Three Score and Ten: 70 Years of Topic Records
2009 - Topic TOPIC70 7 CD
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
Credits
- 1 from Easter Week and After - Songs of the I.R.A.: 1960 - Topic 12T 44 LP
- 2 from Songs of Protest: 1962 - Topic TOP 82 EP
- 3 from The Iron Muse: 1963 - Topic 12T86 LP
- 4 from The Crow and the Cradle & The Sun is Burning: 1963 - Topic STOP 102 45
- 5 from The Singing Campbells: 1965 - Topic 12T120 LP
- 6 from Mrs. Sarah Makem, Ulster Ballad Singer: 1968 - Topic 12T 182 LP
- 7 from An Irish Delight: 1979 - Topic 12T365 LP
- 8 from Irish Times: 1990 - Green Linnet GLCD1105 CD
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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
