hall

A long awaited album form these two stalwarts of of traditional singing sessions.

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OH-1CD Track List

Reg Reader, Font Whatling, Ted Chaplin, Tony Harvey, Cyril Barber etc. East Anglian music, song  stepdancing recorded 'live' in a Suffolk pub.

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OH-2CD Track List

Katie Howson, Reg Reader, Chris Wood, Mel Dean, Barry Coope, John Howson and Ted Stevens. Lively dance music from England and beyond.

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Katie Howson, Reg Reader, Rob Neal and John Howson. The third instalment of the liveliest dance music around.

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  HOME FROM SEA

Jim Eldon

The follow up to 'Fiddle & Song'. Again at a budget price.

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SARK VOICES

A rare set of archival recordings from this relatively unknown musical tradition from the Island of Sark in the Channel Isles.  Seventeen tracks of songs and melodeon playing recorded in 1938 and 1957. Compiled by Ken Lees for La Societe Sercquaise.

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WGS351CD Track List

ONE MAN HAND

Tony Hall is one of the most respected melodeon players in the country. In fact many think it isn’t possible to play what he does on the instrument! He is also a master of comic songs, most of which are set in his native East Anglia. The CD has a fine selection of his tunes and songs including: 'Enigma of the Southwold Tide' and 'The Haddock Song' - and his day job? He’s a cartoonist, as you can see by the cover design. To see the full WildGoose Records (click here)
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OSMOCD003

MR UNIVERSE

Tony Hall. His earlier and less known CD.

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CDMM001 Track List

OUT OF THE BOX

Will Duke lives in Sussex and is a fine anglo concertina player who has studied and learnt much from the playing of the great Scan Tester. He even has an instrument that was once owned by Scan. Here Will treats us to (as the sleeve cover describes) - ‘Songs, tunes, clicks and wheezes in the traditional manner’ and the sleeve design is another Tony Hall's creations.

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SAPCD061 Track List

RUM AND RASPBERRY

Jeff Wesley

Live recordings from this popular singer made at The White Lion, in Wherwell, Hampshire, in November 2005. The track numbering sequence is deliberate – the missing numbers are Jeff’s introductions to the songs that follow, and are a delight in themselves. By numbering them separately, you can still find the track you want. Jeff can also be heard on VTC1CD (1) VTC4CD (2) VTC6CD (4) VTC7CD (3)

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CDMM001 Track List

THE PIXIES STRIKE AGAIN

The Dartmoor Pixie Band. New CD of English traditional dance music played by Mark Bazeley (melodeon) Jason Rice (piano accordion) Rob Murch (Banjo) Ed Rennie (bass) Cyril May (Drums) and Sarah Bazeley (caller)

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Rust105 Track List

THE PAINFUL PLOUGH

Bob Lewis

A fine Sussex singer with 17 tracks of traditional and Music Hall songs learned from his family and other Sussex singers he has known over the years. Bob can also be heard on VTC1CD (1) VTC4CD (3) VTC5CD (1) VTC6CD (4) VTC7CD (4) VT131CD (3)

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Musical Traditions   (small run CDRs with an A5 booklet)

MTCD301-2 Track List

BOB HART

'A Broadside' 46 tracks from recordings made by Rod Stradling and Bill Leader of this important Suffolk singer. Comes with a A5 booklet.

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MTCD303 Track List

'Plenty of Thyme' Compilation of recordings of the great Suffolk traditional singer.

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A double album of the recordings not used on the Topic Walter Pardon CD.

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MTCD307 Track List

'Band of Gold'

The exuberant Gloucestershire traveller plus songs from other family members Wisdom Smith, Denny Smith and Biggun Smith.

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A selection of Mike Yates' recordings from around the country.

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MTCD314 Track List

Ray Andrews

The life and times of the Bristol banjo player.

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MTCD317-8 Track List

CHAINMAKER

George Dunn. 

Virtually all the songs of this Black Country singer.

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MTCD320 Track List

HERE IS LUCK TO A MAN

English Gypsies recorded by Mike Yates in the 1970s, with a particular focus on the excellent Mary Anne Haynes.

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MTCD334 Track List

HERE'S ONE YOU'LL LIKE, I THINK

Stephen Baldwin

Traditional fiddle music from the Forest of Dean.

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MTCD339-0 Track List

A STORY TO TELL

Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-79

Issued as a complement to the Veteran Keith Summers VT154CD.  A selection of songs, ballads and tunes from Suffolk, collected by Keith Summers. Featuring: Jumbo Brightwell, Alec Bloomfield, Bob Scarce, Cyril Poacher, Jimmy Knights, Oscar Woods, Percy Ling, Billy List, Charlie Whiting, Font Watling, Fred Whiting, Eley Went, Fred List, Fred Pearce, Geoff Ling, George Ling, George Woolnough, Harkie Nesling, Reg Reader and many others

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MTCD345-7 Track List

DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE

The Brazil Family

A selection of songs, ballads and tunes from Gloucestershire Gypsy family the Brazils. Including Danny Brazil, Harry Brazil, Lemmie Brazil, Hyram Brazil, Tom Brazil, Weenie Brazil, Alice Webb and her son, Angela Brazil, Doris Davies, Joan Taylor, Debbie and Pennie Davies.

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