Three Score and Ten: 70 Years of Topic Records
2009 - Topic TOPIC70 7 CD

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CD One - A Selection of Treasures from the Topic Catalogue

The Humpback Whale - Nic Jones

Angi - Davy Graham

The Shaskeen Reel - John Wright

The Lancashire Toreadors - The Oldham Tinkers

Sullivan's March - Pat Mitchell

San Francisco Bay Blues - Jesse Fuller

Country Gardens - William Kimber

Tamlyn - Mike Waterson

The Air for Maurice Ogg/Jumping Jack/The Air for Maurice Ogg - Alistair Anderson

Creeping Jane - Joseph Taylor

Wasps in the Woodpile - Andrew Cronshaw

Prince Heathen - Martin Carthy with Dave Swarbrick

The Bonny Labouring Boy - Harry Cox

Rawtenstall Annual Fair - Lea Nicholson

Music for a Found Harmonium - Patrick Street [8]

Bitter Withy - John Tams


CD Two - England Arise!

The Nut Dance - The Britannia Coconut Dancers [Excerpt]

Spencer the Rover - Bob & Ron Copper

All Things Are Quite Silent - Shirley Collins

Blackwater Side - Anne Briggs

The Two Magicians - A L Lloyd

Scan's Polkas - Oak

The Crafty Maid's Policy - Frankie Armstrong

A Place Called England - June Tabor

When I Die - Peter Bellamy

The Bold Princess Royal - Sam Larner

Hal- an- Tow - The Watersons

We Shepherds Are the Best of Men - Fred Jordan

The Rose of Britain's Isle/Glorishears - John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris

Riding Down to Portsmouth - Tom Willett

Higher Germany - Phoebe Smith

The Ideal Schottische - The Cheviot Ranters

The Methody Parson - Roy Harris

The Maid and the Palmer - Brass Monkey

Hopping Down in Kent - Louise Fuller

The Devil and the Farmer's Wife - Walter Pardon


CD Three - Ireland Boys, Hurrah

The Rising Sun/The Pope's Toe - Jackie Daly

The Waterford Boys - Paddy Tunney

The Banks of Red Roses - Sarah Makem [6]

Gillan's Apples/The Prize Jig - John Doonan & John Wright

Slieve Gallon Brae - The Mcpeake Family

Paddy Ryan's Dream/Mamma's Pet - Seamus Tansey with Reg Hall

My Irish Molly O - The Flanagan Brothers [7]

The Blackbird - Seamus Ennis

The Factory Girl - Margaret Barry

Roaring Mary/The Old Torn Petticoat - The Irish Country Four

Spailpina Run - Sean Mac Donnchadha

The Choice Wife - Willie Clancy

The Tinker's Old Budget - Mary Ann Carolan

Padraig O'Keefe's/Con Cassidy's - The Boys of the Lough

Dowd's Favourite - Hugh Gillespie

The Wife of the Bold Tenant Farmer - Joe Heaney

The Music in the Glen/The Greenfields of America - The O'Halloran Brothers

The Knight Templar's Dream - Len Graham

The Yellow Tinker/The Humours of Scarriff - Sean O'Shea & Bobby Casey

He Rolled Her to the Wall - Frank Harte

The Heather Breeze/The Traveller - The Russell Family

The Patriot Game - Dominic Behan [1]

The Belfast Hornpipe/The Rights of Man - John Rea

Bridie Morley/Duignan's Favourite - Packie Duignan & Seamus Horan


CD Four - Scotia the Brave

Miss Drummond of Perth/Fiddler's Joy/Traditional Reel/The Shetland Reel - Battlefield Band

Come All Ye Fisher Lasses - The Fisher Family

Queen Among the Heather - Belle Stewart

Cullen Bay/Jig O'slurs/Seagull - Kentigern

Wi My Roving Eye - Norman Kennedy

Blue Bleezin' Blind Drunk - Cilla Fisher

Soldier's Joy - Tom Anderson & Aly Bain

The Dowie Dens of Yarrow - Gordeanna Mcculloch

Erin Go Bragh - Dick Gaughan

Young Jimmy Foyers - Sheila Stewart

Kempy Kaye - Jock Tamson's Bairns

Lady Eliza - Winnie Campbell [5]

