The Folk Songs of Britain Vol 1 (Songs of Courtship)

A collection of love songs recorded in the field with traditional folk singers in England, Scotland and Ireland Side 1 Green Grow the Laurels (Roud 279) (1.41) Jeannie Robertson, Aberdeen The False Bride (Roud 154) (1.36) Bob Copper, Rottingdean, Sussex Our Wedding Day (Roud 861) (2.59) Francis McPeake, Belfast (w/ Uilleann pipes) When a Man’s in Love (Roud 990) (2.23) Paddy Tunney, Beleek, Co. Fermanagh Aileen Duinn (1.23) Flora McNeill, Barra, Outer Hebrides Bonnie Kate (2.12) Agnes Whyte, Ballinakill, Co. Galway (fiddle) Old Grey Beard Newly Shaven (Roud 362) (2.40) Jeannie Robertson, Aberdeen The Sweet Primeroses (Roud 586) (2.25) Bob and Ron Copper, Rottingdean, Sussex The Coolin (1.40) Paddy Taylor, Foynes, Co. Limerick (flute) Shule Aroon (Roud 911) (2.14) Elizabeth Cronin, Macroom, Co. Cork The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow (Roud 2124) (2.22) Paddy Tunney, Beleek, Co. Fermanagh The Brown Thorn (1.27) Séamus Ennis, Dublin (Uilleann pipes) Side 2 As I Roved Out (Roud 277; Laws O17) (1.59) Séamus Ennis, Dublin Magpie's Nest (Roud 2127) (2.41) Jane Kelly, Keady, Co. Armagh Dame Durden (Roud 1209) (1.51) Bob and Ron Copper, Rottingdean, Sussex Casadh an tSugain (1.40) Maire O’Sullivan, Ballylickey, Co. Cork The Girl was Smart for the Fiddler (3.31) Michael Doherty, Co. Donegal (w/ fiddle) My Darling Ploughman Boy (Roud 843) (1.59) Jimmy MacBeath, Elgin, Moray The False Young Man (Roud 419) (3.09) Frank and Francis McPeake, Belfast (w/ Uilleann pipes) I’m a Young Bonnie Lassie (Roud 387) (1.17) Blanche Wood, Portknockie, Banff No John, No (Roud 146) (2.12) Bob and Ron Copper, Rottingdean, Sussex Cois Abhain Na Sead (0.56) Máire Ni Cheocháin, Coolea, Co. Cork Bogie’s Bonnie Belle (Roud 2155) (2.48) Davie Stewart, Dundee Review Sydney Carter's review is from Gramophone, June 1968: Songs of Courtship (Topic 12T157) is the first of ten volumes of the folk songs of Britain. Recorded for the most part in pubs and country cottages over the last fifteen years by collectors whose names read like a roll of honour—Peter Kennedy, Séamus Ennis, Alan Lomax, Sean O'Boyle, Hamish Henderson—annotated by Lomax, Kennedy and Shirley Collins, edited by A.L. Lloyd, and accompanied by a booklet with the words of each song, notes, references, etc—this is the kind of enterprise (you might think) that only Topic would undertake. In fact it is a reissue of a series brought out seven years ago by the American Caedmon label in New York. Many of the singers represented—like Jeannie Robertson, Séamus Ennis, Jimmy MacBeath, Davie Stewart, Bob and Ron Copper are already well known to those who take their folk song seriously. Tracks I particularly liked were Bogie's Bonnie Belle, sung by Davie Stewart of Dundee, The False Young Man by Frank and Francis McPeake and Shale Aroon by Elizabeth Croonin of Cork. Do not be misled by the word “British” —the Irish Republic is strongly represented on this record, too, in both Gaelic and English. This is obviously (as they say) destined to become a standard work of reference. I enjoyed it not only for the beauty and interest of the songs themselves, but for more nostalgic reasons. It took me back to those old pre-Dylan days when folk was folk, and pop was pop, and nobody really imagined that the two would ever meet the way they did. The extraordinary thing is that a new, post-Dylan generation of singers—or one wing of it, at any rate—is now beginning to rediscover the kind of folk songs we sang or listened to ten years ago at Cecil Sharp House.

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