Tilley Plump/Auld Foula Reel/Oot and in Da Harbour - Curlew

Herd Laddie O' the Glen - Willie Scott

The Fireman's Not for Me - Isla Cameron

Dance with Me, Morag - Isabel Sutherland

The Wind That Blew the Bonnie Lassie's Plaidie Awa' - Jimmy Mcbeath

Maccrimmon's Lament - Jeannie Robertson

The Gallant Forty Twa - Ian Manuel

The Twa Corbies - Ray & Archie Fisher

Boulavogue - Davie Stewart

The Wandering Piper - John Burgess


CD Five - The Singer & the Song

Unity (Raise Your Banners High) - John Tams

Dominion of the Sword - Martin Carthy

The Sun Is Burning - The Ian Campbell Folk Group [4]

Go Down Ye Murderers - Ewan MacColl

Police Patrol - Bob Davenport

Two Tears - Eliza Carthy

Never Any Good - Martin Simpson

Both Sides the Tweed - Dick Gaughan

George's Son - John Kirkpatrick with Brass Monkey

Reconciliation - Ron Kavana

Stumbling On - Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight

Acceptable Losses - John B Spencer

Ships of Shame - Steve Ashley

The Land of Three Rivers - Vin Garbutt

No Telling - Linda Thompson

Dust - Johnny Handle

Two- Fisted Heroes - Bill Caddick


CD Six - The People's Flag

The Man Who Watered the Worker's Beer - Paddy Ryan

Talking Union Blues - Pete Seeger

Joe Hill - Paul Robeson

Masters of War - Martin Simpson

The Red Flag - Bob Smith's Ideal Band

The Blackleg Miners - Louis Killen [3]

No Power on Earth - Billy Bennett

The Internationale - The Topic Singers & Band

To the Begging I Will Go - Ewan MacColl

The Hand- Loom Weaver's Lament - Harry Boardman

Rigs of the Time - Shirley Collins

Greedy Landlord - Stan Kelly with Leon Rosselson

Time to Ring Some Changes - Richard Thompson

Sixteen Tons - Ewan MacColl

Peat Bog Soldiers - The Ian Campbell Folk Group [2]

Aa'm Glad the Strike's Done - The High Level Ranters

Three Score and Ten - The Watersons

Dirty Old Town - Ewan MacColl

The Liverpool Barrow Boys - The Spinners

The Weaver's March - The Celebrated Working Men's Band [3]

We Poor Labouring Men - Waterson-Carthy

Perfumes of Arabia - Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick

Hot Asphalt - Bob Davenport & The Rakes


CD Seven - Even More Treasures from the Topic Catalogue

Skye Crofter's/The Swallow Tail - Billy Pigg

While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping - June Tabor

Boi Se Otvori - Roza Tsetkova

John Barleycorn - Tim Van Eyken

The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore - Tom Paley & Peggy Seeger

The Happy One- Step/Green Willis - The House Band

Clyde Water - Nic Jones

Baranca - Vlado & Nikola Robanovski

Georgie - Levi Smith

Jenny Lind - Scan Tester & Rabbidy Baxter

Worcester City - Eliza Carthy

Talking Dustbowl Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Kaba Vence - Refki Taho, Hysen Zizolli & Ahmet Metolli

The Green Banks of Yarrow - Alison Mcmorland & Peta Webb

Johnny, Will You Marry Me? - Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band

Hamburger- Polka Fra Hardanger - Vestlandsgruppa

Hedger and Ditcher - The Silly Sisters

Burren No. 1/Chris Droney's Favourite - Chris Droney

Nna Hamu - The Jauharah Orchestra

Little Sadie - Hedy West

Fulmine - Andy Cutting (Blowzabella)

No One Stands Alone - Blue Murder


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Balladeers Notes

2009 marks Topic Records 70th anniversary, making it the oldest, truly independent record company in the world

"To celebrate this significant moment in Topic’s illustrious history, the label is proud to publish Three Score and Ten, a sumptuous 7 CD set complete with a hardback 108 page book, charting seven decades of recording and social history. Three Score & Ten has been produced, researched and curated by “the redoubtable David Suff, Fledg’ling Records supremo and one of the leading authorities on folk and folk-rock,” and comes with a complete Topic records discography, listing every release from 1939 - 2009."

Source: Topic Records at 70